Our Story
Every large organization we worked with wanted to deploy AI agents at scale. Every one hit the same wall: no infrastructure to govern them, and no path that didn't lead back to a vendor's platform. So we built the infrastructure. Governed execution with a trust model built in, and a data plane that runs on the customer's own infrastructure.
Agion was founded in Helsinki in 2025 to solve a fundamental gap in enterprise AI: organizations want to deploy AI agents at scale, but there is no governance infrastructure to run them responsibly. The team builds an AI-native operating system that lets business leaders design governed agentic processes in minutes, with built-in governance, sovereign deployment, and an audit trail of governed actions.
What drives us
Make enterprise AI governable in the environments that matter.
Governance is the accelerant.
Compliance bolted on after the fact creates friction. Built into the execution layer, it removes it: when compliance teams trust what runs, business leaders move. Governed actions are recorded.
What you build should stay yours.
The knowledge your organization builds should be its own advantage. The data plane runs on your infrastructure, and source data and governed datasets stay there; some content is processed by services Agion runs. The actions your agents take are recorded, and the record of each run can be exported. We're building Agion so that every mission adds to what your organization knows and keeps.
AI-native teams will outcompete teams with armies of consultants.
Governed AI lets small, precise teams operate at a scale that headcount alone cannot reach. We're building the platform for organizations that have decided to act on that.
The team
The people behind Agion
The team has run AI programs inside regulated public institutions and shipped products across three continents. Some worked on agentic systems before the category had a name. They came from the organizations that needed governed AI most and found the infrastructure missing.
We know what the wall looks like from the inside, and the platform is what we wished existed when we were on the other side of it.
Mikko Alasaarela
Chair
A globally recognized AI hacker and keynote speaker who has built award-winning AI technologies and products for more than 15 years. Three startup exits in San Francisco, Berlin, and Helsinki.
Janne Pulkkinen
CEO
Former Chief Innovation Officer at Kela. Before joining Agion, led several dozen critical AI projects that benefited millions of Finns.
Teemu Linna
Founding CTO
Former CIO at Sitra, where he led digital transformation and launched a historic €50M program to modernize Finland's public sector. Co-founder of Agentics, Finland's frontier AI community.
Eevamaija Virtanen
Founding Engineer
15+ years across BPM consulting, data engineering and technical leadership. Founded Helsinki Data Week and DataTribe, Finland's largest data community. Has advised companies and spoken at conferences across Europe, the US and Australia on data and AI.
Antti "Rintsi" Rintala
Founding Engineer
Engineer and architect with 20+ years of experience turning ideas into products across media, industry, and tech. Early agentic development pioneer known for bridging vision with execution.
Marko Taipale
Founding Engineer
Serial entrepreneur and author of CollabAI. Prior to Agion, scaled GE's internal startup teams to serve a $30B market. Bridges AI innovation with enterprise reality.
Mari Laatsalo
Founding Chief Governance & Legal Officer
Former Legal Director at Wolt and DoorDash, where she spent nearly seven years helping scale one of Finland's most successful technology companies into a global platform. Brings 20 years in legal and governance across private practice and multinational in-house roles.
If this matches what you are building toward, let us talk
We're looking for organizations that want to own their AI operations — not rent them. If you believe what you build with AI should be your advantage, not someone else's, let's talk.
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