Denis Benič, founder and CEO of Wavenetic
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Denis Benič

Founder & CEO, Wavenetic

Denis founded Wavenetic to build AI products that actually run inside enterprise perimeters — banks, TSOs, regulated industrial operators, defence. Engineer first, CEO second. Writes about on-premise AI, multi-agent orchestration, OCPP systems, and what the EU regulatory frame actually means for AI procurement.

Recent posts

27 May 2026

Kimi K2 for European CIOs: the 4-path deployment rule

Kimi K2 is not a vLLM problem. It's a sovereignty, MoE-reliability, and license-review problem — and here's the framework no vendor guide gives you.

26 May 2026

EU AI Act August 2026: the deployer's GPAI dossier

August 2, 2026 is when EU regulators gain enforcement powers over GPAI — and when downstream banks, insurers, and hospitals get the first knock, not the model vendors.

25 May 2026

Kimi K2 enterprise RAG: control plane, not shortcut

Kimi K2's 256K context and 200-step tool stamina reshape enterprise RAG — but only if you treat them as a retrieval control plane, not prompt-stuffing.

23 May 2026

On-prem vs cloud AI: 7 workload tests that decide it

The on-premise AI vs cloud AI question isn't philosophical. Seven workload tests produce a deterministic placement verdict — no hybrid handwave required.

22 May 2026

Kimi K2 vs GPT-5: the EU enterprise deployment call

Workload-classification rubric, GPU break-even math, and the CISO provenance checklist for choosing between self-hosted Kimi K2 and GPT-5 in EU regulated industries.

21 May 2026

Open-source AI in regulated EU: 4 diligence vectors

Why the AI Act's open-source carve-out collapses the moment a regulated buyer fine-tunes — and the four-vector diligence pass that replaces it.

20 May 2026

Enterprise AI RFP Requirements for 2026: The Evidence-First Scorecard

Question lists let vendors win on prose. Here is the weighted scorecard, evidence rules, and POC protocol your 2026 enterprise AI RFP actually needs.

19 May 2026

The AI-Native Enterprise Operating System: 5 Layers for Escaping Pilot Purgatory

AI-native transformation is an engineering program with five hard layers, not a culture exercise. Here is the architecture CIOs need to escape pilot purgatory.

18 May 2026

Local GPU Inference Economics: The Break-Even Is Utilization, Not Hardware Price

Local GPU inference economics are decided by sustained utilization and workload shape — not GPU sticker price. Here's the threshold, the VRAM math, and the routing rule.

17 May 2026

Azure AI Foundry vs On-Prem AI: A Workload Placement Guide, Not a Vendor Shootout

The Foundry-versus-on-prem debate is the wrong question. The right one is which AI workloads belong in cloud, Foundry Local, or sovereign on-prem — and how to architect the seam.

16 May 2026

Gemma 4 in 2026: the May update rewrote on-prem math

Gemma 4's April launch was a spec sheet. The May multi-token prediction update is what made on-prem inference production-viable for EU CTOs in 2026.

16 May 2026

Local LLM Inference Requirements: Size the Workload Before You Buy the GPU

Enterprise local LLM inference is a concurrency and SLO engineering problem, not a GPU shopping problem. Here's the workload-sizing sequence that drives every downstream decision.