Is KI BMS subject to the CLOUD Act?

No. The CLOUD Act compels US-based companies (or US subsidiaries) to hand over data they control, regardless of where it physically lives. KI BMS has no US entity, no US contracts, and no US-controlled infrastructure in the data plane. Stripe processes payment data and is US-headquartered, but that boundary is well-defined: payment metadata only, never your records.

Where exactly is my data stored?

On dedicated servers we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. The audit log, attachments, embeddings - everything in the data plane - lives there. Backups stay within the same EU jurisdiction in different physical locations and roll off on a 30-day window. We deliberately do not name the exact data centre - knowing the rack does not buy the customer anything and would make operator changes a public event.

Do you log IPs or session metadata to a US service?

No third-party analytics, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no third-country tag manager. The first-party device + session ledger lives in our own Postgres + Redis - same EU boundary as the rest of the data plane. Logs are operational only and rotate at 30 days.

What happens if I'm a customer outside the EU?

You can use KI BMS from anywhere. The data still lives in the EU; the request travels from your location to our servers and back. That's a posture choice on our side, not a geo-restriction on yours.

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KI BMS: the EU alternative to Lead-Table

Same job, hosted in the EU. KI BMS runs in Germany under German law - your data stays in EU jurisdiction end to end.

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Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·February 19, 2026·

2 min read

If your reason for moving off Lead-Table is data sovereignty, the comparison gets simpler. KI BMS is hosted in Germany on infrastructure we operate ourselves - no US-headquartered company in the request path. The CLOUD Act does not reach what physically lives here.

At a glance

Lead-Table and KI BMS target the same audience: German HR teams that want modern, KI-assisted recruiting. Lead-Table leans into active sourcing and pipeline visualisation. KI BMS is broader: careers page + public application form included, KI fit-score with reasoning as a default, GDPR retention windows built in, public clear pricing. If your recruiting is mostly inbound (public role -> application arrives), KI BMS is the more natural fit. If it's mostly outbound (you source actively), look at both.

EU jurisdiction

What 'EU-hosted' actually means here, end to end

KI BMS runs on dedicated machines we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. There is no US-headquartered subprocessor in the request path - the data plane (your records, your files, your audit log) lives entirely in EU jurisdiction. Two third parties exist outside that boundary: Stripe (payment information only, under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) and the mail relay for transactional email. Neither sees your records. Lead-Table's setup is the variable - if their primary infra is US-based, the CLOUD Act applies regardless of what their privacy page claims.

KI BMS vs Lead-Table: EU comparison

	Ours KI BMS	Theirs Lead-Table
Hosting region	Germany	Germany
KI fit-score with reasoning
Kanban pipeline
Active sourcing tools	Talent pool
Careers page included		Limited
Public application form
Auto-mails on stage change
Per-candidate GDPR retention
Public pricing
Free tier
API + webhooks + MCP		API yes

When to pick which

Pick KI BMS when

Recruiting is mostly inbound: you publish a role and applications arrive via the careers page + LinkedIn.

You want to see prices publicly before signing up.

Per-candidate retention + auto-anonymisation should be a built-in default.

A public free tier you can try without contact is important to you.

Pick Lead-Table when

Active sourcing is the main channel: you live in LinkedIn and need tools that pull profiles into the ATS.

You've planned a sales cycle with the vendor and value hands-on onboarding.

EU-jurisdiction questions

Specific to where the data lives, who can subpoena it, and what crosses borders.

Start with KI BMS

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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