VLIRTZ

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AI consulting in Stockholm

VLIRTZ is based in Stockholms lan. If you are a Stockholm company, the first meeting can happen at your office rather than on a call, and so can the workshops that follow.

Working in Sweden

What Stockholm companies ask us first

Stockholm has one of the densest concentrations of software talent in the Nordics, which also means the bar for a credible AI vendor is high. Buyers here have usually already sat through a demo that worked beautifully on curated data and fell apart on their own. We do not sell a platform. We sit inside your stack, agree on one workflow, ship it, and show you the cases where it fails before you find them yourself. Being local means that conversation happens in a room.

What Stockholm companies actually ask us to build

The requests cluster. Stockholm's fintech and payments companies come to us about operational load that scaled faster than headcount: reconciliation exceptions, merchant onboarding checks, and the long tail of support tickets that need someone to look something up in three systems before answering. None of that needs a frontier model. It needs a reliable agent with the right read access and a human on the expensive decisions.

Logistics and e-commerce teams ask about a different shape of problem. They usually have one person who is very good at judging exceptions, and that person is a bottleneck and a single point of failure. The useful build is the one that captures the ninety percent of cases where the judgement is actually a rule, and escalates the rest to that person with the context already assembled.

The pattern we push back on is the one where a company wants an assistant across the whole business. That is a platform commitment dressed as a pilot, and it is the reason so many Stockholm buyers are already sceptical when they call us. One workflow, measured, shipped, then the next.

Why being in Stockholms lan changes the work

Most AI projects fail on context rather than capability. The engineer building the agent does not know that the finance team ignores one field because it has been wrong since a migration in 2019, or that the exception queue is actually triaged by someone in a different department. That knowledge does not survive a written brief. It comes out when you sit next to someone while they do the job.

Because we are based in Stockholms lan, that observation session is the default for Stockholm clients rather than a line item someone cuts for budget reasons. Kickoffs, mid-build reviews, and handover training happen in your office. The distance is a commute, not a flight.

It also means workshops can run in Swedish. Delivery documentation stays in English by default, because that is what tends to survive team changes, but the conversation where the real requirements surface should happen in whichever language your team thinks in.

How we handle GDPR without turning it into theatre

Every Swedish buyer asks about data protection, and most have been given a reassuring answer with nothing behind it. Ours is procedural. Before any customer data moves, we write down the legal basis for the processing, which processors are in the chain, where each one stores data, and what the retention period is. If the workflow makes a decision that affects an individual, we identify that explicitly and design the human review gate around it.

Data stays in the EU by default. Where a model provider cannot offer EU processing for a given capability, that becomes a scoping decision you make with the trade-off in front of you, rather than something discovered in an audit later.

We sign NDAs as a matter of course, and we are happy to work inside your existing processor agreements rather than insisting on ours.

What we do here

AI agent development, AI consulting, and AI lead generation for Stockholm

Every engagement starts with one workflow, not a platform pitch, whether your team is in Stockholm or working with us fully remote.

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AI Agent Development in Stockholm

We design and build AI agents that perceive context, plan across steps, and take action in your tools and workflows, with humans in control of the important decisions.

How we build agents in Stockholm
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AI Consulting in Stockholm

We help you choose the right use cases, architecture, and rollout plan, from first experiment to something your team actually uses.

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AI Lead Generation in Stockholm

We use AI to identify, score, and engage potential customers from public and first-party signals, so sales time goes to people who are actually interested.

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Compliance

The rules that shape an AI project in Stockholm

We scope against these before any customer data moves, not after a contract is signed. Each one changes the architecture, not just the paperwork.

GDPRGeneral Data Protection Regulation
Applies in full. For an AI project the parts that actually bite are the legal basis for processing, the record of processing activities, and whether an automated decision affects someone's rights. We document all three before customer data moves.
IMYIntegritetsskyddsmyndigheten, the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection
Sweden's data protection supervisory authority. IMY has published guidance on automated decision-making that is worth reading before you scope anything customer-facing.
EU AI ActRegulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence
Obligations phase in by risk tier. Most internal workflow agents land in the limited-risk band and need transparency rather than conformity assessment, but the classification is a decision to make deliberately at scoping, not an assumption.
FinansinspektionenThe Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority
Relevant if you are a licensed institution. Outsourcing and operational resilience expectations shape where a model can run and what has to stay reversible.

