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Govern every AI call before it becomes
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obstruo is a lightweight AI Governance Control Plane that helps teams enforce policy, protect sensitive data, monitor model and agent behavior, and maintain auditability across applications, LLMs, and AI agents.

WHY IT MATTERS

AI is moving through your business faster than governance can keep up.

Every AI interaction can expose sensitive data, trigger unsafe behavior, create audit gaps, or increase cost without visibility.

obstruo gives companies a practical AI control plane for enforcing governance across models, agents, applications, and providers — before risk, cost, and ownership become fragmented.

Does this sound familiar?

An employee sends customer data to an AI model

obstruo detects and masks sensitive information before it reaches the provider.

A team switches from one LLM provider to another

obstruo keeps governance, logs, and routing rules consistent across providers.

A regulator asks what AI told a customer

obstruo provides audit-ready records instead of forcing teams to search through multiple vendor dashboards.

A prompt tries to override system instructions

obstruo detects suspicious patterns and applies configured controls.

What Obstruo does

01.

PII & Sensitive Data Masking

Detect and mask personal or sensitive data before it reaches an LLM.

02.

Prompt-Injection Filtering

Reduce the risk of malicious instructions, jailbreak attempts, and unsafe prompt patterns.

03.

Policy Enforcement

Apply rules for models, tools, actions, outputs, clients, or risk levels.

04.

AI Observability

Track prompts, responses, tool calls, latency, errors, costs, and policy events.

05.

Model Routing

Route between providers based on cost, performance, quality, or governance requirements.

06.

Cloud & On-premise Deployment

Start quickly in the cloud and move toward self-hosted deployment when needed.

Controls that support EU AI Act and GDPR readiness.

obstruo helps teams create the visibility, policies, and records needed for responsible AI governance. It supports readiness workflows around transparency, data protection, risk management, and human oversight.

obstruo  does not replace legal advice or certify compliance. It gives your technical and compliance teams practical controls they can operate.

Easy to integrate. Built to stay out of the way.

How It Works

1. Connect your application

Install the lightweight obstruo library and connect your application to the obstruo control plane.

2. Apply governance rules

Configure governance policies for data protection, prompt security, model usage, routing, guardrails, and alerts.

3. Monitor every interaction

Monitor AI activity, policy events, costs, latency, errors, and model behavior from one governance dashboard.

4. Scale across teams and clients

Extend governance consistently across applications, providers, agents, teams, and deployment environments.

Benefits by Team

Built for organizations where AI cannot be unmanaged

Engineering

Add governance without rebuilding your stack. Monitor performance, errors, model usage, and costs.

Compliance

Create audit trails, review policy events, and support EU AI Act and GDPR readiness workflows.

Security

Reduce exposure to prompt injection, sensitive-data leaks, and unsafe tool usage.

Product

Ship AI-powered features with guardrails already built into the workflow.

Leadership

Understand where AI is used, what it costs, and where business risk may appear.

Multi-client native

Apply different rules for different clients, environments, or regulatory contexts.

Why obstruo instead of hyperscaler-native controls?

Why not just use provider-native controls?

Hyperscaler tools are usually built around their own ecosystem. obstruo is designed as a neutral control layer across providers, models, applications, agents, and deployment environments.

Use obstruo when you need to:

– avoid locking AI governance into one vendor ecosystem
– apply the same rules across multiple LLM providers
– keep audit evidence independent from model providers
– support country-specific or client-specific data requirements
– move toward sovereign AI and self-hosted deployment when needed

Hyperscalers provide models and infrastructure. obstruo provides the independent control layer above them.

Before obstruo
  • AI calls go directly to providers.
  • Sensitive data may reach external logs.
  • Audit trails are fragmented across dashboards.
  • Each team creates its own rules.
  • Security and compliance react after deployment.
After obstruo
  • Every AI call passes through one control layer.
  • Sensitive data is masked before reaching providers.
  • Policies are enforced consistently.
  • Audit evidence is centralized.
  • Teams can adopt AI faster without losing control.

Sovereign AI starts with control

Sovereign AI is not only about where a model runs. It is about who controls the data, the rules, the routing decisions, and the audit evidence.

obstruo helps organizations keep control over:

– what data can reach AI providers
– where AI traffic can be processed
– which models can be used for specific use cases
– what evidence is stored for audit and compliance
– how incidents trigger alerts or additional actions

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

Start in the cloud.
Move on-premise when control matters most.

obstruo is designed for fast adoption today and stronger data sovereignty as your AI governance requirements grow.

Deploy obstruo as a managed SaaS gateway for quick pilots and product teams, or move to a self-hosted setup when your security, compliance, or client requirements demand tighter control.

Cloud SaaS

Fastest setup

Managed by obstruo.ai
For fast pilots, product teams, and startups that want managed infrastructure and quick onboarding.
  • Managed gateway infrastructure
  • Central admin dashboard
  • PII masking and routing layer
  • Usage, latency, and cost visibility
  • Best for pilots and early production rollouts
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On-premise

Maximum data control

Built for enterprise control
For enterprises and regulated environments that require stronger data sovereignty, and tighter control over AI.
  • Deploy within your own infrastructure
  • Keep sensitive traffic under your control
  • Support stricter client or regulatory requirements
  • Designed for high-control AI environments
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What is obstruo?

obstruo is an AI Governance Control Plane for applications, LLMs, and AI agents. It helps organizations enforce policies, protect sensitive data, monitor behavior, and maintain auditability before and after AI interactions.

What does an AI control plane do?

An AI Governance Control Plane is a centralized layer for enforcing policies, monitoring usage, protecting sensitive data, and maintaining oversight across AI applications, models, and agents. Unlike a basic API gateway, it is designed to support governance, risk controls, observability, and auditability across your AI stack.

Does obstruo.ai make us compliant with the EU AI Act?

No software can automatically guarantee EU AI Act compliance. obstruo supports AI Act readiness by helping teams create audit trails, apply policies, monitor AI activity, reduce sensitive-data exposure, and document AI interactions. Your final compliance position depends on your use case, risk classification, internal processes, and legal review.

Can obstruo block prompt-injection attacks?

obstruo is designed to detect and reduce prompt-injection risk by filtering suspicious prompt patterns and enforcing policies around model behavior, tool usage, and allowed actions. As with any security layer, it should be used as part of a broader defense strategy rather than treated as a complete guarantee.

Can we use obstruo with different LLM providers?

Yes. obstruo is designed to sit between your application and AI providers, making it easier to route, monitor, and govern AI calls across different models. Dynamic model switching and routing based on cost, quality, or performance are part of the roadmap.

Can obstruo be deployed on-premise?

Yes, an on-premise version is part of the platform direction for organizations that require stronger data sovereignty, self-hosted infrastructure, or restricted outbound connectivity. Availability and implementation details depend on your onboarding plan and technical requirements.

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