Why European sovereignty matters for AI
AI agents process your most sensitive data: customer conversations, internal knowledge, business logic. Where that data lives, and who controls the infrastructure it runs on, is no longer a theoretical concern.
The problem with hosted AI platforms
Today's leading AI agent platforms are built on US hyperscaler infrastructure. This means:
- ✗ Your data could transit through or be stored on US-controlled infrastructure
- ✗ Potentially subject to US CLOUD Act. US government can compel access regardless of where data is stored
- ✗ Vendor can change terms, pricing, or discontinue service with limited notice
- ✗ Unclear guarantees around EU AI Act compliance or GDPR adequacy
- ✗ Single point of geopolitical risk
Regulatory pressure is real
European regulations are making sovereign infrastructure a requirement, not a preference:
- → GDPR Personal data must be processed with appropriate safeguards. Schrems II invalidated EU-US data transfers.
- → DORA Financial entities must manage ICT third-party risk, including concentration risk on single cloud providers.
- → EU AI Act High-risk AI systems require transparency, auditability, and human oversight that hosted platforms struggle to provide.
- → NIS2 Essential services must ensure supply chain security and incident reporting for their digital infrastructure.
Self-hosted is the answer
When your AI agents run on infrastructure you control:
- ✓ Data never leaves your cluster. Full GDPR compliance by design.
- ✓ No US jurisdiction exposure. Immune to CLOUD Act requests.
- ✓ Choose your LLM provider: Mistral, STACKIT AI, OVHcloud, or self-hosted.
- ✓ Full auditability. You own the logs, traces, and model interactions.
- ✓ No vendor lock-in. Standard Kubernetes, swap anything at any time.
Why StackAgent
We built StackAgent because self-hosting shouldn't mean building everything from scratch. One Helm install gives you a complete agent platform (memory, sessions, tools, streaming, routing) on any Kubernetes cluster. European cloud, on-premise, air-gapped. Your choice.
Your developers get the same experience as a hosted platform (stackagent deploy) without any of the sovereignty compromises.
Our commitment
- ● No telemetry or phone-home. The platform works fully offline.
- ● No US cloud dependencies in the runtime.
- ● European-first LLM provider integrations.
- ● Establishing an Estonian OÜ for EU legal presence.
- ● Designed for STACKIT, OVHcloud, and on-premise Kubernetes.