A process spec is worth more than the machine that runs it.
Keep it on your hardware.
Private LLM hosting on a dedicated machine in EU-Central, for manufacturers running document search, drawing analysis, or supplier correspondence review without sending proprietary process data through a shared AI product.
Not legal or trade compliance advice. This page describes GPUwerk's infrastructure and contractual commitments. It is not an opinion on your intellectual property strategy, your NDAs with suppliers, or export-control classification of your technical data. Check with your own legal team before deciding what can run where.
Why manufacturers end up asking about this
A process document that took a decade of tuning to write is not something most engineering teams want summarized by a public API. The same goes for a CAD-derived drawing, a supplier's cost breakdown, or an internal BOM.
"Our process documentation is the actual moat"
Tolerances, cycle times, and failure-mode notes accumulated over years are exactly the kind of content a public AI tool's terms may allow it to retain or review. On a GPUwerk instance, that documentation runs on hardware assigned to you alone. GPUwerk operates the machine but, under the data processing agreement, does not access your content except at your request for support or where a legal obligation requires it.
"Engineers already paste drawings into consumer AI tools"
Asking a public chatbot to explain a dimension callout or clean up a spec is common on shop floors and in engineering offices alike. A sanctioned alternative on your own instance, same chat interface, keeps that workflow off third-party infrastructure. See the private ChatGPT setup →
"Supplier data is contractually confidential"
Cost breakdowns, lead times, and capacity data shared under supplier NDAs carry their own confidentiality terms, separate from your own IP. A dedicated single-tenant machine means that data is processed on hardware no other tenant shares, with no other company's workload anywhere near it.
What's actually in the contract
For your general counsel or IT lead to review directly.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where does it run? | EU-Central, on a dedicated single-tenant machine assigned to your company |
| Who operates it? | PRINT IT! SE, a Societas Europaea registered in Prague, Czech Republic. No US parent entity. |
| Who can reach the instance? | Through the instance itself, only holders of your SSH keys; password login is disabled fleet-wide. GPUwerk keeps infrastructure administrator access to the underlying machine, as on any hosted service, and under the DPA does not use it on your content except at your request for support or where a legal obligation requires it. |
| Does GPUwerk read process documents or drawings? | No. We host the hardware and, under the DPA, do not access, read, copy, index or analyse workload content. |
| Sub-processors for the workload? | None, listed at /legal/sub-processors |
| DPA (GDPR Art. 28)? | Published at /legal/dpa, no charge |
| Data on termination? | Container and workspace volume deleted from the node, then the node is sanitised before reassignment. Filesystem deletion, not a cryptographic erase; export what you need before terminating, since it isn't reversible. |
Questions we get from manufacturers
Is it safe to put engineering drawings or process specs into an LLM?
That depends on where the model runs and who can reach it, not on the model itself. On a GPUwerk dedicated instance in EU-Central, the machine is assigned to you alone and reachable only through your SSH keys; GPUwerk does not access, read, copy, index or analyse what runs on it except at your request for support or where a legal obligation requires it. Whether a specific drawing or spec is safe to process at all, given your own IP and export-control obligations, is a decision for your own legal or trade compliance team.
Does GPUwerk train on our process documentation or supplier data?
No. GPUwerk operates infrastructure, not models. Your documents are processed by software you install on your own instance, and under our data processing agreement GPUwerk does not access that content except at your request for support or where legally required. There is nothing for GPUwerk to train on.
Do you sign a DPA covering supplier and employee data in these documents?
Yes, a standard GDPR Article 28 DPA is published at /legal/dpa at no charge. There are no sub-processors for instance workloads, listed at /legal/sub-processors.
What about export-controlled technical data?
GPUwerk can tell you where the hardware sits and who can reach it: EU-Central, dedicated, no US entity in the chain. Whether a specific technical drawing or spec is export-controlled, and what that means for where it can be processed, is a determination only your own compliance function can make.
Related pages
Keep the drawings and the model on the same floor.
Talk to the people who run the racks, or start with a pilot and a practical rollout plan.
Talk to us Deploy an instance