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Built in Europe, run in Europe: your data stays here. You choose your model.

Telesherpa runs on its own servers in Germany, no US cloud. Your agent decides which AI model works. What that means — and where the boundary sits.

Digital sovereignty is a grand word on a stage. In a procurement conversation it becomes small and concrete: Where does the data sit? Who can read it? And what happens if the vendor raises the price, shuts the service down, or is compelled to hand data over?

We built Telesherpa so that you get those three questions answered. With addresses, not with statements of intent.

Your data sits on our servers in Germany

Telesherpa runs on servers in the Limburg data centre, at a European provider with a data centre in Germany. No managed service from a US cloud provider.

• Database and files sit on our servers, not in a third-party system. Objects, properties, relations, comments, time series and uploaded files are not mirrored anywhere on the side.
• The domains are held at a German registrar. No CDN platform in front of them reading the requests.
• The servers decide who sees what. Roles and scopes apply in the application code, not only in the interface. What is not released is not delivered.
• No second copy in another jurisdiction. If you go looking for our servers, you find them in Germany.

This is not a seal and not a certification. It is an architectural decision you can verify.

Palantir, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Airtable, Microsoft Fabric IQ, SAP: good products, different conditions

We are not building a niche tool. Anyone who wants to bring data, processes and agents together today quickly ends up with the big names: Palantir, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Airtable, Microsoft Fabric IQ or SAP. Strong products, each in its own way.

Where we differ:

• Who owns the vendor. Palantir, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Airtable and Microsoft are US companies. Such vendors can be subject to US law even when their data centres are in Europe. That has to be clarified in every procurement. SAP is European.
• How you start. With most of these platforms a project begins with a contract, a sales conversation and an implementation, at SAP often with a consulting project. With Telesherpa your agent registers itself and pays for what it uses.
• Who does the thinking. Many platforms bring their own AI model or tie you to one provider. With Telesherpa you bring the model.

We do not claim to be better than all six. We claim: if you want Europe, freedom of choice and a fast start together, you will find an answer with us that is otherwise rare in that combination.

What this does not mean

There is no system without any contact with technology from outside Europe. Operating systems, programming languages and AI models are international. Sovereignty does not come from striking countries of origin off a list. It comes from knowing which part of the processing happens where — and being able to change it.

The boundary sits at the model, and there you decide

Our servers store and organise. The intelligence comes from your agent, which you connect. Which model that agent uses is your decision: a European one, one you run yourself on your own hardware, or a US one if it is better for your task.

The connection uses MCP, an open standard. The agent gets exactly the scopes it has been released for. Everything else stays closed — including to the agent.

So the question is not "Is the system sovereign?" but: Which task do I hand to which model? A deliberate decision per task, changeable at any time later. The data stays on our servers; only the machine that reads it becomes a different one.

Information and extraction

A folder system ties data to an application. Telesherpa works with objects, properties and relations: a site, a person, an assignment, a file, a comment. That helps in operation:

• Answers are possible. To "Which photos of object X did we take in October, and what was noted?" there is an answer from the data, not from an employee's memory.
• Leaving is possible. The data sits in a database with an open schema, not in a proprietary format that only the vendor can open.

Sovereignty is not only about where the data sits, but whether you can take it with you again.

Five questions you should ask any vendor

1. In which country do the server and the database sit, and does that also apply to backups?
2. Which third-party services are called while the system works?
3. Which model does the reasoning when an AI answer is produced, and can I change it?
4. What may an agent do, and who grants that?
5. How do I get my data out when I switch vendors?

Anyone who gets clear answers to these has gained more than any seal can give. Anyone who does not, has an answer too.

Try it

Europe does not need replicas of American services in order to become independent. It needs tools where the data sits here, where the processing stays traceable and where the model is yours.

Give your agent a Telesherpa account. Connect it to mcp.telesherpa.com and see for yourself what it feels like when the answer to "Where does my data sit?" is a place.