Boutique AI consultancy · The Netherlands · EU-only

SOVEREIGN AI FOR THE EUROPEAN MKB.

Your data. Your infrastructure. Your AI. We help Dutch and European SMEs adopt AI without surrendering their data, their IT, or their future to US hyperscalers. Fixed-price entry. Numbers on the page. A runbook that lets you walk away from us if you ever need to.

  • EUR 50k direct savings delivered · BUKO
  • 95% detection accuracy · Gouda CV
  • 0 bytes leave the device · Meeting Notes
  • EUR 700k grant lead-authored · RAAK Publiek

01 — Why us

THE DUTCH MKB HAS AN EXECUTION GAP. WE CLOSE IT — SOVEREIGNLY.

The problem

You have data — sensor logs, ERP dumps, drawings, tickets — and a board that wants "something with AI". The big consultancies bill slides; the freelancers stop at notebooks. Nothing ships, and whatever does ships straight into a US cloud.

The sovereignty layer

CSRD, NIS2, the EU AI Act and the CLOUD Act's extraterritorial reach all pull the same way: European firms want their data and their AI under European law, on European infrastructure, with an exit plan.

Our answer

A boutique that is senior, fast, fixed-price on entry, and sovereign by default. We scope in two weeks, ship in three months, and hand you the keys — weights, infra, runbook. Including how to leave us.

YOUR DATA. · YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE. · YOUR AI.

The three things every engagement leaves you in charge of.

02 — Services

TWO THEMES YOUR BOARD ALREADY UNDERSTANDS.

We package our work into two commercial themes. Every sub-service is sovereign by default — EU-hosted, on-prem-capable, audit-trail-ready.

THEME 01

AI for Operational Excellence

Drive out downtime, defects and waste.

  • Predictive maintenance. Vibration, acoustic, FBG, SCADA time-series → fault classification and remaining-useful-life.
  • AI quality control. Computer-vision defect detection on the line. Runs on-prem or at the edge.
  • Time-series & demand forecasting. Energy load, production throughput, logistics demand.
  • Process optimisation. Classical ML for logistics and workflow bottlenecks.
  • Sovereign workflow automation. On-prem LLMs for quoting, contracts and meeting notes.
THEME 02

Digital Sovereignty & Regulated Operations

Own your data, your infrastructure and your AI.

  • Digital Sovereignty Scan. Data-flow and vendor audit, regulatory exposure map, migration roadmap.
  • Sovereign AI stack build-out. EU-hosted or on-prem model runtime, vector store, orchestration, observability.
  • Regulatory help-bots. Sovereign RAG over Dutch & EU regulation — GDPR, EU AI Act, CSRD, NIS2.
  • Compliance reporting automation. Audit-trail-friendly pipelines for CSRD and ESG reporting.
  • EU AI Act readiness. Risk classification, documentation, evals and internal controls.

03 — Specialisation

WE DO THE WHOLE SOVEREIGNTY STACK — NOT JUST "ON-PREM LLMs".

Most "sovereign AI" vendors stop at a LLaMA in a container. We go end to end. Four layers, one engagement, one runbook.

  1. 01

    Data sovereignty

    EU-only data flows, mapped against GDPR Art. 46 and Schrems II. Minimisation, retention and purpose-limitation audits. Sovereign embeddings and vector stores. CSRD-ready lineage.

  2. 02

    IT sovereignty

    European hosting — Hetzner, OVHcloud, Scaleway, StackIT, IONOS, Leaseweb — or on-prem when the client needs it. Open-source default stack. No US-SaaS lock-in. Every engagement ships a "how to leave us" runbook.

  3. 03

    Sovereign AI

    On-prem and EU-cloud LLMs (Mistral, Llama, Phi, EuroLLM) with privacy-first RAG. Domain-adapted models with the weights in your account. Agentic workflows with full audit trails and EU-AI-Act-grade risk gates.

  4. 04

    Operational sovereignty

    Monitoring, evals, incident playbooks, DPO-ready documentation, and staff training so the system lives after we leave. NIS2 operational controls when the client is in scope.

