What Kairntech does

Kairntech SAS is a French enterprise-AI software vendor, headquartered in Meylan near Grenoble with a field office in Neckargemünd, Germany, that builds a sovereign, on-premise Agentic RAG platform for document intelligence. Its products — Document Q&A, Agentic RAG Chatbot, Semantic Enrichment, and the low-code Kairntech Studio — connect third-party or sovereign LLMs to a customer's document repository and return cited, source-anchored answers without exposing data outside the customer's infrastructure; the platform supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and email ingestion and exposes a public REST API. Named enterprise customers include AFP (news agency, flagship 100-user sales assistant since 2022, expanded end-2025), Cairn.info (academic publishing, 250,000 articles), Boehringer Ingelheim (pharma R&D field diagnostics), Fraunhofer SCAI (research), and Revue Fiduciaire (professional publishing). The firm monetizes through perpetual on-premise software licenses with annual maintenance, hosted/SaaS subscriptions with a 98% availability SLA, and Kairntech Consulting professional services, sold via direct enterprise sales with multi-year contracts and quote-based pricing; it also participates in named European and national R&D projects (Mind-Speak, NEMO, COMMUTE, VITAL) and is led by co-founder and CEO Gilles Pouzenc.

Name

Kairntech

Legal name

KAIRNTECH SAS

Website

https://kairntech.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kairntech is a French enterprise-AI vendor that sells an on-premise Agentic RAG platform for document intelligence, enabling regulated organizations to query internal document repositories with sovereign LLMs, cited sources, and zero data exposure, sold via direct enterprise sales to news, publishing, pharma, and research buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Document Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

LLMOps & Generative AI Platforms (Prompt/Agent Orchestration, RAG) (HDAEANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Low-Code/No-Code Application Platforms (HDAEAKAA)

Keywords

• Document intelligence platform
• Retrieval augmented generation
• Agentic AI chatbots
• Enterprise NLP software
• Sovereign LLM deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Meylan

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: On-premise software licensing with worldwide, non-exclusive license to install and use the Kairntech Platform. Licenses include installation limitations, user identity restrictions, and concurrent user limits as defined in Particular Conditions. Supports sublicensing for hosting and support purposes only.
2. Hosted/SaaS Services: Platform provided as hosted service via internet, available through multitenant or dedicated customer infrastructure. Includes monitored email support (9AM-5PM Paris Time, Mon-Fri), emergency assistance, email alerts, weekly system health checks, and security controls. 98% availability guarantee based on 215 business days per year.
3. Maintenance Services: Maintenance contract covering software defect resolution. Response times: 0-8 hours (business hours) for blocking errors, within 5 working days for cumbersome errors, next upgrade for non-blocking errors. Remote assistance provided based on priority.
4. Professional Services / Consulting: Kairntech Consulting services offered alongside software pricing for organizations requiring implementation support and strategic guidance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kairntech sells an enterprise AI platform that builds secure, document-grounded AI assistants and chatbots over a customer's own document repositories. The platform combines Retrieval-Augmented Generation with multi-agent orchestration, indexes documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, emails), and returns cited answers without exposing data to public LLMs. Deployment is on-premise or in a private cloud with sovereign LLMs, configured via a low-code interface (Kairntech Studio), and complemented by a REST API and consulting services.

