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 Lever (Employ)

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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Julia YukovichCo-Founder + CEO

·April 14, 2026·

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If your reason for moving off Lever (Employ) 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

Lever is right when you're a 50-500-person tech company with an active sourcing function and need an integrated ATS + CRM for talent-relationship management. KI BMS is right when you're 8-100 employees, primarily recruiting in DACH, and want KI pre-sort from day 1 without an add-on. Lever is premium-tier (4-5-figure yearly), KI BMS is transparent mid-tier pricing. Similar pipeline depth, different market segments.

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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. Lever (Employ)'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 Lever (Employ): EU comparison

	Ours KI BMS	Theirs Lever (Employ)
Hosted in Germany
Careers page included
Talent CRM	Talent pool	Full CRM (nurture)
Multi-job-board posting
KI fit-score built in		Lever Helix add-on
Multi-voice scorecards
Free tier
Starting price	€0 / €1 / €10 / month	Quote (4-5-figure per year)
Contract model	Monthly	Annual, often multi-year
Setup time	Hours	Weeks (with implementation)
Language	DE + EN	EN-first