Locally installed. Works with your documents.
Answers with sources. No data leakage.
Almost every mid-sized company is at one of these three points with AI. We take you from phase 1 to phase 3 — without a detour through someone else's servers.
Individual employees use ChatGPT on their own. First aha moments. But nobody knows where the data ends up. Shadow AI inside your own walls.
AI belongs in everyday work, but under control. On your own data. With clear rules. With sources you can trust. This is where we come in.
AI is part of value creation. It grows with the company, understands its language, protects its knowledge. A strategic lever, not a risk.
Most mid-sized companies are in phase 1 — and don't know it. Take the AI Self-Check and see where you really stand.
Start the AI Self-CheckIGNAITE brings sovereign AI into your company — from the office to the shop floor. Today with LOKI for your documents. Tomorrow with MINERVA for your machines.
The local AI assistant
for your company knowledge.
LOKI searches your documents, emails, protocols, and databases in natural language. Answers with sources. Speaks your language. Runs fully locally.
The local AI operator
for your machine data.
Hardware developed in-house. No white-label, no reseller.
MINERVA is our edge AI hardware for production. Sensor data is analyzed directly at the machine — in real time, without the data leaving your plant.
Currently in pilot — early adopters welcome
More about MINERVABoth products work on the same principles: sovereign, source-grounded, local. You start with LOKI in the office and grow, when you're ready, with MINERVA into the shop floor.
LOKI is a tool-calling agent — not a chatbot. Today it already queries databases, generates Word and PowerPoint documents, and logs every step. The platform is growing — here's where it stands.
LOKI is end product and platform at the same time. If you start with the end product, you can add your own skills later. If you start with custom development, you have full technical depth from day one.
You start with knowledge queries — and grow into complete processes.
Three scenes from a day at work with LOKI. You will recognize them.
He asks LOKI what his predecessor decided back in 2019. LOKI answers with the email thread that contains the decision and the reasoning. With the engineering report. With the meeting minutes. No hallucination.
A customer asks about a part shipped seven years ago. Your service team asks LOKI: what was the special case back then? LOKI finds the special-approval email, the drawing, the protocol.
The auditor asks about the supplier approval process from 2022. Your QM officer asks LOKI. 8 seconds later: the answer, with all sources.
In a very short time, LOKI will know things about your company that no employee still carries in their head. The value grows every day, and it belongs to you alone.
Four architectural decisions that make the difference.
No cloud, no CLOUD Act, no external access. Your data never leaves your network.
Works on your documents, knows your terminology, delivers answers with sources.
No per-user license, no per-query costs. Cheaper than cloud AI licenses in the medium term.
No vendor dependency, no external model changes. As reliable as your power supply.
These four decisions are our conviction. Together they make a difference you feel in everyday work. Not just at the next audit.
Voices from satisfied customers show: AI sovereignty that works in everyday operations.
“With our locally installed AI assistant from IGNAITE, our employees can access company knowledge much faster — for example, information from past projects. This enables higher productivity — and above all, more comprehensive knowledge sharing.”
“In our collaboration with IGNAITE, we built a practical, high-performance computer-vision solution that has sustainably improved our incoming-materials processes. What particularly convinced us was the structured approach, the deep process understanding, and the ability to translate complex requirements into pragmatic solutions.”
What unites these companies: they stopped renting AI. They started owning it.
Cloud AI never gets cheaper. It grows with every employee, every month, every price round. IGNAITE is a one-time investment. After that, the AI belongs to you.
Hardware, installation, standard data integrations, training, and the AI system are included in every package.
€ 9,900
one-time
Maintenance
€ 99 / month
€ 19,000
one-time
Maintenance
€ 600 / month
€ 34,000
one-time
Maintenance
€ 1,000 / month
€ 59,000
one-time
Maintenance
€ 1,500 / month
individual
on request
Maintenance
individual
Modules for ERP, CRM, custom readers, high availability, or multi-site extend the packages as needed. You'll find details and a complete example scenario in the Decision Brief.
