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How do you enforce different rules in different regions from one delivery model?

Answer

The jurisdictions are part of the risk envelope, and each one derives its own control set from the same corpus. One specification produces different safeguards in different regions.

Akka Verify derives the obligation set per jurisdiction from a corpus of 190 AI regulations and 1,230 controls. A platform team in Singapore and an actuarial team in Italy receive different controls with the same mechanism vocabulary, on one platform.

The mechanism

Jurisdiction is the first classifier applied to a system.

The matrix derives differently for the EU AI Act, the China Generative AI Interim Measures, Italian AI Law Article 4, the Colorado AI Act, Texas TRAIGA, India DPDP, the Korea AI Act, California SB-53, NY RAISE, GDPR Chapter V and DORA.

Function, data, decision authority and consequence narrow the list further, so two systems running in one country can carry different obligations. Region decides which rows of the corpus are reachable at all.

the specification risk envelope inside derivation 190 REGS · 1,230 CONTROLS the posture in Italy EU AI Act, Italian AI Law Article 4, GDPR the posture in Singapore Singapore Model AI Governance Framework
What compiles per region

A control row becomes a runtime binding in the region it applies to.

GuardrailsAn inline check at a tool, model or agent-response boundary, returning PASS, BLOCK or ERROR before the action proceeds, and failing closed by default.
Human decision boundariesAn escalation to a reviewer queue, and a workflow that durably suspends until a person resumes it.
EvaluationsScheduled aggregate evaluations over the interaction log, and event-triggered evaluations that record without blocking.
Deploy gates and haltsA build-time harness that fails a deploy when the matrix is unmet, and a kill switch that moves the system to a defined safe state.
RetentionSix categories, each mapped to a regulatory floor and protected by legal hold. DORA holds financial records for five years or more.
What stays the same

The same delivery model produces every regional posture.

The specification, the component model and the evidence record are identical in every region. A team changes the jurisdictions in the risk envelope and inherits the rest of the specification unchanged.

Full-parity sovereign deployment keeps traffic and data in-region while preserving HA and DR, across China, Hong Kong, Singapore, North America, Canada and the EU. Manulife rolled Akka out to 2,000 developers across 6 countries under central risk control.

Questions

Related questions.

What happens to a system that operates in several jurisdictions at once?

Each jurisdiction contributes its rows to the same matrix. The runtime enforces the union of those rows, and the evidence record shows which authority each control answers to.

Does a regional team write its own specification?

A regional team edits the risk envelope and keeps the rest of the specification. The controls that apply in Singapore and the controls that apply in Ontario compile from one specification into different runtime safeguards.

How fast is a new region added?

Industry presets shorten the derivation to about half a day. A preset carries the frameworks that dominate a sector in that jurisdiction.

What proves the right controls are running in each region?

The runtime reconstructs an Eval Matrix from the controls the deployed code enforces and compares it against the signed matrix, reporting missing rows, orphan rows and drift on demand.

What happens when one regulator changes a rule?

The monthly corpus watch detects the change and scopes the review to the rows it affects in that jurisdiction. Regions the change does not reach carry on unaltered.

On Akka. Jurisdiction classification, runtime bindings, retention categories and the corpus watch are capabilities of Akka Verify. The risk envelope is an input to Akka Specify. Instruments named. The EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR and the other instruments listed are public regulatory texts. Customer figures. Manulife results are reported by the customer.