How Fontvera works

Fontvera is built for legal professionals who work with EU digital regulation.

If your work touches GDPR, the AI Act, NIS2, DORA, DSA, DMA, the Cyber Resilience Act, ePrivacy, or the Data Act, Fontvera gives you faster, cited answers than manual research.

That includes:

• Law firms advising clients on cross-border EU compliance
• In-house legal and compliance teams at companies operating across EU jurisdictions
• Data Protection Officers managing multi-country obligations
• Regulatory affairs teams tracking enforcement and guidance changes
• Compliance consultancies advising on AI Act readiness, GDPR, or financial regulation

Whether the question is simple ("What does DORA Article 19 require?") or complex ("How do AI Act transparency obligations conflict with GDPR data minimisation across Germany and the Netherlands?"), Fontvera answers it in seconds with full citations to primary sources.

What makes Fontvera different

We don't just search documents. We map obligations, identify conflicts between regulations, and tell you exactly what applies to your organization.

Our cross-regulatory mapping found 32 direct conflicts between EU regulations. For example: AI Act Article 10 requires processing personal data for bias detection. GDPR Article 17 grants the right to erasure. These directly conflict. We show you how to navigate both.

Every answer includes specific article citations, authority references, and enforcement precedents. Not generic AI summaries.

Why Fontvera

No competitor has what we built.

Our embedding model was trained on 2.16 million legal cross-references using the LUMI European supercomputer in Finland, one of the world's most powerful machines. Our search understands legal concepts across languages and jurisdictions, not just keywords.

We identified 32 direct conflicts between EU regulations that nobody else has mapped. A competitor starting today would need 6–12 months and access to a supercomputer to replicate our foundation.

What we cover

Fontvera tracks the regulations that matter for cross-border European operations — every primary instrument, every guidance document, every enforcement decision we can verify against an authoritative source.

Which authorities

Decisions, guidance and case law from every major European regulator — at the EU level and across each Member State we cover.

EU-Sovereign infrastructure

Every byte of Fontvera runs on European infrastructure. Our application servers and PostgreSQL database sit in Hetzner data centres in Germany and Finland. Our language models — Mistral Embed for retrieval, Mistral Small and Mistral Medium for generation — run in Mistral AI's Paris infrastructure.

No US cloud dependency. No data leaves European servers. No model training on customer queries. GDPR compliant by design, not by contract addendum.

Trust by design

No third-party tracking. No Google Analytics. No cookies that require consent. Your queries never leave EU servers.

Our language models run on Mistral AI infrastructure in Paris. Our servers sit in Hetzner data centres in Finland.

We built Fontvera the way we would want a compliance tool built: private, transparent, and sovereign. We practice what we help you comply with.

How search works

Every query is answered by a two-stage pipeline. Semantic search across 316,000+ embedded documents retrieves the most contextually relevant primary sources — not just keyword matches. The retrieved context is then summarised by Mistral into a structured briefing, with every claim grounded in a citation. 3,247 obligations and 219 cross-regulatory references from our Job 3 extraction layer enrich every briefing with article-level deadlines, penalties, and conflict warnings.

Cross-references between related documents — 1.2 million resolved citations between regulations, guidance, and case law — let the same query surface what an authority said, what a court ruled, and what a peer regulator concluded, all on one page.