Cohere launched North 2 on October 5, 2026, a rebuilt version of its enterprise agent platform. It adds a new orchestration system for multi-step agents, memory that carries across sessions, skills and libraries shared across a company, and admin controls that cap token spend by user, group and organization. North 2 runs in Cohere’s cloud, a customer’s private cloud, on premises or fully air-gapped, with Cohere’s models or a customer’s own. Cohere publishes no price; North is sold through its sales team. This page reads Cohere’s announcement, reports from SiliconANGLE and The Register, and Cohere’s PwC alliance post, as of October 6, 2026.
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Cohere launched North 2 on October 5, 2026, a rebuilt version of its enterprise agent platform with a new orchestration system for multi-step agents and automations.
Agents now keep memory across sessions, and skills, libraries and agents can be shared across the organization so teams stop rebuilding the same workflow.
From a request in chat, North 2 can prototype decks, dashboards, documents and lightweight apps, and it connects to Slack, SharePoint, Jira, Linear, Notion and GitHub.
North Admin tracks token spend down to the user and agent, with consumption tiers, organization-wide caps and alerts before a limit is hit.
It runs self-hosted, in a VPC, hybrid, on premises or fully air-gapped, with Cohere’s models or a customer’s own, under SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001.
Cohere publishes no price for North 2 and sells it through sales; it launched alongside a PwC alliance and weeks after Cohere signed to combine with Aleph Alpha.
§ 01What is in North 2
| Area | What Cohere added |
|---|---|
| Orchestration | A redesigned agent harness that runs multi-step processes on its own and keeps a human in the loop where it matters |
| Skills | Reusable capabilities agents call on, shared across the organization |
| Libraries | Shared knowledge and assets the whole organization can draw from |
| Memory | Agents keep context across sessions instead of starting cold |
| Applications | Decks, dashboards, documents and lightweight apps prototyped from a request in chat |
| Automations | Prebuilt templates, a drag-and-drop workflow builder and real-time performance monitoring |
| Connectors | Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Exchange, Jira, Linear, Notion and GitHub; planned: PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global, FactSet |
| Models | Model agnostic: Cohere’s models or the customer’s own |
Cohere frames the release around a trade-off. In its telling, enterprises deploying agents could pick a platform that was secure enough, smart enough or controllable enough, but rarely all three. “North 2 is where that tradeoff ends.” Cohere says the new features come from a year of production deployments in finance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy and the public sector.
The biggest change for anyone building on it is reuse. “Users can now create reusable agents and automations that can be shared across the organization, eliminating the need to rebuild similar workflows repeatedly.” The Register reads skills as standard operating procedures for the agent harness and compares the set to what Claude Code and OpenClaw users already know. Its summary of the launch: “Like OpenClaw but with access control”.
§ 02Spend and access controls
Most of what is new for an IT team sits in North Admin, the platform’s management console.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Visibility | Usage tracked down to the individual user and agent |
| Roles and permissions | Ties into existing identity and access management; admins choose which models each team uses |
| Flow control | Consumption tiers based on request and token rates for users and groups |
| Caps and alerts | Organization-wide caps, with alert thresholds that warn teams before a limit is reached |
| Agent guardrails | Content filtering, plus screening for personal data and prompt injection (per SiliconANGLE) |
| Autonomy policies | Agents take only the actions they are authorized for and seek human oversight on critical ones |
| Access lists | Access control lists on libraries and skills (per The Register) |
The Register put the access-list point plainly: admins can restrict libraries and skills “so that interns can’t get their hands on proprietary data just because they asked for it.” On cost, Cohere says its models produce more tokens per second per node on Nvidia’s Blackwell and Hopper hardware, which lowers spend; Nvidia’s Kari Briski said that helps North 2 “deliver more tokens for less.”
