The quiet technology behind ecosystem innovation
Innovate, build and scale with sovereign tech.
We empower companies to get the most out of today's technology with trustworthy, sovereign, independent components. Protium is a venture builder with its own components: decentralised technology and AI, built once and reused in every venture and service.
You sell it, we run it.
The operator or partner owns the brand and the customer. Protium builds and runs.
In production today · open standards · a dedicated tenant per customer
01
Innovate
We work with boards and architecture teams to find where AI and data create value, and design a set-up that keeps the company in control.
You get
A concrete plan and target architecture, aimed at something that can be built.
02
Build
We build the venture or service on our own components, with an operator or partner in front.
You get
A working product under your own name.
03
Scale
We run it as a managed service and open it to partners who sell it on.
You get
Growth without building an operations team.
What we believe
Innovation happens between organisations.
Most organisations do not lack data or ideas. They lack a dependable way to connect them across company boundaries. That is where valuable innovations stall: inside technical, commercial and organisational silos.
Protium creates the conditions for collaboration. We make identity, rights, governance and operations work quietly underneath, so ecosystem partners can focus on the service, market or societal outcome they want to create together.
Our vision and values →Start with shared value
Technology only matters when it changes what a value chain can do. We begin with the participants, the friction between them and the value that becomes possible when they can work together.
Connect without taking control
Breaking a silo should not mean creating a larger one. Every participant keeps authority over its data, identity and commercial relationship while the ecosystem gains a trusted way to collaborate.
Build until it operates
A strategy deck does not change a market. We turn an idea into working infrastructure, onboard the first participants and stay behind the service as it scales.
Our core values
Good stewardship. Lasting shared value.
Rentmeesterschap — caring for what is entrusted to us — is central to how we build. We take responsibility for data, relationships and resources, with respect for people, planet and the generations that follow.
By preference we build tech for good: technology that works out well for people, for the planet and for fair markets. What we prefer to build →
- Good stewardship
- Purpose driven
- Think BIG
- Connected
- Curious and creative
- Customer centric
- Founder mentality
- Digital leadership
Organisations we have worked with since 2014
Project and platform work across data sharing, trust frameworks and regulated ecosystems. Detailed references, with role and scope, are shared during evaluation.
Proof in practice
What the components have produced.
Ventures built on the same components, and trust services that run in production today.
Venture · since 2018
Directify
Makes product data, stock and prices readable for AI assistants and routes the orders they place into normal fulfilment. An initiative of Protium that runs on Ozone, our own platform.
directify.ai ↗Venture
Loginex
A venture that came out of the same approach, in a different sector.
loginex.ai ↗Venture · marinas
Floatly
Skippers book a visitor berth in a marina and pay in advance. Harbours see bookings and payments straight away.
floatly.eu ↗Venture · health research
Chronity
A daily conversation that turns what people with a chronic or rare condition know themselves into their own insight and into research.
chronity.org ↗Venture · care
Respita
After a consult, a care professional tells Respita Buddy what they saw and did. The report is ready to sign, and what is about the professional stays theirs.
respita.eu ↗How a venture is built with Protium →
- In production
- Managed trust services run in production today, behind partner offerings.
- Two certified roles
- Participant Credential Issuer and Authorization Registry, certified under iSHARE v3.
- Since 2014
- Project and platform work across data sharing, trust frameworks and regulated ecosystems.
- EU deployment
- Services are deployed in the EU. Region and operating responsibilities are agreed per deployment.
How we enter an ecosystem
One engine. Different roles.
We most often work behind a telco, platform or sector partner. The partner leads the market and the participant relationship; Protium makes the shared service dependable and repeatable underneath.
For telcos, MSPs and integrators
Add an ecosystem service to your portfolio
Bring governed data collaboration to your enterprise customers without becoming a software builder. You lead the market under your brand; Protium runs the shared trust and tenant operations behind it.
Explore wholesale →For enterprises and platform teams
Open your platform without losing control
Let partners, customers and AI agents participate in a new service with clear identity and access rights. We normally operate behind your telco or platform partner; where none is available, we can engage directly.
Explore enterprise →For sectors and ecosystem owners
Turn sector ambition into a working network
Move from workshops and bilateral agreements to an ecosystem that can onboard participants and run real data flows. We provide the operating foundation through the appointed partner, or directly where needed.
Explore data space →Why ecosystems need this now
Regulation, AI and data sovereignty are changing the conditions under which organisations can innovate together.
Data rights have become operational
The EU Data Act requires organisations to make access rights work in practice. Ecosystems need a reliable way to show who received data, under which terms and on what basis.
AI enters the value chain
Agents can now act across organisational boundaries. Connectivity alone is not enough: every participant needs to know which agent is acting, what it may do and who remains accountable.
Sovereignty earns participation
Organisations join an ecosystem when they know where services run, who operates them and how control is retained. Trust is therefore part of the business model, not a compliance appendix.
Invisible by design. Essential in operation.
The engine underneath.
Connection creates the opportunity. Trust gives participants the confidence to join. Operations keep the ecosystem alive after the launch.
AI & data access
APIs and agent connections make data useful across organisational boundaries.
Identity, rights & evidence
Credentials and authorization make every participant and access decision verifiable.
Ozone tenant platform
Dedicated tenant runtimes turn one innovation into a service that can be repeated and scaled.
Frameworks and standards we work with
- W3C Verifiable Credentials
- OID4VCI
- EUDI Wallet ARF
- iSHARE v3
- MCP
Two iSHARE v3 roles are certified. The other entries are standards we build on or align with. Certification and alignment scope →
Present in capability. Quiet in the market.
Protium does not need to own the foreground. The ecosystem leader keeps the brand, customer contract and first-line relationship. We operate the shared technical foundation, support the partner team and help each new participant connect.
Trust and autonomy in every ecosystem.
Every service we build starts with the same questions: who can participate, what may they do and how do they retain control? For trusted service providers, we turn those principles into managed connectors, credential issuers and authorization services behind their own proposition.
Explore trust services →Already operating managed trust services in production, built on open standards and backed by hands-on development experience. Review our trust commitments →