Sovrakeep

The problem

A Canadian data centre is not Canadian jurisdiction.

Storing client data in a US provider's Toronto or Montréal region satisfies residency. It does not satisfy sovereignty: a US court can compel that provider to produce the data regardless of where the server sits. Law societies, CPA bodies, health authorities and Québec's Law 25 care about the second thing.

01 · Jurisdiction

Owned and operated in Canada

The servers are owned by a Canadian company, racked in a Canadian-owned colocation facility, and administered from Canada. Nothing in the chain reports to a US parent.

02 · Isolation

Your servers, nobody else's

Dedicated hardware, single tenant. Your model weights, prompts, documents and logs live on machines no other customer touches. You can audit that; you can't audit a shared API.

03 · Economics

Proven hardware at a fixed price

We lease production-proven GPU generations that run today's open-weight models comfortably, sourced on the institutional secondary market and independently verified. That is where the saving comes from.

	US hyperscaler, Canadian region	US AI API	Sovrakeep dedicated lease
Data stays in Canada	Yes	No	Yes
Outside US legal compulsion	No — US parent	No	Yes — Canadian owner and operator
Hardware shared with others	Usually	Always	Never
Pricing	Metered or 1–3 yr reserved, USD	Per token, variable	Fixed monthly, 36 months
Model choice	Any	Vendor's models	Any open-weight model; your fine-tunes
Hardware swap / upgrade	New reservation	n/a	5-day swap; upgrade option at month 24

What it costs

Size it to your firm. The number is the number.

A dedicated 8-GPU server serves a large firm's document review, drafting, summarization and search workloads with room to spare. Set your firm's size and workload below; the price is the fixed monthly lease, all in.

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Workload

Heavy document processing: thousands of pages a day through extraction, redaction or summarization pipelines.

Hardware class

Proven class runs 70B-parameter open models at interactive speed. Performance class roughly doubles throughput for the same server count.

Lease term36 months

Recommended

1 dedicated 8-GPU server · 8 GPUs

Fixed monthly lease

$6,424 USD / month

Sovrakeep lease

US cloud, reserved

US cloud, on-demand

You keep a year against reserved US-cloud pricing, and your clients' files stay under Canadian law.

Lease includes the servers, Canadian colocation, power, cooling, monitoring, hardware swap and remarketing at term end. Excludes your model licensing (open-weight models are free) and your own integration work. Comparators use published median reserved and on-demand GPU-hour rates for equivalent hardware on US-jurisdiction clouds, November 2026. Per-professional equivalent: /month.

How it works

Signed to serving in thirty days.

Day 0

Capacity review

A 45-minute working session on your workloads, your confidentiality obligations and your current AI spend. You get a written sizing and indicative terms within two business days.

Day 1–5

Terms and sourcing

You sign a dedicated-capacity lease. We source your exact server specification on the institutional secondary market and lock the price inside the same week.

Day 5–20

Verification and import

Every GPU is independently benchmarked before we accept it. Servers clear customs, ship to a Canadian-owned facility and are racked under our control.

Day 20–30

Commissioning

Your chosen models are deployed, your access is provisioned, and we hand you the keys with a monitoring dashboard. Under Seal document scrubbing can run on the same servers from day one.

The lease, in plain terms

You pay for servers, not for a meter. And you can leave.

We wrote the contract the way we would want to sign it as a tenant. Fixed price, dedicated hardware, and real rights to swap, upgrade or exit.

Fixed price, whole term

One monthly fee in USD for the full term. No usage tiers, no egress charges, no renewal repricing until the term ends.

Five-day hardware swap

A failed server is replaced from spares we hold for you within five business days, or you receive service credits. Uptime is our problem.

Upgrade at month 24

Move to a newer hardware generation on a fresh term and roll your remaining months into it. You are never stuck on yesterday's chips.

Exit after month 24

Ninety days' notice; you pay the remaining months only until we re-let the servers. Most tenants' obligation ends within a quarter.

Right to renew

First refusal to extend at then-market pricing, with a floor of 70% of your current rate. Prices for proven hardware have risen this year, not fallen.

Right to buy

At term end, you may purchase your servers outright at appraised value. Many firms choose to own the hardware they already trust.

Who this is for

Anyone whose duty to keep data under Canadian control is written down.

Credit unions, insurers, pension managers

Provincial regulators and OSFI's third-party-risk guideline ask where every outsourced workload runs and who can reach it. Member and policyholder data on servers you alone control.

Public bodies under FOIPPA and Law 25

Health authorities, universities, Crown corporations, municipalities. Canadian control is the procurement default; a dedicated server is the simplest way to prove it.

Law firms, CPA firms, wealth managers

Privilege, CRA data, KYC files. Document review, working papers, research and drafting with nothing sent to a US API.

Clinics, labs and medical-legal

PHIPA, PIPA and provincial health-privacy acts. Dictation, chart summarization and IME drafting on isolated hardware.

Controlled-goods and defence suppliers

Your registration requires Canadian-controlled handling. A US-parented cloud is not a risk to manage; it is a condition you cannot meet. This is.

Canadian software vendors and MSPs

Selling into the firms above means passing their security review. Run your product's AI on Sovrakeep servers and carry a sovereign answer into every deal. White-label terms available.

Questions firms ask

The ones we hear in every capacity review.

Why is previous-generation hardware good enough?

Training frontier models needs the newest chips. Running models for a firm does not. An 8-GPU A100-class server runs 70-billion-parameter open-weight models at interactive speed for dozens of simultaneous users, and the software that runs them keeps getting faster on the same hardware. Hyperscalers retire these servers because their specifications moved on; the servers did not stop working. The world's largest GPU cloud has signed contracts keeping this generation in service into 2029.

Is used hardware reliable?

Every GPU is independently benchmarked and stress-tested before we accept it, we buy refurbished units with warranty where available, and we hold spare servers for every tenant. If a server fails, it is swapped within five business days or you receive credits. Reliability risk sits with us under the lease, not with you.

What stops a US authority from reaching this data?

The US CLOUD Act compels companies subject to US jurisdiction. Sovrakeep is a Canadian corporation with no US parent, the facility is Canadian-owned, and administrative access is held in Canada. A foreign request would have to come through Canadian courts and treaty processes, exactly as it would for files in your own office.

Which models can we run?

Any open-weight model: the Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek and Gemma families and their fine-tuned derivatives, plus your own fine-tunes. We commission the stack you choose and hand you administrative control. If you later want a model that needs more memory, the upgrade option covers it.

What if our needs change?

Add servers at any time on the same terms. Upgrade to newer hardware at month 24. Exit after month 24 on ninety days' notice. The lease is built so that nobody is trapped: not you on old hardware, not us on an idle rack.

Why is this cheaper than a US cloud?

Three reasons. We buy proven hardware at a fraction of its new price. You commit to a fixed term, which lets us finance it efficiently and pass the saving through. And Canadian colocation runs on some of the cheapest clean power anywhere. None of the saving comes from sharing your servers with anyone else.

Can we start small?

Yes. Most firms begin with one server and a 30-day commissioning period, then add capacity as teams adopt it. A single server is a complete, isolated environment, not a slice of something bigger.

Request indicative terms

Tell us about your organization. We reply with a sizing and a price within two business days.

No sales call unless you want one. The reply is a one-page term summary you can take to your partners.

Received. You'll have a sizing and indicative terms within two business days. If it's urgent, write to hello@sovrakeep.com.

Sovrakeep is a Canadian company (the keep is yours; the jurisdiction is yours). Prices quoted in USD because the hardware and comparators are USD-denominated; CAD invoicing available at a fixed conversion for the term.