AI gateway for accounting and audit firms, with client information kept under the firm's control
Standard Compute is the AI gateway accounting, audit and tax firms use to give staff and bookkeeping automation Claude, GPT and open models while ledgers, payroll and tax files stay under the firm's control. Through one API, each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it.
The firm sets the rules once: prompts are processed in Europe and not stored, and only the providers and models the firm approves can serve them.
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The short answers
- Can accountants use Claude and GPT on client files without the data being stored?
- Turn on zero data retention for the firm and every request goes only to inference endpoints that commit to keeping no copy. Standard Compute processes prompts in memory, never writes them to storage or logs, and never trains on them.
- What do the confidentiality rules ask of a firm that uses a service provider?
- Norway's Auditors Act § 10-1 and Accountants Act § 4-2 require the firm to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to information it receives. In Germany, § 62a StBerG and § 50a WPO allow service providers when needed, with careful selection, a contract in text form binding the provider to confidentiality, and comparable protection for services performed abroad.
- Can the firm see who used which model on which key?
- Yes. The request log shows the model, the provider that served it and the region rule for every request, kept for 12 months, and the admin audit log records every rule change with before and after values.
Your requirements, mapped to product controls
The duties a firm's quality and risk lead checks before client ledgers, payroll or tax files go into an AI tool, and the control that answers each one.
| What the sector asks for | How Standard Compute handles it |
|---|---|
| Client information reaches only providers bound to confidentiality, under a written contract | Sign the DPA in the dashboard in minutes: no training on your data, no retention of your content, breach notification within 72 hours. Every sub-processor is published, with 14 days' notice before a new one is added. |
| No copy of ledgers, payroll or tax files left with a vendor | Turn on zero data retention and every request is routed only to inference endpoints that commit to keeping no copy of your data. We process prompts in memory and never write them to storage or logs. |
| Client data is not used to train models | Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs. With a region rule or zero retention on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it. |
| A processing location the firm can state, including for services performed abroad | Set a Europe rule for the company, a team or a single key. Every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints, and a request no European endpoint can serve is refused before the prompt is sent. |
| Careful selection of the providers that handle client data | Choose exactly which inference providers may handle your data, for the company, a team or a key. Lower levels can only narrow the list, new providers never join without an admin's approval, and fallbacks never route around it. |
| Different models for bookkeeping automation, advisory and audit work | Decide which models each key can use, so every app and every person gets exactly the models you approve. GLM, DeepSeek and MiniMax run on European providers for Europe-restricted workspaces. |
| Staff sign in with their firm account, with access managed from the firm's directory | Connect Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider. Anyone on your verified domain joins the company automatically, and access to Claude Desktop and Claude Code follows your Entra groups through SCIM. |
| A record for quality control and inspection | Every admin change is recorded with before and after values. Export a record of every request showing the model, the provider that served it and the region rule in force, kept for 12 months. |
| Predictable cost per accountant and per automation | Every person and app gets a fixed monthly budget that never overruns, with spending caps per key and for the whole company. |
Set it up in an afternoon
Create the company account
Invite colleagues by email, organize them into teams, and give every person and every app its own key.
Set the Europe rule and zero data retention
Set both for the whole company. Teams and keys inherit them and can never switch them off underneath you.
Connect Microsoft Entra ID
People sign in with their work accounts, and employees use Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account through our EU gateway.
Approve providers and models, then sign the DPA
Choose which inference providers and models each key may use, set the budgets, and sign the DPA in the dashboard.
Regulation references
The rules buyers in this sector check first, linked to the official text. They are references for your own assessment.
Links checked 9 November 2026.
Questions from IT, security and procurement
- Does Standard Compute sign a DPA?
- Yes. Sign our Data Processing Agreement in the dashboard in minutes. It commits us to no training on your data, no retention of your content, and breach notification within 72 hours.
- Can we run invoice and bookkeeping agents through the API?
- Yes. Give every app its own key with its own approved models and a fixed monthly budget that never overruns, under the same company rules as your people.
- Can our staff use Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft account?
- Yes. Employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account, through our EU gateway, so there are no API keys to hand out. Access follows your Microsoft Entra groups through SCIM provisioning.
- Who is Standard Compute?
- Standard Compute AS is a Norwegian company (org. no. 938 498 806) based in Oslo. Our DPA is governed by Norwegian law.
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Create the company account, set the Europe rule and zero data retention, and your people can start the same day.