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Techstars '25Dublin, IE · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Axem Solutions provides on-premise AI software designed for critical infrastructure, defense, and space sectors, emphasizing data sovereignty and security with no cloud connectivity or external APIs. The platform runs entirely within customers' secure infrastructure and offers compliance-ready architecture for regulated environments.
Also known as Axem Solutions · axem-solutions · axem.dev
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Axem (Axem Solutions) develops an on-premise, open-source "sovereign AI" platform marketed under the product name Shaide. The platform lets organisations run open-source large language models and AI agents of their choice entirely in-house, on infrastructure they control, with no cloud connectivity and no external inference APIs. It is positioned for critical infrastructure, defense, aerospace/space and other regulated, security-sensitive environments where data ownership and operational independence are requirements.
The product set includes an off-the-shelf installer intended to allow deployment without external dependencies or lengthy integration work; a built-in Knowledge Center with a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that restricts AI retrieval to approved internal sources; enterprise observability with logging and auditability of interactions, document access and model activity; and AI agents for operational workflows, including an AI chat assistant and a coding agent aimed at engineering, operations, support and internal knowledge use cases. The company also offers hardware in the form of "LLM Boxes" for customers that need on-premise compute alongside the software.
The company describes itself as a team of engineers working in highly regulated environments, spanning critical infrastructure, aerospace, government and defense, with a stated focus on helping teams accelerate delivery while meeting safety, compliance and reliability standards.
Business model
Axem sells its Shaide platform to organisations that deploy it on their own infrastructure, with published pricing pages for the platform and its Code and Chat products, a sales-led contact path ("Contact Sales", "Request the Technical Evaluation Package"), and an optional hardware line of LLM Boxes for customers that also need on-premise compute.
Traction
Public open-source traction includes 9 repositories on the company's GitHub organisation; the shaide inference project had 38 stars and the DEM embedded development environment manager 137 stars with 15 forks as of the latest listed activity.
Latest developments
Repository activity on the company's GitHub organisation shows updates to shaide, shaide_server and shaide_control_panel in September 2026, with the DEM project last updated in May 2026.
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Market position
Axem positions itself in the sovereign/on-premise AI segment, targeting buyers in critical industries that cannot use cloud-hosted model APIs.
Positioning rests on full on-premise operation with no cloud access or external APIs, complete data ownership, open-source and model-agnostic deployment, compliance-ready architecture for regulated environments, rapid installation via an off-the-shelf installer, and auditability of every interaction and document access.
Technology
The platform runs self-hosted, distributed, multi-model LLM inference and supports a range of open-source models, from lightweight local models to larger enterprise-grade LLMs. It includes a built-in RAG system for retrieval over approved internal knowledge, access controls across teams and projects, and full logging and audit trails. Core repositories published by the company include shaide (Go), shaide_server (Rust) and shaide_control_panel (TypeScript), all under the Apache-2.0 license, alongside DEM, a Python-based containerized development environment manager for embedded development, and a collection of Dockerfiles for embedded development tooling.
Go-to-market
Go-to-market combines an open-source distribution of the platform code and documentation on GitHub with direct enterprise sales; the website funnels prospects to "Talk to Our Team", "Contact Sales" and a technical evaluation package, and the company maintains a Discord channel and an info@axem.dev contact address for community and inbound questions.
Organisations operating in regulated and security-sensitive sectors: critical infrastructure, defense, government, aerospace and space, plus internal engineering, operations and support teams within such organisations.
Geography
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland; the company operates online via its website, GitHub organisation and Discord community.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does axem do?
- Axem builds Shaide, an open-source sovereign AI platform that runs LLMs and AI agents entirely on customer-controlled infrastructure.
- Who are axem's investors?
- axem's investors include Techstars.
- Where is axem headquartered?
- axem is headquartered in Dublin, IE.