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title: "Data Residency in Somalia: Where Your Data Lives | Soulthread"
description: "How we keep personal and sensitive data in Somalia: residency by architecture, on your premises or with a hosting provider you choose, local AI on open-weight models, and no hidden dependencies."
url: https://soulthread.group/so/sovereignty/
language: en
---

Sovereignty and data residency

# Your data stays in Somalia. Here is how.

We keep personal and sensitive data in Somalia: with a hosting provider you choose, or on your own premises when it must not leave the building. We did not build compliance on top of our products. We built our products on top of compliance.

[Request an architecture review](https://soulthread.group/so/contact/?need=review)

[Read the principles](https://soulthread.group/so/sovereignty/#principles)

The principles

## Five principles we build by

1.  ### Residency by architecture
    
    Storage, processing, and AI inference are placed in Somalia at design time. A system that cannot leak data abroad is safer than a policy that says it should not.
    
2.  ### No hidden dependencies
    
    We document every external service a system touches. If a component would send data outside the country, it is replaced or removed before delivery.
    
3.  ### The owner decides
    
    Data moves only when the organization that owns it makes an explicit, recorded decision, and only where the data protection law in force in Somalia allows.
    
4.  ### Auditable foundations
    
    Our AI runs on open-weight models that clients and regulators can inspect. Our proprietary products sit on top, and you know exactly where the line is.
    
5.  ### You can leave
    
    Documentation, training, and agreed source access mean that you are never dependent on us either. Sovereignty that ends at your vendor is not sovereignty.
    

Deployment options

## Where your systems can run

| Option | Where it runs | Best for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| On-premises | Servers inside your own facility | Health data, financial records, and other data that must stay on-site |
| Hosted | Data centers of a hosting provider you choose, in Somalia if residency requires it | Personal data and business systems that need residency without on-site hardware |
| Hybrid | Sensitive workloads on-site, the rest with your hosting provider | Organizations with mixed data sensitivity |

Local AI in practice

## Modern AI, inside your perimeter

**Models**  
Open-weight language, vision, and speech models, selected and tuned for your domain and for content in Arabic, French, and English.

**Inference**  
Runs on hardware that you or your hosting provider controls. No prompt, document, or record is sent to an outside AI service.

**Private RAG**  
Your documents are indexed and queried inside your perimeter. The knowledge base is yours; the model only reads it under your access rules.

**Sizing**  
We help you choose hardware that fits the workload, from a single server to a cluster, and we tell you what each option costs and delivers.

What we ask of clients

## Sovereignty is shared work

We will need a clear owner for data decisions on your side, access to the environment where the system will live, and honesty about which data is sensitive.

In return, you get a system whose every data flow is on a diagram you can hand to a regulator.

Architecture review

## See where every byte lives

Tell us about the system you run or plan to build, and we will map where its data is stored, processed, and sent.

[Request an architecture review](https://soulthread.group/so/contact/?need=review)

Or write to contact \[at\] soulthread.group

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