6 EU AI Act compliance pitfalls for consulting firms
Six critical EU AI Act and GDPR compliance pitfalls for consulting firms, from unvetted AI acceptable use policies to automation bias and cross-border data transfers.
We provide European small and medium-sized enterprises with their own secure AI deployments. Empower your team with tailored tools whilst maintaining compliance under GDPR and the EU AI Act.
THE PROBLEM
Many SMEs face a critical dilemma: ban AI and fall behind, or allow unvetted tools and risk data leaks. Beyond the loss of client trust, the latter creates massive exposure to GDPR and EU AI Act penalties.
When employees use consumer-grade AI tools, confidential data may be leaked into public models and used for training.
Generic AI chatbots require complex prompt engineering to achieve a professional standard, and employees often waste valuable hours removing hallucinated content and AI slop.
Navigating the requirements of the EU AI Act and GDPR requires specialised expertise that may be too costly for many SMEs.
OUR SOLUTION
A sovereign AI workspace designed for professional services firms. LumosGPT equips your team with fully private language models and bespoke workflow personas, ensuring your proprietary data remains completely isolated and aligned with European data protection standards.
Your prompts, documents, and data remain confined to a dedicated EU-hosted environment. Inputs are never used for model training or exposed to third parties.
Choose the underlying AI model that fits your needs. Whether you require a highly capable model for complex analysis or a lighter, cost-effective option, we deploy your choice into your secure environment.
We configure bespoke profiles based on your firm's requirements and style guide. This reduces the need for complex prompt engineering and delivers high-quality drafts on the first attempt.
Your question is encrypted the moment you hit send. It travels directly to a secure data centre. The entire journey stays within the EU, under EU law.
AWS EU · PrivateLink VPC · No public internet transitYour workspace is completely sealed off from every other client. You have your own virtual servers and segregated data storage. A 24/7 firewall actively blocks hackers and cyber threats before they get anywhere near you.
Dedicated ECS containers · Segregated S3 buckets · AWS WAFYour team works in a professional workspace where they can switch between top AI models and use personas tailored specifically to your firm. The result: less time wasted editing, and higher output quality.
Modular system personas · Multi-model orchestrationThe AI model runs entirely inside your private EU environment. Your data is never used to train future AI models, by anyone.
AWS Bedrock private execution · Zero provider API transit · Contractual and architectural training prohibitionEvery interaction is encrypted with keys that only your workspace can open, both while being transmitted and while stored. Audit records are saved automatically for 6 months, keeping you compliant with the EU AI Act without any manual effort.
KMS Customer Managed Keys with auto rotation · EU AI Act Article 12 compliant · Automated lifecycle policiesPRICING
Our pricing is structured in three parts: a one-off setup fee, a monthly license, and flexible overage when you need it.
Starting from €8,000
This one-off fee covers the technical deployment of your dedicated server environment. It includes the engineering time required to build and integrate up to 5 custom workflow personas tailored to your firm's requirements, ensuring your team is productive from day one.
From €35 per user, per month
This covers the ongoing maintenance, security updates, and secure hosting of your sovereign workspace. To keep your operational costs predictable, every seat includes a monthly compute allowance.
Per 1,000 tokens
If your team members exceed their monthly allowances, you can purchase additional tokens to keep your workflow running. Set spending limits for your whole organisation or by team member to maintain control of your costs.
European Focus
Our methodology is grounded in EU regulation, including GDPR and the EU AI Act. No off-the-shelf US-centric checklists.
Insights
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About Us
Regulumos provides secure, sovereign AI workspaces for European SMEs. We combine regulatory expertise with robust software engineering to deliver LumosGPT, a compliant AI solution that protects your proprietary data under the GDPR and the EU AI Act, whilst accelerating your workflows.
Regulatory and strategic expertise meets technical execution.

Founder
Larissa is a strategy consultant specialising in highly regulated industries and European regulatory frameworks. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford, alongside a dual Master’s degree in European and International Relations from Sciences Po, Paris, and Fudan University, Shanghai. Her background includes experience at PIVOT Economics, McKinsey & Company, the European Policy Centre, and Oxford Analytica.

CTO
Paulo is a computer scientist and engineering leader with 15 years of experience in AI, software architecture, data science, and product management. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Brasília and an M.Sc. in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His background includes experience at Flix, Check24 and Caixa Econômica Federal.
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