Sovereign AI
Governments, ministries, state-owned enterprise.
Owned by the state. Built to remain.
In service of
intelligent ambitions.
We make AI work the way it was promised.
Not as hype, but as infrastructure.
T R U S T E D B Y
Global Brands.
Across luxury, automotive, retail, hospitality, and consumer brands.
P R A C T I C E
Four worlds. One discipline.
Systems engineered to compound, built to be inherited.
Institutional AI
Banks, family offices, regulated capital.
Every decision defensible. Every model audit-ready.
Enterprise AI
Global brands, maisons, and marques operating at scale.
The brand is the asset. The work serves it.
Industrial AI
Infrastructure, energy, logistics, grid.
Built for the physical world. Engineered for scale.
S E L E C T E D W O R K
Mandates in Motion.
US$12.4bn
Under decision-intelligence systems
37
Mandates shipped to production since 2019
94%
Client retention beyond first engagement
11
Jurisdictions across the Gulf, Europe, and Asia
A national sustainability tracking platform.
Project delivery verified against commitments, across two agencies.
$150M in monitored project value. 27 sustainability initiatives tracked.
An AI member of the investment committee.
Strategy and risk review across a four-billion-dollar portfolio.
150+ motions reviewed across 90 dimensions of risk.
A financial modeling engine for new-market entry.
Supply, distribution, and demand, modeled across three regions.
$8B TAM evaluated. One decision: enter or hold.
A global supply chain platform.
From raw material to manufactured product, in real time.
80 suppliers integrated. $300M in catalog value tracked.
A P P R O A C H
How we work.
Three phases, one team. Strategy is the foundation. The rest follows.
Strategy
Every engagement begins by embedding in your business and examining how decisions are made. The output is a recommended set of actions, grounded in evidence, with the full reasoning shown.
Delivery
We design, deliver, and integrate until the system performs as specified. The engineers who shaped the strategy write the code, built bespoke or configured from systems we already operate.
Operations
A team stays with you for the months following launch, ensuring the system performs and adapts as conditions change. We build around your existing processes and leave when it is yours to run.
C O M P L I A N C E
Built for regulated work.
Engineered into the system, not added before the audit.
Designed for institutions where a failed audit, a data incident, or an unexplainable model is not an option.
Frameworks we design against
SOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
GDPR
- Deployment on your terms. On-premise, private cloud, or hybrid. Your infrastructure, your keys.
- Data residency managed to your jurisdiction. EU, US, UK, GCC, APAC.
- Every system reviewed against Empiric's governance framework before it reaches production.
- Live systems reviewed quarterly, against the standards they were built to.
Behind every engagement.
Operators drawn from AI, enterprise software, consumer brands, and regulated industries.
CEO
Miles Carroll
FeedMagnet, NewVoiceMedia, Kosmos Capital, Opulous, Oracle
CTO
Sami Van Ness
Folgers, Porsche, McLaren, Ethereum Foundation, Mozilla, NASA, Coca-Cola, DAMAC
CRO
Alexander Clote
BlackRock Aladdin, Amazon AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, NASA, Genentech, Wells Fargo
Senior FDE
Adam Perez
McLaren, Mozilla, Demonsaw, Mona Loves Gustav, MOMA, Holo, Lokt
P E R S P E C T I V E S
On the record.
Writing from the people doing the work, on the questions the work raises.
You Cannot Buy a Megawatt
AI capability got cheap. The scarce thing moved off the chip and into power, water, land, and the consent of the people who live next to the machines.
4 min read
Read →
The System Cannot Audit Itself
A model's account of itself is testimony, not an audit. The only real assurance comes from a checker that is not the thing being checked.
4 min read
Read →
Keep Everything, Show Almost Nothing
More context does not make a system know more, it makes it worse at judgment. Store everything, show the model the slice each decision needs, and pin what must never drop out.
4 min read
Read →
On Software That Fits
AI is ending the era of renting generic software and beginning the era of software cut to one company, built from its own records.
6 min read
Read →
Field Notes
Three engagements where the value delivered turned out to be one structural step from the brief the client wrote.
4 min read
Read →
On AI as Infrastructure
Why most AI deployments today won't exist in two years, and what to build instead.
5 min read
Read →
Why AI search changed who you're advertising to
On the AI that now stands between your work and the people who would otherwise find it.
6 min read
Read →
Talk to a partner.
A thirty-minute confidential conversation about the mandate in front of you, and whether we're the right team to meet it.