Siili Solutions, ConfidentialMind and UpCloud announce strategic partnership to deliver sovereign AI for European organizations

The partnership is founded on a shared conviction: that European organizations should not have to choose between access to powerful AI and full control of their data. European organizations no longer need to depend on hyperscaler platforms to access enterprise-grade AI. This partnership enables building a credible, production-ready alternative based entirely on European infrastructure.

The joint offering is designed for organizations that must run AI in controlled environments, let it be either private cloud, on-premise or air-gapped deployments. Data and inference can be kept within Finland or the EEA perimeter, while authorization, policy enforcement, auditability, observability and cost visibility are embedded into the platform.This is especially relevant for sectors where trust, resilience and compliance are non-negotiable.

Siili delivers the strategic application layer: agentic automation, data platforms, AI modernization, system integration, secure software engineering, AI-assisted service management, continuous development and end-to-end solution operations that make the stack usable in real production environments.

"Our clients want AI they can rely on — technically, jurisdictionally, and ethically. This partnership gives them that. Whether they're looking to build and govern multiple agents, maintain data sovereignty, or simply have a trusted foundation to experiment from, we can offer a fully sovereign stack that meets them where they are. Customers across the Nordics and Europe now have more options for how they adopt and govern AI." 
— Jaakko Aatola, VP Strategy & Partners, Siili Solutions

Addressing the most common objections of sovereign AI and debunking the myths around the topic

"Sovereign AI is too expensive."
At production scale — particularly in agentic AI environments where API call volumes compound rapidly — proprietary cloud APIs carry significant and escalating cost. Open-source models deployed on UpCloud's fixed-price GPU infrastructure, with zero egress fees and managed through ConfidentialMind's platform, consistently deliver stronger economics over time. Sovereignty is not a premium — it can be the more cost-effective choice.

"Open-source models cannot be trusted for enterprise use."
Leading open-source models are now competitive with proprietary alternatives across the majority of enterprise workloads — with the added advantage of full transparency and the ability to fine-tune on proprietary data. Siili's ISO 42001-certified AI governance framework ensures every model is operated responsibly and monitored continuously throughout its lifecycle.

"Sovereign cloud means sacrificing performance and modern tooling."
UpCloud's latest GPU offering delivers enterprise-grade LLM inference on dedicated hardware, eliminating the performance variability associated with shared cloud environments. ConfidentialMind's platform integrates natively with standard open-source tooling. Organizations on this stack make no compromise on performance or capability.

"There are no viable European alternatives to the major hyperscaler AI platforms."
The alternatives exist and are production-ready today. European-owned GPU infrastructure, open-source models that match proprietary performance benchmarks, and a certified managed operations layer combine into a complete, deployable sovereign AI solution. The question is no longer whether credible options exist — it is which one best fits your organization's requirements.

"Sovereign AI is only relevant for regulated industries."
Regulatory compliance is one driver — but not the only one. Technology companies have become one of the fastest-growing customer segments for both UpCloud and ConfidentialMind, choosing European infrastructure not out of legal obligation but as a deliberate strategic and ethical decision. Any organization that operates on proprietary data, serves European customers, or seeks full ownership of its AI outputs has a material sovereignty interest. This solution gives every organization access to the same infrastructure that regulated industries depend on.

"Sovereign AI will slow innovation and limit our ability to scale."
The evidence points in the opposite direction. Organizations that retain full control of their models, data, and infrastructure can iterate, fine-tune, and deploy new AI capabilities without dependency on external platform roadmaps, API changes, or third-party pricing decisions.

"Building sovereign AI takes 18 to 24 months."
Building from scratch does. This solution is ready to deploy. ConfidentialMind's platform can be operational in any environment within days. UpCloud's GPU infrastructure is available on demand with no long-term contracts required. Siili bridges deployment to production operations through managed services — at the pace that AI-assisted development enables.

How the end-to-end delivery capability works

UpCloud provides the GPU-powered European cloud foundation. Fully European-owned, GDPR-compliant, and ISO 27001-certified, UpCloud operates dedicated NVIDIA GPUs such as  H100 & B200 servers purpose-built for LLM inference and AI model training, with zero egress fees and a 99.999% uptime SLA across ten European data centers.

"We built UpCloud on a simple belief: Europe should not have to choose between digital sovereignty and world-class cloud infrastructure - Europe deserves both. Through this collaboration, every layer of the stack is built and governed in Europe under European jurisdiction. True sovereignty requires genuine ownership, control, and accountability throughout the technology stack. Our mission is to help ensure Europe retains the ability to shape its own digital future."
— Joel Pihlajamaa, Founder & CTO, UpCloud

ConfidentialMind provides the environment-agnostic sovereign AI platform. Organizations deploy and manage large language models, RAG pipelines, and AI agents in any environment; in a private cloud, or on hosted European infrastructure — with data remaining entirely within their own environment and full compatibility with all leading open-source models via OpenAI-compatible APIs.

"The most valuable enterprise data is also the data that can never leave the organization. Our platform was built to solve that problem in any environment — on-premises, private cloud, or European hosted infrastructure. This partnership with Siili and UpCloud is our commitment to making that option available at scale, across Europe."
— Markku Räsänen, Co-founder & CEO, ConfidentialMind

Siili Solutions provides the capability to make sovereign AI operational — both within organizations and at the infrastructure level. From AI Advisory that helps leadership identify where AI creates genuine business value, to AI Coaching that enables new ways of working, Siili delivers the organizational dimension of AI transformation. With approximately 80% of its consultants capable of deploying or implementing AI in client engagements, this is an organization-wide capability, not a specialist function. On the delivery side, Siili's engineers build production-grade AI solutions using AI-assisted development methodologies and govern them through Managed AI services and multi-agent architectures — all underpinned by Finland's first publicly listed company to hold ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI management.

Immediate value for private and public sector organizations

As geopolitical pressures reshape the digital landscape, and as the EU AI Act, GDPR, and NIS2 impose increasingly stringent data governance requirements, organizations across the public sector, financial services, healthcare, defense, and critical infrastructure are actively seeking AI infrastructure they can own, control, and trust. The barrier has not been a lack of intent, however there has been a perceived absence of viable, enterprise-ready options. This partnership is a direct response to that gap at European level. This solution is designed for any organization where data sensitivity, regulatory obligations, or data ownership are strategic priorities:

• Public sector and government — Citizen-centred and measurable service and operating models, such as AI-assisted, data-driven customer services with quantified productivity and cost-saving potential.

• Healthcare and life sciences — Clinical AI on patient data with complete privacy controls and regulatory compliance

• Financial services — Fraud detection, document intelligence, and customer-facing AI operating under DORA, GDPR, and sector-specific frameworks, with full audit trails

• Manufacturing and industrial — Internal AI capabilities built on proprietary operational data, kept entirely in-house

• Legal and professional services — Contract analysis and knowledge management without exposure to third-party APIs

• Technology companies — A fast-growing segment: technology businesses increasingly select European infrastructure to retain full data ownership and build on European soil as a deliberate competitive and strategic choice
  
  

Interested in sovereign AI for your organization?

We are happy to discuss your specific situation, walk you through the tech stack, and explore how the set up looks like on your terms.

Reach out to Siili's team: partnerships@siili.com