SaaS companies serving EU customers must provide machine-readable data portability and switching-right APIs by September 2025 but have no drop-in compliance layer to build this
EU Data Act (Regulation 2023/2854) took effect September 12 2025, requiring all cloud and SaaS providers serving EU customers to remove contractual and technical barriers to switching: two-month maximum notice periods, early termination rights, machine-readable data export in standardised formats, and free open interfaces to destination providers. The regulation has extraterritorial reach, hitting any non-EU SaaS serving EU users. Smaller SaaS companies (under 50 employees) have no compliance framework and no tooling to implement the required export endpoints, interoperability interfaces, and switching-workflow APIs. A Hacker News thread titled The EU Just Killed ARR from September 2025 reached 75 upvotes and 94 comments, confirming the regulation is actively disrupting SaaS product and contract decisions. Commenters noted confusion about what the switching-right API must look like, how to price early-termination fees to stay compliant, and whether existing data export features satisfy the portability requirement.
An SDK that generates compliant EU Data Act switching endpoints for SaaS providers
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Enterprise data integration tools (Airbyte, Fivetran, Stitch) handle data movement but are not built for EU Data Act compliance proofs or switching-right workflow APIs. Legal templates (Addleshaw Goddard, Mishcon) cover contracts but not the technical API layer. No self-serve toolkit gives a small SaaS company a drop-in set of REST endpoints that satisfy Article 23 interoperability and Article 25 switching requirements, with a compliance certificate they can show enterprise customers. Wide open below the enterprise tier.