What we build for the world, not just for clients.
SpooqW
The open data lakehouse you own — with AI agents that answer business questions with evidence and propose actions a human approves. Spark on Apache Iceberg, self-hosted or EU-sovereign, without the vendor lock-in or the runaway bill.
- Sovereign by design — your data and your AI inference never leave your walls.
- Agents with receipts — every answer cited and hash-chained; actions run only after human approval. In production today.
- Open stack — Iceberg, Nessie, Trino, Spark. No lock-in.
Deep technical range, delivered end-to-end.
One team that owns the whole stack — from the research idea to the system running in production.
Applied AI & agents
LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic and autonomous workflows, forecasting and decision-support systems — engineered for real operations, not demos.
Computer vision
Video and image analytics for retail, smart-city, security and IoT — YOLO, OpenVINO, edge inference and production-grade pipelines.
Enterprise software
API-first platforms, event-driven middleware, ERP/WMS integrations and B2B portals that turn legacy workflows into automated systems.
Cloud, infra & DevOps
Hybrid on-prem/cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, virtualization, high-availability storage and CI/CD — reliable by design.
Cybersecurity
Zero-trust architecture, MFA, EDR, vulnerability management, authorized red-teaming and continuous monitoring — security by design.
R&D & rapid prototyping
From radar biometrics to sovereign data platforms — we take ambiguous ideas to working, demonstrable prototypes fast.
Case studies from a decade of building and shipping.
Engagements and R&D across enterprise software, infrastructure, computer vision, cybersecurity and digital transformation.
- Enterprise architecture and internal software platforms across procurement, logistics, WMS, sales and last-mile delivery.
- Technology portfolios (CAPEX/OPEX) up to €7M — including an MPLS-backed multi-site WAN and a distribution-hub stack with IoT telemetry and algorithmic optimization.
- AI-powered operational tools — demand forecasting, purchasing support, agentic workflows and executive decision dashboards — with cybersecurity-by-design throughout.
- HVAS, a developer-centric video-analytics platform — taken from R&D concept to commercial SaaS.
- Winner of the ENISIE prize at TIMWCAP Catania (2019).
- Contact-free biometric monitoring and predictive maintenance via radar — presented with MIS Medical at MEDICA 2022, Düsseldorf.
- Memory architectures for autonomous AI research agents — modular knowledge retention and scalable agent workflows.
An independent technology & R&D house.
Aretè Tecnologia was founded in 2023 in Catania, Italy, to take ambiguous ideas to working systems: applied AI and agentic systems, computer vision, enterprise software and sovereign data infrastructure. One team owns the whole stack — strategy and hands-on engineering, from the research idea to the system running in production.
Aretè is the home of SpooqW, the open, sovereign data lakehouse — where AI agents answer with proof and act only with human approval.
Antonio Sambataro
Founder & CEO
Technology executive and AI-focused builder with 10+ years across enterprise software, infrastructure, computer vision, cybersecurity, logistics automation and digital transformation — combining strategic ownership with deep hands-on execution, from product design to deployment and operations.
Have an ambiguous problem worth building?
Aretè builds everything from applied-AI prototypes to sovereign data platforms and enterprise transformations — tell us what you want to build.