ODEN is a one-person company — an enskild firma (Swedish sole proprietorship) — based in Söderhamn, Sweden, and run by Samie Stenberg. It builds EU-native retrieval infrastructure: the ODEN web search API for LLMs, and Tungsten, a local-first AI code editor.
Who builds ODEN#
I'm Samie Stenberg. I build and operate everything here: the search API, the site, the billing, the crawler, and the Tungsten editor. ODEN is deliberately a small, independent operation — no outside funding, no growth targets set by someone else, and no incentive to do anything with your data other than serve your request.
That independence is the product philosophy, not a limitation I'm apologising for. It's why the privacy policy can be short and honest, why the analytics are cookieless, and why "operated from the EU" is a fact rather than a marketing line.
Why ODEN exists#
Two problems, one idea.
Modern AI infrastructure keeps making the same expensive choice: do the work far from where it's needed. An LLM that needs the live web ends up scraping HTML, parsing it, and shipping tokens of boilerplate into its context — or paying a US search API and inheriting its data-transfer posture. ODEN moves that work into a single call: one request, a synthesized answer plus citations, compliant at the source.
The same idea runs the other direction in Tungsten: instead of sending your code to a cloud model, the model runs on your machine. Different direction, same principle — put the work in the right place.
What ODEN stands for#
- EU-native. Operated from Sweden, running on Cloudflare's EU infrastructure. Not a US product with an EU region bolted on.
- Self-hosted, not dependent. ODEN doesn't resell someone else's search index or forward your data to a third party to do the real work.
- Honest by default. Compliance checks (robots.txt, the EU TDM opt-out) happen before a page is read. Claims on this site are checkable; where a competitor is better, the comparison pages say so.
Company details#
- Business: ODEN (enskild firma), Sweden
- VAT / momsregistreringsnummer: SE970629669701
- Location: Söderhamn, Sweden
- Contact: [email protected]
- Code: github.com/Samiestenberg
Get in touch#
For support, billing, partnerships or a security disclosure, use the contact page or email [email protected]. For the products themselves, start with the API docs or the Tungsten download.