04 — Approach

START WITH A FIXED-PRICE SOVEREIGNTY & AI SCAN.

Two weeks. One price. One document you can take to your board — and to your auditor.

Entry product

EUR 4,950

fixed · ex VAT · 5 consulting days

Deliberately below the EUR 5,000 procurement threshold at most MKB firms — so you can say yes this quarter.

  1. 01

    Data & infrastructure map

    Half a day on site. We map processes, the data you actually have, and the vendors + jurisdictions it lives under today.

  2. 02

    Exposure & regulation snapshot

    GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2 and CSRD reality-check for your specific setup. No theatre — a vendor map and a red/amber/green assessment.

  3. 03

    Use-case shortlist

    One or two high-impact, technically feasible, sovereign AI use-cases — scored on value, feasibility and sovereignty risk.

  4. 04

    Practical roadmap

    Business case, estimated ROI, build plan, sovereign migration options, and a scoped follow-on quote. One document. Your name on the cover.

After the Scan — the engagement ladder

Pilot2–3 months · EUR 20–60k
Full engagement3–12 months · EUR 40–300k
Sovereign stack build-out3–9 months · EUR 60–250k
Advisory retainerEUR 5–15k / month
Grant success fee3–5% of awarded grant

05 — Proof

WE SHIP TO LIVE URLs, NOT SLIDEWARE.

Theme 01 · Operational

BUKO — digital-twin demand forecasting

EUR 50kdirect cost savings

Statistical time-series models inside a digital-twin framework, with a PowerBI layer for non-technical stakeholders. Translated research into measurable business value.

Theme 02 · Sovereign

Meeting Notes — sovereign local AI

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A fully sovereign, locally deployable meeting-notes system built at the AI Hub The Hague. Privacy-first LLMs, no external calls, no US cloud surface.

Theme 01 · Operational

Gouda — computer vision for road markings

95%detection accuracy · in production

Mask R-CNN / Detectron pipeline on a 6-node P100 cluster, fed by high-res ortho + intensity rasters. In production at Gouda Municipality.

Theme 02 · Sovereign

Dutch legal-mediation RAG

GDPR-nativeprivacy-first legal AI

Domain-specific LLM + RAG architecture for divorce mediation under Dutch law. Privacy-compliant, on-prem-ready, and designed around regulated workflow.

Theme 01 · Operational

TimesFM — Dutch building-energy forecasting

+5%MAPE vs. SOTA

Google TimesFM fine-tuned for Dutch academic-building electricity, benchmarked against LSTM+CNN and Prophet under extreme weather anomalies.

Cross-cut · Grant craft

Urban Tree Twin — RAAK Publiek

EUR 700kgrant · lead-authored

Lead author and PI for an AI super-resolution digital twin of Dutch urban trees. Partners: RIVM, ProRail, Saxion, Van Hall Larenstein.

06 — Team

TWO FOUNDERS. TWO LANGUAGES. ONE BRAND.

We speak both your languages — deep technical AI and practical Dutch business. And we build so you can walk away from us if you ever need to.

RG

Rishwen Ghisaaidoobe

Co-founder · Business & Communications

Dutch marketing and communications lead with deep MKB experience. Owns the client relationship, positioning, brand voice, and the translation of technical output into board-ready business cases. Fluent in the Dutch commercial register.

AV

Dr. ir. Amey Vasulkar

Co-founder · AI & Research

Senior AI researcher. PhD in Applied Mathematics (TU Delft / Deltares). 10+ years building real-world industrial AI. PI on NWO KIEM ×2, lead author on a RAAK Publiek EUR 700k application. Production work across time-series forecasting, computer vision, GeoAI and sovereign LLMs.

07 — Let's talk

READY TO FIND YOUR HIGHEST-VALUE SOVEREIGN AI OPPORTUNITY?

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. If it's a fit, we scope a Sovereignty & AI Scan the same week.

  • Emailhello@phi-labs.ai
  • Service areaThe Netherlands & the EU
  • LanguagesNederlands · English