SocleAI&Scaleway
Socle AI is a sovereign AI application software platform that works out of the box (UI, agents, RAG, visual workflows, governance), while Scaleway is a cloud infrastructure provider: servers, GPUs, instances and raw model inference.
THE PARTNER
Scaleway
Cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)
OUR APPROACH
Socle AI
Ready-to-use AI software platform
Scaleway provides the network and the compute; Socle AI provides the business application suite your teams can use straight away. If you want French AI that is responsible and simple to roll out, work with Scaleway AND Socle AI.
GOOD TO KNOW
The Socle AI SaaS runs directly on French Scaleway infrastructure. So this is not an either-or decision: it is the same sovereignty, with the application layer on top.
The line-by-line comparison
| CRITERION | SCALEWAY | SOCLE AI |
|---|---|---|
| Layer covered | Infrastructure (servers, GPUs) | Business application |
| User interface | Cloud console | Chat, agents, dashboards |
| RAG | To be built | Native, hybrid with reranking |
| Multi-agent orchestration | To be built | Native (A2A protocol) |
| Visual workflows | No | Native drag and drop |
| Multimodality | Model inference | ASR, TTS, vision built in |
| What gets measured | Infrastructure consumption | Business success, audit, feedback |
Scaleway is a cloud provider, not an applied AI software vendor
Cloud provider, not an AI application software vendor
Scaleway offers GPU servers and inference endpoints (Managed Inference on open-source models), but no ready-to-use business interface for end users or product teams.
No native application building blocks
No visual workflow builder, no multi-agent orchestration engine, no hybrid RAG manager with reranking, and no integrated multimodal suite (transcription with diarization, speech synthesis, vision).
Development cost and lead time to plan for
Going straight to the inference API means coding the application, the vector databases, memory management, access rights and the user interface.
Governance at the infrastructure level
Scaleway measures instance usage, memory and tokens consumed. Business success per task, auditability of agent decisions and feedback loops belong to the application layer.
This is why we complement each other
Cloud sovereignty plus application power
Socle AI natively runs on Scaleway in France (ISO/IEC 27001 and HDS certified, GDPR compliant) for its SaaS offering, or installs on-premise (Docker) on the customer private infrastructure. You get Scaleway sovereignty and the Socle AI application layer.
A turnkey platform rather than a raw API
A complete chat interface, agent creation modules, a visual workflow builder, business connectors (Slack, HubSpot, Notion, databases) and hybrid RAG document management, from day one.
Native multimodality and multi-agent orchestration
Voice handling (Whisper / Gladia with diarization), image generation, speech synthesis, and dynamic orchestration of specialised agents through the A2A protocol.
Business governance and compliance
Consumption dashboards per organisation, conversation traceability, audit logs and user feedback loops.
Support and expertise (7 to 8 years)
An end-to-end methodology to frame and deploy your complex business use cases, beyond simply supplying the software.
Key questions you should be asking!
Scaleway gives you GPU instances and raw inference, but which team is going to build the interface, the hybrid RAG engine and the connectors to your business tools?
How will you measure AI task success rates and adoption by your business users from a cloud infrastructure dashboard?
Did you know the Socle AI SaaS is hosted in France at Scaleway? You keep exactly the same sovereignty guarantees without having to reinvent the application layer.
The questions we get most often
OBJECTION
« Scaleway already offers managed AI model inference APIs. »
OUR ANSWER
An inference API returns raw text to a developer. Turning that into a service your teams find useful means building the RAG, the multi-agent orchestration, the workflows and the interface. Socle AI provides that whole application layer ready to use, and can connect to models hosted on Scaleway.
OBJECTION
« We want to stay 100% sovereign by using a French cloud like Scaleway. »
OUR ANSWER
We share that view exactly: the Socle AI SaaS is hosted at Scaleway in France, with no exposure to extraterritorial law and no data shared or used to train a model. You get the Scaleway sovereignty guarantee combined with Socle AI software agility.
OBJECTION
« Going direct with Scaleway will cost us less in licence fees. »
OUR ANSWER
Raw infrastructure is cheaper up front, but the total cost of ownership climbs fast once you have to pay developers for 6 to 12 months to build and maintain the application around it. Socle AI shortens time to market dramatically.
Want to compare on your own use case?
Try the platform, or talk it through with someone who has already deployed this kind of project.
