Data-residency and sovereignty architecture
Designing where data lives, where it is processed and what never leaves, so the answer to "where is our data?" is a diagram rather than a promise.
Services
Security, Compliance & Data-Sovereignty Engineering
Architecture that survives a bank's data-protection officer and an auditor: data residency, access models, GDPR-by-design and DORA-aware engagement terms. Compliance-driven engineering, built into the system rather than documented around it.
Evidence
What this domain delivers
What we have shipped in this domain
- A published sovereignty operating model we work by: deployments run in client infrastructure, the client keeps data custody and administrative control, our access is scoped, named and revocable, and EU processing stays in the EU. It is documented in full on our security & data stewardship page.
- GDPR-by-architecture with a real architectural expression: self-hosted AI with no third-party AI APIs in the data path, which removes the hardest transfer question before it is asked.
- DORA-aware engagement terms for EU financial clients, and delivery discipline shaped by sustained work in the German banking environment.
What we offer as capability
- ISO 27001-aligned working practice, run day to day rather than summarized on a poster: least-privilege named access, secrets kept out of repositories, review gates before merge, environment separation, reproducible containerized builds and patch hygiene.
- Security questionnaires, DPO calls and third-party due diligence answered directly by the engineers who built the system, with the architecture diagram to back each answer.
- Residency and access design for a new deployment, including the DPA and SCC documentation an EU client needs for remote support access.
Capabilities
What we do
Access model design
Named individual accounts, least privilege, scoped and revocable vendor access, bastion/VPN and approval workflows on the client's side, and the documentation an auditor asks for.
GDPR-by-design engineering
Data minimization built into the architecture, retention and deletion designed in per deployment, DPA and SCC readiness for remote support access.
Removing processors from the data path
The sovereign AI pattern: self-hosted models instead of third-party AI APIs, so there is no transfer to justify.
Secure development practice
Code review before merge, secrets kept out of repositories and injected at deploy time, environment separation, containerized reproducible builds, dependency and patch hygiene.
DORA-aware engagement structure
Contract terms that fit your register of information, cooperation with audits, defined exit and handover support.
Answering the questionnaire
We complete client security questionnaires and take due-diligence calls directly, with the engineers who built the system in the room rather than a sales intermediary.
Tech stack
- Self-hosted AI architecture (no third-party APIs in the data path)
- client-infrastructure deployment models
- scoped access and secrets management
- containerized reproducible builds
- CI/CD with review gates
- monitoring and alerting
- DPA/SCC documentation support
Method
How we work
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Architecture answers compliance questions, paperwork records them.
If the design puts data somewhere a regulator dislikes, no policy document fixes it.
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Design decisions are documented as decisions.
Where data lives, who can reach it and how long it is kept are written down per deployment, so an auditor reads a record rather than a recollection.
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Design for the auditor in the room.
Every decision — logging, access control, residency, retention — is made assuming someone will later ask why.
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Scope our own access down.
The least risky vendor access is the access that was never granted; we start from what the work actually requires.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What exactly does this domain deliver?
Architecture. We design where data lives, who can reach it, how long it is kept and how that is evidenced — data residency, access models, GDPR-by-design and DORA-aware engagement terms, built into the system and documented per deployment. Our working practice is ISO 27001-aligned and described on our security page.
You are an Indian company — how can our EU data be safe with you?
Because it does not come to us. Production deployments run in your infrastructure, in your jurisdiction, under your administrative control; what crosses a border is scoped, named, revocable remote access by individual engineers, covered by a DPA and SCCs where required. The full answer, including what we support contractually, is on the security & data stewardship page.
What does "data sovereignty by architecture" mean in practice?
It means the compliance property is a consequence of the design rather than a policy on top of it. The clearest example: our AI stacks run self-hosted on client-controlled hardware, so audio, text and video never transit a third-party AI provider. There is no transfer to assess, because there is no transfer.
Can you support a DORA register entry and an exit plan?
Yes. We engage as a DORA-aware ICT third-party provider: contract terms that fit your register of information, cooperation with audits, and defined exit and handover support. That is an engagement-terms capability, not a compliance certification.
Will you complete our security questionnaire?
Yes — directly, specifically, and answered by the engineers who built the system rather than routed through a sales desk.