AUTARQ Desk is the sovereign agentic workspace for Europe — a sovereign alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace: openDesk, sovereign AI, identity, private networking and add-ons as one fully managed service.
Public administrations, schools and companies need digital workplaces. At the same time, regulatory pressure, lock-in risk and integration effort keep increasing.
New requirements demand data sovereignty and traceable supply chains. Many US SaaS stacks can only support this with limitations.
Dependencies on US providers create operational, financial and strategic risks for entire organizations.
The building blocks exist. What is missing is coherent managed operations with shared identity, networking and an AI fabric.
A fully integrated workplace: files, projects, knowledge, mail, calendar, SSO and AI agents. Hosted in Germany. Designed to be 100% sovereign.
The proven openDesk components are delivered as a productive, managed stack.
Sovereign AI is not bolted on, but deeply integrated into data, identity and workflows.
OneAI provides multi-model access, agents, integrated knowledge access and native SSO integration for organizations that want to use AI productively without tying their data and identity to a US SaaS stack.
Choose a One/AI tier for sovereign AI access or register your team for the AUTARQ Desk pilot customer program.
For small teams that want to test and use sovereign AI in daily work.
Recommended
For organizations that want to combine multiple models, team roles and knowledge access.
For larger teams with higher requirements for compliance, models and integrations.
Pilot customers test the sovereign workspace early, shape the product with feedback and benefit from better Early Adopter conditions.
Early Adopter condition in the pilot customer program
AUTARQ brings together identity, networking, service catalog and AI fabric. The result is a sovereign workspace that grows with the organization.
Based on Nubus: one central place for identities, roles and access across workspace, AI and add-ons.
Organizations can optionally add a private encrypted WireGuard-based network for secure service access.
The full openDesk stack as a productive managed service — ready for team, school or public agency.
10 apps included
Qwen, Gemma, Mistral
All models including GPT-OSS and GLM-5.1
Device management
Sovereign ticketing
Expanded file storage
Distributed private networking
Agentic workflows in an enterprise context
Integrate your own services
We configure base and add-ons to fit user groups, data protection requirements and operating model.
Organizations with their own requirements for operations, data protection and cost.
An alternative to Microsoft 365 with predictable costs and full control over data and access.
A workplace that brings governance, traceability and AI together in one system — without new dependencies.
A sovereign standard that can be rolled out statewide across subordinate agencies and municipalities.
openDesk is the strong open-source foundation. AUTARQ adds managed operations, OneAI, a dynamic service catalog, private networking and clear product packages — for organizations that want to replace Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace in a sovereign way.
| Capability | AUTARQ | openDesk | Microsoft 365 |
|---|---|---|---|
| openDesk foundation | Yes, same foundation | Yes | No |
| Unified SSO across all services | Yes | Partly | Yes, proprietary |
| Sovereign AI / OneAI | Native | No | Copilot available |
| AI agents & knowledge access | Native | No | Via extensions |
| Managed & hosted | Yes | SaaS or self-hosted | SaaS only |
| Dynamic service catalog | Yes | Fixed bundle | Fixed bundle |
| Relution MDM | Native add-on | No | Intune |
| Private mesh network | Yes | No | No |
| EU data residency | Germany/EU | - | Depends on contract |
Note: This comparison refers to selected product characteristics and may vary by contract, plan and operating model. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are trademarks of their respective owners; AUTARQ is not affiliated with Microsoft or Google.
The key answers on sovereignty, AI models, SSO and hosting — concise and without marketing fluff.
AUTARQ Desk is a fully managed sovereign workspace for organizations in Europe. It bundles openDesk (files, mail, calendar, projects, knowledge), OneAI (agents and knowledge access), Nubus IAM as the central identity and access management layer and optionally a private encrypted network into one integrated service — hosted in Germany.
Yes. All services and data are hosted in Germany and the EU and never leave Europe. The infrastructure is designed for GDPR and NIS2. Since no US SaaS components are part of the mandatory stack, there are no Schrems II risks in the data flow.
OneAI provides multi-model access to open-source and open-weights models like GPT-OSS, GLM-5.1, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma and Llama. All models run on EU and DE infrastructure. Integrated knowledge access and agents are built in natively, and model selection per use case is possible.
Yes. Nubus IAM is the central identity and access management layer for the entire workspace. Users, roles and access are managed in one place.
AUTARQ Desk is hosted exclusively in Germany and the EU — for example at Hetzner or IONOS, on request also on-premise. There is no data flow to the United States.
openDesk is the open-source foundation. AUTARQ adds managed operations, OneAI, a dynamic service catalog with add-ons (Relution MDM, Zammad, Autarq Agents, Custom Helm), a private mesh network and clear product packages. Instead of building blocks, organizations get an operational service.
Let's build Europe's sovereign workspace together
We are looking for schools, municipalities, public agencies, SMEs, MSPs and system integrators who want to bring the sovereign workspace into practice with us.