# Frequently Asked Questions

> Canonical page: https://saig.terraxon.eu/#faq
> Last updated: 2026-06-16

## What is SAIG?

SAIG is an OpenAI-compatible AI governance runtime that sits between applications, AI agents, and LLM providers. It evaluates every request against policy, protects sensitive data, controls provider routing and residency, and creates signed audit evidence.

## Is SAIG a chatbot?

No. SAIG is not a chatbot. It governs AI traffic from applications, backend services, copilots, governed chat interfaces, and agent-originated requests before requests reach an LLM provider.

## Does SAIG help with EU AI Act compliance?

SAIG provides runtime controls, logging, policy enforcement, risk classification, technical documentation support, and machine-readable evidence for EU AI Act governance workflows. It does not provide legal advice, certification, or a guarantee of compliance.

## How does SAIG protect sensitive data?

SAIG detects PII using hybrid regex and NER methods, classifies ownership and risk, anonymizes detected sensitive data when policy requires it, and performs outbound verification before provider egress.

## Can I use my existing AI provider?

Yes. SAIG supports provider abstraction and routing across OpenAI-compatible providers including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini through a unified API.

## Can SAIG be deployed on-premise?

Yes. SAIG can run as EU SaaS, private cloud, on-premise, air-gapped, or hybrid deployment depending on sovereignty, security, and operational requirements.

## How long does integration take?

For OpenAI-compatible clients, integration usually starts with changing the base URL and API key. More advanced deployments can add tenant policies, provider bindings, RBAC, SIEM export, and custom sovereignty rules.

## Does SAIG govern AI agents?

SAIG can track actor type and agent metadata in audit records. Agent Security features such as tool access policy findings and delegation audit evidence are available as Preview capabilities.

## Does SAIG guarantee GDPR compliance?

No. SAIG supports GDPR workflows through PII detection, anonymization, data minimization patterns, consent-related controls, and audit evidence, but it does not replace legal counsel or guarantee regulatory compliance.

## What evidence does SAIG create?

SAIG creates governance metadata, decision traces, risk explanations, and tamper-evident audit records using a SHA-256 hash chain and Ed25519 signatures.