PRESS RELEASE · 15 October 2026
Fictitious press release. This article describes a vision we are actively building towards. We are looking for partners and early adopter customers who want to be first with a 100 % Swedish AI stack. Get in touch if you want in.
100 % Swedish: we closed the last back door
lights-out.ai announces that its entire platform stack (infrastructure, AI inference and agent runtime) now runs exclusively on Swedish soil, operated by Swedish companies, under Swedish law. Our platform runs on Swedish infrastructure, which means your lights-out.ai instance does too. No data leaves the country. No foreign government can subpoena it.
Background
Throughout 2025 and the first half of 2026, we have listened to the same conversation in boardroom after boardroom. It goes roughly like this: "We want to use AI. But where does the data end up? Who owns the model? Can US authorities request it under the Cloud Act?"
It is a reasonable question. It was simply asked about two years too late. The Cloud Act was enacted in 2018.
The Swedish Cybersecurity Act, implementing the EU NIS2 Directive, entered into force earlier this year. It codifies what many already knew but did not act on: European organisations with essential functions need to control their data. Not in theory. In practice.
We decided to stop waiting for the market to mature and chose partners who had already built the stack. Then we wired the parts together inside the platform, so every customer running lights-out.ai automatically inherits the same jurisdiction.
The stack
The lights-out.ai platform now runs on three layers, all with Swedish ownership and Swedish jurisdiction. The same stack applies whether you are on the Entry, Standard or Enterprise tier.
Infrastructure: Safespring and Elastx. Compute, storage and Kubernetes in Swedish data centres. No data crosses the national border. No American parent company with reporting obligations. Safespring has consistently ranked highest among European cloud providers in independent benchmarks throughout 2026. Elastx delivers managed Kubernetes in Stockholm with the kind of stability that makes you forget the infrastructure exists, which is the entire point.
AI inference: Berget AI. Open-source models on dedicated GPU hardware in Kista, Stockholm. No customer data is used for training. No data is shared with third parties. The API is OpenAI-compatible, which means migrating from American services takes roughly one afternoon and a cup of coffee. We know. We have done it.
Agent runtime: SafeZone and GuardRails. SafeZone is our security-classified runtime for AI agents and code automation, operated inside Partnersense Cloud. GuardRails is the quality and safety framework that wraps every piece of AI-generated code in the platform. Agents such as Ember and Umbra run in isolated containers with full audit trails, role-based access control and encrypted communication between every step in the workflow. Everything is logged. Nothing is sent home to California.
Why it matters
For a Swedish e-commerce company handling customer data, payment flows and product information, the question is no longer whether they can afford a Swedish stack. The question is whether they can afford not to have one.
GDPR has always required that personal data be protected. Schrems II established that American cloud services do not automatically meet that standard. The Cybersecurity Act raises the bar further for organisations classified as essential. And if your company generates enough revenue to employ a CTO, it probably generates enough to be covered.
What we offer is not a compromise. It is a complete platform, from model to operations, that never needs to pass through a jurisdiction you do not control. You build your own on top, inside GuardRails, with owned code and no technical debt.
What we are not saying
We are not saying that American cloud services are bad. They are excellent. We are saying that depending on them carries a legal risk that most Swedish companies have chosen to ignore, and that this choice becomes harder to defend with every passing quarter.
Nor are we claiming this was our idea. Safespring, Elastx and Berget AI built the infrastructure. AI Sweden funded the foundational research. We did the thing we are good at: connected the parts into a platform and put them to work.
Contact
Stefan Sånnell, Founder
hello@spinout.se
Spinout AB
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