Built for European organisations that need AI to be secure, efficient and productive.
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Secure by design
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Cost-efficient
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Adoption that sticks
The cost of waiting
Competitors are pulling ahead, staff already use private tools – but value only comes from a controlled, company-wide approach.
Competitive pressure
Competitors already use AI productively. Clients therefore expect faster and more precise results.
Shadow AI
Some employees already use private AI tools. Sensitive data leaves the firm and privacy risks arise.
A joined-up approach
AI must be embedded across the whole business: controlled, compliant and with clear added value.
ONE EUROPEAN AI PLATFORM
AI that pays off
AI creates value across your whole business.
Protect
Bring internal data, systems and external sources into a secure AI platform. Your data stays in Europe.
Work
Your teams collaborate with AI productively while staying in control. Use secure AI chat and agents grounded in your organisation's context.
Profit
Identify valuable use cases and automate work into reliable workflows.
Govern
Control access, usage, cost, compliance and adoption across teams.
The platform 48°
100+ integrations available
fortyeight brings your existing data sources and systems together in one secure foundation. Your teams gain access to all leading AI models, grounded in your company knowledge. You set the permissions and stay in control.
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Data Foundation
Bring documents, databases, drives and business systems into one secure knowledge layer.
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Governance Layer
Apply permissions, security and model controls before information reaches people or agents.
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AI Workspace
Your teams work with all leading AI models and tools, grounded in your company knowledge.
THE PLATFORM MODULES
Secure by design
EU AI Act
Built to meet the European Union’s framework for safe, transparent, and accountable AI.
EU AI Act
DSGVO
With our technical team based in Europe, we operate under DSGVO — a strict standard for data privacy.
DSGVO
ISO 27001
ISO 27001
WHY IT MATTERS
01 / STRUCTURE
Jurisdiction follows ownership
A company under non-EU control can be legally compelled to disclose data, wherever it is stored.
02 / PROCESSING
Model providers add exposure
AI processing often leaves the EU even when the application does not.
03 / EVIDENCE
Compliance has to be provable
Auditors and procurement teams need documentation, not marketing claims.
COST-EFFICIENT
HOW WE EARN
Your value creation
is our business model
– not your AI usage.
We earn from a platform fee, not from your usage. So we have no reason to push more AI on you. Instead we help you automate only what truly pays off, and your AI costs go down over time.
01 / NO MARGIN
We charge no margin on your token costs, only a seat-based platform fee.
02 / SMART ROUTING
Smart routing picks the best and most cost-efficient AI, independent of market swings.
03 / FULL TRANSPARENCY
The Control Tower shows all your AI spending in real time.
Adoption that sticks
Successful AI rollout is not blind automation. BlackMountain connects your systems, integrates real use cases and helps teams adopt AI with lasting value.
Use-case discovery
A dedicated advisor integrates use cases that create real value.
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System integration
Connect your own systems such as CRM and ERP to leading AI models.
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Easy start
Special features give AI first-time users an easy start.
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Adoption analytics
Measure usage, cost and impact across teams.
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About BlackMountain
We understand AI at the level of leading AI providers, and turn it into concrete value for European companies.
3 / Countries
5 / PARTNERS
Use all leading AI through our platform. We cooperate with OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral, and many more.
50+ / References
Successful projects in real estate, mid-market and industry. European hosting. Compliant with GDPR and the EU AI Act.
A brighter future does not come from using more and more AI. Real progress is created by human-led intelligence. People bring judgment, creativity and context. AI brings speed and scale. Innovation comes from human-AI collaboration, where people stay in the lead.
This collaboration only works when the right conditions are in place. Data and knowledge have to stay secure and sovereign. AI must not automate blindly, but only where it truly creates value. And it has to be built so that people can understand and use it. Only then can people and AI together shape a brighter future.
Johannes Gerstendörfer
Co-Founder & CEO
Alexander Gerstendörfer
Co-Founder & CPO
