As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in mission-critical decision-making, organisations face increasing pressure to safeguard sensitive data, meet evolving regulatory requirements, and preserve strategic autonomy. We help governments and highly regulated industries adopt sovereign AI—AI solutions architected to operate within clearly defined sovereignty, security, and trust boundaries.
At CGI, we believe that sovereign AI solutions give you control over where data resides, how models are trained and executed, what computing resources are used, and the level of vendor dependency you accept—while ensuring responsible AI through transparency, accountability, and strong governance.
Designing, building, deploying, and governing sovereign AI requires end-to-end visibility and auditable control across five critical dimensions:
- Provenance: Understanding the origin, lineage, and development history of your AI models, algorithms, and training data
- Compute location: Knowing where your AI workloads are processed and ensuring computational resources reside in trusted jurisdictions
- Data in transit: Securing and controlling data as it moves between systems, networks, and geographical boundaries
- Data at rest: Protecting and governing stored data with full visibility into where it resides and who manages the infrastructure
- Who has access: Maintaining strict control over which users, systems, and third parties can access your AI systems and data
Unlike one-size-fits-all AI platforms, we support a full spectrum of sovereign AI deployment models - from fully disconnected edge environments to trusted sovereign cloud architectures. Based on our clients’ strategies, mission-critical requirements, and local regulations, we can deploy:
- Edge and fully on-premise AI for disconnected or contested environments
- Hybrid sovereign architectures combining on-prem and trusted domestic services
- Sovereign cloud configurations leveraging hyperscalers with strict residency, key control, and access governance
Our flexible deployment options allow clients to balance innovation with sovereignty - without being forced into rigid or impractical architectures. As a result, they can advance AI initiatives with confidence and control, while optimising cost, risk, and long-term sustainability.
With every deployment and at every level, we embed:
- Responsible AI principles
- Human oversight and explainability
- Strong governance and auditability
- Security, resilience and sustainability
Define your sovereignty requirements and governance model before you build.
We help clients:
Build AI systems with responsibility and control embedded from day one.
We support a sovereign AI software development life cycle (SDLC) that integrates:
Deploy AI on architectures you control and understand.
We design and deliver:
Sovereign AI does not end at deployment. It requires secure, accountable and resilient operations over time.
Through SovereignOps, we provide jurisdictionally controlled operating environments with strict data residency, access governance and infrastructure assurance. AI systems run within clearly defined national and regulatory boundaries, supported by secure hybrid and edge architectures where required.
Enhanced by CGI AIOps Nova, we apply AI-driven monitoring, predictive analytics and intelligent automation to maintain performance, resilience and transparency. This ensures AI models remain explainable, auditable and aligned with evolving operational and regulatory requirements.
From secure hosting to continuous optimisation, CGI delivers end-to-end operational accountability for sovereign AI.
Our sovereign AI solutions are secure, resilient, and proven in high-trust environments, including:
We’re helping a Swedish government agency establish a sovereign AI foundation that keeps sensitive data, models, and infrastructure fully under the agency’s control. Through an innovative AI lab, we’re providing expertise in AI governance, ethics, and compliance, enabling secure, transparent AI adoption aligned with regulatory requirements.
We’re also supporting the development of an internal AI assistant that runs entirely on the agency’s own infrastructure using open-source technology. This sovereign AI approach strengthens security, improves productivity, and creates a scalable, trusted foundation for AI-driven operations.
Whether you’re defining your AI strategy, piloting new use cases, or scaling AI across your organisation, we help you move forward with confidence, control, and trust. Contact one of our experts to learn more about our sovereign AI experience.
