Data residency for university labs in Malaysia
Why Malaysian research groups choose cloud-hosted Lattuce — corpus, your own AI keys, and translation data on lattuce.app.
Malaysian universities and research groups face real questions about where PDFs, drafts, and bilingual theses live — especially when funders, faculties, or personal data rules apply.
Lattuce at lattuce.app is a cloud household workspace with transparent export and optional your own AI keys. This guide states what that means in plain language — not fear marketing, and not a promise we cannot keep.
Who this is for
| You are… | Read this when… |
|---|---|
| Malaysian PI | Faculty asks where student theses are stored |
| Graduate student (BM/BI) | You write EN chapters with MS abstracts |
| Lab admin | You compare Lattuce to Google Docs or Notion for sensitive drafts |
What data stays on lattuce.app
When you use the cloud product, these artifact types live in your household workspace:
| Data type | Typical use |
|---|---|
| Library PDFs and references | Sources for missions and compose |
| Vault notes and whiteboards | Research notes, clips, query boards |
| Paper sections and approvals | Manuscript drafts before Word export |
| Translation segments | Collaborative translation projects linked to papers |
| Learner imports | Foreign-language reading on lingo.lattuce.app |
You can export Word, BibTeX, and vault notes when you need copies outside Lattuce. Export is a feature, not an afterthought.
Public self-serve install is not marketed today — see cloud availability.
BYOK for LLM calls
AI features (missions, compose, digest, Workspace Ask) send prompts to LLM providers you configure when you use BYOK:
| Layer | Who holds the data |
|---|---|
| Corpus on Lattuce | Your household workspace at lattuce.app |
| Model inference | The provider behind your API key (OpenAI, DeepSeek, etc.) |
BYOK lets labs align with approved vendors and regional provider policies without pretending Lattuce runs every model in-house.
TTS for digest audio follows the same pattern — character budgets per household, provider behind the key.
Household vs institution scope
| Scope | What Lattuce provides today |
|---|---|
| Household | Shared library, billing, and quotas for a lab or family account |
| University-wide SSO / tenancy | Not the primary product — enterprise directory features are deferred |
| Faculty records management | Export to Word; long-term archive is your faculty’s process |
Honest limit: Lattuce is not a university records office or DMS replacement. It is the authoring layer before submission.
Deployment patterns
| Pattern | Fit |
|---|---|
| Cloud household on lattuce.app | Default — fastest path for BM/BI thesis labs |
| BYOK with regional LLM provider | When prompts must stay with a chosen vendor |
| Export-first workflow | Approve sections → Word → faculty DMS you already use |
| Complement Notion for ops | Wiki in Notion; corpus in Lattuce — alongside Notion |
If your institution requires a specific hosting region or on-prem contract, contact the Lattuce team with constraints — do not assume self-serve install from public blog posts.
Related reading
- BYOK on Lattuce
- Collaborative translation workflow
- Lattuce cloud availability
- Multilingual research lab
Bahasa Melayu: Residensi data untuk makmal universiti di Malaysia