Co-Founder, Harpocrates Solutions GmbH
28 years leading data and AI initiatives across automotive, tech, and telco. Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Saw firsthand how large enterprises are crushed by regulatory bureaucracy, built HARPOCRATES COMPLY to fix it.
Compliance GuidesWhat a compliance spreadsheet cannot hold as a data structure, the signals it is time to move off it, and how to migrate one regime at a time.
Compliance GuidesThere is no single price, cost is driven by how many regimes, entities and jurisdictions you cover. Here are the real drivers, the common pricing models, and what to compare the number against.
Compliance GuidesThree ways to handle EU regulatory requirements: external consultants, an in-house team, and compliance software, with an honest comparison of where each one wins.
Compliance GuidesThe EU AI Act applies if you develop, place on the market, or deploy AI systems that touch the EU. Your requirements scale with the risk tier, here are the four tiers and what each one requires.
Compliance GuidesNIS2 applies to medium-sized and larger entities in a defined list of essential and important sectors, plus some entities regardless of size. Here is how to check whether you are in scope, sector first, then size.
ArchitectureChecking a draft contract or a live incident against European law by running it through a foreign AI transmits the full text to a provider under foreign jurisdiction. That is a disclosure, and it may be one you never learn about.
SovereigntyEurope is building sovereign payments and sovereign AI. The system that reads its own regulation still runs on foreign software.
SovereigntyThe 3 June package targets chips, cloud, and AI. It says almost nothing about the systems that interpret Europe’s own regulation.
RegulationFor most companies, compliance still lives in a spreadsheet held together by one overworked person. It breaks in four predictable places.
RegulationDORA made banks map every critical technology provider. Few have turned that discipline on the software they use to manage compliance itself.
GeopoliticsIn 2019 three of Europe’s largest economies built a mechanism to trade around US sanctions. Its near-total failure is the clearest lesson in dependency Europe has.
SovereigntyThe term is appearing on every European vendor’s website. Most uses describe where data sits, not who controls it.