--- title: "About Soulthread Technologies | Digital Sovereignty for Organizations in Palestine" description: "Why Soulthread Technologies exists: so that organizations in Palestine can use modern software and AI and keep control of their data. A team in Blida, Algeria, and Espoo, Finland." url: https://soulthread.group/ps/en/about/ language: en --- About Soulthread # Digital sovereignty is something you build. We are a young company with an old idea: an organization that controls its own tools decides its own future. [Talk to us](https://soulthread.group/ps/en/contact/) [Our mission](https://soulthread.group/ps/en/about/#mission) Our mission ## Modern software and AI, on your own terms Soulthread Technologies exists so that organizations in Palestine can adopt modern software and AI without handing control of their data to anyone else. We build the websites, applications, local AI, secure devices, and data systems they need, and we build them so that their data, their intellectual property, and their decisions stay in their own hands. Our name ## A name from Algerian heritage Soulthread is our English rendering of خيط الروح, khit errouh, the name of a traditional Algerian jewel. We chose it because it holds what we want our work to be: made with care, and handed down from one generation to the next. What sovereignty means to us ## Sovereignty is not isolation We work with global standards, global research, and global partners. What we refuse is dependency: the situation where a bank, a hospital, or a ministry cannot operate if a provider on another continent changes its terms, its pricing, or its politics. In practice, that means three commitments. 1. ### Data stays home We design systems so that personal and sensitive data is processed and stored in Palestine, on the client's own premises or with a hosting provider it chooses. AI models run locally. Nothing leaves without a decision by the owner of the data. 2. ### Foundations you can inspect Where we use AI, we build on open-weight models that can be audited by our clients and their regulators. Our own products sit on top of those foundations. 3. ### Independence that protects people Privacy, the integrity of sensitive information, and open public discourse all depend on infrastructure that no outside actor can quietly switch off or tilt. We build for resilience so that people can speak, decide, and disagree on platforms whose incentives they can see. Where we work ## From Blida and Espoo Our team works from Blida, in Algeria, and Espoo, in Finland, in Arabic, French, and English. We work with organizations in Palestine from there. How we work ## Four habits we keep on every project 1. ### Discovery before delivery We start by understanding the problem, the users, and the legal constraints, then design the smallest thing that solves it well. 2. ### Local by default Hosting, inference, and storage are planned from the first architecture diagram for your premises or a hosting provider you choose in Palestine. 3. ### Documented and transferable What we build for you is yours to run. We hand over documentation, training, and source access as agreed, so you are never locked in, not even to us. 4. ### Honest about trade-offs Local AI is sometimes slower or costlier than a foreign cloud. We tell you when, and we show you what you gain in return. Our values ## What we hold to - ### Craft Good enough is not our standard. - ### Trust We handle data the way we would want ours handled. - ### Ambition We build our own products, and we want them used far beyond the cities we work from. - ### Openness Independent from foreign control, open to the world's ideas. Work with us ## Let's build it where your data lives Tell us what you are trying to do, and we will reply within two working days with a first take. [Talk to us](https://soulthread.group/ps/en/contact/) Or write to contact \[at\] soulthread.group [Back to the studio](https://soulthread.group/ps/en/)