Questa Blackbox — on-premise AI appliance running inside your own network
For Regulated Enterprises

Use & govern AI models without data exposure inside your network

Install the Questa Privacy Engine on-premise with Blackbox. Every piece of sensitive data is anonymized inside your network before it reaches AI agents — giving your team the full benefit of frontier AI without data-leak risk. Monitor data compliance with AI Acts and privacy laws.

NewNow use insideClaude · ChatGPT · Slack
Security & compliance

Trusted by leading organizations for enterprise-grade security and customized compliance

Built for regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, insurance, and the public sector — Blackbox comes with continuous compliance monitoring mapped to GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA, and NIS2.

CSSF-alignedBaFin-alignedGDPRDORAEU AI ActNIS2
How it works

The compliance argument is the architecture.

Nothing in this pipeline requires sending data outside your network — which is what removes an entire category of third-party and cross-border risk from your audit.

Your network perimeter
Your Data
documents · queries · datasets
Anonymization Layer
strips & tokenizes identifiers
AI Model
never sees raw data
Re-identified Response
delivered on-prem
01
Data stays put

Documents and queries enter your network exactly as they do today — no new external endpoint.

02
Anonymize before inference

Identifying information is stripped or tokenized inside your infrastructure before anything reaches a model.

03
Model sees no raw data

The AI processes only anonymized input — never a real name, account number, or position.

04
Re-identify on-prem

Responses are matched back to real records after the model finishes — entirely inside your perimeter.

Key features

Everything an audit will ask for, already built in.

Full data sovereignty

Hosted inside your own network — no exceptions, no shared infrastructure.

Continuous compliance monitoring

Mapped to GDPR, the EU AI Act, DORA, and NIS2 as a running state, not a one-time report.

Use with everyday tools

Questa works directly inside the tools your team already uses — Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, and email.

SSO & audit trails

Custom domain, single sign-on, and full activity logs included by default.

Workflows built to fit

AI workflows customized to how your teams already operate, not the reverse.

Fixed cost

Fixed setup and usage fee — no metered surprises at audit or renewal time.

ResolvedCase study

How a tier-one investment bank closed its AI compliance gap

The problem

The bank used a cloud-based AI assistant to summarize sensitive cross-border M&A documents. During a mock regulatory audit, it couldn't prove client-privileged data wasn't being used by the AI provider to improve its own models — a direct conflict with fiduciary duty and GDPR.

The change

The bank moved to a local-first AI architecture running entirely on-premises, with a privacy proxy automatically tokenizing client names before any data reached the model.

Full compliance with EU regulatory transparency requirements — plus a 30% improvement in document processing speed from eliminating external network latency.

Why now

The exposure is already priced in. Doing nothing doesn’t make it disappear.

Unregulated data carries a breach cost, the EU AI Act carries a fine and a deadline, and U.S. state regulators are already collecting nine- and ten-figure settlements over privacy. None of these risks wait for you to be ready.

$4.9Mbreach

The global average cost of a data breach in 2024, per IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report — a number that climbs once sensitive records are handed to third-party AI systems you don't control.

€35Mor 7%

The maximum EU AI Act fine for prohibited-practice violations, whichever is higher. Enforceable from August 2, 2026 — the same date most financial-sector AI use cases become regulated.

$1.4Bsettlement

Meta's 2024 settlement with the State of Texas over biometric data collection — the largest U.S. state privacy settlement to date, part of a growing wave of state-level enforcement.

A mock audit is what surfaces the compliance gap in the case study above — before it becomes a breach, a fine, or a lawsuit. On-prem deployment planning now is what stands between that outcome and a scramble after enforcement begins.
Pricing

Fixed setup + usage fee

Deployment model
One fixed fee to deploy. One fixed fee to run.
Covers proof-of-concept through organization-wide rollout. AI agents and additional integrations are available as add-ons — quoted individually based on scope.
FAQ

Questions your audit team will ask first.

Entirely inside your own network. Blackbox is a self-hosted deployment — data is never sent to Questa's servers or any third-party cloud. Anonymization, inference, and re-identification all happen inside your infrastructure.

Yes. Because no data leaves your network, Blackbox avoids the cross-border transfer and third-party outsourcing analysis that typically complicates CSSF notification requirements for cloud-based AI tools.

Blackbox is built to support the documentation and audit-trail expectations under BaFin's VAIT/BAIT frameworks, since all processing, access logs, and model activity remain fully auditable within your own environment.

A cloud deployment processes your data on a vendor's infrastructure, even with contractual protections. Blackbox processes data entirely inside your own network — there's no vendor infrastructure in the data path at all.

Most regulated deployments move through a proof-of-concept phase inside your network before scaling organization-wide. Exact timelines depend on your existing infrastructure — this is covered in detail during a compliance consultation.

Yes. Because Blackbox runs inside your own network, your security team can audit and test it under your existing internal review process, the same way you would any other on-prem system.

Since Blackbox never transmits your data outside your network, there's nothing to migrate back or delete from a third party — decommissioning is a matter of removing the deployment from your own infrastructure.

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