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 Prescreen

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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Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·December 28, 2025·

3 min read

If your reason for moving off Prescreen 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

Prescreen is a strong pick if your recruiting is tightly tied to the XING world - the onlyfy group (XING, New Work) brings a connection to XING candidates and multi-posting into that ecosystem, which we don't have in that form. For employers whose talent pool sits primarily on XING, that's a real lever. KI BMS is right when you want KI pre-sort with readable reasoning as a default, value public prices and monthly cancellation, and don't want to couple your recruiting to a single network. Both are DACH-centric and serious - they differ in ecosystem binding and generation of tooling.

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. Prescreen'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 Prescreen: EU comparison

	Ours KI BMS	Theirs Prescreen
Hosted in Germany		DACH hosting
XING / onlyfy talent-pool integration		Strong within the group
KI fit-score with reasoning		KI features rolling out
Multi-voice scorecards		Evaluation forms present
Careers page builder
GDPR auto-anonymisation		Configurable
Setup time	Hours	Days to weeks with onboarding
Pricing model	Public (€0 / €1 / €10 per month)	Quote-only, individual
Minimum term	None - monthly	Annual contract typical
API + webhooks + MCP		Interfaces yes, MCP no

When to pick which

Pick KI BMS when

You want KI pre-sort with readable reasoning as a default, without activating it as an add-on module.

Public prices and monthly cancellation matter to you - no quote-only annual contract.

Your talent pool isn't primarily on XING, and you don't want to couple your recruiting to a single network.

You want to be productive in hours, with a free tier rather than a guided onboarding phase.

Pick Prescreen when

Your talent pool and sourcing rely heavily on the XING world - the onlyfy group is built for that.

You want an established DACH vendor with a long market presence and guided onboarding.

Multi-posting into the XING / New Work ecosystem is a concrete reach lever for you.

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

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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