- BasePeak.AILive
- BasePeak.WORKComing Soon
Sovereign Cloud and AI, built on enum from day one.
BasePeak runs its sovereign AI platform, BasePeak.AI and BasePeak.WORK, on enum Kubernetes Engine in Frankfurt. From the first commit, under German jurisdiction, for public administration and regulated industries.
I worked on k3s at Rancher Labs and created k3d, so I know what good Kubernetes looks like. enum stands out: CNCF-conformant, upstream Kubernetes, done exceptionally well.
The company
BasePeak is a German startup building sovereign AI infrastructure for organisations that cannot send data to US clouds. Its two products, BasePeak.AI and BasePeak.WORK, form a workspace where people and AI agents collaborate, built on open source and running as SaaS or on-premise. The company was founded by Thorsten Klein, who worked on k3s at Rancher Labs and created k3d. Customers include public administration, such as the city of Dormagen, and regulated enterprises.
The challenge
- Sovereign AI is only as trustworthy as the infrastructure underneath it. A German AI platform on a US-headquartered cloud undermines the promise.
- Regulated and public-sector customers require verifiable German hosting, a German contracting party, and no US CLOUD Act exposure. For them it is a sales argument, not a checkbox.
- As a startup, BasePeak had no legacy to migrate and no team to spare on operating infrastructure. The platform had to be production-ready from day one.
- AI workloads demand predictable compute, storage for large knowledge bases, and low-latency networking between agents, models, and integrations.
Why enum
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Sovereignty that matches the product
BasePeak sells sovereign AI. enum provides the sovereign base: Frankfurt, a German GmbH, German and EU law only, no US parent, no CLOUD Act. The infrastructure and the product tell the same story.
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Built greenfield, no migration tax
Because BasePeak started on enum, there was nothing to migrate. No re-platforming, no data-residency workarounds, no dual-running. The team spent its first weeks building product, not moving it.
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CNCF-conformant upstream Kubernetes
BasePeak is built on open source and values portability. enum runs CNCF-conformant upstream Kubernetes with standard manifests, Helm, and GitOps, with no proprietary APIs. What runs on enum runs anywhere.
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NVMe storage fast enough to self-host S3
BasePeak runs its own Garage S3 cluster on enum Kubernetes Engine, on top of enum's NVMe-backed block storage. Performance is great, so the team gets sovereign, self-controlled object storage without giving up speed.
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Direct access to engineers
As a small team, BasePeak talks directly to the engineers who run the platform. No first-level queue, no ticket loops. Decisions and fixes happen in the same conversation.
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enum for Startups
BasePeak joined the enum for Startups program, which brings cloud credits and conditions tailored to early-stage European teams. That lowered the barrier to building on sovereign infrastructure from day one.
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Predictable, euro-denominated billing
For a startup, a cloud bill that swings with currency and hidden line items is a planning problem. enum bills in euros, tied to real usage, so costs are forecastable.
Architecture
What runs on enum and how the parts fit together.
enum Kubernetes Engine
Runs BasePeak.AI and the self-hosted Garage S3 cluster in Frankfurt, scaling with complex multi-tenant application deployments. BasePeak.WORK will launch on the same base.
enum NVMe Block Storage
NVMe-backed block storage delivering high performance for the Garage S3 cluster and AI workloads.
Garage (self-hosted S3)
BasePeak's own S3-compatible storage for knowledge bases, documents, and artifacts, running on enum Kubernetes Engine.
enum Networking
Ingress and low-latency routing between agents, models, and integrations.
Results
- A sovereign AI platform live in production, built on enum from the first commit, with no migration and no legacy cloud.
- Sovereignty as a sales argument: Frankfurt hosting and German jurisdiction open doors with public administration and regulated enterprises.
- A self-hosted Garage S3 cluster on enum Kubernetes Engine, with great NVMe storage performance, grounding AI answers in knowledge bases and artifacts.
- An open-source stack on CNCF-conformant upstream Kubernetes, fully portable.
- A small team focused on product, with infrastructure operated by a partner that thinks with them.
- All data stays in Frankfurt, under German jurisdiction, with no US dependencies.
Sovereignty as an enabler
BasePeak's customers, public administration and regulated industries, choose it because data stays under European control. enum provides the foundation: Frankfurt, a German GmbH, and GDPR-native infrastructure with no US CLOUD Act exposure. For BasePeak, sovereignty is not a checkbox. It is the product.
What's next
BasePeak is expanding BasePeak.AI across more public-sector and regulated customers and preparing the launch of BasePeak.WORK, with new agents, integrations, and the BasePeak Exchange for sharing them. enum remains the sovereign base underneath.
Start building on enum.
Self-service cloud infrastructure with a developer experience that gets out of your way. Built and operated in Europe.