MakeMode is the sovereign, open-source AI coding platform that no foreign government can revoke — built in Europe, hosted in Europe, owned by the institutions that use it.
Europe's universities and companies run on American AI. When the US can order a single company to switch those models off for every non-American overnight, that dependency stops being a convenience and becomes a strategic vulnerability. Every DPO, research lead and CTO is now asking the same question: what happens to us if the tap is turned off?
"A tool your institution depends on can be revoked by a foreign government with an email in an afternoon."
The answer can't be "hope it doesn't happen." It has to be infrastructure Europe controls.
MakeMode assembles proven open components — an open-source agent and open-weight models — into a sovereign AI coding platform that runs entirely on European infrastructure. The assistant institutions are allowed to use, and the one no one abroad can take away.
Open weights run on European servers. No licence to cancel, no API to cut off, no foreign jurisdiction in the loop.
Data never leaves the EU. Fully open and inspectable — the compliance office can read the code that handles its code.
Run today's best open model; swap it tomorrow. European when European is ready. Never locked to one lab or one country.
A sovereign cloud partner, an EU data centre, or your own cluster. The weights are yours; the jurisdiction is European.
AI coding is the fastest-growing category in software — and Europe's institutions are locked out of the best of it by their own rules. That's not a problem to wait out. It's a market segment with a regulatory moat around it.
AI coding agents went from nothing to roughly $1B in annual revenue in months. Demand is proven; the only question is who serves the half of the market that can't use American tools.
The EU is rewriting procurement around sovereignty. US incumbents — even with EU data centres — can't escape foreign jurisdiction. That carves out a protected segment only a European-owned provider can win.
Land with the most urgent need, expand to the platform. The same sovereign rails carry chat, agents and data tools — MakeMode becomes the default AI layer for European institutions.
No moonshot. A lean European company selling to a small number of serious buyers — universities and large enterprises — earning on access plus expertise.
Universities, governments and regulated enterprise — the organisations that most need AI, and are least free to send their data abroad.
Capital to build v0 and stand up the first deployments — funding a lean European team to capture a category before it consolidates.
A European cloud partner to run inference on EU soil — turning "EU-hosted" from a claim into a guarantee with a name behind it.
A first pilot at TU Delft — the reference deployment every other institution will point to.
Positioning within the Dutch and European sovereign-AI agenda — and the introductions that put MakeMode in front of the institutions that need it.
The product runs today. The market just had its reason to act handed to it. What we need are the partners to make a sovereign European answer real — at the scale the moment calls for. hello@makemode.nl
The product, the architecture and the full unit economics are live and open. Everything here is real and inspectable.