Local European inference, custom models, and proof through shipped products.

LeemerLabs is the infrastructure arm of the Leemer Group. It exists because our own products outgrew generic AI APIs. We needed local European inference, exportable custom models, and a path from research to production that did not depend on opaque third-party defaults.

So we built the stack ourselves. LeemerLabs now covers three connected layers: a public inference gateway for hosted open-weight models, LeemerFoundry for custom model creation, and the infrastructure that powers products like LeemerChat and Critique.

The point is simple. We do not want companies in Europe renting intelligence from black-box APIs forever. We want them to own the model layer they build their business on.

Training costs have fallen hard. Open-weight models are now strong enough to justify serious product bets. And enterprises have become far less comfortable shipping sensitive workflows through shared US inference paths dressed up as compliance.

That changes the economics. For many high-volume use cases, a custom model is materially cheaper than repeated prompt engineering against closed APIs. It is also easier to govern, easier to tune, and far more defensible once the behaviour actually matches your domain.

LeemerLabs is built around that shift. Not AI as a demo. AI as owned infrastructure.

The public gateway is the clean entry point: OpenAI-compatible, EU-hosted, and built for teams that want a fast path into local inference. It is the practical layer.

LeemerFoundry is the deeper layer: dataset creation, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and exportable weights. It is the ownership layer.

LeemerChat and our other products are the proof layer. They are not mockups for investors. They are the systems that force our infrastructure to survive real users, real load, and real edge cases.