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Lausanne, Switzerland

Rue de Bourg 27, 1003 Lausanne. Swiss law, Swiss data protection, engineers on the support line.

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Private IT and AI for international organisations and NGOs in Geneva and Lausanne

Collaboration, secure messaging and private AI on your own premises or on dedicated machines in Switzerland, operated so that confidential material stays under your control.

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Deployment
Your premises, Pilae Cloud in Switzerland, or air-gapped
Operator
Pilae SA, a Swiss company with no US parent
Private AI
Models run on your machines, prompts stay there
Access
Named engineers, every session recorded

Confidentiality that does not depend on a foreign vendor

International organisations hold material that member states, donors, athletes or beneficiaries trust them with. Where that material sits, and whose law can reach it, is a governance question before it is an IT one.

On your premises

Apps run on servers inside your own building, so data stays within the premises your headquarters agreement covers.

Or in Switzerland

Dedicated machines in Zurich, hosted in ISO 27001-certified datacentres, with the location named in your contract.

Private AI assistants

Staff draft, translate and summarise with open models on your own hardware. No prompt or document goes to a public AI service.

Closed to the internet

Apps answer only on a private mesh network. One hardened gate on port 443 is the single way in.

Every access on record

Each change, approval and administrative action is written to an audit log your security office can export.

Air-gapped when required

For the most sensitive workloads we deploy with no outside connection and bring updates in through a controlled path.

Where your data sits decides whose law reaches it

Many of the collaboration and AI services used in international Geneva belong to US companies. For an organisation that holds confidential negotiations, investigations or beneficiary records, that is a question for the legal office. Pilae answers it with placement: apps run on your premises, on dedicated machines in Switzerland, or air-gapped, and the contract names each location. The same holds for conversations: Element carries end-to-end encrypted messaging, and Jitsi Meet the video meetings, on machines you place. More detail is on the data residency page.

Private AI for confidential work

Staff want to draft, translate and summarise with AI. The documents they would paste in are exactly the ones that must not leave. We run private AI on your own hardware, with open models and Open WebUI as the interface.

Operated without handing over the keys

The Pilae Agent plans each update and fix, waits for your approval and records every step. Named Pilae engineers reach your systems over the private network, under access rules you set. Every session is recorded, and your security office sees every action. The security page explains how access works.

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How we start with an organisation

  1. Confidential briefing

    We sign your non-disclosure agreement first, then map your apps, your data classes and your legal constraints with your IT and legal teams.

  2. Placement decision

    Together we decide what runs on your premises, what runs in Switzerland and what stays air-gapped.

  3. Fixed-price onboarding

    We install the apps, connect Keycloak or Entra ID and migrate your data off the SaaS tools you are leaving.

  4. Managed operations

    The Pilae Agent plans each change and waits for your approval. Monitoring alerts reach Pilae engineers around the clock.

What your contract includes

Data location
Named per app: your premises, Switzerland, or an EU region you choose.
Access
Named Pilae engineers, over the private network, under access rules you set. Every session is recorded in the audit log.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality obligations for Pilae and its staff, on top of your own non-disclosure agreement.
Availability
99.9% monthly availability commitment for managed apps, with service credits.
Exit
A full export of data and configuration in open formats, and help moving to another operator.

The apps behind it

Open WebUI

A chat interface over models you host, so prompts and the documents people paste into them never leave your network.

Replaces ChatGPT Team, Microsoft Copilot

Nextcloud

Files, calendars and shared documents for the whole organisation, on storage you can point at in a room you control.

Replaces Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint

Collabora Online

In-browser editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files beside Nextcloud, on your own hardware or in the Pilae region you choose, so no document passes through someone else's cloud.

Replaces Microsoft 365 for the web, Google Docs

Element

Encrypted team messaging on the Matrix protocol: the Element apps on a Synapse homeserver you own, run in Switzerland, the EU or your own datacentre.

Replaces Microsoft Teams chat, Slack, WhatsApp

Jitsi Meet

Video meetings people join from a link in the browser, run in Switzerland, the EU or your own datacentre so the servers that route the calls stay in the jurisdiction you picked.

Replaces Zoom, Microsoft Teams meetings, Google Meet

Mattermost

Team chat, channels and calls on a server in the country you choose, with the message history stored in your own database.

Replaces Slack, Microsoft Teams

Keycloak

Single sign-on for everything else you run, with your own directory as the source of truth and no per-seat bill between you and it.

Replaces Okta, Microsoft Entra ID

Vaultwarden

A password manager for the whole organisation, compatible with the Bitwarden apps, on a server you choose and with vaults only your people can decrypt.

Replaces 1Password, LastPass

LibreChat

One chat interface over every model your organisation allows, local or hosted, with the keys, the history and the choice of provider held on your side.

Replaces ChatGPT Team, Poe

Questions

Does running IT with Pilae affect our privileges and immunities?

Your privileges and immunities are set by your headquarters agreement and the Swiss Host State Act, and your legal counsel is the authority on them. What we can offer is the placement that fits their advice: apps and data on your own premises, operated by us under your access rules, or on dedicated machines in Switzerland under a Swiss contract.

Is our data exposed to the US CLOUD Act?

The CLOUD Act reaches companies under US jurisdiction. Pilae SA is a Swiss company with no US parent, and your apps run on your premises or on dedicated machines in the region you choose, such as Zurich, not on a US hyperscaler. A workload placed in a US region is stored in the US and subject to US law on data held there. The exposure also returns if you connect a US service, such as a US-hosted AI model, and we point that out when you choose.

Can staff use AI without sending documents to a public service?

Yes. Open WebUI or LibreChat runs on your machines with open models hosted there. Prompts, uploaded documents and answers stay inside your environment.

Can Pilae work in an air-gapped environment?

Yes. We deploy with no outside connection, bring updates in through a transfer path you control, and the Pilae Agent runs inside the same perimeter as the apps it operates.

Do you work with NGOs as well as intergovernmental organisations?

Yes. NGOs in Geneva and Lausanne use the same stack, often starting with file sharing, secure messaging and a password manager for field teams. Pricing is on request and scoped to the size of the organisation.

Related

Solutions

Private AI

A private ChatGPT for your teams in Switzerland: Open WebUI, LibreChat or Dify, open-weight models in your perimeter, answers grounded in your own documents.

Platform

On your premises

Open-source apps on your own servers, operated by Pilae: installed, patched, backed up and monitored without your data leaving the building.

Trust

Security

Private networking, hardened machines, named access, tracked advisories and a full audit log, built to ISO 27001 controls.

Trust

Data residency

Your data stays in the country you choose, Switzerland, the EU or your premises, operated by a Swiss company under Swiss law.

Discuss your constraints in confidence.

Thirty minutes with an engineer, under your non-disclosure agreement if you wish. We come back with a placement proposal for each of your apps.

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