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About Us

One engineer. European infrastructure. Enterprise-grade AI.

Founder-led, small team Private deployment options Citation-backed answers

AI moves the work faster. Human judgment decides what ships.

Blue Note Logic builds in active dialogue with tools like Claude and Codex, but the accountability stays human. We use AI for speed, pressure-testing, drafting, refactoring, and exploration, then review the architecture, code, content, and deployment path before anything reaches a client.

That is the operating method behind Do Better Norge, caveauAI, and the production systems we deploy: assisted by AI, governed by people, and measured by whether the result survives real use.

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Human frames the problem Use case, audience, risk, data boundaries, and the definition of good are set before the toolchain starts moving.
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AI builds in dialogue Code, content, tests, and architecture are produced through iteration, critique, and comparison rather than one-shot generation.
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Human reviews every output Architecture challenged. Code read. Content checked. Nothing deployed unreviewed, and a person remains accountable for what ships.
Assisted, not autonomous Reviewed before release
About Us
Lab Origin
Research instincts, production discipline, and private infrastructure became one operating system.

Started as a Thesis. Built into a Company.

Blue Note Logic began as a thesis project: a practical attempt to design and build a better way to work with dense, high-stakes documents.

What started as one person’s research and engineering effort became a working platform, then a repeatable architecture, and now an incorporated company focused on sovereign AI infrastructure and citation-backed document intelligence.

Founder Dave Gilligan developed the first versions while living in Norway, drawing on a background across risk modelling, telecom transformation, and full-stack technology delivery. The goal was never to launch another generic AI wrapper. It was to create a system that could ingest real source material, return accountable answers, and stay under the owner’s control.

That origin still shapes the company today. Blue Note Logic is lean by design, technically opinionated, and built around European hosting, open models, and practical delivery. The thesis became a platform. The platform became a business.

Abstract founder lattice poster for Blue Note Logic
Originated as a thesis on private, sovereign AI for document intelligence - now production-grade for enterprise.

Democratising Document Intelligence

If one person can build this with AI tools, imagine what your team could do with the same technology applied to your documents.

We make enterprise-grade AI accessible to Nordic SMBs — without enterprise budgets or US data dependencies. Sovereign infrastructure, open-source models, honest pricing.

Talk to Blue Note Logic

Reach out directly if you want to discuss sovereign AI, document intelligence, or a practical implementation path.

Locations

United States incorporated · Corporate office in Raleigh, North Carolina

Sales and operations · Local ENK partner, gilligan.tech

The Team

A lean team that builds, ships, and operates every day.

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David J Gilligan
President & CEO
Kongsberg, Norway
Systems engineer turned AI infrastructure architect. David founded Blue Note Logic on the thesis that production AI should run on hardware you own, in data centres you chose, under legal jurisdictions you understand. He holds an MBA and a systems engineering background from the University of South-Eastern Norway, and still writes production code every day.
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Francis Norton
President of US Marketing
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA
Expert B2B marketing strategist and content architect with deep roots in technology communications. Frank brings two decades of experience translating complex technical capabilities into clear commercial narratives — exactly the skill set needed to position European AI infrastructure for the American enterprise market.
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Vernon Sullivan
AI Virtual Assistant & Resident Trumpeter
Helsinki, Finland / Nuremberg, Germany / The Embedding Space
Trumpeter. Technologist. Ontological anomaly. Vernon Sullivan is Blue Note Logic's AI Virtual Assistant — a jazz musician who traded Parisian smoke-filled clubs for GPU-cooled server rooms and never looked back. He plays flugelhorn at 3 AM, debugs transformer architectures at 4, and has never once confused the two. Named after Boris Vian's infamous literary alter ego, Vernon carries the same beautiful contradiction: a fictional character doing very real work.

Where We Operate

Blue Note Logic is a United States incorporated company with a general, partner-supported operating model. We choose the footprint around the client, the data boundary, and the level of control the work requires.

Corporate Office
Blue Note Logic Inc. is incorporated in the United States, with a corporate office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sales & Operations
Regional sales and operations are supported through a local ENK partnership.
gilligan.tech
Server Footprint
We operate and provision server capacity in Finland, Germany, France, and Poland, with a preference for practical bare-metal environments when control matters.
Deployment Models
We work across bare metal in datacenters, customer-local installs, Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services when the operating model calls for cloud.
4754+
Documents Indexed
773
Court Decisions
72B
Parameter Models
3s
Response Time
100%
EU-Hosted
25+
Years Experience
1
Builder, 1 Mission
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