GRID.ZONE — SOVEREIGN DOCUMENT AIPILOT PROGRAM · 3 SLOTS

FOR THE DOCUMENTS THAT MUST NEVER LEAVE THE BUILDING

Sovereign AI.
Runs in-house. Yours to keep.

Visual document intelligence for drawings, tables and scans. 100 % on-premise, air-gapped, with source code and a perpetual license.

A.01100 % ON-PREMISE
A.02AIR-GAPPED
A.03SOURCE CODE INCL.
A.04PERPETUAL LICENSE
grid.zone — answer with evidence panel
FIG. 01 — ANSWER WITH CITATION, PAGE AND CONFIDENCELIVE SYSTEM
01 THE PROBLEM

Your most valuable knowledge sits on pages no search engine reads, and no cloud is allowed to see.

Full-text search is blind.

Drawings, tables, test reports, scans: that is where the decisive information lives, and where text search sees nothing. What nobody finds does not exist in daily work.

Cloud AI is off limits.

Design knowledge, contracts and inspection reports must not leave the building. And every third-party cloud remains a dependency you do not control.

02 WHY NOW

Borrowed AI can be taken away from you.

US export controls now cover frontier models. What is available as a cloud service today can be regulated, repriced or blocked tomorrow. Not alarmism, just a sober planning fact.

PLANNING FACT

Nobody can switch off what you own.

grid.zone uses open models only, running permanently on your hardware. No contract, no API, no third party in between.

03 THE SOLUTION

An AI that sees your documents, not just reads them.

03.1 — ASK

Answer with evidence

Every answer with citation, page number and confidence, drawn from your own archive.

03.2 — VERIFY

One click to the source

The source document opens on exactly the right page, with the passage highlighted.

03.3 — CONNECT

Knowledge graph

Connects the whole archive, for questions no single document can answer.

04 THE DIFFERENCE

For what must not leave.

Where do your documents run?
FRONTIER CHATIn the cloud
CLOUD SAASAt the vendor
GRID.ZONEOn your hardware
Who owns the system?
FRONTIER CHATThe vendor
CLOUD SAASThe vendor
GRID.ZONEYou, with source code
What remains after cancellation?
FRONTIER CHATNothing
CLOUD SAASAn export, at best
GRID.ZONEEverything. Perpetual license.

Keep using ChatGPT and Claude for everything that is allowed to leave. For the rest there is grid.zone: in-house, with evidence, in your ownership.

05 CONTRACTUALLY GUARANTEED

Six guarantees. One contract.

Sovereignty is not a marketing word for us. It is written into the contract.

§1
Air gap. No cloud connection, no telemetry.
§2
Data stays in-house. No data processing agreement (DPA) required.
§3
Full source code. Adaptable internally, never dependent on us.
§4
Perpetual license. No recurring fees, usable indefinitely.
§5
Open models only. No model a third party can switch off.
§6
Audit trail in-house. Every AI operation traceable.

Already in production today, in environments where nothing leaves the building.

06 REFERENCES

In production where nothing leaves the building.

REF. 01 — MACHINE BUILDING
INDUSTRY
Machine and plant engineering
CORPUS
56,000+ documents, 570,000+ pages
OPERATION
One GPU server on the intranet, SSO, no cloud access
FEEDBACK SESSION
Engineers, moderated: zero precision complaints
EXACT HITS (PROJECT NUMBERS)
14% → 91% after feedback round 1

“Everything I needed, together within a minute.”

— ENGINEER, SERVICE

“It definitely saved me time, because it named the relevant projects.”

— ENGINEER, ENGINEERING

REF. 02 — BANK

COOPERATIVE BANK · IN DAILY USE

The bank rates the quality and accuracy of the answers as convincing. It highlights the source citations in particular. Data protection and security requirements are fully met.

— PARAPHRASED FROM THE BANK'S REFERENCE LETTER

Both systems run without a cloud connection. We are happy to show you one.

07 HOW A PILOT WORKS

A full purchase, wrapped in a partnership.

We are looking for 3 more reference customers. Defined scope, binary acceptance criteria, about 60 working days. At the end you own your system: perpetual license, no subscription.

T+0

Delivery

Incl. source code, on your hardware.

30 WD

Acceptance

Contractual, binary acceptance criteria.

~30 WD

Setup

Customising to your archive.

REVIEW

Success review

5–10 real questions from your daily work, defined up front.

OPTIONAL

Fine-tuning

Time and materials (T&M).

08 HARDWARE

One machine. Three sizes.

A single machine carries the system: no cluster, no second data centre. These guide values are enough for a procurement request. We confirm the exact configuration during scoping.

HARDWARE GUIDE VALUES — EXCLUDING LICENSE AND SETUP

BUDGET
T.01 — PILOT / SINGLE SEATfrom €3,500
T.02 — RECOMMENDEDaround €10,000
T.03 — LARGE ARCHIVEfrom €30,000
MACHINE
T.01A MacBook Pro or DGX Spark.
T.02A server with one GPU, ~32 GB VRAM.
T.03A rack server with multiple GPUs.
CORPUS
T.01~10,000 pages
T.02~100,000 pages
T.03~2,000,000 pages
USERS
T.011
T.0210–20
T.0350–100
STORAGE
T.01From 300 GB
T.02From 500 GB
T.03From 2 TB

grid.zone runs in production today on T.02 and T.03

09 QUESTIONS & OBJECTIONS

The four questions every IT lead asks.

Q.01

What hardware do we need?

A single GPU server is enough for production. Guide values for three sizes are in section 08 — Hardware. Procured by your IT or through us.

Q.02

What does it cost?

A one-time purchase, no subscription: perpetual license, source code and setup. No cost per user, page or query. We name the concrete range in the scoping call, as it depends on the amount of customising.

Q.03

Who maintains the system after acceptance?

It keeps running without us. That is the point of the perpetual license. Optionally you agree on maintenance: model updates, further development, support on a time and materials basis. If maintenance ends, your system keeps running unchanged. You only forgo future updates, not operation.

Q.04

How does our IT security review this?

Full source code for review, no telemetry, no back channel, air-gapped operation. Data stays in-house, so no DPA is needed. Every AI operation lands in the audit trail, stored with you.

Missing a question? Ask it in the scoping call. 30 minutes, no obligation.

10 STANCE

The most important infrastructure of the coming years should not have to be rented.

grid.zone is built in Germany out of this conviction. We build systems that belong to their operators, even when they no longer need us.

I — OPEN MODELS, ALWAYS

No component a third party can switch off.

II — OWNERSHIP OVER ACCESS

Perpetual license and source code instead of subscription and API key.

III — STAYING DISPENSABLE

A system that ties you to us would be the opposite of sovereignty.

NEXT STEP — 3 SLOTS, THEN THE ROUND CLOSES

Become one of the first reference customers.

Book a scoping call

30 MIN · THEN AN ON-SITE DEMO ON YOUR DOCUMENTS

OR WRITE TO US DIRECTLY: info@crossbow.de