Product overview

Kairntech is an enterprise-grade AI platform that provides a unified product portfolio centered on document intelligence and retrieval-augmented generation. The core offerings include Document Q&A, Agentic RAG Chatbot, and Semantic Enrichment, which are powered by the Kairntech Platform with its proprietary RAG engine and sovereign LLM integration. The platform includes Kairntech Studio as a low-code configuration interface, enabling business teams to build and manage AI assistants without technical skills. Direct access products include the Kairntech Chatbot for real-time document querying. Deployment options include Kairntech Software (on-premise/private cloud licensing) and hosted services (SaaS), with Kairntech Consulting providing implementation support. The REST API enables programmatic access for developers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Document Q&A AI-powered question answering over an organization's internal document repositories (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, email) using Retrieval-Augmented Generation; returns precise answers with clickable citations to exact pages and documents. Designed for enterprise teams that need sourced answers from confidential content.
• Agentic RAG Chatbot Multi-agent chatbot powered by retrieval-augmented generation that handles complex, multi-step document interactions; AI agents analyze requests, refine queries, activate RAG and other tools, and coordinate downstream actions such as triggering tasks and completing forms, with cited sources and zero hallucination.
• Semantic Enrichment Automated text labeling and knowledge extraction solution that applies deep semantic understanding to document repositories; supports information extraction, classification, summarization, and annotation at scale.
• Kairntech Studio Low-code platform interface that lets business teams build NLP pipelines, train models, configure AI agents, and manage knowledge bases without programming skills or IT involvement.
• Kairntech Software (On-Premise / Private Cloud License) Perpetual software license for the Kairntech Platform installed on customer infrastructure (on-premise or dedicated private cloud), including maintenance and SLA terms, with worldwide non-exclusive usage rights subject to user and concurrency limits defined in the Particular Conditions.
• Kairntech Platform Hosted / SaaS Services Subscription-based hosted deployment of the Kairntech Platform via internet, available as multitenant or dedicated private cloud, including monitored email support (9AM-5PM Paris Time, Mon-Fri), 98% availability SLA, weekly system health checks, security controls, and tacit annual renewal.
• Kairntech Consulting Professional services offering AI deployment assistance, configuration support, and strategic guidance for organizations implementing Kairntech, billed on a pay-as-you-go basis by AI specialists with document intelligence experience.
• Kairntech REST API Public REST API that lets developers programmatically build and automate AI-powered document intelligence solutions, including chatbot creation, document querying, and AI assistant management; documented with Swagger UI.

Quantifiable outcome

• ≤2 second average response time for document queries
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• AFP (Agence France-Presse)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025Strategic partnership announced end of 2025 to develop new AI and generative AI solutions for AFP's internal operations and third-party clients. Builds on relationship since 2022 when Kairntech was selected as AFP's technology partner following consultation for a configurable corporate RAG system. Kairntech handles most of AFP's IT developments in AI and generative AI for the coming years, combining AFP's editorial expertise with Kairntech's AI deployment experience.
• Cairn.infocoreTechnology or IntegrationAcademic publishing platform partnership. Kairntech enables Cairn SophIA, letting researchers query 250,000 research articles in natural language with source verification.
• Fraunhofer SCAIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch institution partnership in applied AI and document intelligence. Fraunhofer SCAI is a leading research organization using Kairntech's AI platform.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Elastic (Elasticsearch): Broad incumbent in enterprise search and now generative AI/RAG via Elasticsearch; competes with Kairntech for the same retrieval layer in regulated deployments.
• IBM watsonx: Enterprise AI/data platform with RAG, governance and on-prem options targeting regulated industries directly comparable to Kairntech's vertical and buyer profile.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio: Dominant enterprise AI assistant bundling RAG across Microsoft 365 content; comparable on document Q&A use case but anchored to Microsoft cloud, opposite of Kairntech's sovereign/on-prem stance.

Emerging players

• Aleph Alpha: European sovereign/foundation-model AI vendor overlapping with Kairntech's enterprise document-AI thesis; complementary technically but increasingly competitive at the application layer for regulated buyers.
• Mistral AI: French sovereign LLM and platform provider; relevant as both a model supplier to Kairntech-type stacks and a rising competitor building enterprise document-AI applications across Europe.

Direct peers

• Coveo: Enterprise search and generative-AI platform with relevance/RAG stack and secure deployment options; competes with Kairntech for secure, cited enterprise document Q&A.
• Sinequa: Paris-based enterprise search and RAG platform serving regulated industries; directly comparable on on-premise/LLM-augmented document intelligence and overlap with Kairntech in large-enterprise document Q&A deals.
• Glean: Enterprise AI search/assistant built on RAG across corporate knowledge bases; competes for the same 'find anything in our docs' use case with cited answers, though skewed to SaaS/cloud rather than sovereign on-prem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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