Time and Klepp Municipalities Sign AI Contracts with Ayfie and Crayon
Time and Klepp municipalities have signed contracts with Ayfie and their strategic IT partner Crayon to provide efficient, secure and sovereignty-focused AI solutions to their employees. The agreements cover initial six-month periods with options for renewal, and will be delivered together with Crayon to ensure smooth onboarding and secure operations. The combined contract value for both municipalities is NOK 206,000 with a total contract of NOK 412,000 pending renewal
Both municipalities will use Ayfie Business Agent, enabling employees to choose among market-leading large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Claude and Mistral, connected to internal information, files and apps without compromising security. Time municipality will additionally deploy Ayfie's Innsynsbegjærings-agent for automated handling of freedom of information requests, as well as Ayfie's Lovdata MCP integration for direct access to Norwegian legal sources.
Norwegian municipalities are increasingly adopting Ayfie's AI platform through partners to enable safe use of AI for their employees. This comes at a time when public sector organizations are placing greater emphasis on digital sovereignty seeking practical ways to reduce dependency on large foreign platforms while keeping control over data, access and governance.
"We are pleased with Time and Klepp municipalities choosing Crayon and Ayfie, and that the solution meets their requirements very well. Both customers were looking for a solution that is truly agnostic, and can connect data from their existing systems without compromising security or sovereignty," said Stig Carlsen, CEO of Crayon AS.
"Time and Klepp are great examples of how Norwegian municipalities are taking a pragmatic approach to AI adoption, deploying secure, permission-aware AI that works across their existing systems. We're proud to deliver this together with Crayon, through a Made in Norway-certified platform built for responsible AI in the public sector," said Herman Sjøberg, CEO of Ayfie International.
Ayfie is based on RAG, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation model. This is a technique in AI that combines two components: a Retriever that searches a large collection of documents, databases, or knowledge bases and a Generator in the form of a Large Language Model that uses both the query and the retrieved documents to generate a more accurate, grounded, and up-to-date response. Ayfie's RAG model provides an organization with the power of LLMs to process internal information without compromising information security, confidentiality and GDPR requirements.
For further information, please contact:
Herman Sjøberg, CEO, Ayfie Tel: +47 92 66 22 33 E-mail: herman.sjoberg@ayfie.com
About Ayfie Ayfie is a leading software provider specializing in enterprise AI search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and generative AI. With over 15 years of experience, Ayfie delivers a flexible AI search layer that connects apps and systems, with an indexing engine that understands documents, preserves permissions, and shows the exact source behind every answer. Ayfie's platform contains reusable connectors, a powerful AI index, and a deployment model that fit security and compliance needs. Ayfie is "Made in Norway" certified.