Artificial Intelligence software.

Two very different engineering problems get lumped under “AI software”: building a bounded agent that reliably automates one specific B2B workflow, and running large language models on infrastructure that never leaves EU jurisdiction. Both require discipline generic AI tooling skips — explicit tool permissions, retrieval that respects existing authorization boundaries, and evaluation against the actual task rather than a generic benchmark.

Sovereign deployment has become its own requirement as customers in regulated sectors — finance, healthcare, public administration — rule out US-hosted model APIs entirely, whether for GDPR transfer risk, the EU AI Act's data governance obligations, or plain procurement policy. Self-hosting an open-weight model changes the latency, cost and evaluation tradeoffs; it doesn't remove the need for the same guardrails a hosted agent needs.