Finnish AI-native consortium launches

Helsinki, 8 June 2026. Three Finnish technology companies have formed a strategic consortium with the aim of offering businesses and the public sector an AI-native alternative to the solutions of the global software giants. The consortium consists of Meshly Oy (AI-native product platform), Apex Digital One Oy (digital commerce and master data management) and Technosmart Oy (critical IoT solutions and asset management).

The consortium's combined starting revenue is approximately EUR 5 million, with a three-year target of EUR 15 to 25 million. The foundation for growth is Meshly's AI agent platform and Data Stack, through which the product development, customer projects and service delivery of all three companies scale faster and more cost-efficiently than before. Apex Digital One Oy and Technosmart Oy have at the same time become shareholders in Meshly Oy.

Digital sovereignty becomes a strategic question

The consortium's launch coincides with a moment in which control of data and technology has become a top-tier political and security question in Europe. In early June 2026, the European Commission put forward new EU-wide rules under which data and services critical to society could in future be run only on cloud services that are under European ownership and control. In the Commission's four-tier model, the required degree of "Europeanness" rises in step with the sensitivity of the data being processed: at the highest tier, even the software underlying the service must be under European control.

Behind this lies concern over dependence on the US cloud giants, whose combined market share in Europe is around 70 percent. The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) has likewise warned that foreign service providers operate under the laws of their home country, which may give the authorities of a foreign state access to the data of European organisations.

"This is precisely the question around which we have built the entire consortium. European organisations no longer have to choose between sovereignty and leading-edge technology: we offer both in the same package. The Commission's proposal is not a threat to us but a confirmation that we built the right thing at the right time."

Olli Väätäinen, Chairman of the Board, Meshly Oy and Apex Digital One Oy

Sovereign AI-Native Enterprise Stack

The consortium's flagship offering is the Sovereign AI-Native Enterprise Stack, a package in which AI-native systems and AI-ready data run entirely within the customer's own infrastructure. The principle is simple: AI models are brought to the data, not the other way around. In practice this means the customer gets an AI-based solution without the data, models or integrations ever leaving the customer's own control, a requirement that international SaaS solutions rarely meet.

The solution supports the requirements of even the highest tiers of the Commission's model: the platform is self-hosted in the customer's own environment, the underlying software can be kept under European control, and the solution does not require any outside party to have access to the data or any means of cutting off the service. At the same time, it meets GDPR, NIS2 and AI Act regulation as well as KATAKRI requirements in the public sector and in critical industries. Meshly Data Stack's pricing also differs from traditional platforms: the customer pays a fixed annual fee regardless of volume, so growth in agents and queries does not produce surprise bills.

A platform is not enough: the customer needs a solution

The consortium's sharpest point of differentiation from the international data-platform giants is comprehensiveness. Buying a platform alone is only the beginning of a project, not its end. After that, the customer is left to combine consultants, system integrators and in-house teams in order to extract business value from the platform.

"An AI-native platform is an accelerator, but an accelerator without domain understanding leaves the customer alone with the question of how to make the platform produce business value. In the consortium, the customer gets this AI-native foundation together with the industry-specific solutions built on top of it, such as e-commerce, MDM and critical IoT. A single accountable partner delivers the whole, which lets us move from the first meeting to production in weeks rather than months."

Konsta Rönkkö, CEO, Meshly Oy

AI agents at the heart of the operating model

The consortium's companies apply a shared AI Software Factory operating model, in which a fixed, multi-skilled team orchestrates AI agents across the entire development lifecycle, from definition to implementation and acceptance, in hours or days, not weeks or months. The model offers significant scalability benefits:

• Faster, cheaper delivery. Building enterprise software to the customer's needs shortens to weeks or months, while costs are at least halved compared with the traditional approach.
• Data sovereignty by default. AI-ready data gives customer solutions transparent data governance, secure encryption practices and local identity management.
• Model-neutral architecture. Value comes from metadata and context, not the model itself: use Claude, GPT, open or locally hosted models, and switch between them without code changes.

"Previously, a customer's MDM or e-commerce project tied up our team for several months. With the AI Software Factory model, the same work is completed in weeks, and our experts can focus on developing the business together with the customer. For the customer this shows up as substantially faster value creation and a significantly smaller total bill."

Jani Ristola, CEO, Apex Digital One Oy

Auditable sovereignty, down to European ownership

Global AI vendors talk about data sovereignty, but in practice their ownership, management and legal jurisdiction lie outside Europe. This is exactly the risk that the Commission and national security authorities have raised: the home-country legislation of a foreign provider can reach the data of a European customer, and continuity of service can depend on the political decisions of a foreign state. The consortium's definition goes deeper than the technical deployment model: the entire supply chain (platform, delivery team, ownership and governance) is in Finland.

"In critical environments, people have grown used to AI and regulation ruling each other out. The Sovereign AI-Native Enterprise Stack breaks that setup: a public-authority customer gains the productivity benefit AI brings without the data or models ever leaving the customer's own infrastructure. As the debate over 'kill switches' in cloud services runs hot, we offer a solution in which the switch is in the customer's own hands from the very beginning. KATAKRI and NIS2 are not obstacles, they are starting points."

Pekka Salonsaari, CEO, Technosmart Oy

Three industries, one technology platform

The consortium's strength lies in bringing together companies that run on the same production machinery but operate in different industries. The same Meshly platform supports all three: digital commerce and MDM implementations (Apex), critical IoT systems and asset management in line with public-authority requirements (Technosmart), and the ongoing development of the platform itself (Meshly). Built from the ground up to benefit from several industries at once, the platform lets the lessons, agent roles and knowledge layers of one company become available to the others.

Owner-led and long-term

All the consortium's companies are owner-led. This makes long-term business development possible without short-term exit pressure, an advantage valued especially in industries with long procurement cycles and stringent supplier requirements. The consortium is open by design to new industry-specific members that share the same technological foundation and AI-native way of producing software.