Data Sovereignty & Privacy
Complete data retention, local AI inference on your own servers, and zero reliance on black-box third-party dependencies.
An independent lab, not an agency.
We take the engineering problems most organizations delegate.
Cardinal Codes is an independent systems and AI lab. We design sovereign infrastructure, carrier-grade networks, and on-premise AI, built, hosted and operated end to end. No subcontracting, no vendor lock-in, no data leaving the perimeter you define.
What we build
Sovereign Products
Range Zero: external attack surface management (Atlas), cybersecurity training (Paladin), and LLM prompt protection (Vanguard). Designed in Europe, NIS 2 and RGPD compliant.
Carrier-Grade Infrastructure
BGP/IPv6 networking, bare-metal Kubernetes (Talos, ArgoCD, Cilium), private cloud operations. The kind of infrastructure that stays up during transit outages.
On-Premise AI
Local LLM inference with vLLM, Qdrant vector DB, open-weight models. Air-gapped RAG pipelines with zero data leakage. Your models, your data, your servers.
Open Source
Four public projects: cardinal-talos-k8s, vanguard-core-proxy, sovereign-rag-engine, finops-leak-scanner. MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed.
Operating principles
Architectural Rigor
End-to-end Zero Trust security, applied from BGP network routing down to LLM token-stream filtering.
Cost Efficiency & Control
Pragmatic engineering focused on eliminating cloud waste, reducing operational overhead, and delivering high ROI.
Start a conversation
Whether you need sovereign infrastructure, an AI protection gateway, or carrier-grade networking, write to us. We respond within 48 hours.
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