Prompt Residency

Data residency commitments usually cover storage and quietly omit inference. An organization can host content within a jurisdiction and still send it abroad in every prompt, because the model call crosses a border the storage decision never addressed. Prompts and retrieved passages are the data, and a residency position that excludes them is incomplete in exactly the way a regulator will notice. The only configuration that resolves it without relying on contractual assurance is local inference.

Centralpoint supports embedded local models — Llama, Qwen and ONNX — running inside the organization's own infrastructure, with on-premises as a first-class deployment mode. Where local inference is used the prompt is never transmitted at all, which is the only form of residency that survives examination. 451 Research attributed the posture to serving regulated clients that cannot route data through external services.