Pricing

What an AI project costs in Stockholm

We quote in SEK for this market. Where you land depends on how many systems the agent touches, how usable your data already is, and how expensive a wrong action would be. Ask and you get a range on the first call, not the third.

AI opportunity review

On request

One to two weeks of workshops and measurement, ending in a ranked recommendation and a scoped first build.

Timeline: 1 to 2 weeks

Scoped agent build

On request

One workflow, running end to end in your tools, with human review gates and a handover runbook.

Timeline: 2 to 4 weeks

AI consulting sequence

On request

Target architecture, data residency mapping, and a staged rollout plan your own engineers implement.

Timeline: 4 weeks

Sustain retainer

On request

Monitoring, drift checks, model and prompt updates, and a defined response time on failures.

Timeline: Rolling

Straight answers

When we are not the right partner in Stockholm

We would rather lose the enquiry than the second month of a project. If any of these describe you, say so on the first call and we will tell you honestly whether to keep talking.

  • You want a fixed quote before anyone has looked at your data. We can size a discovery engagement blind, but not a build.
  • You need a team of ten on site from next week. We are deliberately small and founder-led, which is the right shape for one workflow and the wrong shape for staff augmentation.
  • The goal is an AI announcement rather than a working system. That project can be done faster and cheaper by an agency that does not care whether it survives contact with production.
  • Your source data is genuinely unusable and nobody wants to fix it. We will say so in discovery, and the honest recommendation will be a data project before an AI one.

FAQ

Questions we get about AI work in Stockholm

Do you work on-site in Stockholm?
Yes. We are based in Stockholms lan, so on-site workshops, kickoffs and handover training are the default for Stockholm clients rather than an exception. The observation sessions where real requirements surface are much harder to run over video.
What does a first engagement look like?
Usually one of two shapes: a scoped two-to-four week build targeting a single workflow with a measurable outcome, or a four-week consulting sequence if the harder question is which use case to pick. Both end with something written down that survives us leaving.
Can you present and run workshops in Swedish?
Yes. Meetings and workshops run in Swedish or English, whichever your team prefers. Delivery documentation is in English by default because it tends to outlive team changes, but we will write it in Swedish if you would rather.
How much does an AI agent cost in Stockholm?
A scoped single-workflow build is the common starting point, with a discovery review ahead of it if the use case is not settled. What moves the number is how many systems the agent touches, how usable your data already is, and how expensive a wrong action would be. Our pricing page breaks down the bands and the cost drivers.
How do you handle GDPR and IMY expectations?
Before any customer data moves, we document the legal basis, the processor chain, where each processor stores data, and the retention period. Where the workflow makes a decision affecting an individual, we identify that explicitly and build the human review gate around it. Data stays in the EU by default.
Do we need an AI strategy before we talk to you?
No, and most Stockholm clients do not have one. Starting from a specific problem that costs you time or revenue is a better opening than a strategy document, because it gives us something measurable to point the first build at.
How is this different from hiring a Swedish freelancer?
A good freelancer will build what you specify. Our work is usually the step before that: deciding what is worth building, measuring the workflow as it actually runs, and designing where a human stays in the loop. If you already have a clear specification and just need hands, a freelancer is probably better value.
What happens after the system is delivered?
You get a runbook, an evaluation set built from your real cases including the failures, and a handover session with the people who will operate it. After that you can run it yourself or put us on a sustain retainer for monitoring and model updates. We do not make the handover deliberately incomplete to keep you dependent.
Which sectors do you see most in Stockholm?
Fintech and payments, logistics and e-commerce, gaming and consumer software, and professional services. The underlying problem is usually the same across all four: a workflow that depends on one person's judgement and does not scale.

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