What is sovereign AI?

AI that your organisation controls end to end: who owns the provider, where data is processed, which models run, where they run and who decides what AI may do. It lets you use the best models without handing over your know-how or your freedom to change course.

Do we have to give up leading models from OpenAI or Anthropic?

No. Sovereignty is about control, not abstinence. In 48° you use models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google and others through enterprise APIs that never train on your content – and decide per use case where an EU-hosted or local model is the better fit.

Isn’t EU hosting enough?

Hosting is only one layer. A provider under non-EU control can be legally compelled to disclose data wherever it is stored, and model calls often leave the EU even when the application does not. Ownership, processing and model routing matter as much as the data centre.

Do we have to run everything on-premise?

No. Most work runs well on the EU platform. Put each workload where its risk belongs: EU multi-tenant for everyday work, a dedicated environment or your own EU cloud for higher assurance, and on-premise or Local AI for data that must never leave the building.

How does this help with GDPR and the EU AI Act?

Roles, traceability and human approval are built into 48°: you can show who used which model with which data, and where people signed off. Together with our DPA, the published subprocessor list and EU processing, auditors get documentation instead of promises.

How do we get started?

With a short conversation: we look at the AI tools and data flows you have today, sort out what belongs where and set up a first workspace on the EU platform. Dedicated, private-cloud or local options can follow as your requirements grow.

SOVEREIGN AI

Own the intelligence your organisation creates.

Every prompt, correction and approved answer teaches AI how your organisation works. Sovereign AI keeps that knowledge compounding inside your organisation – under European law, on infrastructure you choose, with models you can replace.

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European ownership: 100 %
Processing at Scaleway, Paris: EU
Prompts or files used for training: 0
Margin on model tokens: 0 %

WHERE YOUR INTELLIGENCE GOES

AI does not just process your data. It learns how you work.

Every day your teams feed AI with documents, decisions and corrections. The question is where that knowledge ends up – and who benefits when it compounds.

External AI. Your know-how improves someone else’s product – in an account you don’t control, under a law you didn’t choose.

THE STRESS TEST

What happens when your AI provider changes the rules overnight?

Pick a scenario and watch two setups take the hit. Most organisations only discover their dependency when something breaks.

A provider restricts access

Dependent setupRUNNING

Sovereign setup with 48°RUNNING

WHAT SOVEREIGNTY MEANS

Five layers of control.

Sovereignty is not a hosting label. It is control you can verify – layer by layer.

LAYER 01
Ownership & jurisdiction
BlackMountain is European-owned, with no parent company or investors outside the EU. The law that governs us is the law that protects you.
Status: under your control.Security & ownership
01
LAYER 02
Data
Application, storage and processing run in the EU. Enterprise APIs mean your prompts and files are never used to train models.
Status: under your control.
02
LAYER 03
Models
Leading and open-weight models in one workspace. Switch or combine them – your assistants and knowledge come along.
Status: under your control.Explore models
03
LAYER 04
Compute
From the EU platform to a dedicated instance, your own EU cloud, on-premise – or a Mac mini in your building.
Status: under your control.Explore Local AI
04
LAYER 05
Operations
Roles, permissions, audit trails and AI spend in Control Tower. Your admins are in charge – not a vendor console.
Status: under your control.Explore Control Tower
05

YOUR PATH

Five steps to sovereign AI.

Sovereignty is not a big-bang migration. It is a sequence of decisions you can take one at a time – starting this quarter.

01 · ASSESS
Map your dependencies
Find out which teams use which AI tools, where data goes and which contracts apply – shadow AI included.
You getA dependency map
02 · ASSESS
Classify your data
Decide what may use EU cloud models, what needs a dedicated environment and what must never leave the building.
You getA home for every data class
03 · BUILD
Own the context
Bring documents, knowledge and workflows into one governed workspace – independent of any single model provider.
You getPortable knowledge and assistants
04 · BUILD
Route models by risk and value
Use frontier models where they win and EU-hosted or local models where control matters more. Auto (EU) handles the routine.
You getA model policy per use case
05 · RUN
Govern and build capability
Permissions before every action, people in the approval loop, every run traceable – and your own teams able to operate it.
You getAn AI operation you control

01 · ASSESS
Map your dependencies
Find out which teams use which AI tools, where data goes and which contracts apply – shadow AI included.
You getA dependency map
02
Classify your data
Decide what may use EU cloud models, what needs a dedicated environment and what must never leave the building.
You getA home for every data class
03 · BUILD
Own the context
Bring documents, knowledge and workflows into one governed workspace – independent of any single model provider.
You getPortable knowledge and assistants
04
Route models by risk and value
Use frontier models where they win and EU-hosted or local models where control matters more. Auto (EU) handles the routine.
You getA model policy per use case
05 · RUN
Govern and build capability
Permissions before every action, people in the approval loop, every run traceable – and your own teams able to operate it.
You getAn AI operation you control
Sovereign

WHERE IT RUNS

Sovereign does not mean on-premise. It means your choice.

Place every workload where its risk profile belongs – and move it when requirements change. One platform, the same experience everywhere.

Model: EU data centre
Data: EU data centre
Control: BlackMountain, under EU law

EU platform: The standard setup, fully EU-operated at Scaleway in Paris.

SOVEREIGNTY CHECK

How sovereign is your AI today?

Seven questions about the AI tools your teams use right now. Nothing is stored or sent – the score is calculated in your browser.

01
No non-EU jurisdiction can compel our AI provider to hand over our data.
Ownership decides jurisdiction – not the hosting region.
02
Prompts, files and outputs are processed in the EU – including by the model provider.
Model calls often leave the EU even when the app does not.
03
Our content is never used to train models.
Check the API terms, not the marketing page.
04
We can switch models without rebuilding assistants, workflows and knowledge.
Lock-in hides in prompts, agents and knowledge bases.
05
Our most sensitive data can be processed on our own hardware.
Some information should never leave the building.
06
AI only sees what each user may see – and every action is traceable.
Nobody should get more through AI than in the original system.
07
Our vendor does not earn more when we consume more tokens.
Incentives shape the product.

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Sovereign AI, explained.

SOVEREIGN AI

Use the best of AI. Keep control of what makes you you.

Talk to us about where your AI dependencies are today – and how to take them back, one decision at a time.

Book a Demo Our security approach

Own the intelligence your organisation creates.

AI does not just process your data. It learns how you work.

What happens when your AI provider changes the rules overnight?

A provider restricts access

Five layers of control.

Ownership & jurisdiction

Data

Models

Compute

Operations