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Sovereign AI for confidential corporate knowledge

We make confidential corporate knowledge searchable, analyzable, and automatable locally, without losing control over data and infrastructure.

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Isometric illustration of an open vault: cards for documents, databases, reports, and processes float inside, connected via circuit traces to a local AI accelerator, with a shield under a spotlight below. Confidential corporate knowledge, usable while remaining under your own control.Isometric illustration of an open vault: cards for documents, databases, reports, and processes float inside, connected via circuit traces to a local AI accelerator, with a shield under a spotlight below. Confidential corporate knowledge, usable while remaining under your own control.

Local and self-hosted AI systems combine search, knowledge modeling, and automation, controllable within the customer's infrastructure.

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The problem

Your most valuable knowledge is scattered. The move to the cloud costs control

Corporate knowledge lives in documents, databases, and processes. It is scattered across file shares, wikis, email, ticketing systems, and specialist applications, hard to find and barely usable for automation.

External cloud AI promises fast answers and creates new dependencies. Add the jurisdiction question. US providers are subject to the CLOUD Act, regardless of where the data center is located.

Sovereign AI workloads should be built where the data is allowed to stay. That is exactly where we start.

Our approach

BKS-Lab builds sovereign AI. Full control inside your organization

We are not a general AI service provider. We are a specialized team for local and self-hosted AI systems. We combine search technologies, knowledge modeling, local LLMs, controlled staging, and automation into one integrated solution, operable inside your infrastructure.

Competencies

Three distinct areas that reinforce each other

Knowledge Automation

Making confidential knowledge accessible locally. Full-text and semantic search, fuzzy search, knowledge graph, entity recognition, RAG, and local LLMs, as one integrated engine.
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Self-Hosted LLM Enablement

Deploying local and self-hosted models securely and economically. Model and hardware assessment, inference architectures, on-premise, air-gapped, or sovereign EU cloud deployment.
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Quality & Automation

Test and process automation wherever local AI enters software development, operations, and document-driven processes, from Peppol invoice flows to log analysis.
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The path

A modular path from orientation to operation

The steps build on each other but do not have to be completed in full. The low-threshold entry point is the Sovereign AI Starter. First a short readiness check, then a clearly bounded implementation.

Sovereign AI Assessment

Orientation. Use case intake, sovereignty risk assessment, cloud-versus-self-hosted evaluation, target architecture, and pilot proposal.

Knowledge Base Pilot

A bounded document corpus is indexed locally, made searchable, and put to use with AI. The fastest path to searchable, AI-usable knowledge.

Local LLM & Automation Pilot

A local or self-hosted LLM takes over a concrete process, from document analysis to contract review.

Production Rollout & Operations

A validated pilot is hardened, integrated, and operated, with a defined roles, security, update, and support model.

Services in detail

Why sovereign

“The jurisdiction counts, not the postcode.”

A C5 certification does not protect against the CLOUD Act. US "sovereign cloud" offerings are C5 certified too. We do not migrate your cloud. We build your AI sovereign.

  • Model- and infrastructure-agnostic

    The model is replaceable, the implementation is not. No lock-in to a single provider.

  • Hybrid validation as standard

    During buildout, a cloud frontier model calibrates quality. In production, the system runs purely locally.

  • Automated staging, human in the loop

    Largely automatic processing with targeted human review where there is uncertainty or criticality.

From practice

Delivered results, not promises

Leading job portal

Invoice process fully automated

Peppol inbound and outbound with ERP integration and archiving, end to end, without media breaks.
European transport company

CI/CD with test automation and quality gates

Built and integrated pipelines focused on test automation to secure high code quality.
Leading publishing house

AI-supported classification of incoming mail

MVP for classifying and processing incoming emails using NLP and local models.

Product

BKS Sovereign Knowledge Engine

An installable engine, operable locally or on your own servers, that indexes, searches, and semantically unlocks documents and data out of the box, and makes them usable with local LLMs. Productized step by step from validated pilots.

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Team

A small, AI-enabled team of experts

BKS-Lab stays deliberately small. The people you talk to are the people who build. No layer in between, no rotating contacts.

Staying small

Senior staffing instead of headcount growth. AI scales delivery, not accountability.

Who talks, builds

The people in the conversation are the people on the project.

Depth over breadth

One bounded field, mastered all the way into operations.

Kontakt

Let's scope a bounded use case together

The Sovereign AI Starter is the low-threshold entry point. A short readiness check, then a clearly bounded implementation.

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