We believe AI has the potential to eliminate most mundane tasks from daily work. To achieve this, we built North, an agentic AI platform that securely accesses all of the data you use in your work, because AI is only as good as the data you give it. By enabling private deployment, we give companies the confidence to put their data into AI, with the efficiency to offer a cost of ownership that makes sense at scale.
We are expanding from serving a select group of customers to making North widely available, building on our work over the past few months. Leading organizations such as RBC, Dell, LG CNS, stc, Ensemble Health Partners, Second Front, and most recently Bell are seeing the transformative impact of secure AI agents developed in North. These agents are being deployed across critical industries that underpin the global economy, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, and the public sector.
North combines Cohere's state-of-the-art generative and search models, customizable agents, and built-in workflow automations to enable employees to accomplish tasks more quickly and with higher quality. It seamlessly integrates with data across fragmented systems and internal/external services, providing a comprehensive understanding of your unique business context. By securely consolidating all critical information in one place, North unlocks the most high-value production applications that will drive meaningful productivity and efficiency gains for employees and customers. It's built on a robust, scalable architecture with privacy and security at its core–using as few as two GPUs.
Equipping the modern global workplace
North equips modern businesses with a full suite of enterprise-ready capabilities, allowing employees to achieve more right out-of-the-box. Employees across functions can drastically reduce manual effort by creating, deploying, and orchestrating custom AI agents and automations to collaboratively complete tasks with human oversight and transparency. Any user, regardless of technical skills, can build agents that can handle repetitive tasks, analyze data, and take action across systems.
Core features include:
- Chat & search: quickly get reliable answers to customer support inquiries, summarize meeting transcripts, punch up marketing copy, and access information from both internal sources (like HR or finance policies) and the web. All responses include citations and reasoning chains of thought for auditability and verification.
- Custom tools and integrations: seamlessly connect to your existing workplace data sources, including Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook, Sharepoint, Linear, NFS/NAS, and integrate with any Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for secure access to industry-specific or in-house applications.
- Asset creation: draft and refine documents, including PRDs, financial reports, market research, and sales pipeline reports, adhering to your style guide and formatting requirements. Analyze hundreds of documents in parallel like due diligence files with AI tables.
- Automated workflows: design and deploy multi-agent workflows tailored to your team’s tools, processes, and objectives. Automate everything from repetitive tasks like CRM updates and weekly roundups to full-scale business processes, freeing your team to focus on high-impact work.
North unlocks faster, smarter decisions at scale. By connecting your siloed enterprise data and tools through secure AI agents, we empower every employee to find answers, reduce time-to-insight, and create sharable assets with ease.
Security-first design and deployment
North provides a secure platform where organizations can confidently build and deploy AI agents behind their own firewalls, ensuring data privacy and total control. Its lightweight architecture is optimized for private deployments with minimal hardware—as few as two GPUs—ensuring resource-efficient performance across your on-premise infrastructure, hybrid clouds, VPCs, or airgapped environments.
This level of security is non-negotiable for industries and government agencies where data privacy and regulatory compliance are paramount. The increasing global demand for sovereign AI solutions highlights the critical importance of robust security and privacy measures.
Enterprise-grade protocols are embedded into every layer:
- Granular access controls and permissions: integrates with your existing identity and access management systems, providing enhanced authentication and granular admin controls. This ensures that only authorized users can access specific agents, tools, and sensitive data sources.
- Autonomy policies: agents can only take actions they are authorized to take, and will seek human oversight for critical decisions or actions.
- Rigorous security testing: continual security testing, including red-teaming exercises and third-party vulnerability scanning, to proactively identify and mitigate potential threats.
- Complete system observability: gain full visibility into North's operations with easy-to-use tools for monitoring service performance and detailed logs of all changes to settings, permissions, and resources.
- Flexible deployment options: select the deployment environment that best suits your security needs (self-hosted, VPC, hybrid, or on-premises).
- Compliance with global standards: adheres to the highest international security standards, including GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001, ensuring compliance with regulations across industries.
