We need EU-hosted AI. Which one?

Both are European. Orq.ai hosts the inference and routing layer for apps you build. DocsOrb hosts the policy, inventory, and evidence layer for how people use AI at work. Different layers of the same sovereignty problem.

Does DocsOrb route LLM traffic?

No. DocsOrb evaluates employee AI use against published policies in the browser and over MCP. It does not sit in front of model APIs.

Yes. A clean split: Orq.ai governs the GenAI apps you ship; DocsOrb governs workplace AI policy, approved tools, and acknowledgment evidence.

DocsOrb vs Orq.ai

Orq.ai is a sovereign AI control plane for teams that build: an EU-hosted gateway, model routing, evals, observability, and request-level governance across the GenAI stack. DocsOrb is not trying to be that platform. It is the organization-owned policy layer for regulated SMBs — compliance and legal write the rule, employees acknowledge it, and DocsOrb enforces it on workplace AI use. If you are shipping agents and need an EU gateway, Orq.ai is the specialist. If you need policy, acknowledgments, and evidence for how people use AI, that’s DocsOrb.

Policy, not a gatewayEU-hosted, EN & DEBuilt for policy owners

What each product covers

Capability	DocsOrb	Orq.ai
Primary job	Govern employee AI use with policies, guardrails, and audit evidence	Build, route, observe, and govern GenAI applications through an EU AI gateway
Typical owner	Compliance, legal, HR, risk, and security	Engineering, platform, and AI product teams
Enforcement point	Browser Shield and MCP guardrails linked to published policies	Gateway routing rules, PII redaction, budgets, and request-level guardrails
Policy lifecycle & acknowledgments	Yes — authoring, approvals, employee portal, campaigns, training	Not the focus — org-wide routing and access policies for AI traffic
Model routing & observability	No — DocsOrb is not an LLM gateway	Yes — 400+ models, fallbacks, tracing, cost control, EU-hosted routing
European sovereignty	Built in Germany, EU-hosted, English and German product	Amsterdam-headquartered EU entity, EU-hosted gateway, ZDR and region filters
Best for	SMBs whose AI risk is workforce usage of third-party tools	Teams building production GenAI apps that need an EU control plane

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Which one fits your team?

Choose DocsOrb if…

You need to govern how employees use ChatGPT, Copilot, and similar tools
Policy owners in compliance, legal, HR, or security run the program
You need acknowledgments, training, and enforcement evidence — not a model router
You want governance live without standing up an AI platform

Choose Orq.ai if…

You are building or operating GenAI applications and need a production gateway
Model routing, evals, observability, and EU-sovereign inference control are the job
Engineering owns AI — not compliance rolling out employee policy

Frequently asked questions

No. Orq.ai is a sovereign AI gateway and agent platform. DocsOrb is a policy and employee-AI governance product. Competing with Orq.ai on routing and observability would be the wrong fight.

The policy layer your gateway doesn’t replace.

DocsOrb is for the teams who write the rules — compliance, legal, HR, and security — and need those rules enforced on employee AI use, with evidence.

DocsOrb

DocsOrb brings the policy, rollout, training, acknowledgment, and evidence work into one system once the manual process becomes too expensive to maintain.

Key features include:

Policy, not a gateway

EU-hosted, EN & DE

Built for policy owners

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