A British company. A sovereign alternative.
We started Woven because the country that built the first revolution shouldn't have to outsource the next one — and no other country should have to either.
The AI revolution is being written almost entirely in the United States — with American models, on American compute, governed by American law. The country that invented the spinning frame, the railway, the jet engine, and the modern computer shouldn't have to depend on another to participate in the next one.
Woven is a sovereign alternative to Google Workspace, Office 365, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. One suite — Kilburn (our AI assistant), Woven Mail, Woven Collaboration, and Woven Chat — all built on our own 7-billion-parameter sovereign model, trained in Britain on UK compute, and deployable in the jurisdiction you choose. For individuals, businesses, governments, and the public sector — at home and abroad.
Kilburn takes its name from Tom Kilburn, the British engineer who, with Freddie Williams, built Manchester Baby in 1948 — the first stored-program computer ever to run, and a direct ancestor of every machine the modern AI industry stands on. The lineage is local. The ambition is national.
We're early. We have a long way to go. But the principles aren't negotiable: jurisdictional sovereignty, customer-held keys, no extraction of your data into our model, and a standing commitment to the toughest UK security standard in force.
If that sounds like work worth doing, we're hiring. See open roles →