When AI runs Europe, who runs the AI?

We’ve spent years building data and AI across Denmark and Europe, watching one dependency harden after another. AI is different. The United States has made that clear. China has made that clear. You cannot stand strong in this century on AI you do not control — and for the first time in a generation, Europe has both the reason and the moment to build its own. The window is closing faster than most realise. It is open now. It will not be open long.

As AI moves into our hospitals, our courts, our defence, our schools — can we afford for the switch to sit in Washington?

The last 18 months, in twelve moments.

EditorialSeptember 2024

Three American firms run 70% of Europe’s cloud — and almost all of its AI.

Mario Draghi’s verdict to the European Parliament: only four of the world’s top fifty tech companies are European. “It is too late,” he writes, to challenge American cloud providers. Without radical reform, the EU faces “slow agony.”

The Draghi Report · Brussels
01 / 12
Field NoteDecember 2024

Denmark warns: digital society is now “extremely vulnerable.

The expert group on tech giants reports: dependence on a handful of foreign suppliers is no longer a procurement question. It is a national security one. Minister Bodskov: “we need to fence in the tech giants.”

Danish Expert Group · Copenhagen
02 / 12
RuptureJanuary 2025

Trump refuses to rule out military force against Greenland.

Two weeks before inauguration, the president-elect threatens “very high tariffs” on Denmark. The shock in Copenhagen is total.

Mar-a-Lago · Press Conference
03 / 12
RuptureMay 2025

Microsoft cuts off the ICC chief prosecutor’s email.

A US tech company, complying with a US executive order, disables the digital life of an officer of an international tribunal in the Netherlands. The “kill switch” stops being theoretical.

Associated Press · The Hague
04 / 12
RegulationJune 2025

Microsoft admits under oath: it cannot guarantee European sovereignty.

Even data on European soil, with European staff, encrypted with European keys — US authorities can compel disclosure under the CLOUD Act. The legal fiction collapses.

French Senate Hearing · Paris
05 / 12
Field NoteJune 2025

Copenhagen’s Microsoft bill jumps 72% in five years.

From 313 to 538 million Danish kroner. Copenhagen and Aarhus announce they will leave Microsoft entirely. The minister of emergency tells companies: “create exit plans for cloud services.”

Copenhagen Municipality · Finance Report
06 / 12
RegulationSummer 2025

A Danish minister tells industry: prepare your exit plans for cloud services.

Caroline Stage Olsen begins moving her ministry off Microsoft 365. The minister of emergency preparedness urges every Danish company to do the same. Continued dependence is now classified as a vulnerability.

Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs
07 / 12
RuptureAugust 2025

Trump threatens tariffs against any country with digital regulations.

“American technology is not the world’s piggy bank.” The DSA, the DMA, the AI Act — all reframed as discriminatory trade barriers. Chip export restrictions are added to the list of consequences.

Truth Social · Washington
08 / 12
RuptureJanuary 2026

Trump imposes tariffs on Denmark and seven European nations.

10% in February. 25% from June — until Denmark cedes Greenland. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK. The post-war alliance, weaponised.

Presidential Executive Order
09 / 12
RuptureJanuary 2026

Denmark names the United States as a national security threat.

For the first time in history, the official Danish threat assessment lists the US alongside Russia and China. Defence committee chair Rasmus Jarlov tells Washington: “You are the threat. Not them.”

Danish Defence Intelligence · FE
10 / 12
ProductFebruary 2026

The court that prosecutes war crimes can no longer use American software.

The ICC migrates to OpenDesk — an open-source suite delivered by the German Centre for Digital Sovereignty. If a global tribunal cannot trust Microsoft, the implication for every other European institution is unavoidable.

Handelsblatt · The Hague
11 / 12
RegulationQ1 2026

Europe drafts a sovereignty law as US firms still hold 70% of the cloud.

Europe writes rules for infrastructure it does not own. US hyperscalers add €10 billion of European capacity every quarter — more than Gaia-X spent in a decade. The servers stay in Texas. The AI models stay in California. The law changes neither.

European Commission · Brussels
12 / 12

How Fenja AI addresses this

For regulated environments

Trusted & Sovereign AI built in Denmark, for Europe.

Fenja AI is both our company and our platform — one mission, one name. An entirely client-managed AI platform built in Denmark, so Danish and European organisations can take full control of their own AI.

Backed by Innofounder Innovationsfonden
Part of The Regulatory AI-Sandbox Datatilsynet & Digitaliseringsstyrelsen

Introducing

Project Bifrost

The bridge between an industrial-grade AI platform and the realities of regulated organisations — built with them, not just for them.

The invitation

What being part of Project Bifrost means

Three ways to shape, to influence, and to build with the platform from the inside.

Be part of a

Community

Shape the future together

Join a select community of organisations helping define the future of trusted sovereign AI in Denmark and Europe. At a time when Europe needs greater technological independence, this is an opportunity to contribute to an AI platform built on trust, shared ambition, and a common mission.

Be part of an

Advisory Council

Turn insight into influence

Take part in regular advisory council sessions where your input directly shapes the product and platform roadmap. Gain first-hand insight into cutting-edge AI developments and help influence what is built, which capabilities are prioritised, and how the platform evolves to meet real organisational needs.

Be part of

Pilot Projects

Access the platform before others

A select number of Project Bifrost participants will have the opportunity to join pilot projects and gain early access to the platform at a significantly reduced price, subsidised by the Innovation Fund. This gives your organisation the chance to explore cutting-edge sovereign AI early, realise value at low cost, and help shape the platform through real-world use.

