Decidr Partners w SCXai for Sovereign Inference in Australia
ASX Release
25 May 2026
Decidr Partners with SCXai
for Sovereign Inference in
Australia
Decidr AI Industries Ltd (ASX: DAI) (“Decidr” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce a
strategic commercial partnership with SouthernCrossAI (“SCX.ai” or “SouthernCrossAI”), an
Australian sovereign AI cloud provider. The partnership names SCX.ai as Decidr’s first
sovereign inference partner in Australia and supports the Company’s Knowledge Security
roadmap and the rollout of DecidrOS to Australian enterprise customers.
Highlights
• Commercial partnership signed with SCX.ai, an Australian sovereign AI cloud
provider.
• First Australian node in Decidr’s multi-jurisdiction sovereign inference architecture,
alongside Decidr’s broader multi-model strategy across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the
United States.
• Supports Decidr’s Knowledge Security offering by giving Australian enterprise and
any government customers a compute layer where tacit organisational knowledge
can be captured, fine-tuned and continually updated on infrastructure within
Australian jurisdiction.
• Aligned with Australia’s sovereign AI agenda, including the National AI Plan 2025
released by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources in December 2025 and
sector-specific data-residency requirements across financial services, healthcare and
government.
• Production-grade sovereign capacity for agentic AI workloads running on DecidrOS,
with a scheduled SCX.ai deployment plan that includes additional Australian and
Asia-Pacific nodes.
About SCXai
SCX.ai (SouthernCrossAI) is an Australian sovereign AI cloud provider founded and led by David
Keane (Founder and Chief Executive Officer). SCX.ai delivers onshore AI inferencing
infrastructure designed to keep models, data and system logs within Australian jurisdiction,
serving regulated sectors including financial services, healthcare and government. In October
2025, SCX.ai announced a partnership with SambaNova to launch what it describes as
Australia’s first sovereign AI cloud, and in January 2026 brought its initial sovereign
inferencing node live at Equinix’s SY5 data centre in Sydney. SCX.ai has a publicly stated rollout
plan that includes a further 10 nodes across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region
Strategic Context - Why Sovereignty Now
The question enterprise buyers are now asking is no longer whether AI can do the task, it is
who owns the infrastructure the task runs on. The United States CLOUD Act allows U.S. law
enforcement to compel data from U.S.-controlled providers regardless of where that data is
physically stored. Australia’s National AI Plan 2025, together with sector-specific data-
residency obligations across financial services, healthcare and government, has moved
jurisdictional control from a procurement preference to a procurement requirement.
Decidr’s response is a multi-jurisdiction sovereign inference architecture: a curated set of
base-model and infrastructure partners selected on the basis of jurisdiction, performance and
the ability to operate inside the customer’s control plane. SCX.ai is the Australian node in that
architecture.
Supporting the Knowledge Security Roadmap
Decidr is building infrastructure that captures how organisations actually reason, fine-tunes
a sovereign model on that captured decision structure, and runs the resulting model on
infrastructure the enterprise controls. This is the foundation of the Company’s Knowledge
Security offering, currently being commercialised through Decidr’s Sugarwork business and
its professional services channel partners.
The SCX.ai partnership delivers the compute layer that makes this possible inside Australia.
Enterprise customers running DecidrOS on SCX.ai infrastructure will be able to deploy tacit-
knowledge fine-tuned models that train continually on their own decision data, with training,
inference and storage workloads remaining within Australian jurisdiction.
Management Commentary
David Brudenell, Executive Chairman of DAI said of the partnership:
“The agentic economy runs on inference, and inference runs on infrastructure. Partnering
with SCX.ai gives Decidr customers a domestic, high-performance foundation on which to
deploy their own fine-tuned models with confidence. It is the Australian node in a broader
multi-jurisdiction architecture we are building to meet enterprise demand for sovereign AI
globally.”
David Keane, CEO of SCX.ai:
“Decidr is one of the most sophisticated buyers of sovereign inference in the Australian
market. Together with Decidr we will give Australian enterprises and government customers
the ability to run agentic AI on infrastructure that is unambiguously inside Australian
jurisdiction.”
Outlook
The SCX.ai partnership accelerates Decidr’s Knowledge Security roadmap, supports the
Company’s commercial activity with Australian enterprise and government customers, and
forms the Australian foundation of Decidr’s multi-jurisdiction sovereign inference
architecture. Decidr will provide further updates on customer deployments and additional
sovereign infrastructure partners in due course.
It is not currently possible to estimate the immediate financial impact on Decidr or the
Company. However, the Company considers this to be a significant step in Decidr’s strategy to
offer sovereign knowledge infrastructure to Australian customers. There is no other material
information relevant to assessing the impact of the commercial partnership with SCX.ai on
the price or value of the Company’s securities.
-Ends-
For further information, please contact:
David Brudenell
Executive Chairman, Decidr AI Industries Ltd
E: dbrudenell@decidrindustries.ai
Juan Hendy
Investor Relations Manager, Decidr AI Industries Ltd
E: juan.hendy@decidr.ai
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of DAI.
About Decidr AI Industries (ASX:DAI)
Decidr AI Industries (ASX: DAI) is an agentic transformation group building and scaling
portfolio companies that enable organisations to systematically organise, execute, and
distribute work using enterprise-grade agentic systems. The Company’s strategy addresses
the full agentic lifecycle, including organisational self-knowledge, human and agentic role
definition, data and schema normalisation, task orchestration, and the distribution of work
across teams, partners, and labour markets.
DAI’s portfolio includes Decidr.ai, developer of the Decidr Agentic Operating System, which
provides an enterprise-grade platform for orchestrating agentic workflows and decision-
making, and Sugarwork, a knowledge-capture and workflow-automation platform that
strengthens the group’s capabilities in organisational intelligence and enterprise AI adoption.
Through its portfolio companies, DAI supports organisations as they transition from
fragmented AI experimentation to coordinated, scalable, and commercially deployable agentic
systems across industries and geographies.
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