Berlin · Founded 2024

Agentic AI Infrastructure that regulators approve.

Xydra Labs builds production grade agentic AI for financial services, health care and other regulated industries. Fully self hosted. Auditable by design. Self learning. Humans always in the loop.

// platform architecture
Document Intelligence live
feeds into ↓
XydraClaw Orchestration core
Policy
Engine
Model
Router
Compliance
Agent
Audit
Trail
secured by ↓
Encrypted P2P Transport infrastructure
improved by ↓
Continual Learning Pipeline SFT / RL / federated
 
Latent Communication Framework (LCF) research
In production
Production grade
Software live with enterprise customers in banking and insurance.
Architecture
Enterprise ready
Software architecture built for regulated scale.
Deployment
Fully on premise / in infrastructure
Deployable on premise and in sovereign clouds.
Audit
Immutable, explainable
Audit trails that comply with every regulation.
Why Xydra

Compliance and capability are not a tradeoff.

Regulated industries cannot adopt consumer AI tooling. The constraints are real: data must not leave the infrastructure, every automated decision must be auditable, and humans must remain meaningfully in the loop.

Xydra builds with this as a central design premisse. Regulated industry requirements are the starting point.

// the xydra approach

Small to medium sized AI models in agentic systems outperform frontier models on domain specific tasks at a fraction of the cost.

Neither your data nor your queries ever leave your infrastructure. Our platform covers the full stack: document intelligence, multi agent orchestration, continuous learning, meaningful and enforced human oversight, and on premise or VPC inference. Designed together, deployed as a unit.

I
Data sovereignty by default
No external API calls required. Customer data never leaves the customer's infrastructure. Deployable from edge devices to datacenter GPUs.
II
Regulated industry design
Built for finance and compliance from the first line of code. Audit trails, permission scopes, and escalation gates are first class, not added on.
III
Humans always in the loop
Mandatory review gates before consequential actions. Trust tracking that automatically tightens autonomy when model confidence drops.
IV
Models that improve over time
Human feedback flows back as training signal. Automated agent and model level self improvement loop improves workflow on your hardware, on your cadence, fully privacy preserving.
Platform components

The full stack,
in one place.

Seven interlocking components. Document and compliance technology live with enterprise customers. All deployable inside your environment, no compromises.

01
Document Intelligence Pipeline
Financial Document Extraction · standalone product

Multi backend extraction engine that converts unstructured financial documents into structured, validated records. Combines classical OCR with vision language model inference, selecting the appropriate strategy per document and deployment constraint. From CPU only servers to GPU accelerated hardware, at the customer's choice.

on premisegerman + englishfusion modeISIN / WKN
Production
02
Compliance Agent
Lead compliance SW suite integration · XydraClaw deployment

Autonomous adverse media screening pipeline, extending toward full FIU reporting. Monitors the compliance case management system, enriches cases with model generated summaries, and writes structured notes back for analyst review. Mandatory human review gates before any write back. The trust tracker automatically tightens autonomy if analyst rejection rates rise.

SW suite integrationPEP / sanctionsaudit provenance
Proof of Concept
03
XydraClaw
Multi agent orchestration · productizing

Agent harness for flexible, hierarchical workforce framework for companies. Human principals at the top. Model driven executives, leads, workers, and assistants below, each with scoped permissions, auditable tool access, and privacy aware model routing (local or API). Deployment feature for a concrete agentic goal, automatically wraps around a workflow, configure, freeze, containerize, and deploy as a hardened self-learning standalone product.

policy drivenout of process auth365d audit
Platform Core
04
Continual Learning Pipeline
SFT / RL / federated · in active extension

Training infrastructure that keeps XydraClaw deployments improving. Human feedback flows back as SFT and RL signal. Federated learning support lets multiple regulated institutions share gradient updates without any raw data leaving their environment. Collaborative intelligence without data pooling.

SFTRL from feedbackfederateddistillation
Infrastructure
05
Latent Communication Framework
LCF · deep tech research

A learned manifold in latent space through which heterogeneous models exchange representations directly, without decoding to text and re encoding. Replaces the token based inter agent bus with a shared geometric space that is richer, faster, and scalable to hundreds of concurrent agents. The long term architectural moat.

latent space communicationcross modalmulti agent
Research
06
Confirmation Height
Byzantine resilient distributed model training · data valuation

Version control semantics for distributed machine learning. Every model update becomes a signed, durable commit in a Git like DAG, not an ephemeral gradient message. A confirmation height metric measures how many validated commits build on each contribution, providing three capabilities that federated learning has lacked: Shapley convergent data attribution without exponential retraining, full rollback to any prior safe checkpoint, and Byzantine fault tolerance for up to one third adversarial participants. The foundation for cross organizational training in regulated industries where trust, accountability, and data sovereignty are preconditions, not afterthoughts.

Byzantine fault toleranceShapley attributionDAG checkpointsfederated rollback
Research NeurIPS 2026 submission
Roadmap

Products converge into a platform.

One audited system, deployed inside your infrastructure, that reads your documents, runs your compliance workflows, and keeps improving with every review your team performs. Customers stop stitching point tools together and start operating a single regulated AI workforce under one policy, one audit trail, and one accountable vendor.

01
Now, Production
Financial Document Extraction and Compliance Agent

Standalone products running inside live customer engagements with our lead compliance platform partner. Document extraction in production. Adverse media screening in proof of concept.

