Skien Municipality Signs AI Contract with Ayfie and Crayon

27 Jan 2026 09:00 CET

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.

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