MMXXVI · Kungsbacka
Daniel Merthen
I — Architect · Founder · Halland

DanielMerthen.

Architecting sovereign AI systems from the Swedish coast. Twenty years between classified rooms and lines of code.

XX
Years
III
Ventures
SE
Halland
For twenty years I have moved between two rooms. The classified ones, where defence technology was sold and contracts were signed across borders. And the quiet ones, where systems are written in code.
Today I build AI infrastructure that does not leave the building. No cloud. No third party. No model that phones home. Sovereign data. Sovereign decisions. Sovereign weights.
Daniel Merthen · Kungsbacka · MMXXVI
II — Artificial Intelligence

Builder, not bystander.

SYS · 01
Local LLM Architecture
Proprietary language model instances on local infrastructure. Zero third-party exposure. Complete data sovereignty. Calibrated to each client's operational reality — not trained on their secrets.
SYS · 02
Autonomous Agents
Agentic systems executing complex multi-step workflows without human intervention. Lead generation, competitive intelligence, client communication — automated and measured, not imagined.
SYS · 03
AI-Powered GTM
Artificial intelligence embedded across the full commercial cycle. Prospecting, personalisation, pipeline analytics, deal velocity. Revenue as a system — not a hope.
III — Ventures

Built, not proposed.

I
Hrafninn AI
Local large-language-model infrastructure for organisations that require data sovereignty. Not a chatbot wrapper — own weights, own hardware, own decisions.
Active
MMXXIV
II
Veiqo
A commercial AI platform under construction. Where business strategy meets AI architecture. Details when ready — and it will be ready.
Active
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III
Databyggen för Gamers
Custom-built gaming and workstation systems. Hand-specified, locally assembled — for those who consider their hardware a tool of consequence.
Active
MMXXIV

Every role,
a school.

Twenty years across defence-sector sales, institutional operations, and sovereign AI architecture. Full credentials available on request.

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MMXXIV —
Present
Founder · AI Architect
Hrafninn Industries AB
Three concurrent ventures. Privacy-first local AI systems. Building enterprise AI infrastructure — today.
MMXVIII —
Present
Case Manager · Verksamhetsutveckling
Kungsbacka Kommun
Institutional-scale coordination. Operational improvement with full delivery accountability.
MMXII —
MMXVIII
Behandlingspedagog & Projektledare
HVB Care Services
Launched and scaled new service operations from zero. Leadership, process architecture, quality governance.
MMIII —
MMVIII
B2B Sales · Classified Defence Technology
Concilio AB · US Clients
Advanced negotiations. Classified projects. Sovereign contracts. The commercial instinct forged here never left.
MCMXCVII —
MCMXCVIII
IT-tekniker · Infrastructure
Telia IT-Service / ICL Data
Large-scale IT operations. The technical credibility that underpins every role since.
"The right conversation, at the right moment, with the right person — that is what changes everything."
Daniel Merthen · Kungsbacka · MMXXVI
V — Contact

Skriv. Ring. Meet.

Open to senior business development, AI strategy and technology leadership. I respond to all serious enquiries — personally.

Tillgänglig · Halland · Sverige · MMXXVI

Twenty years of building relationships — in classified rooms, in public institutions, in code. The approach has always been the same: understand the system, identify the leverage point, act.