Orbifs is a virtual project drive for large professional files (CAD, BIM, point-cloud and media) built and operated by Archi Systems AS, a company incorporated in Oslo, Norway (org. no. 916 683 332, registered 2016, originally an architectural-services firm) and therefore within the EEA and bound by the GDPR. Files appear as ordinary files in Windows Explorer and macOS Finder and open on demand: there are no full local copies, no VPN, and no sync conflicts, because the drive streams object bytes from the cloud as they are needed. Concurrency is handled with single-writer file locking (one writer at a time on a CAD/BIM file) and every change is kept as an immutable version, implemented with S3 versioning plus Object Lock (write-once-read-many), SHA-256 content addressing and FastCDC content-defined chunking, so stored bytes cannot be overwritten or deleted before their lock expires. The desktop clients cover Windows and macOS.
For an EU-sovereignty audit the hosting story is the strong part. Orbifs runs on OVHcloud, a European-owned (French) provider, with file content (object bytes) in Paris, file metadata in Frankfurt, and off-region backups in Paris with point-in-time recovery: "hosted in Europe, end to end." Connections are TLS-terminated at the edge (Caddy) and object storage uses server-side AES-256 encryption; keys are currently managed by the storage provider, with a customer-managed-key (BYOK) option still being finalised, and there is no end-to-end / zero-knowledge encryption today. The sub-processor list is deliberately short and EU-based: OVHcloud (FR) for hosting, Stripe Payments Europe (IE) for billing, and optional Google Ireland / Microsoft Ireland sign-in for tenants who choose SSO, all EU subsidiaries of US-headquartered parents, but ancillary and never in the path of project file content at rest; support and transactional email run on Archi Systems' own EEA mail server, so no third party handles correspondence. This is why the directory records minor rather than none CLOUD Act exposure: the at-rest data sits on an EU-owned provider, but the lack of E2E plus the US-parented billing/optional-sign-in processors keep it just short of a clean none. On certifications the vendor is candid: a CSA STAR Level 1 (CAIQ) self-assessment is published, while ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 are stated as in progress and Cyber Essentials / ENS as candidate; no third-party certification is claimed yet, so the directory lists none.
Pricing is paid with no free tier; annual billing is the headline price and all figures exclude VAT (monthly billing carries a ~15–20% premium): Studio at €69/month (1 TB, 5 seats), Practice at €249/month (5 TB, 20 seats), Business at €699/month (15 TB, 50 seats), and Enterprise from €1,990/month (50 TB+, with a dedicated region available). SSO/SAML and audit-log export are included on the Business plan and above. Best fit: architecture, engineering, construction and media teams that move very large CAD, BIM, point-cloud and video files and want a mounted, EU-hosted project drive with file locking and immutable history as a replacement for a NAS+VPN setup or a US cloud drive (Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive), with the caveat that this is a young, single-product vendor whose certifications and BYOK custody model are still maturing.