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Building the infrastructure for foundation-model intelligence on tabular data.
AVA Research is a small team of engineers and researchers based in Bucharest. We build the data infrastructure regulated industries can actually defend — five products on one engine, every output carrying its own audit trail.
Foundation models have transformed text and images. Tabular data is the next surface — and the gating constraint isn't capability, it's trust.
We started AVA Research in 2023 to solve a narrow problem at the intersection of two unforgiving industries: the messy spreadsheets data engineers spend their weekends fighting, and the audit chains regulators expect them to produce on demand. The tools we needed didn't exist. So we built them.
Three years later, that internal toolkit has become DAVA — five products on one engine, sold à la carte to teams who'd rather buy the parts than build them. Customers in healthcare, finance, and the public sector use us where the audit trail matters more than the demo.
We're not trying to replace your data warehouse. We're the layer between your messy inputs and the systems you trust.
The five products share one engine — same auth, same audit, same policies — so the second product you wire up costs a fraction of the first. The audit chain is built in, not bolted on. Self-host is a first-class deployment, not an enterprise upsell. We sign DPAs, we host in the EU, and we'll show you the source code under NDA.
We're nineteen people. We don't take outside investment. We grow at the rate our customers ask us to. If that's the kind of company you want to work with, talk to us.
Founded
2023
Bucharest, Romania
Team
19engineers
Across 4 EU cities
Products
5
One shared engine
Pilots · 2026
42+
82% convert to contract
What we believe
Three principles that show up in every product decision.
These aren't aspirations on a careers page. They're the rules we argue about in pull request reviews.
Self-host is first-class.
If your data is sensitive enough that you're reading this, self-host is your default. Docker bundle, JWT licensed, air-gap supported. Same product, same updates.
Pilots ship in under a week.
If we can't move you from “nothing” to “working sandbox” in five days, we're not the right vendor. Most pilots run end-to-end in three.
Where we are
Bucharest, with engineers in four EU cities.
Our headquarters is in Bucharest's old town. We have engineers in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam who join us in person every six weeks. All data, all infrastructure, all backups: hosted in the EU, in regions we can name on a contract.
Send us a postcard if you're nearby. We'll send one back.
BUCHAREST · HQAMSTERDAMBERLINPARIS
EU · 4 cities · 1 HQ
How we work
Five things we believe about building software.
Reasonable people can disagree. We've found these to hold up across 42 pilots and a few painful retrospectives.
01
Boring tech, where it can be.
Postgres, FastAPI, S3, Redis. We chose interesting tech only at the layers where the bet pays off — model orchestration, audit chain, sandboxing — and stayed boring everywhere else.
02
Ship the smallest thing that works.
Then ship the next. Most of our products started as a single endpoint we could demo on a 30-min call. The product surface grew because pilot customers asked for it, not because the roadmap said so.
03
Engineers talk to customers.
Every engineer here has been on at least one customer call this quarter. There's no specialist class translating between product and engineering — the people writing the code hear what's broken from the people using it.
04
Own the unsexy parts.
Audit logs, retention TTLs, evidence packs, GDPR Article 17 workflows, OIDC + SCIM. None of these will get a launch tweet. They will get us renewals.
05
Slow growth on purpose.
We turn down deals that would force us to ship faster than our test suite. We've sized the team to the volume of pilots we can run honestly. If you ask us how big we'll be in three years, we don't know — and we think that's fine.
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A note on hiring
We hire on demonstrated work, not interview gymnastics. If you've shipped something we'd respect, send it to work@avaresearch.ai. We read everything.
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We don't want the biggest company. We want the most defensible one.
Eduardo VladCo-founder · AVA Research
Want to see how we'd handle your data?
Bring us your hardest dataset. We'll clean it, audit it, and give you back a file you can ship — plus an evidence pack for your auditor. Most pilots run in under a week.