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Aug 06, 2025

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Introducing North: The next era of enterprise AI

North enables enterprises that prioritize data security to deploy AI agents and automations at scale within their own infrastructure.

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We believe AI has the potential to eliminate most mundane tasks from daily work. To achieve this, we built North, an agentic AI platform that securely accesses all of the data you use in your work, because AI is only as good as the data you give it. By enabling private deployment, we give companies the confidence to put their data into AI, with the efficiency to offer a cost of ownership that makes sense at scale.

We are expanding from serving a select group of customers to making North widely available, building on our work over the past few months. Leading organizations such as RBC, Dell, LG CNS, stc, Ensemble Health Partners, Second Front, and most recently Bell are seeing the transformative impact of secure AI agents developed in North. These agents are being deployed across critical industries that underpin the global economy, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, and the public sector.

North combines Cohere's state-of-the-art generative and search models, customizable agents, and built-in workflow automations to enable employees to accomplish tasks more quickly and with higher quality. It seamlessly integrates with data across fragmented systems and internal/external services, providing a comprehensive understanding of your unique business context. By securely consolidating all critical information in one place, North unlocks the most high-value production applications that will drive meaningful productivity and efficiency gains for employees and customers. It's built on a robust, scalable architecture with privacy and security at its core–using as few as two GPUs.

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##### Equipping the modern global workplace

North equips modern businesses with a full suite of enterprise-ready capabilities, allowing employees to achieve more right out-of-the-box. Employees across functions can drastically reduce manual effort by creating, deploying, and orchestrating custom AI agents and automations to collaboratively complete tasks with human oversight and transparency. Any user, regardless of technical skills, can build agents that can handle repetitive tasks, analyze data, and take action across systems.

Core features include:

• Chat & search: quickly get reliable answers to customer support inquiries, summarize meeting transcripts, punch up marketing copy, and access information from both internal sources (like HR or finance policies) and the web. All responses include citations and reasoning chains of thought for auditability and verification.
• Custom tools and integrations: seamlessly connect to your existing workplace data sources, including Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook, Sharepoint, Linear, NFS/NAS, and integrate with any Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for secure access to industry-specific or in-house applications.

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• Asset creation: draft and refine documents, including PRDs, financial reports, market research, and sales pipeline reports, adhering to your style guide and formatting requirements. Analyze hundreds of documents in parallel like due diligence files with AI tables.

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• Automated workflows: design and deploy multi-agent workflows tailored to your team’s tools, processes, and objectives. Automate everything from repetitive tasks like CRM updates and weekly roundups to full-scale business processes, freeing your team to focus on high-impact work.

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North unlocks faster, smarter decisions at scale. By connecting your siloed enterprise data and tools through secure AI agents, we empower every employee to find answers, reduce time-to-insight, and create sharable assets with ease.

##### Security-first design and deployment

North provides a secure platform where organizations can confidently build and deploy AI agents behind their own firewalls, ensuring data privacy and total control. Its lightweight architecture is optimized for private deployments with minimal hardware—as few as two GPUs—ensuring resource-efficient performance across your on-premise infrastructure, hybrid clouds, VPCs, or airgapped environments.

This level of security is non-negotiable for industries and government agencies where data privacy and regulatory compliance are paramount. The increasing global demand for sovereign AI solutions highlights the critical importance of robust security and privacy measures.

Enterprise-grade protocols are embedded into every layer:

• Granular access controls and permissions: integrates with your existing identity and access management systems, providing enhanced authentication and granular admin controls. This ensures that only authorized users can access specific agents, tools, and sensitive data sources.
• Autonomy policies: agents can only take actions they are authorized to take, and will seek human oversight for critical decisions or actions.
• Rigorous security testing: continual security testing, including red-teaming exercises and third-party vulnerability scanning, to proactively identify and mitigate potential threats.
• Complete system observability: gain full visibility into North's operations with easy-to-use tools for monitoring service performance and detailed logs of all changes to settings, permissions, and resources.
• Flexible deployment options: select the deployment environment that best suits your security needs...