The Axonis story

Engineered for defense. Built for enterprise scale.

Axonis was shaped in environments where data can't move, because regulations, security, and access controls make it impossible. While supporting AI initiatives inside defense and intelligence organizations, our team saw the same pattern repeat: The biggest barrier to effective AI wasn’t the model. It was access to the data itself.

In these environments, raw, high-value data lived in air-gapped, sovereign, or tightly controlled systems. Centralizing it is either prohibited or would have taken years — and even when possible, centralization stripped away the context and freshness needed for real AI impact. Existing federated learning tools only solve a fraction of the problem. What teams actually need is a way to work with real, production data where it already lives, without having to move it.

So we built Axonis: a platform where AI comes to the data. A secure, federated model-to-data orchestration layer that lets organizations train models, prepare data, and deploy intelligence across distributed systems — all without transferring raw data or breaking data governance policies. Born in regulated, fragmented, and high-stakes environments, Axonis is designed for the places where centralized AI falls apart.

Federated, decentralized AI will ultimately power enterprise AI across industries where data is sensitive, distributed, or simply too valuable to move, enabling collaboration and insight without compromising privacy, policy, or performance.


The Axonis leadership team

An experienced team dedicated to building and scaling mission-critical enterprise platforms.
Todd Barr
CEO
Aimee D’Onofrio
COO
Chris Yonclas
CPO
David Bauer, PhD
CTO