The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber,[1] and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI.

xaitControl is a finite-state machine for game logic and character behavior modeling that also includes a real-time debugger.

On January 11, 2012, xaitment announced that it making its source code for these modules available to "all current and future US and European licensees".

The pathfinding plug-in is available with a Windows dev environment, but can deployed on iOS, Mac, Android and the Unity Web Player.

Current customers include Tencent, gamania, TML Studios, Emobi Games, IP Keys and others.