Private & Sovereign AI for Sensitive Data

Some data simply must not leave the building: patient records, employee files, client matters, product IP, defence-related material. A complete AI capability - language models, agents, document intelligence - running entirely on your own infrastructure or a dedicated private environment.

HR & recruitmentHealthcareLegal & financeDefence supply chainIP-rich businesses

The challenge

Some data simply must not leave the building: patient records, employee files, client matters, product IP, defence-related material. Yet these are exactly the document-heavy workflows where AI helps most - so staff face a daily choice between productivity and policy. Many quietly choose productivity.

What the AI does

  • A complete AI capability - language models, agents, document intelligence - running entirely on your own infrastructure or a dedicated private environment
  • Nothing leaves your network: no third-party processing, no training on your data, no retention risk
  • Modern local models now deliver near-frontier capability, with multi-user performance on a single well-specified server
  • Your models, your rules: tuned to your domain and free of third-party usage restrictions

In practice

The HR caseload: employee relations cases are summarised, letters drafted and policies cross-referenced by an AI that never leaves the building - the productivity of public tools with none of the disclosure risk.

Contract review in-house: legal and commercial teams interrogate agreements, leases and supplier terms on private infrastructure - privileged material stays privileged.

The IP question: engineering teams query decades of design history, test data and product documentation through an internal agent - your competitive knowledge never becomes someone else's training data.

Evidenced results

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of frontier-model capability now achievable with leading open models
Published benchmark comparisons
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concurrent users served by a single optimised GPU server
CETSAT engineering benchmarks
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typical all-in initial investment for a 5-15 user deployment
Current market, incl. setup & advisory

With cloud AI pricing rising as vendors move from adoption to monetisation, the payback case for owned infrastructure strengthens every quarter.

How it's delivered

Service pathway: Advisory > Sovereign

CETSAT advises on hardware sizing and model selection, procures and builds the environment, and operates it under a managed service with patching, model updates and 24/7 support options. The capability is yours; the complexity is ours.

From decision to live service

1

Discover

Data sensitivity and workload assessment; hardware sized and models selected for your actual use cases, not a generic spec.

2

Build

Environment procured, built and security-hardened to CETSAT standards; models deployed and tuned; staff onboarded.

3

Operate

Run as a managed service: patching, model updates, monitoring and support - with the option of full 24/7 cover.

Frequently asked questions

Ready to bring AI in-house?

Start with our free AI Readiness Score to understand your data sensitivity profile, or book a discovery session to discuss your specific requirements for private AI infrastructure.