In the high-stakes world of enterprise data, the safest way to handle sensitive information is to not keep it at all.
As organizations across the DACH region accelerate their digital transformation, a new risk has emerged: the “Data Graveyard.” While many vendors claim to be secure, they often rely on third-party models and persistent storage that leave a digital footprint of your most sensitive assets. At Parashift, apart from offering a Bring-your-own-model option, we invest heavily in maintaining integrity and nurturing customer trust through a foundation of security, privacy, and compliance.
This is why a Zero-Retention Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution—built on proprietary technology—isn’t just a feature; it’s an essential defensive strategy for the modern enterprise.
The Claim: Processing Without Owning is the New Gold Standard
Traditional IDP vendors often operate on a “Capture and Store” model, where data can potentially linger indefinitely.
Zero-Retention flips the script. Parashift’s core competence lies in end-to-end document automation through AI. Our “Security-first” promise means that once the automation task is complete, the document can be purged. While we do not actively delete stored data for a minimum of 30 days to allow for customer applications and interactions, we provide full control over data deletion via API calls at any time. Banks & Insurance companies using Parashift all do this.
This transforms your document automation from a potential liability into a lean, high-performance engine that meets the rigorous compliance demands of leading Enterprises.
The Power of Parashift’s Proprietary Data Format
What makes Parashift truly outstanding is our use of a proprietary, vectorized training data format. This format is a multidimensional technical description of document data that does not include the actual data uploaded by the client.
- Impossible Reconstruction: From our self-generated training data, it is impossible to reconstruct the original document or the extracted customer data.
- Lossy Vectorization: We use non-contextualized, “lossy” word vectorizing techniques specifically designed to hinder the unauthorized inference of Client Identifying Data (CID).
- Independent Learning: Deleting your documents does not affect our AI retrainings because our models are based on this proprietary format, which contains none of your original data. Bear in mind, at Parashift, also LLMs learn.
- No Third-Party Leakage: By using our own proprietary AI stack and supervised machine learning, we ensure your sensitive business logic never has to be shared with external AI “black box” providers.
Why Zero-Retention is Non-Negotiable for DACH Companies
1. Compliance as a Competitive Edge (GDPR & revFADP)
For German and Swiss companies, the regulatory bar is probably the highest in the world. Parashift is built to meet the highest standards of the financial services industry in the EU and Switzerland.
- The Advantage: By enabling immediate deletion, you fulfill “Data Minimization” and “Storage Limitation” principles automatically.
- Rigorous Auditing: We conduct annual GDPR audits and maintain detailed documentation of all compliance-relevant processes.
2. Immunity to Data Breaches
You cannot lose what you do not have. Our infrastructure utilizes progressive layers of defense including encryption at rest and in transit. To ensure ongoing resilience, we are conducting periodic third-party penetration tests.
3. Sovereign Processing Zones
We offer specialized compliance zones to ensure data residency:
- Sovereign German Cloud: In collaboration with T-Systems, this C5:2020 certified setup ensures all processing remains on German territory. This zone is fully compatible with DORA and BaFin standards for the financial sector.
- Swiss Processing Zone: Assures customers that data is processed exclusively within Switzerland.
- EU Zone: Assures customers that data is processed exclusively within the EU
A Certified Foundation of Trust
Our commitment to enterprise-grade security is backed by a comprehensive array of international certifications:
- ISO 27001 (+ 27017, 27018, and 27110 for the data-center)
- SOC 2
- C5:2020 (Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue).
- PCI DSS v4.0 for secure payment card data handling.
- HIPAA alignment for healthcare data on data-center level
Conclusion: Future-Proof Your Automation
The era of wild-west data accumulation is over. Companies in Germany and Switzerland need a partner that respects the sanctity of their data while providing world-class AI extraction. Parashift’s AI systems are classified as “Minimal Risk” under the EU AI Act, ensuring that your path to innovation remains clear and compliant.
Parashift’s Zero-Retention IDP offers the perfect balance: the intelligence of cutting-edge AI with the ironclad security of a proprietary solution that knows how to let go.
