A baseline standard
The PDPA requires organisations to protect personal data and notify purposes. The deployment documents purposes, processors, and access for that review.
Self-hosted AI / Singapore
Private AI deployed for Singaporean businesses under the PDPA and the PDPC's baseline expectations, with hosting in Singapore and a disclosed data path. Sector regulators such as MAS add their own rules, so the deployment documents for more than one framework at once.
Example only / architecture varies by client
Why it matters here
The PDPA sets the baseline; sector regulators and procurement add the rest. One documented data path serves them all.
The PDPA requires organisations to protect personal data and notify purposes. The deployment documents purposes, processors, and access for that review.
Sector regulators such as MAS impose their own expectations on regulated businesses. The architecture names every provider and channel for those reviews.
ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) is the default region, with on-prem for stricter requirements.
The three levels
There is no single correct answer. Quality, privacy, residency, and budget decide the path.
App and document store in your account in ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), with the model on your key. No GPU required.
An approved cloud region or managed service when residency and procurement matter.
Model, embeddings, and retrieval on your hardware when external inference is not acceptable.
What it really takes
Hardware is sized after the workload is real. These are starting points, not quotes.
No GPU required for the app and document store. Model usage bills stay on the client account.
A starting point for a small quantized text model. Model size, concurrency, and latency decide the real requirement.
A GPU is one part of the environment. A partner data centre can be more realistic than an office server room.
We size hardware after the workload is proven. No GPU inventory before a signed scope and deposit.
Straight answers
The default is ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), with the region documented before anything is built.
No. The PDPC does not pre-approve systems. The deployment provides the documented data path that an organisation's PDPA review can use.
Sector obligations are part of the discovery conversation, and the handover names every provider and access path those reviews will ask about.
Yes, from SGD 4,800 for a first workflow, with USD and naira floors unchanged.
Why trust Pristine3D?
Pristine3D Ltd builds and operates live digital products, and we run private AI workflows internally as part of our own operations. We scope around your real workflow: the documents you own, the questions your team asks, and the access boundary you approve. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, we work remotely with clients worldwide.
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Pristine3D currently builds and operates smartcards.ng, venu.ng, photoshoot.ng, and ugc.ng in production.
One input, one output, one test set, and one person who owns the result. We scope a real workflow instead of a transformation programme.
Cloud, model, storage, and messaging accounts stay in your name. The chosen data path, access rules, test record, documentation, and training are part of the agreed scope.
Pricing / fixed scope
The final quote follows the workflow. Infrastructure and model bills stay on your accounts.
One workflow for a small team, with training and handover.
See the one-workflow packageMultiple sources, roles, integrations, and admin handover.
See the deploymentStandard care for one delivered workflow. Optional. Larger deployments and active monitoring are separately scoped.
See supportArchitecture review from $500. Standard annual support is $3,000 / ₦1.5m per year for one delivered workflow. New workflows, integrations, active monitoring, and infrastructure are separately scoped; infrastructure, model, storage, and messaging bills stay on client accounts. Full pricing and what changes the quote
Own your knowledge base
Documents, the retrieval index, access rules, and the workflows built around them are the asset, and they compound. We deploy so the knowledge base stays yours: on your accounts, in the environment you choose, under access rules your team defines. The model behind the answers is a connector, so the knowledge base moves with you, not with a vendor.
The document store, metadata, and retrieval setup live on accounts you own. No vendor holds the corpus.
Change the model provider, move regions, or go local without rebuilding the knowledge base or the workflow.
Every improvement to the corpus improves the answers, and the improvement stays with you, not with a vendor.
Keep exploring
Start with the constraint
Residency, PDPA or sector review, procurement, or a no-external-inference rule. Describe it and we will map the architecture.