From Research to Scaleup
Pioneering trustworthy, actionable, and compliant AI — powered by ante-hoc self-explainability, not post-hoc approximations.
We believe AI must be understandable, governable, and sovereign. Xpdeep's mission is to make deep learning explainable and accountable by design, enabling enterprises to deploy AI they can trust, certify, and continuously improve.
Our mission
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.
Who we are
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 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.
Our story
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.
Our commitment
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.
Our leaders
Xpdeep is led by two complementary founders:
Associate Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes, with 20+ years of research in AI for temporal and sensor data.
She has led major collaborations with Schneider Electric, Airbus, EDF, Deezer, and other global leaders.
Together, they unify scientific excellence with real-world impact.
A scientific moat seven years deep
Xpdeep's technology is the result of seven years of research in self-explainable representation learning and counterfactual optimization.
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.
A Framework Built to Meet the World's Toughest Standards (Including EU AI Act & ISO).
Discover Our Partner Ecosystem
Xpdeep collaborates with leading enterprises, IT services firms, and research institutions to accelerate the adoption of transparent, certifiable, and actionable AI across critical sectors.