Vannus

Who legally controls your AI vendors?

Hosting is where your data sits. Control is who can be compelled to hand it over — and those are different questions. We record the contracting entity behind an AI vendor, quoted from the document that names it, with its country and the governing law of its terms. Paste your stack and see how many of your vendors are under US corporate control — free, no signup.

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376
AI tools cataloged
252
cite the vendor on the model they run
0
vendors can pay for a finding or placement

What Vannus is

Vannus is the jurisdiction record for AI vendors. It establishes who legally controls the vendor — the contracting entity a customer signs with, that entity's country, and the governing law of its terms — and therefore which government can compel disclosure of the data that vendor holds. It also records whether the vendor runs its own model, and whether it trains on your data. The catalog lists 376 AI tools; 177 AI vendors carry a contracting record, and a tool not yet assessed says so.

How the record is sourced: a finding says where it came from. 252 of the 376 tools carry a citation to the vendor for which model the product runs. A further 98 were established to run no foundation model at all — 19 of those cited to the vendor, the rest established from what the product is, and labeled that way. For the remaining 26 the product uses AI and the vendor does not name the provider, and the entry says exactly that. Every tool in the catalog sits in one of those three states. No vendor can pay for a finding or for placement: the modules listed in the neutrality attestation cannot import the affiliate code, and a test fails the build if they ever could.

The free catalog and the stack check cost nothing. A self-serve AI Subprocessor Jurisdiction Report on your own stack is a one-time $299. A Stack Jurisdiction Review, which establishes which of each vendor's published agreements applies to a buyer in your position, starts at $1,500 and is invoiced. A founder-led Concierge audit of a full AI stack is $7,500.

Vannus records what vendors publish about the entity you contract with, quoted to the source, and the governing law of its terms. These are informational findings, not legal advice, not a legal conclusion, and not a representation that any government has taken or will take any action. Vannus is not a law firm. Operated by PRAXIS AI LLC.