[Press] [AI Leaders] Cloocus Gears Up for IPO… Steve Hong: “Expanding the AI MSP Market by Targeting the U.S.”

Advancing AI MSP Capabilities with ClooSphere, Targeting 20–30% of Revenue from Proprietary Solutions

Steve Hong said that since the beginning of this year, Cloocus has been actively upgrading its business structure around ClooSphere, an AI-based MSP platform. Rather than a single product, ClooSphere represents Cloocus’s vision of a 24×7 AI MSP platform, with its primary growth driver focused on AI operations platform workloads.

ClooSphere is being enhanced to integrate the core capabilities enterprises need to use AI safely and effectively, including data connectivity, security, guardrails, auditing, workflows, and AI agent operations. Cloocus is continuously developing and updating AI-based MSP functions and services, particularly across security workloads and infrastructure operations.

“To truly leverage AI, it’s not enough to simply attach a large language model (LLM),” Hong said. “Enterprises need an operational platform that includes data connectivity, security, guardrails, and auditing capabilities.”

He added, “ClooSphere is a platform that connects a wide range of LLMs and data systems while enabling enterprises to maintain control over AI within their own environments. Our goal is to increase the share of proprietary solutions, including ClooSphere, to 20–30% of total revenue.”

Hong also expects the role of MSPs to grow as interest increases in sovereign AI and public GPU infrastructure. He argued that beyond cloud infrastructure itself, what matters most is data governance and operational optimization—along with the software and operational capabilities needed to ensure that GPU resources secured by governments or enterprises are actually utilized efficiently.

“The cloud itself is infrastructure, so usage is not the issue,” Hong said. “What’s critical is having a structure that ensures data does not flow outside controlled environments. From this perspective, the rise of sovereign AI is more of an opportunity than a threat for MSPs.”

He continued, “In GPU data centers, operation and utilization are more important than construction. Going forward, business opportunities will increasingly grow around models that combine GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) with MSP capabilities.”`

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Amid this momentum, Hong also expressed his ambition to restructure Cloocus’s growth foundation by moving beyond a Korea-centric business model and expanding the company’s presence in global markets. While Cloocus began as a cloud MSP, he outlined a plan to transform the company into an AI MSP and platform provider, with expansion across the United States and Asia, and eventually into Latin America as well.

“Cloocus started as a cloud MSP, but we are now rapidly evolving into an AI MSP and a platform company,” Hong said. “Going forward, we will continue to grow by building on our technological capabilities and service competitiveness in the global market.”