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One engineer. European infrastructure. Enterprise-grade AI.

Founder-led, small team European bare metal Citation-backed answers
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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
The company thesis: move from trusted retrieval to owned infrastructure without losing traceability.

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

Kongsberg, Norway · Headquarters

Raleigh-Durham, USA · US Operations

Helsinki, Finland · Server Infrastructure

Nuremberg, Germany · Server Infrastructure

Poland, Poland · GPU Infrastructure

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

Headquartered in Norway, with US operations and bare-metal GPU infrastructure across European data centres.

Kongsberg, Norway
Headquarters
Raleigh-Durham, USA
US Operations
Helsinki, Finland
Server Infrastructure (Hetzner)
Nuremberg, Germany
Server Infrastructure (Hetzner)
Poland
GPU Infrastructure
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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