
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Rupert Hopkins was worrying about a quieter problem: the specifications, parts records and requirements that machines still could not understand. His answer became XSB, a 26-year experiment in making industrial knowledge usable.
XSB spent decades organizing the industrial world’s least glamorous data - part numbers, price files, standards and PDFs. Its reward is a strategic role inside Exiger’s supply-chain intelligence machine.