Dropsolid AI secures a €603,540 VLAIO grant to build a sovereign, open-source AI agent platform.

Dropsolid AI has been awarded a €603,540 innovation grant by VLAIO, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The grant kicks off a two-year R&D programme to build a sovereign Digital Experience Platform (DXP): an open-source platform, driven by AI agents, that keeps every byte of customer data in Europe.

 

VLAIO grant

The full project, “The Agentic Platform for Enterprise Content & Digital Experience Management”, is worth €1.7 million, with Flanders funding almost a third of it. It builds on the €2.5 million funding round Dropsolid AI closed earlier this year.

The support of the Flemish government is a huge boost for us, and confirmation that our vision on sovereign AI is right.

Dominique De Cooman, CEO Dropsolid AI

VLAIO GRANT

Why this matters

Most organisations want the efficiency gains AI promises, but keep running into the same three walls: unsafe handling of data, loss of control over business data and dependence on large international cloud providers.

Dropsolid AI is building the alternative: a platform where 100% of the data is processed and stored on European cloud infrastructure or on an organisation's own servers.

Three things stand in the way:

  1. Data is handled unsafely
  2. Organisations lose control over their business data
  3. They become dependent on large international clouds

Three things stand in the way:

1. Data is handled unsafely

2. Organisations lose control over their business data

3. They become dependent on large international clouds

What we are building

The R&D investment goes into:

  • A chat interface for administrators to manage and steer AI activity
  • Automatic workflow reconstruction, so agents can map and rebuild business processes themselves
  • A secured master platform on which multiple AI agents can work together safely within business environments
  • Closer collaboration with the Flemish company ML2Grow on specialised machine learning challenges

It is the step from classic generative AI, which waits for a prompt, to agentic AI that understands a task, makes a plan and carries it out. Think of agents that independently build landing pages, translate site content, launch marketing campaigns or monitor KPIs around the clock.

Or as Dominique puts it:

An AI agent that does not know your specific business context is nothing more than a nice demo. And an AI agent that works without safety rules or approvals is a real business risk. We provide the necessary control, so companies can deploy AI with peace of mind.

A quality label from VLAIO

VLAIO's independent experts assessed the application on substantive innovation, technical feasibility and market potential before approving it. According to them, the project “goes beyond applying existing technology”, and real research and development is needed to make autonomous AI agents work together safely within business environments.

The assessors also pointed to the combination of open source, autonomous agents and strict data sovereignty as a real competitive advantage in a market where there is still little on offer. They also mentioned Dropsolid AI's strong Flemish roots, through partners such as ML2Grow and Upgrade Estate.

Real results already

This is not theory. Dropsolid AI's approach already delivers measurable impact today:

  • EPSO, the EU's personnel selection office, saw the number of support tickets drop by 90%
  • Pidpa, the Flemish drinking water company, uses the sovereign answer engine ‘Pip’ to help more than a million citizens find the right information faster

Get started today

Organisations can already get started with Dropsolid today, with a low threshold. That way, they lay the foundation today to deploy safe, sovereign and affordable AI agents tomorrow. As the research progresses, the benefits only grow.

Talk to us about how sovereign AI can help your organisation grow.