02
Next, Platform
Repeatable Vertical Deployments enabled by XydraClaw

Configurable, containerized AI workforce instances deployed across regulated verticals. Each wrapped around a defined workflow, validated, and versioned for independent customer operation.

03
Long term, Research
LCF and Confirmation Height

Inter agent communication via learned geometric space, and version controlled distributed training with Byzantine resilience and Shapley convergent attribution. The fabric itself becomes proprietary and continuously improving with each deployment.

Differentiation

Built for what generic US platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Claude cannot deliver.

!
Regulatory landscape, Q2 2026
Data sent to US cloud AI providers remains subject to the US CLOUD Act, under which US authorities can compel disclosure regardless of where the data physically sits. Enforcement of GDPR and EU AI Act penalties against US hyperscalers has become less predictable in the current transatlantic political climate, with ongoing friction between Washington and Brussels over regulatory actions targeting US firms. Data that crosses the Atlantic is difficult to recall in practice, and contractual deletion guarantees offer limited recourse against a foreign jurisdiction. Sovereignty is therefore better addressed architecturally than contractually.
Dimension Xydra Labs US cloud AI APIs Open source frameworks
Data sovereignty Full on premise and EU sovereign cloud Data leaves to US, subject to CLOUD Act Varies, rarely enforced
Jurisdiction of control EU, German GmbH or US Inc. (flexible) US, foreign sovereign with extraterritorial reach Indeterminate
Regulatory recourse GDPR, EU AI Act, BaFin, directly enforceable Fines against US firms currently not reliably enforceable None
Regulated industry design Native from day one Retrofitted, rarely EU compliant Rarely addressed
Training data use Your data stays yours, never leaves your infrastructure Terms often permit vendor to train on customer inputs Depends on self hosted configuration
Permission enforcement Out of process, schema level None, all access mediated by vendor Advisory only
Audit trail Immutable, customer controlled, explainable Opaque, vendor side, not exportable Optional, incomplete
Human in the loop Mandatory gates and trust tracking None Manual wiring
Continual learning SFT, RL, federated on customer hardware Vendor side only, your data trains their model Separate tooling required
Hardware flexibility Edge devices to datacenter GPU US cloud only GPU centric
Multi modal document extraction Native, domain fine tuned Generic, no domain guarantees Model dependent
Performance and economics

Specialised models, trained on your data, beat the frontier.

Frontier LLMs are generalists trained on the public internet. The signal that matters most in a regulated vertical has never been on the public internet: your documents, your workflows, your decisions. Models trained on that signal, inside your infrastructure, consistently outperform frontier models on the tasks you operate, and they run at a fraction of the cost.

Training signal
Your data, where it lives

Proprietary documents, structured workflows, and decades of human review live behind regulated firewalls and never reach the public internet. We train on that signal in place, and turn it into compounding domain accuracy that no outside vendor can replicate.

Per task accuracy
Specialised over generalist

On regulated industry tasks, fine-tuned domain models consistently outperform frontier LLMs that are 10 to 100 times larger. Not because they are smarter in general, but because they are right for the specific task.

Inference cost
100x to 1000x cheaper

A small, fine-tuned model running on customer hardware costs roughly two to three orders of magnitude less per inference than equivalent throughput on frontier APIs. At enterprise volume that gap is not optimisation, it is the difference between a budget line item and a footnote.

Awards and residencies

Selected into the programs that matter.

Federal grant recognition, a top ranking across the European startup field, and residency at the most concentrated AI ecosystem in San Francisco.

2025
AI Nation Grant
Federal German Government grant awarded to a highly selective cohort of AI startups building foundational technology in Germany.
Won
2026
AI Nation Accelerator
Federal German Government and network sponsorship program for outstanding AI Nation grant recipients. Leading financial institutions, compliance vendors, and top management consultancies as partners.
Won
2026
Top 1% Startup in Europe
Ranked top 16 of 1,500 European startups by EU Startups. Final pitch competition in May 2026.
Finalist
2026
Frontier Tower San Francisco, Batch 0
Highly selective sponsorship program for cutting edge AI startups, concentrated acceleration for US market entry.
Residency
About us

Built by people who have shipped
in regulated environments.

Georg F.R. Runge
Georg F.R. Runge
CEO & Co-Founder & MD

Serial entrepreneur with a strong focus on strategy, investor relations, and go to market. Career spanning experience in venture capital and frontier tech venture building. Leads commercial development and partnerships for Xydra Labs, with a focus on regulated industry verticals including financial services and compliance technology. Alumni of the University of Mannheim and Korea University. Former competitive rowing athlete, currently exploring calisthenics and kitesurfing.

Dr. Roman J.B. Dietz
Dr. Roman J.B. Dietz
CTO & Co-Founder & MD

Career leading semiconductor and photonics research for remote sensing, autonomous driving perception AI at Aptiv and Delphi, and generative AI infrastructure. Leads all technical architecture and product development across the Xydra platform. PhD in physics from Fraunhofer HHI and Philipps University Marburg. Alumni of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Wing Tsun Kung Fu practitioner for 25 years and counting.

Let's build this together.

We work with financial institutions, compliance technology vendors, and regulated industry operators. If your organization is evaluating on premise AI infrastructure, we would like to talk.

XYDRA LABS GMBH · BERLIN, GERMANY