# Sovereign AI Source: https://blackmountain.io/sovereign-ai Sovereign AI with BlackMountain: European ownership, EU processing, replaceable models and deployment from EU cloud to your own hardware – control at every layer. ## 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. - **100 %** European ownership - **EU** Processing at Scaleway, Paris - **0** Prompts or files used for training - **0 %** Margin on model tokens [Talk to us](https://blackmountain.io/contact) ## 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. ### Sovereign AI Knowledge compounds in your own workspace – portable across models, governed by your rules, under European law. ## 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 ### Token prices go up ### A model update changes the answers ### A foreign authority requests data ## Five layers of control. Sovereignty is not a hosting label. It is control you can verify – layer by layer. ### 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. [Security & ownership](https://blackmountain.io/security) ### Data Application, storage and processing run in the EU. Enterprise APIs mean your prompts and files are never used to train models. ### Models Leading and open-weight models in one workspace. Switch or combine them – your assistants and knowledge come along. [Explore models](https://blackmountain.io/models) ### Compute From the EU platform to a dedicated instance, your own EU cloud, on-premise – or a Mac mini in your building. [Explore Local AI](https://blackmountain.io/local-ai) ### Operations Roles, permissions, audit trails and AI spend in Control Tower. Your admins are in charge – not a vendor console. [Explore Control Tower](https://blackmountain.io/modules/control-tower) ## 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. ### Map your dependencies Find out which teams use which AI tools, where data goes and which contracts apply – shadow AI included. ### Classify your data Decide what may use EU cloud models, what needs a dedicated environment and what must never leave the building. ### Own the context Bring documents, knowledge and workflows into one governed workspace – independent of any single model provider. ### 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. ### Govern and build capability Permissions before every action, people in the approval loop, every run traceable – and your own teams able to operate it. ## 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. ### EU platform The standard setup, fully EU-operated at Scaleway in Paris. ### Dedicated environment An isolated instance for higher assurance requirements. ### Your EU cloud 48° deployed into your own EU cloud account. ### On-premise For regulated environments with strict residency rules. ### Local AI Open-weight models on a Mac mini or Mac Studio in your building – for data that must never leave it. [Explore Local AI](https://blackmountain.io/local-ai) ## 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. ### Dependent Your AI runs on someone else’s terms. Start by mapping where data and know-how flow today. ### On the way The basics are in place – the gaps are where risk concentrates. Close them before you scale AI further. ### Sovereign You control the layers that matter. Keep it that way as models and providers change. [Talk about your result](https://blackmountain.io/contact) We answer every question for 48° in writing – ask us for the details. ## Sovereign AI, explained. ### 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. ## 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](https://blackmountain.io/contact) [Our security approach](https://blackmountain.io/security)