Company · 29 August 2026

Building for more resilient infrastructure and communities.

A lone operator facing a wall of monitors in a darkened control room

Phylax Intelligence exists to close the gap between how fast threats now arrive and how fast the teams defending us can answer them.

Why we decided to build Phylax Intelligence

Georg M. V. Olowson, Chairman and CEO of Phylax Intelligence
Georg M. V. Olowson Chairman & CEO, Phylax Intelligence

“Over the past decades, natural disasters have cost Europe more than €822 billion. Critical infrastructure is sabotaged every day, and hundreds of unauthorized drones probe sensitive sites each year. Yet the teams defending us still work across fragmented systems, with all the pressure falling on humans. Manual crisis response costs us lives and assets.

This is why we are building Phylax Intelligence. We provide intelligent systems to safety and crisis teams. Predict disasters and threats, prepare earlier, detect incidents faster, and protect people and assets more effectively. Our partners are leading companies across hardware, software, and services. Our solution runs today in live deployments with governments and critical infrastructure operators. Intelligent systems made in Europe.

Our vision is to protect 1 billion people by 2035. Join us to strengthen resilience together.“

Who we are

We are a team of engineers, researchers and security practitioners, with backgrounds at IBM, at leading consultancies, at European universities, and in the armed forces. We know the technology from building it at enterprise scale, the science from research, and the pressure of an incident from operational service. The platform is built in Europe and runs under the same conditions your sites do, from cloud deployments to sites that never connect to anything at all.

Our name comes from the Greek φύλαξ, the guardian who stays awake so the city can sleep. That is still the job. Sabotage, drone incursions and hybrid campaigns now arrive in the same week as storms, floods and wildfires. The teams who carry that load are not short of sensors. They are short of the time to make informed decisions.

We engineer PHLX.AI closely with our clients and with the people who actually operate the system. What a control room learns in a live incident flows straight into development, and corrections ship in days rather than in next year’s release.

What we build

PHLX.AI is one intelligence layer over the systems security and crisis teams already run. It watches every feed, assesses each alarm against their sites and procedures, prepares the response options, and writes the record as events unfold. Nothing is replaced. The cameras, drones, weather feeds and open sources stay where they are, so a control room gains an assessment without losing the tools it already trusts.

Judgment stays human. Every assessment shows what it saw and why it escalated, so an operator can overrule it and defend that call.

To talk to us, write to info@phlx.ai or book a demo.

About Phylax Intelligence. Phylax Intelligence builds PHLX.AI, a decision support platform for security and crisis teams protecting critical infrastructure. The company operates as Phylax AG in Rotkreuz, Switzerland and Phylax AI in Piraeus, Greece. Talk to us at info@phlx.ai.

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