Nace AI is an applied research and product company founded in 2024 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It develops sovereign specialized intelligence and Small Language Model (SLM)-based platforms designed to automate end-to-end business processes for enterprises that require accuracy, auditability and trust. Its work spans Small Language Models, a metamodel framework, language model adaptation and applied AI research, with a focus on customer-controlled models and trustworthy AI systems.
The company's product line includes NAV I, its first product, which runs business processes end to end on small models that the customer controls; with each engagement, the models become more tailored to the customer's own operations. Professional services firms using Nace AI have recovered 1,000 hours per client engagement. Two flagship platforms complement NAVI: Nace Data Intelligence, which enables end-to-end business process automation driven by advanced Small Language Models and a dynamic metamodel framework, and Nace SLM Cloud, a platform for Small Language Model-based enterprise intelligence.
The company serves the enterprise software, professional services and business process automation verticals. Its founding team comes from Google, Meta, Amazon and the University of Toronto, having come together in the summer of 2024 around recurring enterprise challenges and a mission to build trustworthy AI systems that run companies.
