Skien Municipality Signs AI Contract with Ayfie and Crayon
Skien municipality has signed a contract with Ayfie and their strategic IT partner Crayon to provide efficient, secure and sovereignty-focused AI solutions to its employees. The agreement covers an initial six-month period with an option for renewal, and will be delivered together with Crayon to ensure smooth onboarding and secure operations.
Skien municipality will use Ayfie Business Agent as a first step, exploring how Ayfie AI Agents can handle case processing and administration. Employees will be able to choose among market leading large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Claude and Mistral, to analyze and search across internal information, files and apps without compromising security.
Norwegian municipalities are increasingly adopting Ayfie's AI platform through partners to enable safe use of AI features to 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.
"Skien is taking a pragmatic step toward digital sovereignty—making it possible for employees to use modern AI on their own information within a secure, permission-aware framework. We’re proud to support Skien with a Made in Norway-certified platform built for responsible AI adoption 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. Ayfies 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 of reusable connectors, a powerful AI index, and a deployment model that fit security and compliance needs. Ayfie is "Made in Norway" certified.