Meet the Fenja AI Advisory Board

Bridging industry & sovereign AI

Søren Friis

Søren Friis

IT Director

DSB

William Irving

William Irving

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Norlys

Ulla Nygaard Eliassen

Ulla Nygaard Eliassen

Associate Improvement Project Director

Novo Nordisk

Anna Jessen

Anna Jessen

Director, Process Excellence & Digitalization

Novo Nordisk

Mathies Laursen

Mathies Laursen

CDO

Nationalbanken

Torben Schütt

Torben Schütt

Office Director, Center for Cyber and Digitalization

Forsvarsministeriet

Mads Nyborg

Mads Nyborg

Chief Consultant, Department of Data and Analytics

Københavns Kommune

Håkon Daltveit

Håkon Daltveit

Chief Consultant, Department of Data and Analytics

Københavns Kommune

Renting a few AI capabilities from American companies isn’t enough. Installing an open-source language model isn’t enough.

You need a platform you control — with the tools, the knowledge, and the framework to make AI actually do the work your organization needs done.

Fenja AI Platform Architecture

Simply explained.

The foundation

A model in your environment.

A state-of-the-art open-source language model, running entirely on your hardware. No data leaves your perimeter. The starting point — but not yet Fenja.

The foundation

Knowledge.

What makes the model Fenja — an understanding of your organization, captured in a wiki your team can read and edit. Plus the routines and working memory that turn Fenja into a coworker who knows how things get done.

What Fenja can do

Tools.

How knowledge becomes work. Fenja uses tools to find documents, query data, take action across your systems. Some are obvious; others depend on what your work needs.

When one becomes a team

Agents.

Real work isn’t one task. Fenja becomes a team — a supervisor and specialists, each focused, each governed, all dispatched by workflows you’ve designed.

The full picture

Everything you need and with full control.

Fenja brings together all the pieces to solve simple and complex AI use cases across your organisation. Every component hosted in your infrastructure with full traceability and governance. Secure and sovereign by design.

Everything Client-Managed

Foundation Sovereign by design

Language model

State-of-the-art, open-source

On-prem

Wiki

Company and domain knowledge

Organizational · Departmental · Personal

Routines & memory

How Fenja works inside it

Stand-ups · Recurring tasks · Working memory

Tools How Fenja acts

Document retrieval

Find and cite

RAG

Structured data (ie SQL)

Query and extract

NL → SQL

System actions

Read and write

APIs · integrations

Custom tools

Your specific work

Defined by you

Agents How Fenja scales

Supervisor

Plan and dispatch

Orchestration

Specialists

Focused expertise

Subagents

Skills

Reusable capability

Portable across specialists

Workflows

Composed by you

Governed end-to-end

From scattered to structured

One structured source of truth.

What you have today

Scattered knowledge

Documents · Emails · Notes · Knowledge in people’s heads

Fenja Compiler

AI Compiler

Apply your rules and structure to fit your requirements

Fenja Wiki

Structured output

Structured output · easy for humans and AIs to read.

Deployment options

Choose your Capability.

Fenja Core.

Foundational

Essential LLM capabilities with Fenja Semantic. Your safe and custom chatbot that understands your organization.

Fenja Dev.

Developer toolset

Code faster and better with your own secure AI-supported development platform.

+ Core

Fenja Analyze.

Strategic intel

Bring real insights to your people. You ask for an insight, and your agents will find, analyze, and present the relevant data.

+ Core

Fenja Agentic.

Automation

The complete framework. Fully governed and controlled agents collaborate to solve your most important processes.

+ Core. Dev. Analyze.

Implementation roadmap

One foundation, many use cases.

Setup Platform live in your environment

The one-time foundation. In a single sprint, the platform goes live inside your infrastructure — model deployed, identity wired in, brand voice applied, baseline policies enforced. After this, the platform is ready to receive any use case.

Key activities

  • Foundation model installed in your environment
  • SSO and identity provider connected
  • Brand voice, tone, and visual style applied
  • Baseline governance and security policies in place
Knowledge Captured into one structured source

The first body of use cases captures what your organisation already knows. For each use case, the team scopes the target output, ingests the right files, and runs AI-led interviews to surface the knowledge that today lives only in people’s heads.

Key activities

  • Use case scope and target output defined
  • Relevant files ingested and structured
  • AI-led interviews capture tacit expert knowledge
  • Outputs tested and validated against real work
Tools Acting across your systems

Use cases that reach beyond knowledge into your systems. Each tool implementation wires the platform into a specific source or destination — a data warehouse, a SharePoint repository, an API, a structured report. The platform stops being read-only and starts acting on your behalf.

Key activities

  • Ongoing retrieval from data warehouses and SharePoint
  • Read and write integrations to specific APIs
  • Custom report outputs and structured deliverables
  • Each tool scoped, built, and tested for one specific job
Agents Workflows running under your control

Use cases that compose multiple steps into one governed workflow. For each agent use case, the team defines the task, builds the specialist agents that handle it, and configures monitoring, human checkpoints, and governance at every step. The platform now does work end to end — under your control.

Key activities

  • Agent tasks defined and scoped per workflow
  • Specialist agents built for specific jobs
  • Monitoring and audit trails configured
  • Human-in-the-loop checkpoints placed where they matter
  • Governance and security checks enforced at each step

Govern & scale

Security · compliance · change management · training · advisory council feedback

Setup is bounded · waves of use cases continue as your needs evolve.