Your AI never meets your customer.It meets their twin.
Nakato is a private layer between your sensitive data and public AI models. Your real data never leaves your environment. The model works on a semantic twin, and you still get the accuracy you needed.
Margaret Ellis (sort code 20-45-11) was declined for a £12,000 consolidation loan on 4 March. Maya Chen at Northbank escalated it after the only part-time analyst on the risk desk read the arrears as seasonal.
Detected50+ entity types
What the model seesSemantic twin
was declined for a £12,000 consolidation loan on 4 March. at escalated the case.
Answer returnedRestored
Likely to be upheld: the arrears track the same seasonal pattern as the two prior years. Contact within five working days.
Synthetic example. No real customer data appears on this page.
Nakato reads the whole document and finds every sensitive detail — direct or indirect, including the indirectly identifying information that pattern matching misses.
02 Pseudonymisation
A twin, not a hole
Every sensitive value is swapped for a semantic twin: fictional, but statistically faithful — same shape, same context, different person. The model only ever sees the twin.
03 Reversible
A perfect reversal
When the answer comes back, the swap is exactly reversed and every substitution is auditable. Your real data never leaves your environment.
The ledger for this record
Type
Original
Twin
State
person
Margaret Ellis
Eleanor Grant
found
date of birth
1961-04-12
1959-11-03
found
account number
20-45-11 88451203
31-08-64 55102873
found
address
14 Rowan Grove, Sheffield
8 Alder Close, Sheffield
found
4 values found, read for meaning rather than matched.
It happens live, at the moment of each query — not as an up-front dataset transformation. The model gets the context it needs to reason, and it has no reasonable means of identifying your customers.
The demo
Real decisions.Fictional identities.
One layer, wherever regulated data is the blocker. Pick a sector: the record on the left stays in your environment, and the model reasons on the column beside it.
01Banking
Banking
Credit decisions on the full picture
Record · BankingTwinned at query time
FieldOriginal stays with youTwin what the model seesPreserved
CustomerMargaret EllisEleanor GrantPreserved — gender, name origin
Date of birth1961-04-121959-11-03Preserved — age band
Sort code20-45-1131-08-64Preserved — valid format
Balance£18,240.55£17,905.12Preserved — within 2%
02Healthcare
Healthcare
Patient records that keep their meaning
Record · HealthcareTwinned at query time
FieldOriginal stays with youTwin what the model seesPreserved
PatientDaniel WhitmoreJoseph CarrowPreserved — gender, name origin
NHS number485 777 3456603 214 8891Preserved — same format
FieldOriginal stays with youTwin what the model seesPreserved
EmployeeThomas HardyOliver BennettPreserved — gender, name origin
Payroll IDEMP-40913EMP-77120Preserved — ID format
Tenure6y 3m5y 11mPreserved — within 6 months
Salary bandL5L5Preserved — unchanged
Credit decisions on the full picture.Strip demographics and you strip the vulnerability signals credit analysis depends on most. The twin keeps every signal and removes every identity, so the model reasons on complete records.
Patient records that keep their meaning. A history of related conditions is the context a clinical model needs. The twin preserves the pattern — comorbidities, timelines, dosages — while the patient behind it stays unknowable.
Client files ready for real analysis. Years of engagements hold advisory value that confidentiality keeps locked. Twinned matter files let the analysis run — new insight from an asset the firm already owns.
Workforce insight without exposure. Attrition and pay-equity analysis needs real records, not aggregates. Every field stays statistically faithful in the twin; no employee is identifiable in what the model sees.
The model only ever saw the right-hand column; the answer you read had the originals restored. Where the two columns match, that is the point — the twin changes what identifies and keeps what the reasoning needs.
Evidence
Nothing here needs to be believed. It can be checked.
The field is the benchmark. Each point stands for the same number of test cases. Each mark reaches as far as that tool's figure.
Placeholder masking
Nakato
The rest
Summarisation accuracy on the same cases. A longer bar is better.
Nakato
Placeholder masking41.3%
Tokenisation12.8%
Shown alone. A comparison is drawn only where the same benchmark produced one.
Shown alone. A comparison is drawn only where the same benchmark produced one.
Leak rate under the same attack. A shorter bar is better.
Nakato
GLiNER7.8%
Microsoft Presidio22%
Checked across 500,000 financial-services test cases; every benchmark is published for review.
What the security review will ask.
Sign-off waits on a familiar set of questions. The short answers are here; the particulars — and the frameworks the layer is built against — are on their own page.
01Where does our data go?
Your real data never leaves your environment.
The model never receives a real value, and the transformation never leaves your infrastructure — so nothing about your existing data classification has to change.
Runs in
Your VPC or on-premise
Model
A self-hosted small language model
02What happens when detection is unsure?
Fail-closed by design.
An entity the detector is not certain about is held back rather than passed through. The layer is designed so the model has no reasonable means of identifying your customers.
Confidence gate
95%
Entity types
50+, direct and indirect
03Can we evidence what was substituted?
Every substitution is auditable.
Every swap is written down — what was replaced, with what, and when — so a reviewer can retrace a decision without ever seeing the underlying data.
Trail records
Each transformation and its reversal
Ready for
Supervisory review
Built against the EU AI Act, DORA, FCA and PRA expectations, GDPR and SOC 2 from the start.
Generating a twin that keeps its meaning is not a solved problem. It takes an unusual mix of semantic ontology and computer science, and no two domains ask the same thing of it.
Semantic ontology meets computer science. Two disciplines, one twin that keeps its meaning.