The problem

Your AI tools are multiplying. The rules and costs should not.

01

Sensitive data reaches AI tools with inconsistent classification, privacy and residency controls.

CISO · DATA & COMPLIANCE

Sigma Software's platform deploys necessary documentation, information security controls and compliance policies. Data, security, compliance, residency and model-use policies are initially deployed, adjusted to your needs, and applied at runtime.

02

AI spending grows without matching model capability to the task or knowing where the budget goes.

CFO · CEO

With us you receive cost-aware routing, model selection and cost attribution. Prompt, context, routing decision, usage and audit logs are also there, out of the box.

03

Teams use public, sovereign and private AI with different rules for where requests can run.

CIO · AI PLATFORM TEAMS

With Sigma Software's platform you get access to all viable inference options: public cloud providers, frontiers, sovereign clouds and models, TEE and confidential compute with Partner AI and even optional Mac mesh cloud for your idle equipment double-use.

04

Bringing new routing layers carries new vendor dependency.

CIO · CISO · LEADERSHIP

Sigma Software may run governance as a service, or deliver it to your environment as IaC, at a fixed cost and optional operational service packages. Unbeatable flexibility level.

What changes

Lower AI risk, lower AI cost, faster AI adoption

For CISO, DPO and compliance

Reduce AI risk

Confidential data reaches only the models and locations your policy approves. Each decision is recorded for audit.

  • Data classification and provider eligibility per request
  • Residency, retention and model-use rules enforced at runtime
  • Decision records in your audit store
Illustrative policy decision. A contract review chat request with an attachment and M365 MCP context is classified confidential by deterministic rules, is not eligible for a commercial API and goes to an on-premises model, with a decision record.

For CFO and CIO

Reduce AI operating cost

Each workload gets a model that meets its need, not the most expensive one. Spend is attributed to the team that caused it.

  • Model selection by task capability and cost
  • Budgets and spend attribution per team and use case
  • Routine work offloaded to in-house compute
Illustrative cost dashboard with sample data, spend by team against budget and recent routing decisions

For CIO, Head of AI and platform team

Accelerate AI adoption

Teams reach approved models through one governed entry point, not one integration per application. More workloads reach production under the same rules.

  • One policy for public, sovereign and private environments
  • New AI endpoints onboarded once, available to all teams
  • Governance evidence collected centrally, not per project
Before, each application integrates each model with its own keys and rules. After, applications reach approved models through one governed platform.

How it works

Five controls decide where each request runs

  1. 01

    Workload assessment

    Identifies the task type and the model capability it needs, so routine tasks do not consume frontier-model capacity.

  2. 02

    Data classification

    Runs deterministic rules over prompts and context and labels requests by confidentiality class, using configurations from your data governance policy.

  3. 03

    Enterprise policy engine

    Turns residency, retention, prompt logging and model-use rules into eligibility per provider and environment.

  4. 04

    Cost control policy

    Sets budgets and attributes spend per team, application and use case.

  5. 05

    Dynamic routing

    Picks the lowest-cost target that meets capability and policy requirements, with fallback when a target is unavailable.

Inference choices

Use the AI environment your policy and budget allow

Frontier models

Use commercial frontier-model APIs when their capability is needed and company policies permit the provider and data class.

Global and EU open models

Run global and EU open-weight models in eligible cloud or sovereign environments, reducing dependency on any single provider.

Confidential AI with Partner AI

Partner AI offers private inference in hardware TEEs using Intel TDX and NVIDIA H100/H200 confidential computing, with attestation evidence.

On-premises

Use open-weight models on your own GPUs for workloads designated for on-premises execution.

Idle Mac mesh

Opted-in Apple Silicon Macs can serve local open-weight models for routine tasks such as ticket triage, summaries and extraction. The agent stops when the owner returns. Requests fall back when no Mac is free.

Own IaC, cloud AI service or a SaaS gateway?

Sigma Software's AI governance is a platform you run and own, across every provider

Cloud AI services stay usable as routing targets. The difference is who runs the control layer and where policies get configured and enforced.

Cloud AI service or SaaS gateway

The vendor runs the control layer

  • Prompts pass through the vendor's infrastructure
  • Policies stored in the vendor's format
  • Routing limited to the vendor's catalog and regions
  • Restricted data needs a separate private setup
  • Cost and audit records in each provider's format

Open-source-based validated platform

You run it, you own the configuration

  • Runs in your cloud, sovereign cloud or data center
  • Policies, routing rules and IaC handed over to you
  • Routing across all approved models and environments
  • Confidential and on-premises environments as routing targets
  • One cost allocation and one decision record format

Deployment options

From a scoping call to a platform you own or we operate

Sovereignty scoping call

Non-binding

We review your AI workload landscape, map it to sovereignty tiers and define a practical first scope.

