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# rom\_c

@romc · Wilmington, DE · Joined February 2026

Chat Safely with Your Own Data

[Website](https://www.questa-ai.com/)

### [One AI Feature, Five States: A Compliance Walkthrough](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/one-ai-feature-five-states-a-compliance-walkthrough?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

We follow one imaginary AI product across five US states to see which rules actually apply, and what to build for each. Most AI compliance posts stay abstract. "Assess your risk." "Document your syste

8 min read · [questa-ai.hashnode.dev](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/one-ai-feature-five-states-a-compliance-walkthrough?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Oct 13](https://hashnode.com/posts/one-ai-feature-five-states-a-compliance-walkthrough/6acdd6d87b41f1b8e6104dc8)

### [Stop Shipping Raw Customer Data to LLM APIs](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/stop-shipping-raw-customer-data-to-llm-apis?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A developer's guide to scrubbing prompts, logs, and RAG pipelines before the model ever sees them. There's a bug in a lot of AI features that never shows up in a test suite. The feature works, the dem

9 min read · [questa-ai.hashnode.dev](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/stop-shipping-raw-customer-data-to-llm-apis?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Oct 1](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-shipping-raw-customer-data-to-llm-apis/6abe2e83b6a4f11d04a04806)

### [Mask PII Before It Hits Your LLM API](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/mask-pii-before-it-hits-your-llm-api?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Every call you make to an LLM API is an outbound network request carrying business data. We tend to forget that, because the call looks like a friendly function: send text in, get text out. But the te

7 min read · [questa-ai.hashnode.dev](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/mask-pii-before-it-hits-your-llm-api?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 28](https://hashnode.com/posts/mask-pii-before-it-hits-your-llm-api/6aba3e0b32eb64afc8f1008e)

### [The AI Tool Your Legal Team Has Never Heard Of](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/the-ai-tool-your-legal-team-has-never-heard-of?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Someone on your team is probably already pasting customer data into an AI tool nobody vetted — and nobody knows which country it just landed in. An IT lead I spoke with recently ran a routine audit of

6 min read · [questa-ai.hashnode.dev](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/the-ai-tool-your-legal-team-has-never-heard-of?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-ai-tool-your-legal-team-has-never-heard-of/6ab0cf86bcad511d294eb3fd)

### [Your API Keys Are One Copy-Paste Away From ChatGPT](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/your-api-keys-are-one-copy-paste-away-from-chatgpt?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A developer's field guide to keeping secrets, configs, and customer data out of AI chat windows — without slowing down your debugging. You're three hours into a bug, the stack trace is a wall of text,

5 min read · [questa-ai.hashnode.dev](https://questa-ai.hashnode.dev/your-api-keys-are-one-copy-paste-away-from-chatgpt?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 2](https://hashnode.com/posts/your-api-keys-are-one-copy-paste-away-from-chatgpt/6a97d6806dd0f0915deafaa6)