Meshly, Apex Digital One and Technosmart join forces to halve the delivery time and cost of enterprise software.

Three Finnish technology companies have formed a strategic consortium with the aim of offering businesses and the public sector an AI-native alternative to the solutions of the global software giants. The consortium consists of Meshly Oy (AI-native product platform), Apex Digital One Oy (digital commerce and master data management) and Technosmart Oy (critical IoT solutions and asset management).

The consortium’s combined starting revenue is approximately EUR 5 million, with a three-year target of EUR 15–25 million. The foundation for growth is Meshly’s AI agent platform and Data Stack, through which the product development, customer projects and service delivery of all three companies scale faster and more cost-efficiently than before. Apex Digital One Oy and Technosmart Oy have at the same time become shareholders in Meshly Oy.

DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY BECOMES A STRATEGIC QUESTION

The consortium’s launch coincides with a moment in which control of data and technology has become a top-tier political and security question in Europe. In early June 2026, the European Commission put forward new EU-wide rules under which data and services critical to society could in future be run only on cloud services that are under European ownership and control. In the Commission’s four-tier model, the required degree of “Europeanness” rises in step with the sensitivity of the data being processed — at the highest tier, even the software underlying the service must be under European control.

Behind this lies concern over dependence on the US cloud giants, whose combined market share in Europe is around 70 percent. The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) has likewise warned that foreign service providers operate under the laws of their home country, which may give the authorities of a foreign state access to the data of European organisations.

SOVEREIGN AI-NATIVE ENTERPRISE STACK

The consortium’s flagship offering is the Sovereign AI-Native Enterprise Stack, a package in which AI-native systems and AI-ready data run entirely within the customer’s own infrastructure. The principle is simple: AI models are brought to the data, not the other way around. In practice this means the customer gets an AI-based solution without the data, models or integrations ever leaving the customer’s own control — a requirement that international SaaS solutions rarely meet.

The solution supports the requirements of even the highest tiers of the Commission’s model: the platform is self-hosted in the customer’s own environment, the underlying software can be kept under European control, and the solution does not require any outside party to have access to the data or any means of cutting off the service. At the same time, it meets GDPR, NIS2 and AI Act regulation as well as KATAKRI requirements in the public sector and in critical industries. Meshly Data Stack’s pricing also differs from traditional platforms: the customer pays a fixed annual fee regardless of volume, so growth in agents and queries does not produce surprise bills.

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