8peaks

8peaks is a deep-tech SME (VLAIO) based in Belgium, providing the KennisAI Platform—a Sovereign "Glass-Box" AI execution engine. We act as the ultimate "Digital Safe Room" for interdisciplinary SSH/STEM research.

Our secure, on-premise AI infrastructure allows researchers to analyze highly sensitive human data in fields like Democracy, Education, and Mental Health without risking privacy violations or relying on "black-box" public clouds.

About Us & The Challenge:

8peaks bridges the gap between cutting-edge STEM Innovation (Agentic AI, Causal Reasoning) and SSH Ethics (Privacy, GDPR, Human-Centricity).

For Cluster 2 (Culture, Creativity, and Inclusive Society) and AI-themed calls, the biggest barrier is Data Sovereignty. Researchers need to analyze sensitive datasets—such as student interactions, political discourse, or vulnerable citizen feedback—using advanced AI, but ethically cannot send this data to public cloud providers (e.g., OpenAI, Azure).

Our Solution: The Sovereign "Glass-Box" AI Platform We replace risky cloud APIs with 100% local, on-premise, or edge AI infrastructure. Moving beyond basic Generative AI, our platform integrates Causal Reasoning and Neuro-Symbolic logic. We deploy Open-Weights Large Language Models (LLMs) locally within your research environment (University, Hospital, or Municipality).

What We Bring to the Consortium (As your STEM / Technical Partner): The "Digital Safe Room" (Privacy by Design): Zero-data egress infrastructure. Your sensitive SSH data never leaves the secure perimeter. Zero Trust MCP Gateway (Ethical Governance): A proprietary interception layer where researchers can define strict, code-level boundaries for AI agents (e.g., "never process personally identifiable information").