The principle
Own your AI future.
Your models. Your policy. Your data.
The Reality
AI is mandated. Cost control is zero.
AI is mandated from the board down. Every team is told to use more. Every prompt is metered, and the vendor sets the price. This month's invoice is bigger than last month's, and next month's will be bigger again. The only way to spend less is to use less, and using less is against the mandate. Nobody in the building controls the cost. That is what a vendor in the middle costs. The way out is the open source AI journey: models the business owns, data and cost back in its hands, and someone looking after the models the whole way.
The product
Open source AI in production.
Evolve™ gives progressive customers one platform to adopt, run and govern open source AI models in production. The customer's own policy governs everything: the governance layer lets customers define and customize every aspect of data privacy, compliance, regulatory requirements and audit.
Evolve™ is a product Appnovation provides ongoing support for. That support is model management: your models are kept updated, verified, upgraded and risk-assessed as things change.
A closer look
How Evolve™ works
Four layers, from continuous model evaluation at the base to a single governed interface on top. The tier determines which layers are included.
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One interface for users, one console for administrators. Any job goes in, and the right model handles it. Models, policy, cost and performance in a single view.
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The client has full control over every aspect of data privacy, security and governance. This module ensures customers can meet their compliance and regulatory obligations on their own terms.
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Multi-workload API routing layer. Every job goes to the model best fit for it, so a collection of open models starts behaving like one product.
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Open models evaluated continuously on performance, cost, licensing and jurisdiction. Forward deployed engineers match business cases to models, then tune and train them on real processes.
The tiers
Choose your tier
Prime, Enterprise and Cloud are tiers of the same platform: adopt one model, run the full stack on your own infrastructure, or have Appnovation host everything.
Single model adoption
Evolve™ Prime
For customers ready to bring their first open source LLM and its ecosystem into the business. Not a place to test AI; a place to start with open source AI, applied to any workload. Appnovation works with the customer's IT teams to ensure compliance, and ongoing model management keeps the model updated, verified, upgraded and risk-assessed.
Multi-workload
Evolve™ Enterprise
For customers scaling their open source AI journey. The full platform, on your infrastructure: every layer, multi-model orchestration, governance with role-based policy enforcement, and sovereign deployment in data centers and on cloud the customer owns.
Product tiers
Tailored to what your business needs
Start by adopting one model, scale to the full stack, or have Appnovation run everything.
| Features | Prime | Enterprise | Cloud |
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| Open source models | one | Multiple | One or multiple |
| Workloads | Any single workload | Multi-workload | Single or multi-workload |
| Runs in | The customer's own environment | The customer's own data centers and cloud | Appnovation multi-cloud infrastructure, fully hosted |
| Ongoing model management | Certification, tuning and one-step rollback | Adds drift detection and zero-downtime model updates | Full model management |
| Governance | Customer-defined policy, human approvals, audit trail and data residency | Adds automatic task classification and scoped access controls | Full governance layer, governed by the customer's policy |
| Orchestration | Routing and fallback within one workload | Multi-workload routing, load balancing and spend caps | Multi-workload routing across models |
| Brand setup | Configured by Appnovation during adoption | Self-service, derived from brand guidelines | Multiple brand profiles per client |
| Branded outputs | Documents, presentations and spreadsheets | Adds dashboards, email, print, graphics and more | Isolated per client |
Prime
- Open source models
- one
- Workloads
- Any single workload
- Runs in
- The customer's own environment
- Ongoing model management
- Certification, tuning and one-step rollback
- Governance
- Customer-defined policy, human approvals, audit trail and data residency
- Orchestration
- Routing and fallback within one workload
- Brand setup
- Configured by Appnovation during adoption
- Branded outputs
- Documents, presentations and spreadsheets
Enterprise
- Open source models
- Multiple
- Workloads
- Multi-workload
- Runs in
- The customer's own data centers and cloud
- Ongoing model management
- Adds drift detection and zero-downtime model updates
- Governance
- Adds automatic task classification and scoped access controls
- Orchestration
- Multi-workload routing, load balancing and spend caps
- Brand setup
- Self-service, derived from brand guidelines
- Branded outputs
- Adds dashboards, email, print, graphics and more
Cloud
- Open source models
- One or multiple
- Workloads
- Single or multi-workload
- Runs in
- Appnovation multi-cloud infrastructure, fully hosted
- Ongoing model management
- Full model management
- Governance
- Full governance layer, governed by the customer's policy
- Orchestration
- Multi-workload routing across models
- Brand setup
- Multiple brand profiles per client
- Branded outputs
- Isolated per client
Value
Why Progressive Customers Choose Evolve™
Sovereign deployment
EVOLVE runs inside the customer's own data centers or cloud, in its own jurisdiction. Data stays inside approved geographic and infrastructure boundaries, and anything routed outside them is blocked, not just logged.
