Nace AI is an applied research and product company founded in summer 2024 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It builds trustworthy AI systems and sovereign specialized intelligence, with a focus on Small Language Models (SLMs) adapted for enterprise business process automation. The founding team has collective experience at Google, Meta, Amazon, and the University of Toronto, and set out to address enterprise large language model adaptation.
Its technical work spans Small Language Models, large language model adaptation and fine-tuning, a dynamic metamodel framework, trustworthy AI and auditability, and end-to-end business process automation. Products include Nace Data Intelligence and Nace SLM Cloud, platforms for running and controlling Small Language Models and driving end-to-end business process automation, and NAVI, its first product, which runs business processes on small models that the customer controls and owns.
Customers are concentrated in professional services and the wider enterprise market. According to the company, professional services firms using Nace AI recover 1,000 hours per client engagement. Accuracy, auditability and trust are stated as non-negotiable design principles, alongside a model-ownership approach in which each engagement leaves the customer owning its models.
