# About us | Chersus

Company

# About us.

## Who we are.

We are the team behind Goodfolk, a European software studio building sovereign, open-source-rooted products for independent creators and developers. Goodfolk also runs [QuietJar](https://quietjar.com/), a donation platform for European creators.

Chersus came out of that work: the same care for craft, compliance, and quiet infrastructure, pointed at the most repetitive calls in the AI stack.

## Why we exist.

Every interesting feature ships as an API call, and the going advice is to call more of them. But the calls you make most - cleaning a support ticket, routing a message, checking a prompt - are also the ones heavy generative models price absurdly.

We build the opposite. Small, single-purpose models that do one job in milliseconds, on CPUs, with zero hallucination risk and no token arithmetic. The result sits in the empty corner of the market: hyperscaler convenience without hyperscaler cost, self-hosting economics without self-hosting maintenance.

## Where we run.

Sovereign European infrastructure across 26 EU cities, from Amsterdam to Zagreb. Requests never leave European jurisdiction. We act as processor under Art. 28 GDPR, with a simple DPA and a really short subprocessor list.
[Data processing addendum](/en/legal/data-processing-addendum/)[Subprocessors](/en/legal/subprocessors/)
## What we will never do.

We will never paywall a capability. The free tier gives you every service, at full quality, forever. When companies scale, they pay for scale - single sign-on, audit logs, custom uptime SLAs, dedicated single-tenant European clusters - never for the model features themselves.
[See the full pricing](/en/pricing/)[Browse the services directory](/en/services/)[Read the docs](/en/docs/)
## Why we are named Chersus.

Chersus takes its name from the historical genus of the Mediterranean land tortoise, rooted in the ancient Greek word *chersos* - solid ground.
![](/brand/chersus-mark-blue.svg)
And yes, the tortoise and the hare. We find it funny: the overconfident hare takes an enormous lead, loses focus, and falls asleep halfway through the race. The tortoise simply keeps moving at a steady pace, passes the sleeping hare, and wins.

Heavy generative models sprint in bursts, bill you for the spectacle, and doze off on your latency budget. Our micro-models just keep moving. Slow and steady is not a joke here - it is the architecture ... except that it is super fast.

## Start redacting in minutes.

Create an account, copy your key, make your first run before your coffee cools.
[Request access](/en/signup/)[Read the quickstart](/en/docs/)