The AI Security Gateway.
GuCoIA secures and routes every request — and supports your compliance.
GuCoIA Gateway sits between your application and any AI model — whether cloud, a European LLM hoster, or an on-premise model. It blocks threats, routes requests intelligently, and creates auditability at ease.
- 3-tier
- sensitivity routing
- BYOM
- Ready
- OWASP
- LLM Top 10
Standards we work to
Sovereign AI, Without the Trade-offs
Cut your AI costs and keep your data sovereign — security, intelligent routing, and support for your compliance in one gateway.
Security Enforcement
Block prompt injection, PII leakage, and jailbreak attempts before they reach the model — the OWASP LLM risk classes serve as the baseline for our countermeasures, so you're protected against the most important attacks as far as possible.
- Prompt injection detection
- PII / sensitive data blocking
- Jailbreak attempt detection
- Audit log for every request
Automatic Cost Routing
Route simple requests to cheaper models automatically. Pay frontier prices only when a frontier model is actually needed.
- Task complexity classification
- Configurable routing rules
- Cost dashboard & savings report
- No vendor lock-in — switch models any time
GDPR & AI Act Ready
Every request logged, auditable, and sovereign. On-premise keeps data inside your infrastructure; a European cloud option keeps it under EU jurisdiction.
- On-Prem: data stays in your infrastructure
- Cloud: managed, EU-hosted option
- GDPR-compliant audit log
- GDPR data minimisation by default
RouteLLM study, UC Berkeley / LMSYS (2024): 85% cost savings at 95% of frontier-model output quality.
Example — €5.000/month OpenAI spend
4–8 Weeks to ROI
Gateway pays for itself before security and compliance benefits are even counted.
95% Output Quality
Routing sends complex tasks to the frontier model of your choice. Simple tasks go to cheaper models. Quality stays.
Configurable per Team
Adapts to the needs of the department using it. IP is processed with local models; engineering gets frontier.
Your business model stays yours.
When you train Big Tech's models with your workflows, prices, and customers, you hand over the blueprint of your business. Sovereign AI keeps that blueprint inside your walls — and gives you optimisation levers cloud providers structurally cannot offer.
We support your local AI strategy end to end — from advisory to support with custom finetuning, ensemble validation, async model scheduling, and any questions about your AI strategy.
Local Finetuning & LoRA
Finetune local models or train LoRA adapters on your own data — capabilities cloud APIs throttle or charge enterprise prices for. The model learns your domain, not the other way around.
PII Filtering & Data Reduction
The gateway filters sensitive data and PII before any request leaves your network, and minimises what is sent by default — data protection enforced by design.
Threat Blocking
Prompt-injection and jailbreak attempts are detected and blocked at the gateway, before they ever reach your model — the OWASP LLM risk classes serve as the baseline for our countermeasures, so you're always protected against the most important attack classes.
Control the Model — Not the Other Way Around
Big cloud models change, deprecate, or silently swap versions under you. A local model is the same model, with the same behaviour, for as long as you need it — no surprise regressions.
Audit Trail & Sovereignty
Every request is logged and auditable, and your data stays within your network. GDPR Art. 25 by architecture — Schrems II concerns and Transfer Impact Assessments simply don't apply.
Predictable Local Cost
Fixed hardware investment instead of volatile per-token API bills. As frontier prices swing, your local model costs stay predictable and immune to disruption — Fable 5 export restrictions don't touch them.
Your AI chance, not your AI risk. Reduce costs, increase productivity — and keep your business model out of Big Tech's training pipeline.
See How Our Product Delivers ThisThe right model for every request
GuCoIA routes by data sensitivity and task complexity — automatically.
Everyday tasks
Emails, drafts, summaries → small local models on your own hardware.
Confidential data
Sensitive documents → European providers (GLM 5.2, KIMI K2.6) under EU jurisdiction.
Hardest problems
Complex reasoning → the US frontier model of your choice.
How We Work
Consult
We start with what you actually need — where AI creates real wins for your business, and where it does not. An honest assessment, not a sales pitch.
Enable
We deploy the enabling technology — our Gateway — so your teams use AI securely, with routing and data sovereignty built in.
Optimize
We track performance and continuously optimize output quality while keeping risks and costs under control.
Why GuCoIA?
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Security-First Posture
AI security as core infrastructure, not a compliance checkbox. OWASP LLM Top 10, threat modeling, and gateway design from a single source.
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Actionable, Not Theoretical
Hardened configurations, documented setups, and documentation that survives audits — not slide decks.
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NRW Expertise, Unique Focus
Only NRW provider combining a security-first AI gateway with local inference. SME pricing, no enterprise minimum volumes.
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SME Pricing
Well below Big-4 rates. No enterprise minimum volumes. Security-first quality at mid-market budget.
"GuCoIA puts German SMEs back in control of their AI infrastructure — security-first, local, sovereign."
Mike Thieke
Founder, GuCoIA · Bochum, Germany
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