Xinity Named Accredited Provider on OpenTechHub

Xinity FlexCo is now listed in the OpenTechHub service provider directory as an Accredited Provider. The directory opened with five companies. We are one of them, and the only one based in Austria.

OpenTechHub is an intelligence portal for organisations moving off proprietary SaaS. It catalogues vetted open source alternatives and, since this week, the providers who actually implement and support them. The service provider layer was opened publicly by OpenTechHub CEO Kai A. Hartung with a simple observation: open source rarely fails on the code, it fails when something breaks at two in the morning and nobody is accountable for the call.

What the accreditation actually checked

Most directories work on assertion. You fill in a form, you appear in the list. OpenTechHub inverts that, and there is nothing to buy.

Accreditation rests on two gates, in order. The first is identity: the legal entity, the registration and VAT details, the registered address, and the people who ultimately own the company. The second is credibility: at least one real reference project, submitted as a documented case study and reviewed against a written standard before the listing goes live.

There are no tiers. A provider is accredited or it is not, and the bar is the same for everyone. Our listing publishes our verified legal identity alongside the accredited mark, the same details that sit on our Impressum.

What it does not certify

Accreditation is only useful if it is honest about its edges, so here is the line as OpenTechHub draws it. The programme does not run penetration tests or security audits. It does not certify legal or regulatory compliance. It does not audit source code or internal systems, and it does not guarantee uptime or contract terms. It is not an endorsement.

What it means is narrower and more useful than a badge: a documented bar was met at the time of review, by a company whose identity and delivered work were checked by a third party.

We think that distinction matters to the people who evaluate us. Data protection officers and procurement teams have seen enough certification theatre. A verified entity and one reviewed project is a smaller claim, and a real one.

Why we are in this directory

Xinity is the layer around the model. We deploy open models on our customers' own servers, and we give them the controls that make running those models defensible: access governance, audit trails, and a clear split of responsibility between us and the operator.

That work sits precisely where the directory is aimed. Organisations leaving a hosted AI API are not looking for another vendor to rent capability from. They are looking for infrastructure they own and someone accountable for keeping it running. The OpenTechHub listing puts that offer in front of the people making exactly that decision.

Our profile, including the service categories we are accredited for, is live at OpenTechHub.

This article was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by the Xinity team before publication.