Edfast

Foreign frontier models keep getting cheaper and better. They will not run on Norwegian soil for your sake. They will not decide for you what Schrems II means for your data. They do not transcribe Sognamål, and they do not hand you an emissions figure you can put in a sustainability report.

Norway's regulated economy does not need another model. It needs a layer that decides what the models are allowed to do, and that shows what the layer did.

The plan

1. Ship the control layer. Vakt decides which model gets to see which data, refuses what is not permitted, and signs the decision. This is the only thing we sell today.

2. Classify the content before it leaves the building. Today the caller declares the data class of a request. Nobody declares anything. A small model running locally reads the content first, finds the national ID number and the diagnosis, and sets the class. It can only raise a class, never lower one the customer set. Frontier models only ever see what got past it.

3. Make the fleet visible. With twenty agents running, the question becomes what they did, what they cost and what was stopped. Same underlying data as the receipts, aggregated.

4. Move into the sectors that need it most legally. Law, healthcare, municipalities, defence, and listed companies with reporting duties. Each sector sharpens the rule set without widening the product.

5. Build emissions reporting before it is required. The router picks the greenest permitted route regardless, so the cost of being wrong is low.

6. Explore Norwegian dialect support once the router pays for itself. The groundwork is openly published by the National Library, Språkbanken and NorwAI.

7. Make the receipt format a standard. The format is published under CC-BY-4.0. A proof is worthless if only we can read it.

The three parts

Vakt: the control layer. Decides which model handles each call, based on data class, jurisdiction, language requirements and carbon target. Routes to foreign providers when regulation permits it, and to Norwegian hosting when it does not.

Stemme: Norwegian dialect support, built on the open Norwegian language resources the large players deprioritise.

Grønn: carbon-aware routing and reporting. Norwegian hydro runs at 10 to 25 gCO₂ per kWh. Virginia and Ireland run at 250 to 400.

Ranking and fallback

Regulation decides which routes are permitted. The customer decides how the permitted routes are ranked. Carbon first for a municipality. Cost first for a contact centre. Latency first for anything interactive. The order appears in the receipt, so we prove we followed the customer's rule rather than our own.

When the chosen route is down, the data class decides what happens. Classified and health stop and raise an alert. Other classes may fall to the next permitted route, or to a weaker model that stays in the country. The receipt says the fallback fired, and why. That is what an auditor asks about.

Node

An AI device that works without a network. Built for civil defence, municipal crisis leadership, field journalists and command posts, meaning for operators who cannot assume the cloud is available or permitted.

Node moves forward in this plan when two things are true. One paying customer with production traffic through Vakt. One prototype that physically exists. Until then it lives here and nowhere else.

The rule set

The rule set in the router is our reading of current regulation for the Norwegian regulated sector. It is version-stamped, so old receipts stay traceable when that reading changes.

Edfast AS. Founded 2026 in Norway. This plan was written in August 2026.