Download Decision BriefWhat the curve doesn't show: the dimensions where cloud AI and IGNAITE differ structurally.
| Dimension | Microsoft | ChatGPT | Anthropic | IGNAITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data sovereignty | Data in MS cloud (US/EU) | Data at OpenAI (US) | Data at Anthropic (US) | Entirely in your own network |
| GDPR compliance | Contractual (DPA), Schrems II risk | Contractual (DPA), Schrems II risk | Contractual (DPA), Schrems II risk | Architecturally guaranteed |
| Vendor lock-in | High (M365 ecosystem) | Medium (API switch possible, re-integration costly) | Medium (API switch possible, re-integration costly) | None — open-source models, own hardware |
| Use your own documents | Only SharePoint / M365 content | Only via Custom GPTs / API integration | Only via API integration | Full data landscape (mail, ERP, CAD, file shares) |
| Scaling with headcount | Linearly more expensive per user | Linearly more expensive per user | Linearly more expensive per user | Maintenance independent of user count |
| Compliance docs (EU AI Act) | Vendor documentation | Vendor documentation | Vendor documentation | Full processing chain documentable |
The curve below shows only the monetary dimension. For small teams Microsoft wins on the money axis. On every other axis IGNAITE wins.
* Microsoft Copilot requires M365 Business Premium or E3. Effective real-world cost includes the plan upgrade.
IGNAITE sits between cloud-premium and cloud-discount on price — and is the only provider offering structural sovereignty. This isn't a question of price. It's a question of architecture.
A structured decision brief for management and IT: 5-year TCO comparison, compliance and liability dimension, implementation roadmap, answers to typical questions. Instant PDF, no email required.
Cloud AI is a decision you pay for every month. IGNAITE is a decision you make once — and it grows with you.
We're not cloud resellers and not consultants with an AI certificate. We build LOKI and MINERVA ourselves — and run them together with you.
Richard Haxel
Chief Executive Officer
Jens Schneider
Co-Chief Technology Officer
Marlies Morgen
Co-Chief Technology Officer
Jessica Ohnesorge
Chief Operations Officer
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Dartmann
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Vette
Scientific Advisor
Carolin Backes
Media Designer
Sebastian Bast
AI Researcher
Bouchra Bou-Toulout
Frontend Developer
Christoph Brosch
AI Developer
Uygar Büyükkahraman
Embedded Developer
Lena Ellerkamp
AI Developer
Alexander Harwardt
Embedded Engineer
Cassandra Obiagwu
AI Developer
Julian Regel
Trainee
Marvin Schacht
Embedded Engineer
Mathis Ströhlein
Trainee
Miras Walid
AI Developer
Marie Wientjes
Project Manager
Florian Wittmann
Trainee
We're a team of specialists for every topic sovereign AI needs — from natural language processing to embedded systems. Our mission is clear: bring sovereign AI to the Mittelstand. For us this is more than a business model — it's our conviction.
30 minutes. For an honest assessment of whether our solution is right for your company.
The answers we give most often in our first conversations.
There are no per-user license fees. You make a one-time investment in hardware and setup and pay a modest monthly maintenance fee — regardless of whether five or five hundred employees use the solution. Compared to cloud AI, it amortises within a few years.
For the local AI server we use industry-leading edge AI hardware — we set them up at your site and handle maintenance. A single unit is sufficient for smaller operations; if you need more capacity for concurrent queries, additional units simply stack. On the shop floor, we deploy our own MINERVA edge boards. The hardware belongs to you and stays behind your firewall.
Typically a few weeks. The exact effort depends on your data landscape and the systems being connected. We accompany the entire process and only hand over when everything runs in production quality.
We use open-source language models selected and deployed for your specific use case. No API calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google — inference happens entirely on your hardware.
Yes. Your data never leaves your network, there is no third-country transfer, and we are EU AI Act ready. The on-premises architecture makes data protection technically guaranteed rather than merely contractual.
For operation, yes — the solution runs entirely offline. For optional support and updates we provide secure, customer-controlled remote maintenance that you can disable at any time.
Yes. We integrate data sources such as document repositories (SharePoint, Nextcloud, file shares), ERP and CRM systems, email servers, and machine controls — typically without changes to your existing infrastructure.
Custom GPTs are chat interfaces with a system prompt and uploaded documents — on cloud servers. LOKI is a tool-calling agent: it queries your databases live, generates ready-made Word and PowerPoint documents, and logs every step — on your hardware. If you use Custom GPTs and are happy with them, you have a different use case. If you want to automate actions and AI that grows with you, you need a different architecture.
Yes, via the REST API. LOKI already has a complete API for documents, collections, databases, and chats — anyone who wants to build their own frontends, workflows, or integrations can do so. An official skill SDK for tools and workflows is in planning.