Trust and architecture
Data and AI sovereignty, defined precisely.
Sovereignty is not a storage location. It is control over who can access and use your data, under which policies, with what evidence, and under which contractual rules, extended to the models and agents that act on it.
What we mean by sovereignty
When we say DataS AI is built around your data sovereignty, we mean the system is designed so that you, not a vendor, a model provider, or a consultant, decide what data is used, by whom, for what, and can prove it afterward.
That is broader than where the bytes sit. A system can be hosted in the United States and still leak context to a shared model, grant an agent more access than the employee who triggered it, or leave you unable to export your own prompts and configuration.
- Data sovereignty
- Control over access, use, policy, evidence, and contractual terms for your data and the AI that touches it.
- Data residency
- Where data is physically stored. A deployment choice we support, not the whole story.
- Data localization
- A legal or contractual requirement to keep data in a specific location. We design to support it when it applies to you.
Three promises
Control. Proof. Portability.
Sovereignty needs more than a claim about where data sits. It needs demonstrable policy enforcement, lineage, and auditability, and a way out.
Control
You decide which data, people, models, and agents can access what, and under which policies.
Evidence
- Role-based access control and tenant isolation
- Data classification and scoped retrieval
- Model-routing policies by data sensitivity
- Configurable retention and deletion
Proof
You can show what the AI used, what it did, and why, to an auditor, a regulator, or your own board.
Evidence
- Source lineage and citations on every output
- Prompt, tool-call, and action logs
- Evaluation results before and after release
- Immutable audit trail for approvals
Portability
You are not trapped by one model, one cloud, or one consultant.
Evidence
- Exportable data, prompts, and configuration
- API-first design with documented interfaces
- Multiple model providers and deployment options
- Documented handover and exit plan
Controls
What we implement, mapped to NIST AI RMF functions.
Each control is tagged with the DataS principle it serves and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework function it supports: Govern, Map, Measure, or Manage.
- PortabilityNIST AI RMF · Govern
You own the data, prompts, configuration, and outputs
Everything produced in an engagement is yours, in formats you can use without us.
- Source data, derived datasets, and embeddings remain in your accounts
- Prompts, policies, evaluation sets, and agent definitions are delivered as code
- Outputs, logs, and audit history are exportable at any time
- ControlNIST AI RMF · GovernNIST AI RMF · Map
No training on your data without written opt-in
Customer data is not used to train or fine-tune shared models unless you explicitly agree in writing.
- Model providers are configured with training and retention opt-outs where offered
- Self-hosted or open-weight models are available where provider terms are unacceptable
- Any fine-tuning uses your data for your models only, under your agreement
- ControlNIST AI RMF · Manage
Role-based access and tenant isolation
Agents and retrieval inherit the permissions of the person or process that invoked them, never more.
- Permission-aware retrieval mirrored from source-system access rules
- Scoped credentials per integration and per agent
- Isolation between business units or customers where required
- ControlNIST AI RMF · Manage
Encryption, retention, and deletion controls
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, kept only as long as you specify, and deletable on request.
- Encryption using the cloud provider's managed keys or your own
- Configurable retention windows for prompts, logs, and derived data
- Documented deletion procedure with confirmation
- ProofNIST AI RMF · Measure
Audit logs, source lineage, and observability
Every answer cites its sources. Every action records who triggered it, what the agent saw, and who approved it.
- Prompt, retrieval, tool-call, and response logging
- Citations and record-level lineage on outputs
- Dashboards for quality, latency, cost, and error rates
- PortabilityNIST AI RMF · GovernNIST AI RMF · Manage
Model-provider and deployment flexibility
Model choice is a routing policy, not an architecture decision. Switch providers or go self-hosted without a rewrite.
- Gateway with policy-based routing by data sensitivity, cost, and capability
- Support for commercial APIs, open-weight models, and private deployments
- Configurable deployment, data-retention, and model-access options per workflow
- ProofNIST AI RMF · Manage
Human approval for impactful actions
Agents draft; people approve. Writes to systems of record, external communications, and financial changes require a named approver.
- Approval gates defined per action type with escalation and SLAs
- Reversible actions preferred; irreversible ones require explicit confirmation
- Approval history retained with the evidence the approver saw
- PortabilityNIST AI RMF · Govern
Export, portability, and a clear exit plan
You should be able to leave us, a cloud, or a model provider, and keep the system running.
- API-first design with documented interfaces
- Infrastructure and configuration as code in your repositories
- Handover documentation and a defined exit procedure from day one
Risk evaluation, testing, and incident process
- Risk review during Discover covering privacy exposure, unreliable output, bias, and misuse, structured around the NIST AI Risk Management Framework functions: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage
- Evaluation sets built with your team before release; regression checks on every change
- Red-team style testing of prompts, retrieval boundaries, and tool permissions
- Defined incident process: detection, containment, customer notification, root cause, and corrective action
- Data inventory and documented data flows for each workflow, so your privacy and AI obligations can be mapped to concrete controls
DataS AI does not hold SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or similar certifications and does not claim legal compliance on your behalf. Our systems are designed to support your governance and compliance requirements (jurisdictional, contractual, and regulatory) by documenting the controls we implement so your program can assess them.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask first.
- Does our data leave our cloud account?
- Only where the workflow requires it and you have approved the path, for example a call to a commercial model API with training and retention opt-outs. Where that is unacceptable, we route to a self-hosted model inside your environment.
- Can an agent change data in our ERP or CRM?
- Only through a scoped integration and only after a named person approves the specific action. Drafting is automatic; executing is not.
- What happens if we stop working with DataS AI?
- You keep everything: code, configuration, prompts, evaluation sets, data, and documentation. The exit procedure is defined at the start of the engagement.
- Which model providers do you use?
- Whichever fit your data sensitivity, cost, and capability needs: commercial APIs, open-weight models, or private deployments. The routing policy is yours to change.
Put AI to work without giving up control.
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