Not a feature, but the foundation.
Our AI runs entirely inside the company. No cloud, no external access, no model changes from outside. What belongs to you stays with you: technically guaranteed, not just contractually assured.
Mission
Sovereign AI. Out of conviction.
We build artificial intelligence that runs inside your company and belongs to you alone. No cloud, no dependency. Because a company's most valuable resource, its knowledge, should belong to no one else.
Why we exist
Sovereignty means being able to choose – instead of accepting dependency as a law of nature.
The idea behind IGNAITEIGNAITE grew out of a conviction: a company's most valuable things, its process knowledge, its documents, its decisions, do not belong in someone else's data center.
We have seen how quickly rules and contracts believed to be safe lose their value the moment dependencies become leverage. So we asked ourselves: how must AI be built so a company can use it without giving up control over its knowledge?
The answer was not the next cloud. The answer was LOKI and MINERVA: AI that runs inside the company and belongs to it alone.
Our values
Four convictions behind every decision.
We build it ourselves.
We are not resellers and not consultants with an AI certificate. LOKI and our MINERVA boards are created in our own workshop. That is why we understand them down to the level where it matters for the customer.
Traceable, not a black box.
Every answer comes with a source, every step is logged, sensitive actions require a human. AI you can trust because you can check it, not because you are told to.
Rooted in practice, out of research.
We come from AI research, but we don't build for conference stages. We build for the workshop, the field service, the audit on a Thursday afternoon.
Who is behind it
Three founders. One conviction.
The same mission, from three perspectives: the entrepreneurial why, the European stance, and the technical depth.
Like most others, we could have built the easy cloud product. We deliberately chose the more demanding on-premises path – because for us it was never just a product decision, but the question of who, in the end, owns a company's most valuable resource: its own knowledge.
Richard Haxel Founder & CEO
Sovereignty means being able to choose instead of depending on a handful of hyperscalers. Whoever controls the AI infrastructure controls more than technology, and it is my deep conviction that Europe must not give up that control. That is why at IGNAITE we build sovereign AI that puts exactly this freedom of choice back into the hands of European companies.
Jens Schneider Founder & Co-CTO
Getting a model to reliably find the right information, instead of being convincingly wrong, is the truly hard work. And it is decided in the details: which model, which data, how we model and search. That is exactly where the difference lies between a good system and a system a company can really build on.
Marlies Morgen Founder & Co-CTO
Next step
Our conviction is one thing. What it means for you, you'll find out best yourself.
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