Sovereignty by Design
The platform installs on infrastructure the customer owns or chooses and runs under the customer’s own policies. The source code can be licensed and the apps released under the customer’s own name and brand.
Sover: Sovereign Communications for People and AI Agents
Messaging, calls and video that a nation runs on its own servers, for its people and the AI agents that work for them, under its own law.
- Years in a Government Deployment
- 5+
- Active Users on One Deployment
- 50,000+
- Messages per Second
- 1,000+
- Interface Languages
- 20+
The first three figures come from one confidential government deployment, which we do not name.
Our Mission
Sovereign Communications for People and AI Agents, under the Law of the Nation That Runs Them
Communications have become national infrastructure. Ministries coordinate through messengers, agencies dispatch through them, and citizens reach their government through them. More of that traffic will come from AI agents acting for people. When those conversations run on a platform a nation does not control, the rules that govern them are written somewhere else.
So Sover is built the other way round. It is user-hosted: the platform installs on servers the customer owns or chooses, people and AI agents work in the same chats and calls under one security policy, and the customer decides through federation what crosses its borders. Sover neither owns nor accesses customer messages.
Communications are infrastructure. A nation should own its infrastructure, see into it and set its rules.
What We Hold To
Our Values
Ethics and Privacy First
Sover neither owns nor accesses customer messages. Policy belongs to the customer: what is retained, who may join and what crosses to other instances are decisions taken under the customer’s own law.
Knowing Our Clients
We run background checks on every prospective client and project to ensure fair use of the platform, and we decline business with parties we judge high-risk in relation to data collection and security.
AI-Native Communications
People and AI Agents in One Network
Sover is a communication platform for people and for AI agents. The AI models and agents a customer approves connect through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Sover Bot API, and take part as participants, not plug-ins.
An agent acts for a user only within the limits the security policy sets, appears as its own account, reviews the message history it is permitted to see and can join a video conference alongside people.
Data Sovereignty
Your Conversations. Your Infrastructure. Your Data.
A government cannot outsource custody of its own conversations. Sover is user-hosted by design: the platform installs on infrastructure the customer owns, on its own servers with the Sover Private Cloud, its Kubernetes cluster or its virtual machines, and Sover neither owns nor accesses customer messages.
Customer Ownership of Messages
Sover neither owns nor accesses customer messages. On your own hardware, message history, credentials and all application state stay under your control.
On-Premises, Private Cloud Included
Run Sover on your own servers with the Sover Private Cloud, on your Kubernetes cluster or on your virtual machines. It is user-hosted, never a public multi-tenant service.
Your Code, Your Brand
License the source code and release the apps under your own name and brand.
Identity and Audit
Mandatory two-factor authentication, role-based access control, device and session management, and audit logging.
What We Build
One Platform for a Nation’s Conversations
Sover is a sovereign unified-communications platform: end-to-end encrypted secret chats, messaging, voice and video calls, group chats and video sharing, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and the web, deployed on the customer’s own infrastructure with the Sover Private Cloud included.
- Messaging Direct messages, group chats and broadcast channels, with threads, voice messages and search across all content. Learn More
- Video Conferencing One-to-one and group calls, video conferences and screen sharing, with transcription and summaries from the built-in AI assistant. Learn More
- AI Agents & Assistants Approved AI agents join chats and calls through MCP and the Bot API, under the same security policy as people. Learn More
- Federation Independent instances connect for exactly the exchanges each one allows, from high-security agencies to services for citizens. Learn More
- Integrations The Bot API with 50+ REST methods, IREX alarm notifications, and Ask IREX, shipping in beta on selected instances. Learn More
- Custom Branding Release the apps under your own name and brand, and license the source code. Learn More
The Team
Government, Security and AI Experience
Sover and IREX are built by one team: about 100 people, more than 50 of them software engineers and data scientists, with executive leadership in the United States, Andorra and the UAE and delivery teams across Latin America and Europe.
Sover and IREX are related parties. They share one team, and Sover is majority-owned by IREX co-founder Nik Ptitsyn. Visit IREX
Leadership
The two co-founders lead the company and the platform.
Calvin Yadav
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Global strategist across public-safety technology, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs, AI and IoT ventures and critical infrastructure. Co-Founder and CEO of Sover since January 2025.
Nik Ptitsyn, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Computer scientist with a PhD in machine learning and cryptography, 50+ peer-reviewed publications and 10+ granted patents in computer vision. Leads product and engineering direction.
Advisors
Independent advisors, not full-time staff.
David K. Bain
Advisor, Ethics and Compliance
Former Executive Director of INCITS, heading the US secretariat for international IT standards under ISO/IEC JTC 1. Founding Executive Director of the Technology Integrity Council. Advises on AI governance and data handling.
Daniel Eborall, MBA
Advisor, Partnerships
Global business network and technology advisory boards, with an NCS4 spectator-safety background.
Juan Felipe Gonzalez
Advisor, Investments
35+ years in venture capital across AI, SaaS, privacy and security companies. General Partner at Hidalgo VC.
Operations, Delivery and Growth
The people who build, scope, deploy and support every program.
Dmitry Golovnich
VP of Engineering
Leads the engineering organization: 50+ engineers and data scientists across back-end, front-end and UX, DevOps and NOC, QA and support.
Robert Huaro
Global Projects & Deployments
IT executive with an MBA, specialized in cybersecurity and risk management. Over 18 years of experience leading protection strategies, regulatory compliance and technology infrastructure optimization.
Alex Peterson
Business Development
Master’s degree in information technologies, quadrilingual, 8+ years in AI engineering. The working-level bridge between engineering and customer operations.
Serge Smirnoff
Head of Public Relations
Runs communications end to end, leading a PR team of 10+: traditional and online media relations, social media and video production.
Denis Koch
Head of Sales
Programmer and business analyst turned sales lead, with deep experience in global software sales and implementation across regions.
Luís Pinto Ferreira
Public Sector Partnerships
National-scale safety and digital-sovereignty programs: strategy, delivery and market entry across B2B and B2G.
Roberto Varela
Business Development, LATAM
Smart-cities advisor and AI evangelist, 25+ years as a software architect. Drives growth across Latin America.
Ricardo Paredes
Technical Lead, LATAM
8+ years leading AI, smart-city and public-security technology projects across the LATAM region.
Baker Shabanowitz
Marketing
Demand generation and account-based marketing for public-safety technology.
Partners
Technology Partners
Suppliers that extend what the platform can do and how it is delivered: hardware, hosting, integration and analytics. Alongside them runs a channel of system integrators and resellers for delivery in-region.
Press
In the Press
Sover announced its international launch on July 31, 2025. The announcement was carried by these publications and posted on Sover’s Medium blog.
Questions, or Ready for a Briefing?
Contact Sales
Tell us about your organization and we will arrange a briefing for your team.
Who owns the data and the infrastructure?
You do. Sover is user-hosted, on your own servers, your Kubernetes cluster or your virtual machines, and Sover neither owns nor accesses customer messages. Message history, credentials and application state stay under your control.
Is Sover a public cloud messenger?
No. Sover is not a public multi-tenant service. A national operator can run shared instances for citizens or small businesses on its own infrastructure, as part of its own service.
How are Sover and IREX related?
Sover and IREX are related parties. They share one team, and Sover is majority-owned by IREX co-founder Nik Ptitsyn. Sover is also the secure front end to the IREX Ethical AI Platform, for alarm notifications and Ask IREX, shipping in beta on selected instances.
Can AI agents use Sover?
Yes. The AI agents a customer approves connect through MCP and the Sover Bot API, act for users only within the security policy, and can join video conferences alongside people.