Client-controlled governance
The governance layer lets customers define and customize data privacy, compliance, regulatory and audit requirements. The client sets the policy; the platform enforces it.
A product with ongoing support
Evolve™ comes with people behind it. Forward deployed engineers match models to your business cases, tune them on your processes, and stay on as the models and your needs change.
Ongoing model management
Your models are looked after. Appnovation keeps them updated, verified, upgraded and risk-assessed as the landscape changes, so nothing you adopt gets left behind.
No per-token pricing
Open source models are not metered by a vendor. No third party sits between you and your AI charging by the token.
Three ways to deploy
Single-workload, multi-workload on infrastructure the client owns, or fully hosted on Appnovation infrastructure. The same platform in every case; the deployment fits the environment.
Open Source AI
Built on Open Source Since 2007
We have been leading open source technologies for over 20 years. It is not a strategy we adopted. It is who we are. Appnovation has spent two decades inside the ecosystem. That history gives us something no one else has: the ability to bring confidence, speed, and predictability to open source AI product development.
FAQ
Everything you need to know.
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What is EVOLVE?
EVOLVE is a model management and governance platform from Appnovation that lets global enterprises run the leading open source AI models in production, governed by their own policy. It combines model management, orchestration, governance and a unified user experience in one platform, delivered alongside an ongoing service.
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Is EVOLVE a product or a service?
EVOLVE is a product Appnovation provides ongoing support for. The support concentrates on model management: keeping adopted models updated, verified, upgraded and risk-assessed, and certifying new ones as the customer's landscape changes. Forward deployed engineers match business cases to models and tune them on real processes.
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What is the difference between EVOLVE Prime, Enterprise and Cloud?
They are three tiers of the same product. Prime is single model adoption with ongoing model management, for customers bringing their first open source LLM into the business. Enterprise is the full platform, running multi-workload on infrastructure the customer owns. Cloud is everything, fully hosted by Appnovation for customers who do not want to manage infrastructure.
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Which open source AI models does EVOLVE support?
EVOLVE continuously evaluates leading open source models on performance, cost, licensing and jurisdiction. Rather than locking clients to one model, the orchestration layer routes every job to the model best fit for it, so the model mix evolves as the open source landscape does.
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Who controls data privacy and compliance in EVOLVE?
The client does. EVOLVE's governance module gives customers full control to define and customize data privacy, global perimeters, compliance, regulatory and audit requirements. The client owns the policy; the platform enforces it.
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Why use open source AI models instead of proprietary ones?
Open source models give enterprises control over cost, licensing and where their AI runs. EVOLVE addresses the operational barriers, evaluation, governance and management, that have historically made open source adoption harder than buying proprietary AI, so enterprises get the ownership benefits without the operational burden.
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What does escaping the token game mean?
Proprietary AI platforms charge per token, so costs scale with usage and the vendor controls the meter. With open source models there is no per-token vendor pricing: costs follow the infrastructure the customer chooses, and EVOLVE manages the models running on it.
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Does Evolve™ output match an organization's brand?
Yes. Evolve™ applies the organization's own brand profile (colors, typography, logos, templates and voice) to everything it produces, so reports, decks and spreadsheets are ready to use without reformatting. The brand profile is approved by the organization before anyone uses Evolve™, and every output is checked against it before handoff.