Idle data-centre assets
Telcos own racks, fibre, and power. Generic colo margins compress every year. AI workloads pay 4–6× per-rack revenue when packaged as a sovereign service.
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Live · 90 days · National AI cloud
ePLDT turned sovereign data-centre assets into high-margin AI revenue, with banks and government agencies as day-one tenants, live in 90 days.
Zero data egress90-day deploymentWhite-label brandSovereign infra
90days
From contract to first tenant live
115M
Citizens reachable via anchor tenants
4verticals
Banks · Gov · Telco · Education
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Cross-border data movement
Sovereign-AI demand is structural. Regulators block hyperscaler workloads for the most valuable buyers in the country. Telcos already hold the assets, the licences, and the relationships. Pilipinas AI proves the conversion playbook.
Telcos own racks, fibre, and power. Generic colo margins compress every year. AI workloads pay 4–6× per-rack revenue when packaged as a sovereign service.
Banks, regulators, and ministries cannot use hyperscaler AI. Their workloads have nowhere to go, except a sovereign cloud run by a trusted national operator.
Carriers already hold the licences, the customer relationships, and the regulatory standing. Wrapping AI in that trust layer is faster than any hyperscaler can match locally.
“With Pilipinas AI, we are ensuring that Philippine enterprises take that leap onto solid ground, supported by secure infrastructure, trusted partners, and a vision for sustainable digital progress.”
Five phases. Twelve weeks. Reference architecture, landing zone, anchor tenants, brand launch, and ramp, in that order.
Week 0
Phase 01 / 05
Joint architecture workshop
ePLDT + Katonic + NVIDIA align on tenancy model, GPU fleet, residency posture, and three anchor tenants. Output: signed reference architecture.
Week 1–3
Phase 02 / 05
VITRO landing zone
Katonic Platform deploys into ePLDT VITRO sovereign data centres. KAI scheduler tuned per-tenant. NeMo guardrails configured against Data Privacy Act categories.
Week 4–7
Phase 03 / 05
Anchor tenant onboarding
First bank, first government agency. Workroom for end users · Studio for builders · Control Room for ePLDT operations. Per-tenant FinOps live from day one.
Week 8–10
Phase 04 / 05
Co-branded launch
Pilipinas AI brand goes public. ePLDT sales motion trained. Pricing in PHP. SLAs underwritten by ePLDT. Katonic embedded as the platform, not the vendor.
Week 11–12
Phase 05 / 05
Tenant ramp
Second and third tenant in flight. Cross-sell into existing ePLDT enterprise base. Revenue model: capacity reservation + per-agent metering, billed by ePLDT.
Pilipinas AI is what tenants see. Katonic is what runs underneath. ePLDT owns the customer relationship, the SLAs, the billing, and the brand, while Katonic supplies the engine and the operating model.
Same model is now repeatable for any telco or sovereign operator.
Citizens · Employees · Developers
115M+ population reachable
Pilipinas AI brand (ePLDT-owned)
PHP billing · DICT-aligned SLAs
Workroom · Studio · Control Room
Three surfaces · multi-tenant
Katonic Platform
NAT · NeMo · KAI · NIM
ePLDT VITRO sovereign DCs
Philippine soil · Tier-IV
M1
Pick anchor tenants before the build
One regulated buyer is worth ten interested ones. ePLDT signed a bank and a government agency before a single GPU was racked. Removes greenfield risk; the business case writes itself.
M2
Wrap the platform in your brand
Pilipinas AI is the customer-facing brand. Katonic is the engine. Telcos win when the trust mark on the contract is theirs, not a foreign vendor's.
M3
Bill in local currency, on your paper
Tenants pay ePLDT in PHP, against ePLDT SLAs, under DICT-aligned terms. Sovereignty stops being a marketing claim and starts being a commercial reality.
M4
Operate from a single Control Room
One Katonic Control Room covers every tenant: GPU FinOps, NeMo guardrail incidents, audit logs, eval drift. NOC staff scale linearly with tenants, not exponentially.
M5
Cross-sell into your installed base
Every ePLDT enterprise customer is a latent Pilipinas AI tenant. The sales motion is incremental, not net-new. AI revenue compounds on top of existing connectivity ARR.
National telcos & PTTs
Carriers with sovereign data centres and regulated enterprise customers who cannot use hyperscaler AI.
Regional MSPs & integrators
Service providers building managed AI offerings on behalf of a national telco, ministry, or holding company.
Sovereign cloud operators
Government-backed cloud platforms looking to add an AI tier without rebuilding their stack.
A 30-minute workshop to map the Pilipinas AI playbook onto your data centres, your tenants, and your regulatory perimeter.
Output: target architecture, anchor tenants, and a 90-day plan.