About us

Our Mission

Our Mission: At Xpdeep, we are reshaping how enterprises and service providers approach deep learning. We believe that AI models should never be “magic black boxes” – instead, they should be designed for trust, optimized for performance, governed for compliance, and actionable for real business impact from day one. Our mission is to empower organizations in critical sectors to harness the full power of deep learning while maintaining control and transparency over their AI systems. In short, we transform deep learning from a risky black-box endeavor into a governed, optimized, and truly operational asset.

Who We Are

Xpdeep was founded by a team of AI researchers, engineers, and industry experts who saw first-hand how traditional deep learning projects were hitting roadblocks in real-world deployment. With backgrounds in fields like aerospace, finance, and healthcare, our team understands the rigorous demands of high-stakes industries. We are headquartered in Grenoble, France – a global innovation hub for AI and industrial technology – and have a growing presence internationally. Our diverse team is united by a commitment to AI innovation with integrity: we prioritize accuracy and capability, but never at the expense of ethics, explainability, or user trust.

Our Story

In 2018, Ahlame Douzal, a lecturer with more than 20 years of AI research, run a project for a major hospital in France, designing several AI models to predict the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. Although the deep learning model performed significantly better than the other methods, clinicians preferred to fall back on less powerful methods, because the decisions of the deep model remained obscure and unexplained. For Ahlame and her team, this experiment was the starting point for a new challenge aimed at designing deep models that are at once high-performance, low-complexity and explainable by explanations that are intelligible to humans, whether or not they are experts in AI.

What Ahlame experienced in this original project, we encountered in most industries: companies were excited by AI’s potential but were held back by lack of trust and governance in the technology. Projects would often stall after the proof-of-concept stage due to concerns over explainability, compliance, or simply uncertainty about how the model got its results. We set out to fix that by creating a platform where these concerns are addressed upfront. Over the years, Xpdeep has grown from an R&D concept into a robust enterprise platform – thanks in part to collaboration with forward-thinking partners and early adopters. We have been fortunate to work with major organizations and research initiatives (such as the Confiance.ai program in France) that are focused on building trustworthy AI. These collaborations helped validate our approach and ensured that Xpdeep stays aligned with the latest standards for AI safety and transparency.