LeapThought and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership aimed at applying “sovereign” and domain-specific artificial intelligence to the delivery and operation of critical building infrastructure.
In a statement issued on 23 October 2026, the companies said the collaboration is intended to give infrastructure owners and operators more control over project and operational data while enabling natural-language access to information across an asset’s lifecycle, from construction delivery through to ongoing operations.
The partnership is centred on LeapThought’s FULCRUMHQ platform and its embedded GENIEHQ “Industrial AI,” which the company says can process structured and unstructured data such as building information modelling (BIM) models, GIS data, ERP financials, schedules, contracts, reality capture, telemetry, and sensor and robotics data. The companies said GENIEHQ will be paired with Google Cloud’s Gemini models when deployed on Google Cloud infrastructure, enabling project teams to query complex datasets in plain language.
According to the release, the arrangement has two stated priorities: “value chain integration” and “security and sovereignty.” The first focuses on connecting participants involved in delivering and operating an asset—owners, operators, developers, consultants, contractors and suppliers—through a single governed platform, addressing the fragmentation that often occurs when design, construction and operational data sits in separate systems. The companies said the platform is intended to maintain a single record that follows an asset from design through operations and can be used across portfolios.
The second priority relates to deployments where data residency and operational constraints limit the use of public cloud. LeapThought said FULCRUMHQ can be run on Google Cloud’s sovereign and “air-gapped” options, including Google Cloud Data Boundary, Google Cloud Dedicated and Google Distributed Cloud. In those environments, the companies said GENIEHQ can run alongside Gemini locally within the owner’s security boundary.
LeapThought founder and chief executive Ratnakar Garikipati said in the statement that owners increasingly see value in “the intelligence around” assets and that this intelligence “must be secure, sovereign, and shared across the whole value chain.”
Rahul Sharma, managing director for APAC public sector at Google Cloud, said the partnership is designed to help agencies and infrastructure owners extract insights from complex engineering and regulatory datasets while maintaining “strict data governance, residency, and operational sovereignty.”
LeapThought said it is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with an Asia headquarters in Singapore, and operates across the United States, Brazil, Singapore and New Zealand. The company listed Singapore’s Land Transport Authority, Building and Construction Authority and JTC among its clients.
