deepset, makers of Haystack made the finals for the Spark Award 2026 alongside 9 other strong contenders

deepset is the creator of the open-source Haystack AI orchestration framework and the Haystack Enterprise Platform. We help organizations build, run, and govern custom AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications across cloud and on-premise environments. Teams start with Haystack to build immediately, add optional enterprise support through Haystack Enterprise Starter, and scale with the Haystack Enterprise Platform, which provides tooling for advanced indexing and retrieval, testing and evaluation, and governance for production AI. Haystack is trusted in production by enterprise teams and organizations including the European Commission, The Economist, Airbus, and the German Armed Forces.