Ilie Ghiciuc - 22 Apr 2026
How regulated companies build AI without third-party APIs
At some point in almost every AI project we work on with a regulated client, someone on the team says some version of the same thing: "We can't send that data outside." It usually lands like a problem. The obvious implementation path, connect your data to a capable hosted model, get results back, iterate, suddenly has a wall across it. SOC 2 compliance, data residency requirements, security perimeters built around credentials and sensitive client information: any of these can make the default approach to AI architecture a compliance violation rather than a technical decision.
