OpenInfer Launches Jean: Sovereign Agentic AI System Built for Enterprises With Cost and Data Control in Mind

Sovereignty-native from the ground up, Jean makes agentic AI accessible to every team member — without cloud costs, data exposure, or vendor lock-in

San Mateo, CA, April 2nd, 2026 — Enterprise AI has a cost problem, an access problem, and a control problem. Most solutions require expensive cloud infrastructure, specialized technical resources to deploy, and unrestricted access to sensitive data. For mid-market and enterprise organizations under pressure to move on AI, that's not a tradeoff — it's a blocker.

Today, OpenInfer, the scalable, cost-effective, and private AI inference platform for businesses, is removing it with the launch of Jean (AskJean.ai) — a private, email-native, agentic AI system that any team member can use immediately. No installation, no onboarding, no new tooling. Jean runs entirely within an organization's own environment on standard infrastructure, giving enterprises agentic AI they can own, scale, and control at a fraction of the cost of cloud-based alternatives.

"The barrier to enterprise AI isn't capability, it's cost and complexity," said Behnam Bastani, CEO and Founder of OpenInfer. "Jean is designed to remove both. You start with an email. Your agents run on your hardware. Your data stays inside your walls. And as your usage grows, your costs don't spiral. That's what it means to own your AI, on your terms, not the vendor's."

Start With an Email. Scale From There.

Jean is built for teams that want to spin up agents, schedule them, and run them continuously — without standing up infrastructure, writing configuration, or sending data to an external cloud. Email Jean a task and it gets done. Scale to a hundred agents across your organization and the cost stays flat. When data privacy or ownership becomes a requirement, move Jean inside your own environment on hardware you already own.

"Most AI tools feel like an additional destination to manage, but AskJean.ai meets us where our collaboration already happens," said Jeremie Davis, CEO of Ahatis. "Since integrating it into the Ahatis workflow, the friction of maintaining team alignment has significantly decreased. We've seen a marked increase in the efficiency of our deliverables and a much sharper focus on our core priorities. If you want an AI that truly understands your business context and empowers teams to execute smarter and faster, this is it."

Built to Own: Architecture That Eliminates the Cloud Tax

Jean works through email. There is nothing to install, no portal to log into, and no behavior to change. Agents can be scheduled, stacked, and run in parallel across teams. The inbox becomes the control layer for coordinating AI across the enterprise — without requiring a single new tool or training session.

Multiple team members can engage Jean simultaneously within the same threads, assigning work and pulling results without touching a new tool. When deployed inside an organization's own environment, Jean connects securely to internal data and systems. No customer data is sent to external clouds. No customer information is used for model training.

"We had a chance to try Jean directly in our email workflow, and it quickly proved useful. It delivered targeted market research in-thread, allowing us to review and refine insights without pulling from multiple sources," said Mark Kol, Executive Vice President at CBRE. "The ability to operate within our environment while maintaining control over data and workflows makes this a compelling capability with the potential to scale how teams manage information and execute work across a distributed organization."

Available Now: Limited Pilot Partner Program

Teams that want to evaluate Jean immediately can access the hosted version at AskJean.ai using the same inference engine, with intentionally limited connectivity to private internal systems. When ready to deploy privately, Jean moves inside the organization's environment on existing hardware. Either path leads to the same outcome: enterprise-grade, collaborative AI that the organization owns and controls.

There is no per-seat charge, no per-token charge, and no usage-based billing. Organizations pay once for the infrastructure they already own, and Jean runs on it continuously, across as many users, agents, and workloads as the business demands. That is a fundamentally different cost structure, and it compounds in the enterprise's favor over time.

Key Capabilities

• Instant Accessibility: Jean works through email. No installation, no onboarding, no new tooling. Any team member can start using Jean immediately through their existing inbox.
• Cost of Ownership: Jean runs on existing CPU or GPU hardware with no cloud dependency. Organizations own the infrastructure, own the model, and eliminate the per-usage costs that make cloud-based agentic AI unscalable at enterprise volume.
• Complete Data Sovereignty: Jean operates entirely within customer-controlled environments. No external data sharing, no model training on customer data, no platform lock-in. Jean runs independently of OpenAI or Anthropic services for all enterprise workloads.
• Always-On, Multi-User Collaboration: Jean runs continuously across teams — participating in threads, maintaining shared context, executing scheduled tasks, and enabling multiple users to engage agents in parallel without prompts, sessions, or manual re-engagement.

OpenInfer is accepting a limited number of organizations into the Jean Pilot Partner Program — a structured, low-risk path to experience a new model of enterprise AI: always-on, agentic, and fully owned by the organization.

Organizations ready to take control of their AI strategy can learn more and apply at openinfer.io/askjean.

About OpenInfer

OpenInfer delivers intelligence where data lives, providing reliable, high-quality AI inference for enterprise and edge environments. The company's mission is to make advanced AI accessible to organizations that cannot compromise on data sovereignty, operational independence, or infrastructure control. OpenInfer serves security-conscious organizations across defense, financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure.

To learn more, visit openinfer.io.

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