Prototype before promising
For anything uncertain we build a small proof first — a feasibility answer is cheaper in week three than in month six. Our AI damage analysis for insurance video calls started exactly that way.
Engineering partner for sovereign AI and the systems around it
We adapt, serve and operate open AI models on infrastructure you control — and build the software products, real-time platforms, integrations and platform operations that put them into production, for clients in Europe and India.
- 15 languages
- 1,000+ transcribed consultations a day per GPU
- Self-hosted, GDPR-sovereign
- Engineering partner behind Sonar
- Engineering company since 2020
How we work
Three habits behind every engagement
Measure before scaling
Benchmarks on real workloads decide hardware, model variants and architecture — not datasheets or leaderboards. That discipline multiplied live-transcription capacity up to six-fold on the same GPU — room for over a thousand transcribed consultations a day on a single card.
We run what we build
Architecture, build, deployment and operations sit with one accountable team. We design for the second year, because that is where we personally end up living with our decisions.
What we do
Six domains, one engineering standard
You cannot run sovereign AI unless someone also builds the product, wires the integrations, runs the platform and answers the auditor. We do all five — which is why the AI actually reaches production.
Flagship domain
AI & Model Engineering
We work at the model layer — selecting, adapting, quantizing, benchmarking, serving and operating open models against your constraints: latency, language, hardware and data protection. Self-hosted on infrastructure you control.
6× the live-transcription capacity we engineered from the same GPU — room for 1,000+ transcribed consultations a day. Same hardware, engineered differently
What working at the model layer means
Product & Software Engineering
Custom software and product teams that build systems we are willing to operate for years.
Real-Time Communication Engineering
WebRTC media, SFUs, SIP interop and live captioning — proven in the German banking sector.
Cloud, DevOps & Managed Operations
CI/CD, containers, monitoring and managed ops, with GPU infrastructure as the specialty.
Integration & API Engineering
Payment rails, third-party APIs and AI services, with reconciliation and failure modes designed in.
Security, Compliance & Data-Sovereignty Engineering
Residency, access models, GDPR-by-design and DORA-aware terms — compliance-driven architecture.
Industries
Banking & insurance · public sector
Sectors we know, delivered through the six domains — not a seventh service.
Clients
Trusted where trust is the product
We are the long-term engineering partner behind Sonar, a video-consultation platform used by German banks — which means our engineering runs in a channel banks put in front of their own customers.
Banking is one of the most demanding environments in software: data protection (GDPR), availability, and auditability are non-negotiable. That is the standard we build to — for every client.
- languages in live captioning and translation, including Indian languages
- 15 languages in live captioning and translation, including Indian languages
- transcribed consultations a day — the engineered capacity of a single GPU
- 1,000+ transcribed consultations a day — the engineered capacity of a single GPU
- up to six times the live-AI capacity from the same hardware
- 6× up to six times the live-AI capacity from the same hardware
- compliance by architecture — self-hosted AI, no third-party APIs in the data path
- GDPR compliance by architecture — self-hosted AI, no third-party APIs in the data path
Case studies
Featured work
AI & model engineeringCloud & GPU operationsData sovereignty
Sovereign AI infrastructure — six-fold transcription capacity per GPU
A self-hosted, GDPR-compliant AI stack tuned at the model layer — variant selection, precision, batching and serving configuration multiplied live-transcription capacity up to six-fold, enough for over a thousand transcribed consultations a day on a single GPU.
Real-time communicationProduct engineeringBanking & insuranceSonar — video consultation for German banks
Long-term engineering partner behind Sonar, a video-consultation platform serving the German banking sector, including live multilingual captioning and translation in 15 languages.
Product engineeringManaged operationsWovero — long-term engineering partnership
What a long-term engagement with Vaagmodo looks like in practice: a stable senior team, continuous delivery and ownership beyond code.
Let's build something that has to work
Whether you are bringing AI in-house, building a product, wiring systems together or looking for an engineering partner who stays — we would like to hear about it.