About Private AI Solutions
Finnish B2B AI startup building privacy-first, on-premise AI applications.
Who we are
Private AI Solutions Oy is a Finnish AI company founded in Turku. We build on-premise AI applications for compliance-sensitive organisations — public sector, HR, healthcare, and legal.
Our products run entirely on your hardware. AI inference happens locally, not in the cloud. This is not a marketing claim — it is how the software is architecturally built. No data leaves your environment because the application has no capability to send it externally.
Why we exist
Cloud-based AI tools create data processing relationships that complicate procurement, raise GDPR concerns, and require trust in infrastructure you do not control. The EU AI Act raises the compliance bar further — especially for high-risk applications like recruitment.
We believe there is a better way: AI that runs where the data lives. No cross-border transfers, no data processor agreements, no dependency on external APIs. Privacy guaranteed by architecture, not by policy.
The team
Matti Sahla
CEO
Founded Private AI Solutions after seeing — as a former ministry official and leader in national data infrastructure — how hard it is to adopt AI responsibly on sensitive data. Brings product vision, regulatory depth, and experience operating services at scale.
Antti Sahla
CTO
15+ years building SaaS where user data sits at the centre. Combines AI architecture, product, and UI/UX to ship on-premise AI without compromising usability or performance. Also runs Signal Lens — a curated AI reference library and interactive learning hub.
Kirsi Jääsalmi
Head of Engineering
Lead engineer taking our applications from prototype to production. Hands-on across the full software lifecycle, with a specialty in integrations — the kind of work that makes systems stand up in real use, not just in demos.
Toni-Markus Korhonen
Head of Customer Success & Growth
15 years in B2B communications, with a graphic-design and copywriting background. Owns the customer interface end-to-end — combining content and visual craft into work that actually resonates.
Partners
Companies we work closely with to deliver on-premise AI safely.
Sami Niemi
Infrastructure & Security Partner
via Pilvia Oy →20+ years designing and operating secure, high-demand server environments for clients including Finnkino, YTK, Orion, and Lyyti. Through Pilvia Oy, Sami is our close partner for all hardware, server, and security work.
LinkedInHow we work
We are an async-first, distributed team. Everyone on the team brings deep domain expertise and works with AI-augmented tooling to maximise output. Finnish pragmatism guides our decisions: ship what works, iterate based on feedback, and never over-promise.
What we stand for
Privacy by architecture
Data sovereignty is built into the product, not promised in a policy document.
Finnish pragmatism
Direct, credible, no fluff. We make specific claims and back them with architecture, not superlatives.
Transparency
Honest about our classifications, limitations, and methodology. Being the most transparent product in the market is a competitive advantage.