Seekr & Arcas launch explainable AI for Europe

Seekr has partnered with Arcas to supply explainable artificial intelligence systems to mid-sized organisations in Europe, with a focus on customers in regulated and sovereign infrastructure environments.

Together, they will offer AI applications to European Union organisations that need audit trails, clear explanations for outputs, and control over where data and models are hosted. London-based Arcas specialises in secure, governed AI deployments for mid-market European clients, while Seekr develops AI software for regulated commercial and government settings.

The partnership comes as businesses in Europe prepare for stricter oversight under the EU AI Act. The rules are expected to require AI systems used in professional settings to explain automated decisions, increasing compliance demands in sectors such as finance, legal services, and other regulated industries.

Platform Focus

At the centre of the partnership is SeekrFlow, Seekr’s AI software platform. It is designed to handle data preparation, model training, deployment, monitoring, and governance, with particular emphasis on tracing outputs back to training data and keeping systems within a customer’s own infrastructure.

That approach is likely to appeal to European buyers seeking to keep data in private cloud, on-premises, or other sovereign environments. The software can run in managed cloud, private cloud, on-premises data centres, air-gapped systems, and edge locations.

Seekr says its software allows organisations to fine-tune models on their own data or use supported open-source models. It also includes tools to score confidence in outputs and inspect the training data that most influenced a result, features likely to matter for firms facing scrutiny from regulators or clients.

For Arcas, the partnership broadens its product offering for customers who want generative and agentic AI tools without sacrificing visibility into how those systems operate. For Seekr, the deal provides a route into a European market where companies are increasingly seeking AI products that can be examined and defended in audits or disputes.

Early Use Cases

The companies pointed to early customer work in Europe as evidence of demand. According to figures they provided, a legal publisher in Luxembourg reduced manual review time by 78% using automated database summaries.

A regulatory advisory firm serving European fund managers cut compliance research time by 65%. In that case, each response was linked to source documentation, and the system ran within the customer’s own infrastructure.

Those examples reflect a broader market pattern, with legal, compliance, and information-heavy industries emerging as early adopters of AI tools that can show the basis for an answer. In these sectors, speed gains alone are rarely enough; buyers also need systems that enable staff to verify results and document the rationale for a decision.

The emphasis on explainability also reflects a broader shift in AI procurement. European organisations, especially in regulated fields, are placing greater weight on governance, auditability, and data sovereignty as core procurement criteria rather than optional safeguards.

Regulatory Pressure

The EU AI Act is shaping many of those buying decisions. As enforcement is phased in, companies using AI in professional settings face pressure to document how systems behave, what data they rely on, and whether results can be challenged or reviewed.

That creates an opening for suppliers that offer built-in transparency rather than bolt-on controls. It also favours partners able to deploy within local infrastructure, an issue that has gained importance in Europe as customers and policymakers focus on sovereignty, confidentiality, and control over sensitive information.

Seekr has positioned itself around that argument, particularly for organisations handling critical decisions or sensitive data. Arcas brings access to mid-sized European firms that may want AI tools tailored to complex document workflows but lack the resources to build and govern such systems internally.

Rob Clark, President of Seekr, said the partnership addresses a growing compliance challenge for companies in Europe: “Simply put: there is no governance or ability to audit AI systems without true explainability and transparency. Seekr’s platform was built for environments where every decision demands an explanation; European firms facing the EU AI Act need those same capabilities, deployed within the security and confidentiality of their own sovereign AI datacenters.”

Clark added, “We are excited to partner with Arcas to bring explainable AI to their customers, allowing them to move faster with AI while providing all the guardrails they need.”

Chiara Buck, co-founder of Arcas Agentic, said customers in Europe are under immediate pressure to prove how AI-generated outputs are reached: “In Europe, the regulatory bar for AI is here. Firms have a relentless demand for AI, but scaling it effectively means being able to defend every output to regulators.”

Buck added, “Seekr’s technology has made that possible. We are proud to partner with Seekr to deliver explainable AI solutions to our customers and move at the pace they demand.”