Edfast
Norway’s AI sovereignty infrastructure
Norway’s AI sovereignty infrastructure

We decide which AI models are allowed to handle each request, and prove every decision.

Vakt routes each request by jurisdiction, language, and carbon cost, then signs the response with three cryptographic receipts. They give your compliance team the GDPR Article 30, AI Act, and CSRD evidence it has to keep.

See the receipts →Read the Master Plan
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Vakt

The router. Decides which model handles each call based on jurisdiction, data class, language, and carbon target. Routes to OpenAI, Anthropic, or a Norwegian-hosted model. Auto-generates GDPR Article 30, AI Act Article 12, and CSRD records.

  • · sovereignty-aware routing
  • · three signed receipts per response
  • · auto-generated compliance artefacts
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Stemme

The Norwegian dialect speech layer, built on the open research that NB-AI-lab, NorwAI, and SCRIBE already publish. Our role is to turn that work into compliance-grade, dialect-aware product for the regulated verticals.

  • · built on the openly published NB-Whisper
  • · dialect detection (bokmål, nynorsk, trøndersk, sognamål, …)
  • · domain fine-tunes on open Norwegian corpora
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Grønn

Carbon-aware routing and reporting. Norwegian hydro runs at 10 to 25 gCO₂ per kWh. Virginia and Ireland run at 250 to 400. Every receipt cites the grid mix, energy used, and CO₂e, exportable as CSRD-ready quarterly reports.

  • · per-inference CO₂e
  • · ESRS E1 / Scope 3 export
  • · fleet-percentile benchmarking
The Master Plan
  1. 01Ship a sovereignty router with three signed receipts.
  2. 02Use the router’s cash flow and customer access to deepen the Norwegian dialect data moat.
  3. 03Expand into the verticals that legally need it most: legal, healthcare, municipal, defense, and CSRD-reporting listed companies.
  4. 04Reveal the Edfast Node in 2027. A sovereign offline AI device, dev-kit and waitlist.
  5. 05Aim to ship the Node to 50 to 200 units in 2028. Civil defense, defense pilots, command posts, journalists in the field.
  6. 06License Vakt, Stemme, and Grønn as the de facto Norwegian regulated-AI infrastructure.
  7. 07Anchor a Nordic AI sovereignty consortium and carry the receipts standard beyond Norway.
Read the full Master Plan →
The Node commitment
In 2027 we intend to reveal a sovereign offline AI device for operators who can’t depend on the public cloud being available or permitted, such as civil defense, field journalists, and command posts. It’s on our roadmap now, starting with a prototype and a waitlist, with first units intended for 2028.
What we’re building toward

Norway is unlikely to build its own frontier model, and it doesn’t need one. What it needs is a regulated-AI infrastructure layer: one that controls when foreign models are allowed, proves it, handles Norwegian dialects, and runs offline when the cloud isn’t an option. That is what Edfast is building.

What we won’t do
  • Build our own foundation model. We build the compliance layer above the models, not another model.
  • Call the cryptography a blockchain. It’s Ed25519 signatures and a Merkle log, and we describe it plainly.
  • Sell sovereignty as a slogan. It matters where regulation requires it; our job is to help you meet that requirement.
  • Grow headcount for its own sake. We stay small and focused on shipping.