# Sand

> Sand Technologies builds AI systems for critical infrastructure, combining data engineering, scientific models, digital twins and software delivery. Its Symmetri platform serves governments and operators in water, energy, telecommunications and healthcare, with company-reported deployments in more than 18 countries.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Ebene, Mauritius
- **Founders:** Fred Swaniker (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** Symmetri, AI Site Planner, SiteConfig, Fixed Broadband Planning, Enterprise engineering and AI delivery
- **Notable:** Sand and Telkomsel won TM Forum’s 2024 Best Moonshot Catalyst - Attendees’ Choice Award for an AI network-planning concept., AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status announced September 2024., Thames Water describes the shared Unlocking Digital Twins project as completed in September 2024.

## Products & services

- **Symmetri** — Physical AI platform combining infrastructure data, scientific models and operational applications; current branding supersedes SandOS references in older material.
- **AI Site Planner** — Uses machine learning, ray tracing and digital twins to support radio access network site planning; passed an AWS Foundational Technical Review.
- **SiteConfig** — Simulation and optimization services for radio network configuration.
- **Fixed Broadband Planning** — Identifies commercially attractive deployment areas for fixed-line and wireless broadband.
- **Enterprise engineering and AI delivery** — Data science, data engineering, software engineering, IoT integration and cloud delivery for enterprise and public-sector clients.
- **Sand Labs** — Technical delivery for startups and smaller companies, including software, AI, business intelligence, UX and CTO services.
- **Unlocking Digital Twins clean-water toolkit** — Public alpha proof of concept converting geospatial water-network data into graph structures; developed with Thames Water and Severn Trent through Ofwat project funding.

## Achievements

- Sand and Telkomsel won TM Forum’s 2024 Best Moonshot Catalyst - Attendees’ Choice Award for an AI network-planning concept.
- AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status announced September 2024.
- Thames Water describes the shared Unlocking Digital Twins project as completed in September 2024.
- Sand reports 18+ countries of platform deployment.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — A forward-deployed engineer posting describes Symmetri as the platform and emphasizes customer-embedded production engineering.
- **2026-03** — Fred Swaniker discussed Sand’s infrastructure work and talent-development approach in a McKinsey interview.
- **2025-05** — Cassava and Sand publicly announced their GPU and AI collaboration.
- **2024-11** — Envision Racing partnership announced.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sandtech.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandtechinc/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SandTechInc
- GitHub: https://github.com/Sand-EnterpriseAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SandTechInc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandtechinc/

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Last updated: 2026-10-23