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Building on EU-Sovereign AI: What We Learned
Twelve months of running production AI workloads exclusively on European infrastructure. The tradeoffs are real — and worth it.
In early 2025, Tectic made a deliberate architecture decision: all LLM inference, all data storage, all compute would run inside EU borders. Here's what we learned.
The latency cost is smaller than expected
EU-hosted inference through Cortecs.ai adds roughly 40-80ms compared to US hyperscaler APIs. For agentic workflows — where agent calls are chained over seconds — this is invisible to users.
Compliance confidence is multiplicative
When a CISO signs off on a Tectic deployment, they sign off on one DPA, one data processor, one audit trail. That compresses enterprise sales cycles by 30-40% in regulated sectors.
The bet on EU sovereignty wasn't ideological. It was commercial.