EU sovereignty
The sovereign AI platform for Europe
EU-built, owned, and hosted. Govern, observe, and route every AI request. Your data stays in Europe.
100%
100%
EU data residency
94%
94%
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework
Zero
US parent companies and ownership
Mission-critical for European teams at
Why it matters
EU law requires EU infrastructure
Orq.ai is an EU entity. Your data is processed under EU law, regardless of where your other vendors’ servers are.
EU regulation is accelerating
The EU AI Act, DORA, and GDPR demand audit trails, governance controls, and defensible data flows. The Cloud and AI Development Act will add sovereignty assurance levels. Orq.ai is built to support this with EU infrastructure under EU law.
One platform, fully sovereign
The full platform, all inside Europe
Most vendors offer EU data residency as an option. At Orq.ai, sovereignty is built into every part of the platform.
AI Gateway
Route every AI request through EU infrastructure. 500+ models, EU data residency by default, no CLOUD Act exposure.
AI Observability
Every trace, log, and metric stays inside the EU across agents, calls, and tokens.
AI Engineering
Build, test, evaluate, and deploy AI agents on EU infrastructure.
AI Governance
Enforce policies, audit trails, and compliance controls across your AI stack.
EU infrastructure
Gateway
Observability
Engineering
Governance
One European control plane under EU law
Independently verified
94% on the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework
Scored across eight sovereignty dimensions by the EU’s own framework. Orq.ai is the only AI control plane that clears the sovereignty gate across every deployment mode.
SEAL
SEAL: Europe’s sovereignty assurance ladder
CADA translates EU data center and supply chain requirements into assurance levels that public bodies use to score sovereignty risk.
Cloud and AI Development Act
Europe’s sovereignty framework for cloud and AI
CADA is part of the European Commission’s AI Continent Action Plan. It addresses data center capacity, permitting, and over-reliance on non-EU cloud providers, then translates that into assurance levels public bodies can use to assess sovereignty risk.
SEAL-0
No sovereignty. A US hyperscaler with no operational EU layer.
Auto-disqualified from any EU public-sector RFP.
SEAL-1
Minimal sovereignty. EU data residency and contractual language, but encryption keys may be US-controlled, sub-processors are not auditable, and there is no CLOUD Act immunity.
Fails most regulated RFPs.
SEAL-2
Data sovereignty. The vendor is legally bound by EU law, so the customer does not have to add their own technical controls. Requires EU incorporation, EU jurisdiction, EU data residency, and audit trails.
The minimum eligibility threshold in the Commission’s own tender.
SEAL-3
Digital resilience. The vendor is immune from non-EU supply chain disruption, with no extraterritorial law compulsion possible. Requires EU ownership and board control, EU-only key management, and a fully auditable sub-processor chain.
Preferred or required for critical infrastructure: energy, defense, finance, and health.
SEAL-4
Full supply chain sovereignty. An end-to-end EU supply chain, from chips to operating system to every sub-processor.
No provider operates here at production scale. Orq.ai is built to move you toward it.
Who it’s for
Built for regulated enterprises
Beyond Europe
Sovereignty is not a European idea
The same question comes up wherever you operate: who can reach your data, and on whose authority. Teams across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are asking it too.
Jurisdiction beats geography
Where your vendor is incorporated decides which government can compel access to your data. That holds in Jakarta, Nairobi and São Paulo exactly as it does in Frankfurt.
Run it on your own infrastructure
Fully air-gapped deployment on your own servers, with no egress and no telemetry. The strongest form of sovereignty is not having to trust anyone’s cloud.
Stay portable across models
Model availability shifts with export controls and licensing. Routing across providers means a restriction in one market does not stop your product.
Evidence it to your own regulator
Audit trails, access logs and governance reporting that answer to whichever supervisory body you report to, not just to European ones.
Social Proof
Trusted by European enterprises
FAQs
What European enterprises ask us about AI sovereignty
How is Orq.ai different from a US vendor with EU data centers?
Data stored in EU regions by a US company is still subject to the CLOUD Act: US authorities can compel access regardless of where the data is physically stored. Orq.ai is an EU entity with an EU cap-table. No US parent company means no CLOUD Act jurisdiction. Your vendor’s nationality is what determines which law applies, not the location of the servers.
Does EU sovereignty cover the full platform or just the gateway?
All four pillars (AI Gateway, AI Observability, AI Engineering, and AI Governance) run on EU infrastructure under EU law. This is different from vendors that offer EU data residency as an add-on for specific products while running the rest of their platform under US jurisdiction.
What is SEAL-4 and why does it matter?
SEAL-4 is the highest Sovereignty Effectiveness Assurance Level under the EU’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework. It requires that no third country exercises effective control over the design, development, maintenance, or evolution of software components. No provider operates at that level at scale today. Orq.ai is built to move you toward it, with EU ownership, EU infrastructure, and supply chain transparency already in place.
How does Orq.ai support DORA compliance?
DORA requires financial institutions to demonstrate operational resilience for digital and AI systems. Orq.ai’s EU Sovereign Cloud deployment, audit logs, incident alerting, and governance controls are built to support DORA obligations directly.
Can Orq.ai deploy on our own infrastructure?
Yes: cloud, EU sovereign cloud, or fully air-gapped on your own servers with no egress and no telemetry. Air-gapped deployment achieves 94% on the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework.
Why does it matter where your AI vendor is headquartered?
AI infrastructure is increasingly subject to geopolitical pressure. Models get restricted overnight, export controls shift, and US law can compel access to data held by US-owned companies regardless of where it’s physically stored. Building on a European vendor means your AI stack isn’t exposed to those risks: your contracts, your data, and your governance all sit under the same jurisdiction.
