Companies and other organizations eager to get started with AI computing now have an affordable and easy-to-use option that keeps their information secure and private.
It’s called SEEKER, a novel partnership between Omaha-based Scott Data and SavantX, a software firm based in Wyoming.
SEEKER allows users to uncover insights about their business or organization through artificial intelligence analysis – but without a steep learning curve, major capital investment or even long-term contracts.
“It’s definitely an entry point that’s economical, and with the security assurances that we provide because it sits on our platform.”
Ken Moreano, CEO of Scott Data
SEEKER meets an important need for a company that wants to use AI computing, but may be concerned about sharing its critical and proprietary data with a cloud-based AI model. Some organizations also worry about making a big financial commitment to launch AI or adding technology that requires specialized data science skills.
The SEEKER platform addresses all those issues, making it particularly useful for AI newcomers who may not know yet how much they will use AI and how much computing power they will need.
Yet it also offers value to companies that have already embraced some AI uses, since its ease-of-use means more employees can quickly begin to increase their productivity by applying AI to their work tasks.
Ed Heinbockel, president and CEO of SavantX, said SEEKER allows a corporate leader to analyze thousands of division reports, for example, and identify emerging trends that might cause problems in the future. SEEKER can help rank those potential risks.
The AI platform’s analysis also is transparent, since it comes with an explanation of the software’s reasoning process. It cites the specific facts and excerpts from documents that were used to draw its conclusions.
Some other uses:
A law enforcement agency has reopened a decades-old cold case after feeding its files into SEEKER.
A researcher generated book ideas from the results gleaned from SEEKER’s analysis of 100,000 pages of records.
Salespeople use SEEKER to identify prospective leads and set strategy.
A consultant is able to handle three times as many clients because the SEEKER platform makes him more efficient.
“I struggle to come up with an organization that couldn’t benefit from better understanding their content, leveraging their content in efficient ways.”
Ed Heinbockel, president and CEO of SavantX
Individuals and organizations sign up for accounts through Scott Data, which hosts the SEEKER platform at its secure data center with banks of AI processors.
Users can easily upload text documents to their SEEKER accounts. The platform then converts the written words into an encrypted library of data for analysis purposes. Then they can ask SEEKER, using conversational language, to run that data against one of several AI models to answer the question and produce a report.
SEEKER allows users to uncover insights about their business or organization through AI analysis in a private, encrypted environment. The platform can handle tens of thousands or even millions of pages.
Many organizations have been reluctant to use artificial intelligence to analyze their most important information, fearing that the data might leak to competitors. Other AI platforms that use open models often end up training those models from the data they analyze. That could risk public exposure of a company’s sensitive information or intellectual property.
But that’s not an issue with SEEKER for several reasons. First, when information is uploaded into SEEKER, the documents themselves remain local on the user’s machine. Second, the platform allows users to analyze that data through AI models that do not share the data and the resulting analysis with the cloud. And third, users can have confidence in the computing platform itself because of Scott Data’s proven record of reliability and security.
Four AI models: Llama and DeepSeek are local. They analyze your selected data ONLY. Claude models, in addition to analyzing your local, encrypted data, go out to the internet to find related information.
“They’ve got a moat that nobody’s going to get into, and that’s so critical to the clients.”
Ed Heinbockel, president and CEO of SavantX
Incredibly fast responses: DeepSeek tells you what it’s thinking about – how it’s reasoning through the question.
How can you be sure the models aren’t hallucinating? That’s what the EXPLAIN tab is for. Any part of the AI response that is quoted or used directly from the data is highlighted and linked directly to the source in your document.
Another unique feature of SEEKER is the INSPECT tab. INSPECT shows the relationships between different concepts inside the document and the questions that you’re asking. Using filters and tools, you can drill deeper, and discover additional insights about your data.
Scott Data has served its colocation customers well for nearly two decades. The data center is certified as Tier III by the Uptime Institute and has never had an outage.
“We have the concrete-to-cloud expertise,” Moreano said.
As it has moved into AI computing, Scott Data has served customers in a variety of ways. It can rent them a piece of the facility’s graphic processing units, along with all the essential networking, data storage and other services.
Or Scott Data can serve bigger users who own their own GPUs and just need to place them in a secure facility that can meet AI’s extensive power and cooling needs.
The new SEEKER partnership represents a third approach for Scott Data to provide AI computing services to more customers.
Moreano said SEEKER lowers the entry barriers for AI because it can be less expensive and easier to use. He said it puts AI computing in more hands than just data scientists with advanced technical skills.
“That’s what SEEKER provides. The businessperson, the salesperson, the managerial level, even the administrative support person can leverage SEEKER.”
Ken Moreano, CEO of Scott Data
Bill Torson, Scott Data’s chief technology officer, said SEEKER offers a quick return on an organization’s investment in AI computing while protecting its information. The platform reduces a customer’s cost, risk and time to value.
All told, Moreano said, Scott Data stands out in the data center industry for its varied AI offerings that now include the SEEKER platform, together with its security, redundancy and services.
