Intelligence forcultural institutions
Ossus builds the software that runs a modern library, with intelligence that does the busywork and leaves the judgment to librarians.
Libraries are history’s oldest storage for intelligence. We are building it a new one.
Cultural flourishing has always been built on infrastructure. The first Renaissance rose on the printing press, the public library, and the catalogue. What comes next will rise on something we have not built yet.
Today libraries run on aging systems and manual work that swallows the hours meant for curation and connection. This is not cultural decline. It is infrastructural neglect, and Ossus exists to change that.
Give the best hours back
Ossus takes the admin off the desk, the hours that should belong to readers, and returns them to curation, connection, and craft.
Judgment stays human
AI will not generate culture. It reads the spines, runs the inventory, and matches the records, so the work only a librarian can do stays with the librarian.
Privacy by design
We do not train on your data and we do not sell it. Ossus reads catalogue metadata, never borrower records, so the intelligent parts touch the least personal data.
Built for the long term
Libraries are civic infrastructure. We build from inside the work, alongside the institutions that run on it, and to the standards they are held to.
Solutions
Two products on one foundation, built for where libraries actually live.
ILSThe complete system for a public library. Catalogue, circulation, and a discovery experience patrons actually enjoy, on one foundation.
Librar is Ossus for schools. Set up a library in minutes from a phone, and give school librarians their hours back for students.
Add-ons
Beyond the core ILS, Ossus adds a set of agents that take the slow, recurring work off the desk, from keeping the shelves accurate to buying well and funding the year ahead.
AI-assisted Inventory
Save 80% of time spent on inventory. Take a picture up to 30 books while they're still on the shelf, and AI automatically identifies the books by reading the spines. It does inventory and identifies misplaced books simultaneously.
Vendor Comparison Agent
Save 5-10% on all your book orders. Drop in a purchase list and the agent splits it across different book vendors. It weighs the price of the book, MARC records, processing and more—and tells you the cheapest way to fill the order.
Grant Agent
Make more money from grants. Our agent scans thousands of sources to find every grant you qualify for, tracks the deadlines, and drafts each application from what it already knows about your collection and community.
Built to the standards libraries are held to
Ossus reads catalogue metadata, the spines and the records, never borrower history. We do not train on your data, and we do not sell it.
- ISO 27001Certified
Information security management.
- GDPRCompliant
Data protection and privacy by default.
- SOC 2In audit
Independent attestation of our controls.
Questions, answered
Both. Ossus is a complete library management system, so you can replace your current platform entirely and get cataloging, circulation, inventory, reporting, and OPAC in one place. If you are not ready to switch, you can run any of our add-ons alongside your existing system instead. Many customers start with one of our add-on features.
Your data is stored in your own region. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and student records are handled in line with applicable student privacy regulations. If you have specific data residency or security requirements, we are happy to walk your IT team through our setup before you sign anything.
Yes. Ossus includes a resource manager that can track any item, such as Chromebooks, tablets, and instruments. Each item gets its own record, checkout history, and condition notes, so you have one source of truth for everything that leaves the shelf.
The resource manager is included in every plan at no extra cost, which often replaces a separate asset management subscription.
We handle it for you, free of charge. You export your catalog and patron records from your current system, or give us access to do it, and our team maps and imports everything into Ossus. Barcodes, call numbers, checkout histories, and patron lists carry over. Most migrations are completed within a few days, and we verify the data together with you before you go live so nothing is lost in the move.
Ossus is built for managing physical collections, and that is where our AI features deliver the biggest time savings. Libraries that use a digital lending platform such as Sora continue to use it perfectly well alongside Ossus, with patrons accessing digital titles the same way they do today.
As a start-up, we're online almost 24/7! You can reach us by email, phone, or book a call directly with your CSM. Questions are answered within the hour, and most feature requests are added within days. Onboarding includes live training sessions for your staff, and we stay involved after go live to make sure inventory runs, checkouts, and reports all work the way you expect.
There are no extra fees for support, training or set-up.
If you are switching from another system, we typically complete migration and onboarding within one to three weeks of signing, scheduled around your calendar.
If you don't have a library system, your library can be fully digitalized within days by using Bulk-Scan for cataloging. Let's get those books checked out!