AI agents on infrastructure you own
Every AI employee Replican builds runs on a private managed VPS that belongs to the client, not Replican. It's set up for your business alone, holds your data in one place you control, and stays yours if you and Replican ever part ways. That's a different arrangement from a SaaS subscription, where the vendor holds everything and access ends when the payments stop.
What does "you own the infrastructure" actually mean?
It means the server your AI employee runs on is registered to your business, not to Replican, and everything on it (the agent, its data, its logs, its configuration) belongs to you the same way a filing cabinet in your office would. Replican sets it up, looks after it, and builds the agent that runs on it. Replican doesn't hold the account, and doesn't have a business reason to keep you dependent on a platform it controls.
Most AI vendors work the other way round. You sign up for a subscription, your data lives on their platform, under their account, and the moment you stop paying, your access, and often your data, is theirs to delete. That's a reasonable model for software you're renting. It's a poor model for something doing daily work with access to your inbox, your accounts and your clients, because it makes you permanently dependent on a relationship you can't leave without losing what you built. See where should your AI agents run for how this compares against the other hosting options available, not just this one.
What is a private managed VPS, in plain English?
A VPS (a virtual private server) is a slice of computing infrastructure set up to run specific software continuously, the way a physical computer would, except hosted in a data centre rather than sitting in your office. "Private" means it's provisioned for your business alone, not shared with other Replican clients on the same account. "Managed" means Replican handles the technical upkeep of that server (patching, monitoring, keeping it running) so you don't need any technical knowledge to have one.
It works like the difference between renting a desk in a shared serviced office where the landlord can change the locks, and leasing your own small office with your own key. The VPS is your office. Replican does the maintenance, but the lease and the key are yours.
Who actually holds the keys?
The client does. Access credentials for the server are set up in the client's name, and the client retains administrative control throughout the relationship. Replican operates and maintains the server on the client's behalf (applying updates, monitoring for problems, deploying changes to the agent) but that operational role doesn't change who the server belongs to.
This is worth being specific about because "managed" can sound, from the outside, like it means "controlled by the provider." Here it means the opposite: Replican does the work of running the server so the client doesn't have to, while the client remains the party who owns it and could, in principle, take over its administration directly at any point.
Where does the data sit, and why does that matter under GDPR?
Data processed by your AI employee (the emails it reads, the transactions it matches, the enquiries it handles) sits on your own private server rather than being pooled with other businesses' data inside a shared multi-tenant platform. For a business subject to GDPR, that has a real practical benefit: your data processing footprint is contained to infrastructure dedicated to you, which simplifies the question of where personal data is stored and who has access to it, rather than depending on a third-party platform's shared architecture and its own sub-processors.
This doesn't remove your GDPR obligations as a data controller: you still need a lawful basis for processing, a data processing agreement covering the arrangement, and your own records of what personal data the agent touches. What it changes is the shape of the answer when a client, a regulator or your own conscience asks where the data actually is: not "somewhere in a vendor's shared cloud, governed by their terms," but "on a server that belongs to us." That answer carries particular weight in sectors built on confidentiality. See AI for clinics and practices and AI for professional services firms for where this matters most directly, or browse AI automation by industry for how the same reasoning applies more broadly.
What happens if we stop working with Replican?
You keep the server and everything on it. This is the strongest and simplest thing to say about this whole arrangement: the AI employee, its configuration, its history, and its data don't disappear because the relationship with Replican ends. Because the server was never Replican's to begin with, there's nothing for Replican to take back.
If a client decides to move on, Replican can hand over full administrative access and documentation for the server as it stands, and the client (or whoever they bring in next) can continue running it, modify it, or shut it down. Their call entirely. Compare that to cancelling a SaaS subscription, where the standard outcome is that your account, your configuration and often your data are deleted on a fixed schedule after you stop paying, and you're left rebuilding from nothing with whoever you switch to next. Owning the infrastructure changes where the power in the relationship sits: Replican has to keep earning the work, not keep a client locked in by threat of losing everything they built.
How is this different from a typical SaaS AI tool?
A SaaS AI tool is a shared platform: one piece of software, one vendor-controlled infrastructure, many customers' accounts sitting on top of it. You get a login, not a server. Your data lives inside the vendor's architecture, governed by their terms, and your ability to export or move it depends entirely on what the vendor's interface allows. If the vendor changes its pricing, its terms, or shuts the product down, you have no infrastructure of your own to fall back on: only whatever your account let you export beforehand.
Replican's model inverts that. Instead of a shared account on Replican's platform, each client gets their own dedicated server. The trade-off is that this only makes sense for work substantial enough to justify a dedicated environment, which is exactly the kind of ongoing, tool-integrated work an AI employee does, as opposed to an occasional-use tool. See how an AI employee gets built for where infrastructure deployment fits in the wider process, and browse the roles we build for the kinds of jobs that run on this model, including an AI bookkeeper for accounts admin and an AI employee for inbox and admin handling, both of which involve sensitive data where owning the infrastructure matters most.
What does "managed" cost you in effort, if you're not technical?
Nothing beyond the conversations already part of working with Replican. "Managed" means Replican does the actual upkeep (applying security patches, monitoring that the server and the agent on it are behaving correctly, handling technical problems as they arise) without asking the client to understand server administration. You don't need to know what a VPS is to have one; you need to know that Replican looks after it and that it's yours.
This page won't promise uptime figures or a service-level agreement, because that's not the argument being made here. The argument is about ownership and where the data sits, not about guaranteeing performance. Replican maintains the infrastructure carefully because the agent running on it does daily work for a real business, not because a number in a contract requires it.
Frequently asked
questions.
No. Replican provisions, configures and maintains the server as part of the service. You need the same level of technical involvement you'd have with any managed IT arrangement: essentially none, unless you choose to get more involved.
No. Each client's VPS is private to that client. It isn't a shared multi-tenant platform.
The server and its contents remain yours; you can continue running it independently, hand its administration to someone else, or wind it down. Replican's involvement is the management layer, not ownership of the underlying infrastructure.
While the relationship is active, Replican manages the server, including its upkeep. Ownership means you have ultimate control and could take over administration directly; it doesn't mean you're left to handle it alone by default.
Server location is agreed as part of setup and can be chosen to suit data residency requirements relevant to your business. Ask during a first conversation if this matters to your sector.
No, and the difference is the point. "EU-hosted" describes where a shared platform's data centre sits; it says nothing about who owns the infrastructure. Replican's model gives the client the server itself, not just a jurisdiction. There are no client logos on this page either, for the same reason as everywhere else on this site: no client has agreed to be named. What's verifiable instead is the model itself: ask about it directly, or send a brief describing what you'd want an AI employee to do, and the infrastructure conversation happens as part of mapping the work. Email hello@replican.ie if you'd rather start there.
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