About feder8d
A private AI platform built to be self-hostable, region-aware and source-available — for organisations whose data cannot go to a public cloud AI API.
Why feder8d exists
feder8d started from a simple observation: every organisation we talked to had data they wanted to use with AI — customer records, source code, clinical notes, legal work, internal IP — and zero appetite for sending it to a public cloud AI provider. Their compliance team, their legal team, or their customers had said no. So they were stuck: either ship a worse product, or take on regulatory risk they couldn’t justify.
feder8d is the third option. Open-weight models, run inside a private boundary in your jurisdiction, with an OpenAI-compatible API on top so your existing code keeps working. It is licensed under the AGPL-3.0, and the corresponding source is available to customers, users, and their auditors on request (under NDA where appropriate) so your security team can review exactly how we handle your data. A commercial license is also available for organisations whose policies are incompatible with the AGPL.
Mission
Make private AI infrastructure boring — so the teams running regulated, confidential, or sovereign data can spend their attention on the experience instead of the threat model.
Principles
These are the rules the product is held to. Each one is checkable against what we publish.
| No third-party AI in the prompt path | Open-weight models only, unless you explicitly bring your own provider key per collection. |
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| Self-host first | If we wouldn't run it on our own infrastructure, we don't ship it. |
| Region sovereignty matters | Your data resides where it belongs — we won't move it without telling you. |
| Third-party SaaS minimisation | Every external dependency is a sub-processor. We keep the list short and public. |
| Inference is stateless | Prompts and completions are never persisted on the model side. Audit logs store hashes only. |
| OpenAPI is the contract | One spec, generated SDKs, no surprises. |
Where we’re headquartered
feder8d is built in Cape Town, South Africa. The product we sell is software you install: it runs on your hardware, in your building, in your jurisdiction, so residency is a deployment fact rather than a policy promise.
For customers on our hosted service, tenant data resides in af-south-1 and inference runs in eu-central-1 for GPU availability — only tokens cross that boundary, never raw documents. The disclosure is in every DPA. See our privacy policy.
Talk to us
A person replies. For an evaluation, a deployment question or a security review, use the address that fits.
| General | hello@feder8d.com |
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| Sales | sales@feder8d.com |
| Security | security@feder8d.com |