AI and cloud advisory · Stockholm

AI and cloud advisory for platforms that last.

Shanova is an AI and cloud advisory firm. We help organisations plan, design and secure AI platforms, and we built our own tools to do it: Shanova Keel, our method for defining an AI platform before it's built, and Forge, our agentic AI platform.

20

Years in cloud, telecom and IT architecture

3–4

Weeks for a Keel sprint

EU

Data and AI inference by default in every design

3

Major clouds, vendor-neutral: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Senior AI and cloud advisory.

One practice, focused on three things: designing AI platforms, the cloud they run on, and the security around both.

AI platform architecture

From idea to target architecture: the problem, the roadmap, model and vendor choices, and guardrails for AI-built code. Delivered as a Shanova Keel sprint.

  • AI strategy and roadmap with a pilot cut
  • Target architecture and decision records
  • Model, vendor and running-cost choices
How Shanova Keel works

Cloud architecture and compliance

Well-architected designs, security posture and compliance across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, designed in rather than added afterwards.

  • Reviews against the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud frameworks
  • Multi-cloud security posture management
  • Compliance mapping: GDPR, NIS2 and DORA

AI security, risk and governance

Threat models for AI systems, including prompt injection and data leakage, with governance mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001.

  • AI threat models and security reviews
  • EU AI Act risk classification
  • Bias, safety and fairness review

Security for critical and regulated systems

Encryption, monitoring and threat prevention for telecom networks and other critical infrastructure, and layered protection for sensitive data in financial services.

  • Network encryption and hardening
  • Real-time anomaly monitoring
  • PCI DSS, DORA and NIS2 controls

Our own method and platform.

We built the tools we use in our advisory work. Shanova Keel is how we define an AI platform. Forge is the agentic AI platform we run.

The Keel review tool, scoring all ten Shanova Keel pillars as high, medium or low risk, shown with sample answers.

Our method · Service

Shanova Keel

Mark the path before you build.

The definition room and framework for sustainable AI platforms. In a fixed-scope sprint, typically 3–4 weeks, we define the problem, the roadmap and the architecture before anyone builds, and hand it over in a private, living project room.

10 pillars 40 review questions
The Forge website: 'Your AI agent team. Ready to work.', with 11 team templates, 110+ specialist agents, and agents running from a brief through research, analysis and strategy to outputs.

Our platform · Live

Forge

Your AI agent team. Ready to work.

An agentic AI platform, as a service. Pick a team template, write a brief or attach your documents, and specialist agents work through it, showing their reasoning and a confidence score at every step.

11 team templates 110+ specialist agents

Deep, not wide.

We don't do everything. We advise on AI platforms, the cloud they run on and the security around both, and we build the tools to do it well.

One focus

AI platforms, the cloud they run on and their security. Nothing else, so all the depth goes into the work you get.

Weeks, not months

We pair senior architecture with AI coding agents, and deliver in weeks what takes a traditional team months.

Vendor-neutral, including about Forge

We design for your cloud and your models: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or your own servers. Forge is our own product, and a Keel sprint never assumes it. If Forge fits, we'll show you the alternatives next to it.

Security designed in

Threat models, access, audit and EU data residency are designed in from the first sprint, not found at the audit.

How we handle your material

AI speeds up our work, so you should know where your information goes.

  • Before the sprint starts, we agree in writing what material we may use and which AI tools may process it.
  • If your policy doesn't allow AI tools on your material, we work without them on that material.
  • Your project room sits behind your own sign-in, and its content is yours.
  • This website uses no analytics, no tracking cookies and no third-party fonts or scripts.

Have an AI or cloud decision ahead?

Start with a 30-minute conversation. We'll tell you honestly what we'd do first.

Tell us what you're planning.

A new AI platform, one that's already hard to maintain, or a security question: tell us where you are, and we'll tell you what we'd do first.

Pick a time for a 30-minute call (opens the booking page in a new tab)

A Microsoft Teams meeting, booked straight into our calendar. Prefer to write? Use the form below.

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Prefer email? Write to [email protected].

  1. Book a time, or write to usPick a 30-minute Teams call in the calendar, or send the form and we'll reply by email.
  2. A first conversationabout what you want AI to do and where your platform is today.
  3. A written proposalIf Shanova Keel fits, you get a fixed sprint scope in writing. If it doesn't, we'll say so.