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SouveraLotse — the local AI assistantYour company’s knowledge — finally available on demand.
SouveraLotse searches your documents and gives your employees reliable answers instantly. Privacy-compliant, local, integrated into your systems.
Excerpt from SouveraLotse — a real answer with a source reference.
“Souverän” (sovereign) + “Lotse” (pilot).
An assistant that safely navigates your company’s knowledge — and leaves you sovereignty over your data.
Ready to use in four steps.
Connect
Your documents and knowledge sources are securely ingested — PDF, Office, images/scans, intranet.
Understand
SouveraLotse structures the knowledge with modern AI (RAG) — fully local.
Answer
Employees ask in plain language and receive precise answers with a source.
Integrate
Integration into your systems, roles & permissions, ongoing support.
What SouveraLotse brings.
Document search across all formats
PDF, Word, Excel, manuals and more.
Understands images & scans
Photos and image documents are read via text recognition — tables included — and added to your knowledge base.
Answers with a source — to read up
A click on the source opens the original document at the cited passage.
Fills in forms by dialogue
Complete PDF forms in conversation, auto-fill known data, download the finished PDF.
Scales with your operation
Several local AI servers, automatically load-balanced and fail-safe.
Roles & permissions
Control access precisely — per team or person.
Integration
Interfaces to intranet and specialist systems.
On-premise or private cloud
You decide where SouveraLotse runs.
Runs on your hardware — from a Mac under the desk to a GPU server.
For a long time local AI failed on a single question: who is going to put a server in for that? With Apple silicon that hurdle is gone. SouveraLotse runs on a Mac Studio just as it does on a GPU server — and across several machines at once when it needs to grow.
Mac Studio / Apple silicon
Through Apple’s MLX framework the language model and the search run directly on the Apple chip. Quiet, frugal, no server room, no air conditioning — the way in for companies without a data centre.
GPU server
For many concurrent users and large document collections: one machine with a graphics card in your own building or your private cloud. Answers in seconds, even under load.
Several nodes together
Several machines work as one system — load-balanced automatically, resilient, extendable while running. Apple and GPU machines may be mixed.
Which hardware makes sense for you depends on user numbers, document volume and the response time you want. We settle that before the quote — on measurements, not on brochure figures.
Tied to no model. And to no vendor.
SouveraLotse is built so the language model can be swapped. New models are put up against the running one — on real questions from your own organisation — and are only swapped in when they measurably answer better. What is the best choice today probably will not be in a year; that must not trigger a rewrite.
- Open models that you run yourself — no licence anyone can cancel.
- Switching models touches neither your data, nor permissions, nor interfaces.
- Before every switch, a comparison on real questions rather than leaderboards.
- Different models for different jobs — answering, search, text recognition.
Sources that keep themselves up to date.
Uploading documents is one way. The other: SouveraLotse fetches a source itself — regularly, and only what has changed. Once connected, it stays current without anyone having to remember it.
Your file storage
PDF, Word, Excel, manuals and scanned records — from folders, the intranet or your document management system.
Specialist systems via interfaces
A documented interface connects SouveraLotse to existing applications — down to structured summaries that appear inside their own user interface.
Public sources
Proven on the council information systems of two municipalities: meetings, agendas, resolutions and attachments move into the knowledge base automatically — across two different vendor formats.
The comparison is incremental and cautious: changes are detected, deletions removed — and a single glitch at the source never wipes the collection.
At the desk, on the shop floor, on the road.
In the browser
No rollout, no installation — SouveraLotse runs on the intranet at every workstation.
As an app for iPhone and Android
The same knowledge base on the phone — for everyone who does not work at a desk.
Read aloud instead of read
Answers are read out on request. The voice is generated on your own hardware — here too, no text leaves the building.
Photograph instead of type
Photographing a letter or a table is enough — SouveraLotse reads the content and answers questions about it.
Sovereignty is not an add-on — it is the principle.
SouveraLotse was built for companies that want to use AI without giving up control.
- Runs in your data centre or your private cloud.
- No data sharing with external AI providers.
- GDPR-compliant, auditable, traceable.
- Individually adapted to your terminology and processes.
See SouveraLotse on your own documents.
In a short demo we show how SouveraLotse works with your knowledge — no obligation.
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