Valantor buys EyeLevel to launch visual intelligence

Valantor has acquired EyeLevel, launching its Enterprise Visual Intelligence platform.

The deal brings EyeLevel's GroundX document intelligence technology into Valantor as it targets regulated sectors that hold large volumes of sensitive information in complex files and records.

Many businesses still struggle to apply artificial intelligence to information stored in contracts, claims files, engineering drawings, reports, forms, presentations and other unstructured material. Valantor describes this as a data comprehension gap between what an organisation knows internally and what AI systems can reliably access and use.

The problem has grown more acute as companies try to move AI projects from pilots into day-to-day operations. In sectors such as banking, insurance, energy, telecoms and construction, firms often need systems that can operate in private cloud, on-premises and air-gapped environments rather than sending information to outside platforms.

According to Valantor, GroundX was built to work within those environments. The technology is designed to operate where enterprise data already sits, including private cloud, sovereign infrastructure, on-premises deployments and fully air-gapped systems, while leaving governance and compliance controls in place.

Patrick McCamley, Chief Executive Officer of Valantor, said the deal responds to that constraint. "Most AI companies are focused on models. We're focused on the information those models can't see," McCamley said. "The world's most valuable enterprise knowledge isn't publicly available on the internet. It exists inside the documents, records and systems organizations have spent decades building and protecting. Enterprises shouldn't have to compromise security to benefit from AI. Our mission is to bring AI to the data, not force organizations to move their data to AI."

EyeLevel was founded by veterans of IBM Watson and developed through UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator. Valantor said the company spent more than five years building software to understand visually complex enterprise information, and that members of the founding team earned 21 patents during their IBM careers in artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge systems and document understanding.

Following the transaction, EyeLevel founder Ben Fletcher has become Chief Technology Officer of Valantor. He said the industry has often underestimated the difficulty of extracting reliable information from documents that were not designed for modern AI systems.

"We spent years solving a problem that much of the market underestimated," Fletcher said. "Enterprise AI doesn't fail because models lack intelligence. It fails when organizations can't trust the information those models are using. GroundX was built to help enterprises accurately understand and operationalize the complex information that drives critical business decisions."

Studio launch

Alongside the acquisition, Valantor introduced GroundX Studio, intended to help organisations deploy AI applications using internal enterprise knowledge. The product connects with AI development environments and is aimed at both software developers and business users building workflows without large custom coding projects.

The combined platform is intended to narrow the gap between experimentation and production use. That has become a recurring issue in corporate AI spending, where many organisations can demonstrate early prototypes but struggle to put systems into routine use under internal security, governance and compliance rules.

Early users

Valantor cited customer use cases to show how the technology is being applied. A European airline used GroundX to build a customer service assistant trained on thousands of policy documents and achieved more than 96% accuracy on complex policy-related questions, according to the company.

In another case, a pet healthcare company used the platform with more than a decade of proprietary veterinary data. Valantor said the deployment enabled autonomous resolution of up to 85% of customer enquiries while improving operational efficiency.

Valantor also pointed to GroundX's status as an official Red Hat OpenShift AI quickstart partner, placing the software within an ecosystem used by companies seeking to deploy AI tools in controlled production environments.

The acquisition reflects broader interest in tools that help companies work with their own private data rather than relying solely on general-purpose models trained on public sources. As McCamley put it: "Our mission is to bring AI to the data, not force organizations to move their data to AI."