Sovereign AI for public bodies
Your teams save time. Your data stays in Europe.
An assistant that answers from your procedures and regulations, citing its sources. A target three-week pilot, subject to scoping, using the French Mistral model with a controlled hosting perimeter.
Start with a scoped pilot and measure the results.
An example question
“What does our security framework require for passwords?”
Your framework requires at least 12 characters, mixing upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Multi-factor authentication is mandatory for any remote access, under the version in force since March 2026.
Validate retrieval, citations and refusals on your own test set.
“What does our procedure say about a request for access to personal data?”
The assistant should retrieve the relevant procedure and cite the original source.
If the corpus does not contain the answer, it should say so.
“What notice period does our maintenance contract require for termination?”
The assistant should retrieve the termination clause and cite it.
If several versions of the contract exist, it should say which one it is quoting.
Clients
Already in production in public bodies
No slideware: teams that use our sovereign AI every day, and talk about it.
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Territoire Innovant award · AI
City of Annemasse & Annemasse Agglo: "MIA"
In production for more than 12 monthsSovereign AI built on open source components (Mistral Small 3.2), hosted in Europe.
Awarded the "Territoire Innovant" label, AI category, by Les Interconnectés (June 2026, Paris)
- 340 active users
- 17,880 messages processed
- 1 single GPU
Official figures from June 2026: adoption keeps growing.
"With MIA, we are showing that a town can master its digital strategy without depending on outside players."
Gabriel Doublet, Mayor of Annemasse -
County-wide scale
Calvados County Council
In production for more than 6 monthsThe same sovereign foundation deployed across a whole county (~700,000 residents): an AI assistant connected to the county SSO, European hosting, open source models.
- 73 active users
- 12,940 messages processed
- 1 single GPU
Proof of scalability
From 90,000 to 700,000 residents: same architecture, same fixed cost, same sovereignty.
Measure your own pilot
Results depend on your documents, use cases and adoption. Define the measurement period, active users, errors, access controls and review time.
The PixelRaise team
Technical credibility forged by expertise
PixelRaise does not sell licences: we deploy and maintain a sovereign infrastructure for you. Based in the Annemasse area, with teams in France and Switzerland.
Method: three weeks to decide on facts
From scoping to the go/no-go milestone, with no commitment to roll out.
W1
Scoping & installation
Audit of the use cases, SSO connection, sovereign infrastructure in place, first document bases imported.
W2–3
Pilot with 20 users: go/no-go milestone
Real usage, adoption and time saved measured. You decide on the numbers.
Go
Roll-out
Opened to all users, up and running in 30 minutes, in-house champions trained.
Advanced RAG pipeline
From your documents to the sourced answer
Extraction (PDF, Office, OCR), vectorisation, re-ranking and inference: all of it locally, with citations of the passages used. Plus NotebookLM-style generations: summaries, FAQs, briefings, quizzes, mind maps, depending on enabled components and the approved processing perimeter. Being rolled out as options: audio podcasts and transcription of your meetings.
- Your files common formats
- Extraction PDF · Office · OCR
- Chunking into chunks
- Vectors vector store
- Re-ranking BGE reranker
- LLM local inference
- Answer sourced + cited
1 · Extraction
Multi-format
Native or scanned PDFs (OCR), recent Office files (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx), HTML, text and source code. Every document in these formats becomes searchable.
2 · Chunking and vectorisation
Into chunks, embeddings, vector store.
3 · Re-ranking
BGE reranker: sourced and relevant answers.
4 · Cited answer
Local inference, with citations of the passages used.
Structural frugality
AI during working hours
Off-hours shutdown can reduce billed computation if the offer supports it. Check startup, minimum billing, erasure and availability; other services may remain on.
Illustrative GPU shutdown scenario · Schedule-dependentFixed cost
Cost depends on sizing, billed hours and support. Shared infrastructure does not guarantee the same price for every workload.
