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 Recruitee

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

·December 26, 2025·

2 min read

If your reason for moving off Recruitee 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

Recruitee is right when employer branding + branded careers page + brand consistency in recruiting are your priorities. KI BMS is right when KI pre-sort + GDPR defaults + monthly contracts are. Both are mid-tier, both European, both good. The question is emphasis: 'how do candidates see us' (Recruitee) or 'how fast do we decide' (KI BMS).

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. Recruitee'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 Recruitee: EU comparison

	Ours KI BMS	Theirs Recruitee
Hosting	Germany	EU (Netherlands)
Employer-branding depth	Standard	Very deep
Careers-page customisation	Standard	CMS-like
Multi-job-board posting
KI fit-score with reasoning		Add-on
GDPR auto-anonymisation		Configurable
Multi-voice scorecards
Free tier		18-day trial
Starting price	€0 / €1 / €10 / month	from ~€199/month
Contract model	Monthly	Monthly or annual

When to pick which

Pick KI BMS when

You have 5-30 open roles per quarter and KI reading would be a bigger lever than yet another prettier careers page.

GDPR auto-anonymisation + hosting in Germany matter more than multi-poster.

Free tier hands-on, monthly cancellation, direct founder line.

Pick Recruitee when

Your careers page is a central marketing platform - brand, storytelling, employee voices.

Multi-job-board distribution must be deeply integrated and cover 50+ boards.

You already use Recruitee - the workflow fits, switching cost isn't justified.

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

Julia Yukovich

Co-Founder + CEO

Julia is one of the Co-Founders. She handles design, product direction, and most of the support replies that arrive in the morning.

julia.yukovich at aicuflow dot comLinkedIn