Hardware & Software Engineering · Est. 1999

Applied AI, data and systems.

HSE is an Athens-based engineering company. We build production systems for banks, energy operators, public-safety authorities and government agencies: work that has to clear audit, run 24/7, and be defensible under regulatory scrutiny.

§ 01 / What brings you here?

Ways to work with us.

Commercial engagement

You have an AI or data system to build, modernise or rescue.

We take on engagements from short discovery sprints to multi-year production builds. Typical work: agents and copilots over your own data, real-time data backends, ML pipelines that have to pass audit, replatforming systems that have outgrown their original architecture.

  • Banking, energy, telecom, government
  • Production-first, not pilot-first
  • Senior engineers in the room
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Research collaboration

You are shaping a Horizon Europe proposal or consortium.

HSE has been a delivery partner in EU framework programmes since FP7. We design work packages that ship into production, not white papers. Strong fit with HE clusters 3, 4 and 5 around explainable AI, federated learning, and operational digital twins.

  • Co-design the work package
  • Technical delivery partner
  • Pilot integrator across operators
Research & EU projects

Commercial clients

Public sector

Research & academic

§ 02 / Selected work

A working portfolio. Not a case-study deck.

Three featured systems in long-running production. Each one points to a fuller write-up on the case-studies page.

Commercial · Finance

SpiderStock · real-time market data

A proprietary binary-protocol backend that streams Athens Stock Exchange data into e-banking with sub-second latency. Production for years.

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Research · Horizon Europe

CryptoACTION · AI-assisted blockchain forensics

Investigation tools for European law-enforcement tackling cryptocurrency-facilitated crime. Built around transparent, explainable AI. No black boxes.

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Research · Horizon Europe

HEDGE-IoT · federated AI at the grid edge

An IoT framework bringing federated learning and swarm computing across cloud-to-edge continuum to unlock untapped grid flexibility.

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§ 03 / Expertise

From LLM-powered agents to grid-edge ML.

01 / Agents

AI agents & automation

Domain-specific copilots, RAG over your own data, and agentic workflows for ticket triage, document review and reconciliation. Built with your privacy boundary intact.

RAG Agentic workflows LLM eval Guardrails
02 / Finance

Financial systems & AI

Real-time market data backends, credit and fraud models, interpretable AI that passes audit, not just demo day. Two decades of Greek banking experience baked in.

Low-latency Explainable AI AML / KYC Risk scoring
03 / Energy

Energy & digital twins

Building- and grid-level intelligence with IoT, federated learning, and digital twins of physical infrastructure. Working today inside EU Horizon Europe consortia.

Federated ML IoT SAREF Digital twins
04 / Security

Security & intelligence

Explainable AI for law-enforcement workflows: blockchain analytics, maritime surveillance, travel intelligence. Co-designed with the agencies that use it.

Blockchain forensics OSINT Multi-modal LEA co-design
05 / Health

Health IT systems

Clinical software, health data interoperability and AI-assisted decision support for hospitals and research. Built to integrate, comply and evolve.

EHR Interop Clinical AI HL7 / FHIR
06 / Data

Data & cloud platforms

Modern data stacks, governance frameworks and cloud architectures that hold up over the long term. Designed for compliance and scale.

Data platforms Governance Cloud ops Compliance
§ 04 / Research & EU projects

Research that goes to production.

HSE has been a delivery partner in Horizon and Horizon Europe consortia since FP7. We design research work packages that live in production, not just white papers. If you are shaping a proposal under HE clusters 3, 4 or 5, we can co-design the work package and ship the result.

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CryptoACTION AI-assisted blockchain analytics for European LEAs. HE · 2024
HEDGE-IoT Federated learning across the cloud-edge energy continuum. HE · 2024
DECODIT Digital tools to empower citizens through the energy transition. HE · 2024
WeForming Intelligent grid-forming buildings, integrated with the energy ecosystem. HE · 2024
EURMARS Multi-authority maritime border surveillance with HAPs and UxVs. H2020 · 2022
TENACITY Travel intelligence and risk scoring for crime prevention. H2020 · 2022
§ 05 / About

Twenty-five years of software and system delivery

HSE was founded in 1999 as an NTUA spin-off and has been shipping into Greek banking, government and public-sector environments ever since. Privately held, deliberately small, senior team in the room.

25 yrs

Of production engineering

From core banking integration through to live market-data infrastructure that has survived multiple platform generations.

FP7 →

EU programme partner since FP7

Current Horizon Europe portfolio across energy, security and the digital twin agenda. Research that lands as code, not slides.

NTUA

Rooted in the engineering school

An NTUA spin-off by origin and by hiring pipeline. Strong bench for the kind of work where the maths still matters.

Have a system that has to clear audit?

Whether you are building an AI capability inside a regulated business, planning an EU consortium, or modernising a core operational system, talk to us. We will be honest about whether we are the right team.

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