Why 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

UK and EU regulations are making sovereign infrastructure a requirement, not a preference:

  • → UK GDPR Personal data must be processed with appropriate safeguards under UK data protection law.
  • → EU GDPR Schrems II invalidated EU-US data transfers. Adequacy requires real safeguards.
  • → FCA / PRA UK financial regulators require firms to manage third-party and concentration risk in critical services.
  • → DORA EU 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.
  • → UK Sovereign AI Government policy prioritising UK-owned AI infrastructure for national security and economic resilience.

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.
  • ● UK and European LLM provider integrations.
  • ● UK-headquartered (Baseflare Ltd). Establishing Estonian OÜ for EU presence.
  • ● Designed for Civo, STACKIT, OVHcloud, and on-premise Kubernetes.
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