Fully customizable for your business
North is purpose-built to meet enterprises where they are, across industry, geography, and language. Its vertical integration allows for complete customization in every layer of the tech stack, from domain-specific models to white-labeled user experiences.
Enterprises can further enhance North by connecting to internal knowledge bases or proprietary data, ensuring employees can easily and quickly find value in their daily work. Within North, users can create personalized agents and workflow automations tailored to their specific roles, leveraging the full context of their company to execute complex tasks.
Organizations can control who gets access to which features, which agents and automations, and sharing is configurable down to the relevant user or teams. This level of customization and adaptability gives enterprises fine-grained control over their AI solutions, optimizing North for their specific needs.
Putting North to work
Global customers and partners across security-conscious industries are already realizing the benefits of agentic AI applications powered by North.
In finance, Cohere and RBC developed North for Banking, a customized North configuration for the financial services industry. It is designed to support RBC’s diverse employee base and enhance customer service. North provides departments across the bank with AI agents that seamlessly integrate with RBC systems to increase productivity and operational efficiency while keeping data on-premise and secure. The platform features pre-built workflow automations designed to assist financial professionals and customer support teams with a range of tasks. Employees can efficiently summarize company reports, draft emails, retrieve internal information, and format it into visually appealing graphs and charts.
“RBC is excited to deepen our collaboration with Cohere,” said Dr. Foteini Agrafioti, SVP, Data & AI & Chief Science Officer, RBC. “Six months ago, we jointly announced a customized platform, North for Banking, to enable RBC to accelerate the development of our genAI solutions securely and efficiently and we’re pleased with our results to date. As our collaboration continues, we welcome the opportunity to use North for Banking to enable AI to unlock value across the enterprise.”
In South Korea, LG CNS leverages North with customized Cohere models internally for employees and to better serve customers in industries like finance and the public sector. LG CNS can securely deploy multilingual AI agents with North, which features advanced Korean language proficiency and the ability to handle specialized financial terminology. Our joint efforts have already secured an important government contract with South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“As a strategic partner, LG CNS is proud to endorse Cohere's North agentic platform. North represents a pivotal leap forward, enabling the development of highly secure, specialized AI agents tailored to the complex demands of the enterprise market,” said Yohan Jin, Head of AI Center, LG CNS. “Internally, we are leveraging North to enhance our own Agentic AI platform, which has accelerated our ability to deliver sophisticated, fine-tuned AI solutions to our clients. In the Korean financial market, the response from major players has been exceptionally positive. The launch of North is more than just a product release; it's an enabler of true business innovation. We are confident that our continued partnership with Cohere will empower us to lead the market by co-developing the next generation of AI agents that solve critical enterprise challenges.”
We’re also partnering with Dell to bring North’s agentic capabilities to their workforce and enterprise customers on-premises through Dell AI Factory infrastructure. By bringing North directly to your data, we help overcome common barriers to adoption like security, privacy, and overly complex implementations. With Dell's highly secure and scalable infrastructure, employees and customers can seamlessly integrate custom AI agents into their operations at scale, unlocking new levels of efficiency and innovation.
“Together Dell Technologies and Cohere are offering on-premises solutions that secure our customers' data and offer an AI advantage. By reducing barriers to adoption and streamlining workflows – including building and deploying agentic AI, we are providing the foundation needed to thrive in a data-driven world,” said Caitlin Gordon, Vice President, Dell Technologies. “By integrating Cohere’s North platform into the Dell AI Factory, enterprises can automate workflows across core business functions like finance, sales and customer support.”
Driving the next era of enterprise AI
Enterprises have moved beyond proof-of-concept projects and experimentation with isolated, off-the-shelf consumer AI tools. Now organizations require fully end-to-end, customized, and privately deployable solutions that protect their data.
North meets this demand with a production-ready, full-stack AI platform. The platform removes the primary barriers to deployment, strengthens governance, and ensures every component works together seamlessly. Even organizations traditionally slow-to-adopt new technologies can confidently embrace AI with North, knowing their solutions are aligned with their unique operational and security requirements.
If you're interested in using North to accelerate your business goals, reach out for a demo.
