Industries — Public Sector & Research

Agentic AI for public sector and research.

Public institutions and research organizations run mission-critical systems where data cannot be lost and services cannot stop. The Akka Agentic AI Platform runs high-volume, fault-tolerant workloads and the AI agents built on top of them — for months at a time, without a break.

2.5M+/day
Signals acquired & analyzed (CERN)
0
Data loss during maintenance
12K+
Researchers served
Why the public sector is different

Mission-critical, by definition.

The systems that run accelerators, utilities, and public services can't lose data or stop for maintenance. They handle enormous volumes of telemetry and records, run continuously, and are held to a standard of reliability and accountability that few commercial systems face.

  • Data loss is unacceptable. Acquisition and records systems must survive failure and maintenance intact.
  • Always running. Mission-critical services operate continuously, for months without a break.
  • Volume is enormous. Millions of signals or records a day, growing every year.
  • Accountability is required. Public institutions are held to a high standard of reliability and evidence.
The platform, applied to the public sector

Built for mission-critical scale.

Reliability

No data loss

Survives infrastructure maintenance and failure with virtually no data loss on mission-critical acquisition layers.

Scale

Millions of signals a day

Gathers, stores, and analyzes millions of signals or records a day, and grows with volume.

Self-healing

Recovers on its own

Clusters shut down and recreate themselves when the network returns, with no operator intervention.

Sovereignty

Residency & control

Data residency and control across regions for institutions with sovereignty and accountability obligations.

Governance

Accountable AI for public institutions.

Governments hold themselves to explicit AI accountability, responsible-use, and procurement standards — and public authorities are high-risk deployers under the EU AI Act. Akka tracks 189 AI regulations worldwide, mapped to enforceable controls and monitored as they change.

Federal AI policy

OMB M-26-04FedRAMP AINIST AI RMF

Defense & national security

DoD Responsible AIUK MOD JSP 936NATO AI Principles

Public-sector standards

UK Gov MBSEU AI ActISO/IEC 42001

Public services & benefits

CMSpublic-benefits determinations
Safe & governed by default

Control built into every agent action.

The same platform that runs mission-critical systems keeps the agents on it safe and accountable — a real-time check on every action, and a record that holds up.

Guardrails

Block unsafe outputs

Runtime filters catch prohibited or unsafe content before an agent can act on it.

Sanitizers

Strip sensitive data

Personal and confidential data is automatically removed from what agents read and write.

Evaluations

Checked in real time

Every agent action is checked inline as it happens — pass, block, or flag — so an unsafe action never executes.

HITL / HOTL

People stay in control

High-stakes actions escalate to a person for approval, and halt switches let a human stop an agent instantly.

Testing gates

Proven before it ships

Scenario, replay, stress, and adversarial red-team tests gate every change before production.

Logging & retention

A record that holds up

Every decision is written to a tamper-evident, hash-chained log, retained for years with legal hold.

Use cases

Where agents act in the public sector.

Acquisition

Sensor & telemetry acquisition

Fault-tolerant acquisition of millions of signals a day with near-zero loss.

Operations

Operational monitoring

Real-time monitoring and control of critical infrastructure and equipment.

Services

Citizen services

Responsive, reliable digital services that act on live case and account state.

Casework

Case management

Agentic workflows across public-service casework with a full, reconstructable record.

Research

Research data pipelines

Ingest and analyze large-scale scientific data continuously and without loss.

Integrity

Fraud & benefits integrity

Detect and contain fraud and error in benefits and payments in real time.

Proof

Mission-critical institutions run on Akka.

CERN · Scientific Research

The world's largest machine, running on 2.5 million signals a day.

2.5M+/day
signals gathered & analyzed (~3.5 TB)
0
data loss during maintenance
months
running without a break

CERN runs the acquisition layer for its seven particle accelerators — including the 27-km Large Hadron Collider — on Akka, keeping them reliable for 12,000+ researchers with virtually no data loss, and self-recovering after network maintenance.

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