You get:

  • Review of current AI workloads and environments
  • Workload mapping to execution tiers
  • First-scope proposal and track recommendation

Track A: customer-owned build

Product license · Fixed-price IaC and implementation · Operate on T&M

For organizations that build AI capability in-house as a capital investment. Platform, policies and IaC run in your cloud, sovereign cloud or on-prem, with full handover.

You get:

  • Architecture, deployment guides and security baselines
  • Control mapping for GDPR, ISO/IEC 42001 and EU AI Act
  • AI, data and model governance policies with RACI
  • Runbooks, service model and ownership handover
  • Platform operations service subscription option - if you don't have your own AI platform team

Track B: managed private inference

Managed service fee · Usage-based inference

For organizations that prefer managed service and advanced confidentiality. Sigma Software operates the governance platform – inference runs on Partner AI Cloud.

You get:

  • Confidential inference as the default backend
  • Customer-owned policies and audit evidence
  • Deal-specific terms for dedicated capacity

Deployment steps

From first controls to full ownership in three stages

Stage 1 · 1 week

Deploy and establish control

Deploy the platform and baseline policies, onboard first teams, run an extended policy audit. Output is a running platform with a policy baseline.

Stage 2 · 1 month

Integrate and tailor

Deep dive with transformation managers, infosec and compliance. Extend data routing rules, integrate core systems and onboard AI endpoints. Output is a routing matrix across all execution tiers.

Stage 3

Scale & transfer, or operate

If you prefer us to operate the platform, we deploy Operating Center service and ensure any further configuration and support is done within SLA and no headache for you. Otherwise, we expand adoption and hand over operational assets. Output is customer-owned routing and policy configurations, runbooks and a trained team.

Which of your AI workloads may leave your boundary?

In a non-binding call we review your AI workload landscape, map it to sovereignty tiers and define a practical first scope.

Governance you own, on infrastructure you choose

Open-source-based and portable

Open-source components and open-weight models where sovereignty requires them. The architecture moves across providers and environments without a rebuild.

Your configuration, your IP

Policy and routing configurations, IaC and deployment assets are handed over. Your team runs, changes and audits the platform without us.

Confidential and idle-compute environments

Partner AI adds TEE-based inference and Idle AI Pool (Mac mesh) adds in-house compute, both under the same classification and cost policies.

Compliance evidence in the delivery

Control mapping, DPIA templates, ISO/IEC 42001 gap mapping and EU AI Act role assessment, delivered by an ISO/IEC 27001 certified company.

Sovereign AI governance FAQ

What is a sovereign AI governance platform?

A control layer between your AI applications and the models they call. It applies your security, residency and model-use policies and decides which model and environment may process each request. Requests marked sovereign stay under your jurisdiction; others can use approved external providers under their contract terms.

Can Sigma Software set up a self-hosted AI gateway for a regulated company in Germany, the UK or the Nordics?

Yes. Sigma Software deploys the platform, built on open-source components, into your cloud, sovereign cloud or data center in DACH, the Nordics, the UK or the US. A running platform with baseline policies takes 1 week at a fixed price, and tailoring and integrations take about 1 month. For banks and insurers, AI providers are documented as ICT third parties, as BaFin’s December 2025 guidance on AI under DORA expects.

How is this different from a self-built LiteLLM gateway or a hyperscaler’s managed AI gateway?

A self-built LiteLLM gateway gives you routing and budgets after 2–4 weeks of engineering, but classification rules, cross-provider policies, a confidential computing tier, compliance documents and operations remain open. A hyperscaler’s managed AI gateway governs requests inside its own cloud. The platform covers all of these in one delivery, runs in your environment, and you own the configuration.

Is the platform open source?

It is open-source-based. The platform combines open-source components with open-weight models, so the routing layer and the models can run in your own environment. Policy and routing configurations, IaC and deployment assets are handed over as your assets. Track A also includes a product license, and the license terms define what it covers.

Does the platform make us compliant with the EU AI Act?

Not on its own. It supports specific obligations with logs, data governance evidence and documented provider eligibility. Risk management, human oversight and role-specific duties stay with your organization. The delivery includes an EU AI Act role assessment and obligations checklist. Annex III high-risk requirements apply from 2 December 2027.

How does confidential computing with Partner AI protect our data?

Inference runs in hardware trusted execution environments based on Intel TDX and NVIDIA H100/H200 confidential computing. Prompts, model weights and outputs are isolated from the host operator. Remote attestation and per-request signatures let you verify the environment yourself, with trust resting on the hardware vendors’ attestation chain rather than on the cloud operator. Attestation evidence goes to the platform audit log.

How does Idle AI Pool/Mac mesh handle endpoint security?

Participation is opt-in. The agent is deployed through your MDM and has a kill switch. It runs only on locked Macs on a charger, stops when the owner returns and stores no data. It receives only routine workloads your policies allow.

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Decide per request where your AI runs, under policies you own

Start with a non-binding scoping call and leave with a first scope and a recommended delivery track.

Sigma Software has offices in multiple locations in Europe, Middle East, Northern and Latin America