Sovereign AI: Berlin's deepset joins forces with Celonis
Celonis and deepset will build an integrated sovereign AI platform for mission-critical operations across public sector, defense, cybersecurity, policing, and critical infrastructure organizations.
Berlin-based AI company deepset and Munich-headquartered Celonis have announced a partnership to build a sovereign AI platform aimed at public sector organizations, defense agencies, and critical infrastructure operators. According to a press release from the two companies, the joint platform combines Celonis' Process Intelligence technology with deepset's Haystack framework for building and running AI agents.
The idea behind the collaboration is straightforward: organizations dealing with sensitive data and complex operations need AI they can actually trust. That means full control over models, infrastructure, and data, with no dependency on a single vendor. The platform can be deployed on the customer's own infrastructure and is designed to be auditable and explainable at every step.
On the Celonis side, the contribution is the Celonis Context Model (CCM), which gives AI agents a real-time picture of how an organization actually operates by connecting process data, business knowledge, and decision intelligence. deepset adds its governed platform for managing AI agents in sovereign environments, built on top of Haystack, an open-source framework used by organizations including the European Commission and the German Ministry of Research.
Together, the companies say the platform can help government and security organizations unify fragmented data and workflows, spot operational risks earlier, and speed up investigations. The initial focus will be on customers in the DACH region and broader European sovereign AI programs.
"By combining Haystack's open and governed AI agents with the Celonis Context Model, we are creating a European alternative for operational AI," said Milos Rusic, CEO and co-founder of deepset.