ODEN is a founder-led European software initiative — an enskild firma (Swedish sole proprietorship) — based in Söderhamn, Gävleborg County, Sweden, and operated by Samie Stenberg. It builds EU-native retrieval infrastructure: the ODEN real-time web search API for LLMs, and Tungsten, a local-first AI code editor designed for secure on-device inference.
Who builds ODEN#
I'm Samie Stenberg. I architect, build, and operate every layer of the system: the distributed search API, the edge-routed website, billing integrations, the OdenBot crawler, and the Tungsten editor application. ODEN is a dedicated, founder-operated technology lab — self-funded, without external venture debt or investor-dictated milestones, and with zero incentive to monetize, retain, or resell your application data.
This focused operational structure defines the engineering philosophy. It is why our privacy policy is concise, direct, and transparent, why our site analytics are completely cookieless, and why "operated from Sweden" is an audited physical architecture rather than a regional proxy layer.
Why ODEN exists#
Modern AI systems continually run into a fundamental structural bottleneck: data processing takes place thousands of miles from where inference happens. When a generative model or autonomous agent needs fresh web intelligence, traditional pipelines force developers to scrape raw HTML, write error-prone extraction scripts, and dump thousands of tokens of boilerplate markup directly into finite prompt context windows. Alternatively, engineering teams subscribe to legacy US search APIs, inheriting complex cross-border data transfer liabilities and volatile credit consumption models.
ODEN consolidates this pipeline into one call: one request, a synthesized summary, ranked citation metadata, and documented source-handling controls.
The same architectural principle informs Tungsten: instead of dispatching proprietary codebases and proprietary intellectual property across third-party cloud models, Tungsten executes models directly on your local silicon. Whether querying the live internet or editing source files, the design imperative remains identical: compute and verify data where it delivers maximum privacy, minimal latency, and highest efficiency.
Technical infrastructure & architecture#
ODEN operates on a globally distributed edge compute fabric powered by Cloudflare Workers and EU-located origin nodes:
- Edge Execution: Requests to
/searchenter through Cloudflare's network before ODEN orchestrates retrieval. End-to-end response time varies with query depth and the external sources involved. - Synthesized Knowledge Extraction: Web pages retrieved in response to user queries are parsed and distilled through automated DOM cleaners that strip CSS, JavaScript, and navigation clutter, feeding clean semantic text into the synthesis model.
- Strict Webmaster Compliance: Before fetching any remote host, ODEN validates
robots.txtdirectives, crawl-delay parameters, and machine-readable text and data mining (TDM) opt-out headers under EU DSM Article 4 (tdm-reservationandX-Robots-Tag: noai). - Purpose-limited processing: ODEN does not use customer search payloads to train a public foundation model or sell them for advertising profiles. The privacy policy explains operational data handling and retention.
European data sovereignty#
As an organization formed and operated within the European Union, ODEN builds controls intended to support European teams' own compliance reviews:
- GDPR by Design: No tracking pixels, cross-site identity cookies, or behavioral profiling trackers exist on our domain. Account data is limited strictly to billing email and token balances.
- Reviewable attribution: Direct source URLs and relevance scores help teams inspect outputs and document their grounding process. They reduce ambiguity but do not guarantee factual accuracy or legal compliance.
- European billing records: Billing is denominated in EUR. Invoice and VAT treatment depends on the customer's location and tax status; businesses remain responsible for confirming their own accounting requirements.
What ODEN stands for#
- EU-native. Conceived, written, and hosted in Sweden.
- Self-contained pipeline. ODEN operates its own retrieval, synthesis, and scoring pipeline rather than acting as a markup reseller for third-party search engines.
- Checkable honesty. Performance claims, latency benchmarks, and pricing structures are transparently documented. Where specialized alternatives excel, our comparison guides explicitly state trade-offs.
Company details#
- Business: ODEN (enskild näringsverksamhet), Sweden
- Founder & Lead Engineer: Samie Stenberg
- Registered Location: Söderhamn, Gävleborg County, Sweden
- Official Contact: [email protected]
- Source Code & Projects: github.com/Samiestenberg
Get in touch#
For technical integrations, enterprise high-concurrency quotas, billing questions, or responsible security disclosures, reach out via our contact page or email [email protected] directly. To explore our developer tools, inspect the API documentation or download Tungsten.