Live monitoring
Prometheus monitoring of the GPUs and the inference engine, an email report at every start and shutdown, with an alert on failure. Backups defined during scoping.
Meetings · optional, being rolled out
From meeting minutes to the cited answer
Committee, management meeting, working group: the recording becomes a text attributed to each participant, then a first draft of the minutes that your staff validate. Once validated, the minutes join your knowledge base, where the assistant finds and cites them like your other documents.
What happens to the voice
The audio is processed in the European Union, with no third-party service, and kept for as long as you decide. Participants are informed before recording.
A first draft, validated by staff
Each contribution is attributed: you name the voices and correct the text. The minutes follow your template, and nothing is shared without validation.
Found, then cited
Validated minutes become sources like any other: a question about a past meeting gets an answer that points to the right document.
The problem
Unmanaged AI creates data risks
Unmanaged use can expose data or bypass document permissions. Define authorised tools, uses, controls and training.
Access
Access control
Application, document storage and GPU processing use the agreed hosting perimeter. The tunnel encrypts traffic; administration access, logs and backups still require controls.
Compliance
GDPR & AI Act support
An architecture designed around the regulation: data in the EU, structural minimisation, DPO documentation provided, experimental pseudonymisation, in testing. Your DPO must validate compliance for the actual processing.
Exit
Technical independence
Components and models are selected for your needs. Verify each deployed version, licence and exit conditions; the entire stack is not presumed to be open source.
Technology stack
Document components and licences
Components and models are selected for your needs. Verify each deployed version, licence and exit conditions; the entire stack is not presumed to be open source.
The stack, deployed on your side
Components can be replaced subject to their interfaces and licences. Inventory external flows, extensions and administration access for each installation.
Open source LLM
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct in production, on a single GPU: sized to the actual need, no pointless gigantism.
vLLM Engine
High-performance inference, capacity to measure on your actual workload.
Collaborative AI portal
Secure chat, knowledge bases, notes, sharing by group, SSO sign-in.
RAG + Re-ranking
Multi-format extraction, embeddings, BGE reranker: sourced and relevant answers.
Observability
Configure monitoring, alerts and backups. Service hours and fallback capacity are defined in the contract, with tested recovery objectives.
API first
OpenAI-compatible endpoints to plug into your existing business applications.
Your role
Prepare your decision
Leadership
Budget and capacity.
IT
Integration, operations and exit.
Privacy / security
Data, responsibilities and controls.
Free tool · prioritisation
Where do you start?
Map the automation potential of your departments. Set the intensity department by department and get a prioritisation matrix, quick wins vs long projects, plus the top 5 automations to launch, with an estimate of the hours freed up.
- Identify your quick wins department by department
- Prioritise impact vs implementation effort
- Move straight on to costing the ROI
Built for critical sectors
Designed for organisations that cannot afford a data leak.
- Public bodies
- Banking & finance
- Healthcare
- Defence
- Education
- Legal
ROI simulator
Resources
Understanding sovereign AI
Clear guides for your technical teams and your decision-makers: from model technology to regulatory compliance.
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Digital sovereignty
The three pillars of sovereign AI: data location, compliance, control over the model. -
Sovereign LLM models
Open source vs open weight, an agnostic stack, model comparison (Mistral Small 4…). -
AI & GDPR
Legal bases, DPIA, and the right to erasure inside a RAG system. -
EU AI Act
Risk levels, obligations for deployers, applicable deadlines. -
AI API pseudonymisation
Protecting sensitive data even with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Experimental, in testing. -
ROI calculation method
How we put a figure on the data risk avoided (annual loss expectancy).
Contact
Test sovereign AI on your own documents
A 30-minute demonstration on a sample of your real documents, then a three-week pilot (go/no-go milestone included). An expert replies within 48h.
Book a demo · 30 min (new window)
Pick a slot directly, or fill in the form.
- info@pixelraise.com
- Address
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