Cohere North

Cohere North is an enterprise AI workspace that combines grounded search, document and content generation, custom agents and multi-step workflow automations in one platform. It is built for regulated organisations — banks, telcos, public sector — that want agentic AI but need to run it inside their own VPC, on-premises or air-gapped infrastructure rather than a shared SaaS cloud.

Cohere North is Cohere's all-in-one agentic AI platform for the enterprise, announced as generally available on August 6, 2025. It bundles three capabilities: Discover (search and retrieval grounded in the organisation's own data, from simple Q&A to decision support), Create (co-authoring documents, summaries, tables and charts), and Automate (custom agents built in Agent Studio and, since July 27, 2026, North Automations — plain-language, scheduled, multi-step workflows with loops, branching, per-step model selection, plan mode, version tracking, human approval checkpoints and token-consumption monitoring). North runs on Cohere's Command family of models plus its Embed and Rerank retrieval models, connects to workplace tools such as Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook and Linear, and supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for industry-specific tools. Its core differentiator is deployment: it can run in a customer's private VPC, on-premises, in air-gapped environments, or on Cohere's isolated Model Vault inference service, and Cohere told TechCrunch it can run on as few as two GPUs. Cohere cites GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, granular access controls and agent autonomy policies. Named users include RBC (which runs a customised 'North for Banking'), Dell, LG, Ensemble Health Partners, Palantir and CoreWeave. Cohere, founded in Toronto in 2019, had raised about $1.6B at a $7B valuation by September 2025, agreed in 2026 to combine with Germany's Aleph Alpha, and was reported in September 2026 to be in talks to raise $2-3B at a $20B valuation. North competes with Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini Enterprise, ChatGPT Enterprise and Glean, but targets buyers whose data cannot leave their perimeter.

Category

Enterprise Platform

Pricing

Contact for pricing

Target Market

CIOs, CTOs, Heads of AI, Enterprise IT, Regulated industries

Deployment

Hybrid, Self-hosted, Multi-cloud

Founded

2019

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

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  Private deployment options

  Runs in a customer VPC, on-premises, air-gapped, or on Cohere's isolated Model Vault, so sensitive data never leaves the perimeter.

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  North Automations

  Plain-language, scheduled multi-step workflows with loops, branching, plan mode, versioning and approval checkpoints for governed agentic processes.

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  Per-step model selection

  Lets builders choose a different model at each workflow step to balance cost against quality instead of overpaying on every call.

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  Agent Studio

  Build customised AI agents that act across connected tools and data sources, tailored to a team's own processes.

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  Grounded search and retrieval

  Uses Cohere Embed and Rerank models to answer questions from internal data, reducing hallucination versus ungrounded chat.

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  Connectors and MCP support

  Built-in connectors to Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook and Linear plus MCP servers let agents reach existing systems without custom glue.

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  Governance and usage analytics

  Granular access controls, agent autonomy policies, usage analytics and token monitoring give IT audit-ready visibility and cost control.

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  Sales call preparation

  An automation consolidates Salesforce, Slack, Gmail and Notion data into presentation material before each prospect call, saving reps manual research.

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  Customer success morning briefings

  A daily tracker pulls HR systems, schedules and Slack/Salesforce data to generate a morning briefing for customer-success managers.

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  Natural-language analytics

  Marketing operations teams ask plain-language questions that North translates into SQL against BigQuery, delivering insights without an analyst queue.

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  Secure banking assistant

  A bank deploys North privately, as RBC did with North for Banking, so employees use genAI on confidential client data inside the firewall.

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  Customer support transformation

  Support teams ground answers in internal knowledge; Cohere cites CoreWeave transforming its customer support with North within 90 days.

North has no published list price; Cohere's pricing page routes it to sales for custom enterprise quotes, and third-party analysis reports licensing starting at five figures annually with a committed minimum spend. Private deployment adds your own GPU costs, while Model Vault dedicated inference is published from $4.00/hr ($2,500/month).

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