Howll Sovereign
If your data can't leave the building, it doesn't have to.
For businesses that can't put their data into public AI tools. Private AI that runs on infrastructure you control, trained on your data, with nothing sent offshore.
NVIDIA Inception Partner
Who it is for
Businesses whose data has to stay put
Sovereign is not for everyone. It is for businesses where putting data into a public AI tool is not an option.
Compliance and safety-heavy work
Mining services, government-adjacent work, building and construction, allied health. Where a contract, a regulator or a head contractor decides where your data can sit.
Client data you can't expose
Client files, patient records, tender documents, site and safety data. Information you hold on someone else's behalf, and answer for.
Know-how that is the business
Your pricing, your methods, your documents. The knowledge your experts have built up, which you want AI to use without it leaving your control.
The risk
Public AI tools are convenient. That is the problem.
The moment someone pastes work into one, that work sits somewhere you do not control. The longer that goes on without a plan, the harder it is to pull back.
Your data can train their models
Every interaction with a cloud AI provider is data that can be used to train their systems. Your competitive intelligence can become part of a product sold to your competitors.
A bill you can't forecast
Per-token pricing moves with usage. The more your team uses AI, the harder the number is to plan around. Sovereign infrastructure is a fixed cost you control.
Switching gets harder every month
Workflows, integrations, and data formats built around a single provider become extremely difficult to migrate. What starts as convenience becomes a serious commercial risk.
The rules are tightening
Requirements around data handling, privacy and AI governance are getting stricter. The Privacy Act's automated decision-making rules start on 10 December 2026. If you can't show where your data goes, that is a hard question to answer.
Hear it from Josh
What you feed the model is the part that makes your business valuable.
90 seconds on why the data you hand to an AI is the most valuable thing your business owns, and why it should stay yours.
How it works
Bare metal infrastructure. Open-source models. Your control.
Hardware you own
Physical servers deployed on-premises or in state-domiciled data centres. NVIDIA-powered infrastructure selected and configured for your workload. No shared tenancy, no cloud dependency.
Open-source models, fine-tuned to your business
We deploy open-source large language models that are trained on your proprietary data, documents, and workflows. The models understand your business specifically. No generic outputs. No data leaving your environment.
Your AI workspace
A complete AI operating environment for your team. Generative AI that is private, collaborative, and managed by your people. Agents that work alongside your team on real workflows, not isolated experiments.
Ongoing support and evolution
Sovereign is not a set-and-forget deployment. We provide ongoing management, model updates, capability expansion, and technical support. Your AI gets better over time because it keeps learning from your business.
Where sovereign fits
An option inside an engagement, not the destination
We help businesses that have outgrown the way they run. That work runs in 3 steps: map, recommend, do. Sovereign is something we deploy in the Do step, when the map shows your data can't go into public AI tools.
Not every business needs it. If public tools with the right controls will do the job, we will tell you. If your data has to stay put, we plan for sovereign from the start, so nothing we build has to be rebuilt later.
Either way, every embedded engagement includes Howll Govern from day one. You get the controls, records and evidence to show how AI is used in your business, whichever infrastructure it runs on.
Built on NVIDIA infrastructure
As an NVIDIA Inception partner, we deploy their technology as part of every sovereign deployment. Production-grade GPU infrastructure, optimised model serving, and a hardware ecosystem designed for AI workloads. This is not experimental. It is production infrastructure trusted by the largest organisations in the world.
Not sure if your data can go into public AI tools?
Tell us what you hold and who you answer to. We will tell you whether sovereign is worth it. 30 minutes. No pitch deck.