Sphinx · Privacy Gateway

The AI sees only the mask.
Your data stays with you.

Wiresphere Sphinx is the privacy gateway between your organization and any large language model: personal and business-critical data is detected and pseudonymized in real time before a request leaves your instance — the response is then resolved locally again. This lets you use GPT, Claude & Co. in a GDPR-compliant way.

The Problem

Every prompt is a data export.

As soon as employees copy customer data, contracts or support tickets into an LLM, personal data leaves the company — often to third countries and without a legal basis. GDPR requires data minimization, the AI Act requires traceability. Banning AI tools is not the answer — a controlled path is.

Sphinx resolves this trade-off: full LLM performance for your teams and modules — without plaintext data ever leaving your instance. Pseudonymization within the meaning of Art. 4(5) GDPR — the mapping table stays exclusively with you.

How It Works

Four steps. Milliseconds.

01 · Detect

Real-time PII Detection

Sphinx detects names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, IBANs, customer and contract numbers, health and salary data — context-aware, multilingual, even in free text.

02 · Mask

Format-preserving Pseudonyms

Detected data is replaced with consistent placeholders ("Jane Smith" → "Person_7"). The LLM retains the full context — just without plaintext data.

03 · Query

To Any LLM of Your Choice

The masked request goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, an EU model or your own — Sphinx is provider-agnostic and works as a transparent proxy.

04 · Resolve

Re-identification Only Locally

The response is de-masked within your instance. The mapping table exists only in the isolated Sphinx scope — ephemeral or tamper-proof, depending on policy.

Live demo

Mask. Request. Resolve.

This is Sphinx working in real time: sensitive data is detected and masked before the request leaves your instance — the LLM only sees placeholders, and the response is resolved locally.

🛡SPHINX PRIVACY GATEWAYGateway active
Your request (instance)

Mapping table — stays local
LLM (external)

Response in your instance

✓ Clear data never left your instance
Features

Built for the EU market.

01

Policy Engine per Data Class

Define what happens for each data class: mask, block or pass through — configurable differently by department, module or LLM provider.

02

Tamper-proof Audit Log

Who sent which request to which model, and when — and what was masked? Export for data protection officers and AI Act documentation included.

03

EU Hosting or On-Premises

Sphinx runs inside your Wiresphere instance — in the EU cloud or entirely in your own data center. The mapping table never leaves it.

04

Seamlessly Integrated in the Ecosystem

Connected as a Wiresphere module via the Service Broker: Nova, CRM, workflows and your own modules automatically route their LLM calls through Sphinx.

05

Multilingual Detection

Detection models for German, English, French, Polish, Italian and more — including industry-specific patterns such as case numbers or item numbers.

06

Custom Detection Rules

Add your company vocabulary via regex, dictionary or example-based training — for instance project names, internal codes or price lists that no LLM should see.

Pricing

Start small, scale sovereignly.

Sphinx is licensed per Wiresphere instance — regardless of which and how many LLMs you use behind it.

Community

Sphinx Free

€0

For self-hosting and getting started: basic detection for standard personal data in German and English.

  • Basic PII classes (name, email, phone, IBAN)
  • Detection in German & English
  • 1 LLM provider connection
  • Community support
Start with Free
Recommended

Sphinx Pro

from €149 / month per instance

For production use: all data classes, policy engine and tamper-proof audit log.

  • All data classes incl. health & financial data
  • Detection in 25+ languages
  • Policy engine & unlimited providers
  • Audit log with DPO export
  • Email support next business day
Request Sphinx Pro
Enterprise

Sphinx Enterprise

from €490 / month per instance

For regulated industries: custom detection models, on-prem clusters and contractual guarantees.

  • Everything in Sphinx Pro
  • Custom detection models & company vocabulary
  • On-premises cluster with high availability
  • DPA, SLA & dedicated point of contact
  • AI Act documentation package
Talk to Enterprise

All prices plus VAT. Sphinx Pro and Enterprise are available as an add-on to Wiresphere Cloud as well as for self-hosting instances. Processing by Sphinx itself takes place exclusively within your instance; downstream LLM providers are subject to their own data processing terms.

Use AI without giving up your data.

See in a demo how Sphinx masks your prompts — with examples from your everyday work.