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2026-10-24

Self-hosting and data residency, in plain terms

"Where does the data go?" is the question that stops more enterprise AI rollouts than price does. Residency and self-hosting are different answers.

"Where does the data go?" is the question that stops more enterprise AI rollouts than price does.

Two answers matter, and they are often confused.

Data residency is where your data is stored and processed. If work cannot leave a jurisdiction or a specific environment, this decides whether a tool is usable at all.

Self-hosting is who runs the system. Running it in your own environment means your models, keys, and tool access sit behind infrastructure you control.

For a lot of 1,000+ employee companies, the honest blocker is not capability. It is whether the answer to that question survives a security review.

Bolt for Enterprise supports self-hosting and data residency, alongside SSO/SCIM, admin audit, and a gateway that governs models, keys, and tools in one place.

If your security review keeps coming back with the same objection, that is usually a sign you are solving it at the wrong layer.

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