Does auditing my model risk an ITAR deemed-export of the weights?

It can, if the model weights are ITAR-controlled technical data and the audit exposes them to a foreign person or a foreign location — that exposure is a deemed export. The mitigation is to keep the weights inside the controlled boundary and have only US…

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Answer.

Export control · ITAR.

It can, if the model weights are ITAR-controlled technical data and the audit exposes them to a foreign person or a foreign location — that exposure is a deemed export. The mitigation is to keep the weights inside the controlled boundary and have only US persons and accredited systems touch them. Planisphere runs in-boundary with no egress so the audit itself need not move the weights; it measures behaviour locally, but the export determination on your specific artifacts is your counsel's call, not Planisphere's.

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The mark behind the answer.

ITAR draws a boundary around technical data and who may receive it. Planisphere's posture is the answer: model state nev…

USML technical-data control · deemed-export boundary for model artifacts.

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More on ITAR.

Other questions this mark answers.

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Start with the free sandbox. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.

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When ITAR asks for proof, hand over records — not assurances.

record the duty · seal the receipt · verify offline

Planisphere records each duty event — an output marked, a disclosure shown, a review made — and seals it into a receipt that verifies offline against our published keys. You send hashes, never content. A record is evidence a third party can check; it is not a certification and not a legal determination.

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