§ 03Security and deployment
| Item | North 2 |
|---|---|
| Deployment | Self-hosted, VPC, hybrid, on premises or fully air-gapped |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 |
| Testing | Continual security testing, including red-teaming and third-party vulnerability scanning |
| Observability | Service performance monitoring and detailed logs of all changes |
| Price | Not published; Cohere asks buyers to contact sales |
Cohere named two customers in the announcement. LG CNS runs North internally and resells it in South Korea: “North gives enterprises a secure, practical foundation for turning agentic AI into real business value.” Bell Cyber, Bell Canada’s security unit, uses it inside its own security operations. SiliconANGLE adds a third: Radical Ventures, an early Cohere investor, built an automation on North that prepares the briefing its team reads before a founder call.
§ 04Where North 2 fits in Cohere’s year
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | North becomes generally available | SiliconANGLE |
| September 16, 2026 | Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive agreement to combine; the deal awaits regulatory approval | Aleph Alpha |
| October 5, 2026 | North 2 launches | Cohere |
| October 5, 2026 | Cohere and PwC announce a global alliance, starting in Canada | Cohere |
The launch lands in a crowded layer. As The Register put it, “Essentially every major and minor cloud provider has introduced some kind of agent harness tailored to enterprise needs.” North’s case is control: where the platform runs, which model it uses, and who can spend how much. The Aleph Alpha deal, once it closes, adds a German lab’s models and sovereign-AI customers to the same pitch.
§ 05North 2 and an AI employee platform, side by side
We make CellCog, so read our column as ours. The two products aim at overlapping work from different directions.
| Item | Cohere North 2 | CellCog AI employees |
|---|---|---|
| How you start | Request a demo through Cohere sales | Sign up and hire an employee in the app |
| Where the work runs | Cohere’s cloud, your VPC, hybrid, on premises or air-gapped | CellCog’s cloud; each employee has its own secure computer and file system, plus its own browser identity and logins |
| Models | Cohere’s models or your own | CellCog’s agents, running Claude Opus 5.5 at every tier |
| Memory | Agents keep context across sessions | Each employee keeps memory, skills and handover notes between working sessions |
| Reuse | Shared skills, libraries and agents | Skills at employee, owner and organization level; employees form teams and manage each other |
| Approvals | Autonomy policies and human oversight for critical actions | The employee classifies every action that reaches your world; you set one approval level and anything above it waits for your yes |
| Spend | Admin caps, consumption tiers and alerts | Pay for the work, not the hire; the cost depends on how much work you assign |
| Price | Not published | Published on the pricing page |
North 2 fits a regulated enterprise that needs agents inside its own walls, its own choice of model, and a sales relationship to go with them. A team that wants an AI employee doing a role without a procurement cycle is the case we built CellCog for.
§ 06What we are watching
- Pricing or packaging for North 2, if Cohere publishes any.
- The Aleph Alpha close, and whether Aleph Alpha’s models show up inside North.
- The planned financial data connectors: PitchBook, Crunchbase, Daloopa, FiscalAI, S&P Global and FactSet.
- Independent reviews from teams running North 2 in production.
§ 07Sources
- Cohere, “North 2: Enterprise AI without compromises”, October 5, 2026
- Cohere, PwC alliance announcement, October 5, 2026
- SiliconANGLE, “Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps”, October 5, 2026
- The Register, “Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs”, October 5, 2026
- Aleph Alpha, agreement with Cohere, September 16, 2026, read October 6, 2026
Q1What is Cohere North 2?
North 2 is the second version of Cohere’s enterprise agent platform, launched October 5, 2026. It adds a redesigned orchestration system for multi-step agents and automations, memory across sessions, shared skills and libraries, app and document creation from chat, new connectors, and admin controls for token spend.
Q2How much does Cohere North 2 cost?
Cohere does not publish a price for North 2. Its announcement asks buyers to contact sales for a demo.
Q3Can North 2 run on premises?
Yes. Cohere says North 2 can be self-hosted or run in a VPC, hybrid, on premises or fully air-gapped, and lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certifications.
Q4Does North 2 only work with Cohere models?
No. Cohere describes North as model agnostic: customers can use Cohere’s generative models or bring their own, and admins choose which models each team uses.
Q5Does CellCog use Cohere North?
No. CellCog’s AI employees run on CellCog’s own platform, with each employee on its own secure computer, and on Claude Opus 5.5 at every tier. We track enterprise agent platforms like North because they compete for the same work.