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 Kenjo

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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Comparison

HR suite

Julia YukovichCo-Founder + CEO

·April 19, 2026·

3 min read

If your reason for moving off Kenjo 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

Kenjo is a fair pick when you want a lean all-in-one HR suite: personnel files, time tracking, shift planning, documents, reporting - and recruiting as an add-on module. The recruiting module is solid (careers page, many job-board connections, LinkedIn import, application phases, scorecards). For a team primarily digitalising HR admin, Kenjo is hard to beat. KI BMS is right when recruiting is the bottleneck and you want KI pre-sort with per-application reasoning as a default - not as another tab in an HR suite. Both host in the EU. If you need both, it's often cheap to run Kenjo for HR and KI BMS for recruiting side by side.

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. Kenjo'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 Kenjo: EU comparison

	Ours KI BMS	Theirs Kenjo
Hosting	In Germany	EU (incl. Frankfurt, Dublin)
Personnel files + time tracking
Shift planning + absence
Recruiting module	Specialist	Add-on module
Multi-job-board connection
LinkedIn candidate import
KI fit-score with reasoning		Scorecards manual, no KI score
Structured interviews + scorecards
GDPR auto-anonymisation		DPA + EU storage, anonymisation manual
Free tier		Trial / demo
Starting price	€0 / €1 / €10 per month	from ~€5.40/person/month + recruiting add-on
Contract model	Monthly cancellation	Monthly or annual (discount)

When to pick which

Pick KI BMS when

Recruiting is your bottleneck - 5+ open roles or 100+ applications per quarter someone has to read.

You want KI pre-sort with per-application reasoning as a default, not just manual scorecards.

You already have an HR suite (Kenjo, Personio, DATEV) and just need a better, deeper ATS alongside.

GDPR retention with auto-anonymisation as a built-in switch matters to you, not as a manual task.

Pick Kenjo when

Your first bottleneck is HR admin - files, time tracking, shift planning, absence, not recruiting.

You want multi-job-board posting and LinkedIn import directly from the HR software.

A single suite for everything is organisationally easier to procure than two specialists.

Your recruiting volume is low (1-4 roles a year) and the module is entirely sufficient.

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