Lanna AI is a small applied-AI lab in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We build and run the systems that let organisations put stronger AI to work and still keep their data, their keys and their decisions.
Founded in 2023 as a fully Thai-owned company, with Italian engineering leadership, working for clients in Thailand, Italy and beyond.
Part of AWS Activate, the AWS startup program, since 2024, and of Anthropic's Claude Development Partner Program.
What we have shipped, oldest first.
Palatree Seethar founds Lanna AI in Chiang Mai, with Vicio Giglio leading technology.
Company records on request.Lanna AI joins AWS Activate, the AWS startup program. Its cloud credits help build Octopus SME.
Program records on request.i2xml, our platform for business web applications, reaches version 1.0.
Private repository. Walkthrough on request.Octopus SME, our platform for fast AI adoption in small and medium businesses, is built and goes into use for AI CheckUps and OwnUp products.
Demo on request.Sales, quoting and email-processing systems built on i2xml run for an industrial export broker in Milan.
Client under NDA. Reference on request.Dolphin Edu, our platform for verified, certified AI training and AI labs, is built.
Demo on request.AI literacy at a polytechnic college in Chiang Mai: 61 learners, average post-test score 91.8%, 98.4% able to explain safe use.
Impact report on request.More than 400 learners at 10 colleges and universities in Northern Thailand, each cohort assessed before and after training.
Assessment data on request.Work starts on Orca Fintech, our platform for tax filing, accounting and ERP: AI that operates Thai desktop accounting software to prepare monthly VAT and withholding-tax reports.
Pilot details on request.noy-db, our database that keeps data encrypted on the user's device, is published as free, open-source software.
Source on GitHubi2xml 1.5 is released, and we start preparing it for open source.
Documentation preview on request.Models improve every few months. What decides who benefits is who holds the data, the keys and the final word.
Storage, cloud providers and our own team see only encrypted data. The keys stay with you.
Our platforms record every step in a form that people and machines can read, so anyone can check what happened.
We train teams to direct AI, check its work and overrule it when it is wrong.
We test every model on your own data, before and after, and the numbers belong to you.
Two platforms carry our client work today, and a third is on the way. Open infrastructure runs underneath them.
Our platforms are named after the octopus, the dolphin and the orca, among the most intelligent animals in the sea. Their intelligence grew in an ecosystem very different from ours on land. AI is bringing a new ecosystem of intelligences.
Fast AI adoption for SMEs
Octopus SME runs the AI CheckUp and turns what it finds into OwnUp products: ready-to-use software, deployed into your own cloud account, with the full source code handed over.
Verified, certified AI training
Dolphin Edu shapes each course around its learners, runs hands-on AI labs and measures what people know before and after. Results are verified, and every learner who passes receives a certificate.
Tax filing, accounting and ERP, in development
For Thai accounting firms and the SMEs they serve. AI works the desktop accounting software firms already run, through screen and keyboard as a person would, to pull VAT and withholding-tax reports for every client company and turn them into clean data for monthly tax filing.
Underneath, open infrastructure: we build our own tools, use them in client work first and share them openly.
Start small. Each step stands on its own, and you decide whether to take the next.
2 to 3 weeks
We interview your team, map workflows and data, and score where AI pays off, what it costs and what must be true for it to be safe, against Thailand's ETDA guidelines, ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act. Octopus SME produces your scored report and a 90-day plan.
Half a day to 10 weeks
Hands-on sessions and AI labs on Dolphin Edu for leaders, teams and students, measured before and after. Learners who pass receive a certificate, and each session leaves a dated record that European employers can file as evidence of AI-literacy measures under Article 4 of the EU AI Act.
Pilot in 4 to 8 weeks
Ready-made OwnUp products from Octopus SME, or senior engineers building on our open infrastructure or yours. You own the code, the data and the intellectual property.
Monthly
We operate, measure and improve what we built, within a fixed monthly scope.
Public schemes in Thailand and Italy can cover part of the cost of assessments, training or software. We check which ones apply to you.
Industry, finance, small business, education and data.
Client names stay under NDA. References are available on request.
Founder
Palatree founded Lanna AI in Chiang Mai in 2023, early in Thailand's adoption of generative AI, built the company's first client base in Thailand, Italy and the UK, and gave its first AI-literacy talks for students and the public.
Before Lanna AI, Palatree spent eight years opening the Thai market for international advertising-technology companies, including InMobi, Appier, RTB House and Storyly, and in 2017 brought Appier's AI-powered advertising platform to Thailand as its first local hire. Palatree is still one of the most experienced specialists in AI advertising technology in Thailand and remains active in the industry.
Chief Technology Officer
Vicio leads Lanna AI's research and product development, designed i2xml and noy-db, and works directly on client architecture.
Vicio's career began in 1993 as a natural-language-processing engineer for Apple in Milan. It continued with software companies co-founded in Milan and, since 2010, with data-science and cloud-architecture work for marketing and technology firms in Thailand.
A small team of engineers and trainers works with them in Chiang Mai.
Chiang Mai is 6 hours ahead of Milan today, so your morning is our afternoon.
We work in Thai, English and Italian. Your data can stay in Thailand, in the European Union or on your own servers.
We join funded projects and long-term partnerships as a technical team that ships.
A fully Thai-owned company in Chiang Mai, working as lead or technical partner on AI literacy, privacy-preserving data infrastructure and Thai-language AI.
Italian-led engineering for European research consortia and Italian companies that need a technical partner in Southeast Asia.
Open-source infrastructure, an enterprise platform in production and a practice that funds its own research.
Tell us what you want AI to do.
Write a few lines about your organisation and the work you want to change. We reply with a proposed next step, usually an AI CheckUp.
Lanna AI 128/27 Koolpunt Ville 9, Ban Waen, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai 50230, Thailand +66 92 392 0749