We built the compliance layer EU companies were missing
EU companies building AI products had no compliant way to log what their AI systems were doing. US tools stored data in the wrong jurisdiction. Open source tools required full infrastructure teams to run. Nothing just worked. We built the thing that was missing.
What Sovergate is
Sovergate is a European AI compliance platform. We help companies that use AI in high-risk contexts — credit scoring, hiring, healthcare, fraud detection — meet their Article 12 obligations under the EU AI Act.
Our SDK observes every LLM call your application makes, scrubs personally identifiable information before it leaves your infrastructure, and sends a clean compliance log to our servers in Nuremberg, Germany. Every month we generate a regulator-ready PDF report for each AI system you register with us.
Why we built it
The EU AI Act is the world's first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence. For companies using AI in high-risk contexts, it creates a specific and enforceable obligation: log every AI decision, retain those logs for at least six months, and make them available to regulators on request.
Most of the tools developers already use to observe their LLM applications — LangSmith, Helicone, Weights and Biases — store data on US infrastructure. For EU companies in regulated sectors, that is not a minor compliance footnote. It is a blocker. Legal teams are refusing to approve these tools. Engineering teams are stuck with no compliant alternative.
Sovergate is that alternative. We are not trying to replace every observability tool in your stack. We are solving one specific problem: Article 12 compliance for EU companies using LLMs. We solve it completely, store everything in Germany, and generate the report your legal team needs at the end of every month.
What we believe
Compliance should not require an infrastructure team
The reason most EU companies are not compliant with Article 12 is not that they disagree with the law. It is that the tools available require them to run their own logging infrastructure, manage their own retention, and build their own report generation. That is months of engineering work before you have produced a single compliance document. Two lines of code should be enough. That is what we built.
Data sovereignty is not a feature. It is a requirement.
We built Sovergate in Europe, run it on European infrastructure, and will never move customer data outside the EU. This is not a marketing decision. It is an architectural one. Every design choice we make starts from the assumption that data stays in the EU.
Honest tools for an honest problem
The EU AI Act is not going away. The December 2027 deadline for high-risk AI systems is coming. Companies that start building their compliance audit trail now will have 18 months of clean, verifiable logs when regulators show up. Companies that start in November 2027 will have nothing. We are not selling urgency. We are selling readiness.
How Sovergate works
We observe, we do not intercept
Our SDK does not sit between your application and your LLM provider. Your application calls OpenAI, Anthropic, or Mistral directly, exactly as before. After each response is returned to your application, our SDK reads what was sent and received, scrubs PII locally inside your infrastructure, and sends a clean copy to our servers asynchronously. Your users experience zero added latency. If our servers are unreachable, your application continues working and logs are queued locally until the connection restores.
PII never leaves your infrastructure
Names, email addresses, national ID numbers, IBANs, dates of birth, and phone numbers are detected and replaced with placeholders before any data leaves your servers. We receive only the scrubbed version. We never see the original.
Every log is tamper-evident
Each log entry includes a cryptographic hash of the previous entry, creating a chain. If any entry is modified after the fact, the chain breaks. Regulators can verify that your audit trail is complete and unmodified. This is the standard of evidence the EU AI Act requires.
Reports your legal team can use
On the first of every month, we generate a PDF for each AI system you have registered. It contains request counts, token usage, PII handling records, audit trail integrity verification, and data residency confirmation. It is structured to answer the questions a national market surveillance authority will ask.
Where we are
We will sign a Data Processing Agreement with any customer who asks.
Who Sovergate is for
Sovergate is built for engineering and compliance teams at EU companies using AI in high-risk contexts.
- –Your company uses LLMs in credit scoring, hiring, healthcare, fraud detection, or another Annex III high-risk category
- –Your legal team has blocked US-based observability tools for data residency reasons
- –You need Article 12 compliant logs and do not want to build the logging infrastructure yourself
- –You want a monthly report your compliance team can file without reading 40 pages of regulation first
- –You are looking for a general-purpose LLM observability tool with evaluation metrics and experiment tracking — there are excellent tools for that use case, and Sovergate is not one of them
- –Your AI systems are not subject to EU AI Act high-risk obligations
Ready to start building your audit trail?
The December 2027 deadline gives you time to build your compliance programme properly — not scramble to retrofit it. Start the free trial. Install the SDK. Generate your first Article 12 report. Show it to your legal team.