Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOFI20250616005
- Term of Validity
- 16 June 2025 - 16 June 2026
- Company's Country
- Finland
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A Finnish organisation developing an open-source recommendation algorithm, a public-facing web platform and a commercial discovery service is looking for RDI collaborators, sales/distribution partners, and early adopters across Europe. The offering supports transparent, personalised content discovery and digital autonomy, targeting knowledge-intensive sectors and democratic media use.
- Full Description
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A Finnish organisation is developing an open and transparent alternative to current proprietary content recommendation systems.
The offering includes three complementary components:
- An open-source collaborative filtering algorithm for content recommendation, identifying relevant content based on user similarity;
- A public-facing platform that leverages the algorithm to return curated content feeds based on user-supplied input (such as RSS feeds);
- A commercial discovery and monitoring service designed for professional and institutional users, integrating the same algorithm for improved content relevance and contextual intelligence.
The organisation’s development is part of a pilot project led by a Finnish university of applied sciences, with additional support from industry collaborators. The system is designed and hosted in the EU, with a strong emphasis on transparency, autonomy, and privacy.
Use cases span digital citizenship, media literacy, and knowledge work such as research, communication, and competitive intelligence. The system allows for explainability and user control, reducing filter bubbles and polarisation in digital media environments.
The company is currently in the prototype phase. The algorithm is under alpha testing, and the MVP for the public web interface is in development. Integration of the engine into the commercial service is also ongoing.
The organisation seeks the following partners across Europe:
- RDI collaborators, including universities, research institutions, and tech companies working on recommender systems, democratic media, or information retrieval;
- Sales and distribution partners for the commercial offering;
- Customer discovery contacts and early adopters willing to test the technology and provide feedback;
- Funding consultants or investors familiar with EU innovation funding or early-stage impact investment.
The partnership forms may include research collaboration, pilot projects, distribution agreements, or joint development initiatives. - Advantages and Innovations
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- The recommendation engine is open-source and designed for explainability, giving users insight into why certain content is recommended.
- Enables greater user control and autonomy in content discovery, in contrast to opaque commercial algorithms.
- Reduces filter bubbles and polarisation by promoting diverse and relevant content across the open web.
- Entirely EU-hosted and designed with European values (privacy, transparency) in mind.
- Particularly useful for organisations working in research, communication, and knowledge management—saving time and enabling better decision-making.
- Distinct from mainstream solutions in that it supports open standards and user agency over black-box commercial logic. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The organisation is looking for multiple types of partners:
- Research and innovation partners (universities, research institutes, R&D-driven companies) to co-develop or apply the recommendation system in media, education, or information science contexts;
- Sales and distribution partners experienced in SaaS or digital discovery tools, to support the commercial launch and customer development of the monitoring service;
- Pilot users or early adopters in sectors such as research, education, journalism, and think tanks
- Pilot users or early adopters with use cases in innovation monitoring, competitor intel, supplier intel, brand monitoring, communications, sales, and international market exploration.
- Funding and innovation advisors or investors, particularly with expertise in EU grants and public-private funding models.
Partner tasks may include testing, co-development, feedback provision, integration of the system into existing workflows, and/or facilitating customer uptake. - Type and Size of Partner
- University
- SME 11-49
- R&D Institution
- SME <=10
- Big company
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Market keywords
- 02007016 - Artificial intelligence related software
- 02007025 - Consulting services
- 02007008 - Business and office software
- Targeted countries
- All countries
