From Research to Scaleup

We believe the future of AI must be transparent, traceable, and sovereign. Xpdeep's mission is to deliver deep learning that is explainable by design, enabling enterprises to understand, trust, certify, and optimize their AI systems across their entire lifecycle.

Our ante-hoc approach builds models that explain themselves natively — powering safer deployment, stronger governance, and actionable intelligence in real-world, high-stakes environments. Explore the platform.

Since 2018, Xpdeep's core technology has been developed through long-term scientific research in deep learning explainability.

From 2018 to 2023, this work was conducted within Université Grenoble Alpes, one of Europe's leading centers for artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, and industrial systems research.

During this period, a significant research team worked on the foundations of self-explainable deep learning, focusing on models that can expose their internal reasoning, support counterfactual analysis, and remain aligned with real-world operational and regulatory constraints.

In April 2023, this research effort transitioned from the laboratory to industry with the creation of Xpdeep as a deep-tech company.

Since then, the same core technology has been continuously extended, hardened, and industrialized to meet the demands of high-stakes environments, including automotive, aerospace and defense, energy, healthcare, and other regulated industries.

Xpdeep is a startup founded in 2023.

Its technology, however, is the result of years of prior research, not a short-term product initiative.

Xpdeep was founded by researchers and engineers who saw that traditional AI could not meet the transparency, safety, and accountability required in real-world environments. Our work builds on several years of academic research initiated well before the creation of the company.

Our team spans aerospace, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense. We are headquartered in Grenoble, France, a global center of AI, semiconductors, and industrial innovation, with an expanding international footprint.

We are united by one belief: AI must be understandable, certifiable, and human-aligned. Join us as we continue to grow.

Xpdeep's story begins in academic research, not in a startup garage. The foundations of the technology were laid through multi-year research programs involving researchers, engineers, and domain experts working on explainability, trust, and certification of deep learning systems.

Xpdeep began in 2018 when co-founder Ahlame Douzal, then an AI researcher and lecturer, collaborated with clinicians on a prostate cancer prediction model. Despite excellent performance, physicians hesitated to use it because they could not understand its reasoning.

This revealed a fundamental truth: If humans can't understand an AI system, they cannot trust it — especially in safety-critical fields.

Ahlame's scientific breakthrough led to a new approach: self-explainable deep learning. Together with co-founder Stanislas Chesnais, the team transformed this concept into a full industrial framework.

Through large-scale programs like Confiance.ai and partnerships with industrial leaders, Xpdeep evolved into a sovereign, enterprise-grade European AI platform. Learn more about our unified workbench.

Innovation, transparency, and customer success drive everything we build.

We invest equally in research and in listening to our users — data scientists, engineers, risk teams, operations leaders, and executives. Many of Xpdeep's most impactful innovations were co-designed with early adopters who needed AI they could trust, certify, and deploy in critical environments.

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Our long-term vision is clear: AI you can trust, for every critical decision.

Xpdeep is led by two complementary founders:

Together, they unify scientific excellence with real-world impact.

Xpdeep's technology is the result of sustained research initiated in 2018 and continuously developed ever since, combining academic rigor with industrial deployment.

This proprietary foundation forms a scientific moat that is extremely difficult to replicate — strengthened by ongoing research and industrial deployment.

Xpdeep is not simply a product. It is the foundation of the next generation of trustworthy AI.