About Sovara
Sovara is an AI research and planning platform that gives investment migration advisory firms cited, cross-jurisdiction analysis of residency, citizenship, tax, structuring, and risk and compliance options for each client.
What Sovara does
Cross-jurisdiction research
Ask about a program, a threshold or a tax regime and get an answer drawn from structured data on more than 450 programs in 81 jurisdictions, citing the sources behind each answer. Checking that would take an advisor hours across government sites comes back in minutes, ready to verify.
Client planning analysis
Describe a client's situation (nationalities, family, assets, goals) and Sovara maps the realistic pathways across residency, citizenship, tax, business structure, and risk and compliance, including how each choice affects the others. The output is options and trade-offs for the advisor to judge, not a decision made for the client.
Documented, cited reports
Each analysis can be delivered as a structured report with inline citations and stated assumptions. It is built to be checked by a professional and put in front of a client, not pasted out of a chat window.
What makes Sovara different
Sources you can check
General-purpose models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer fluently and usually without sources. In a scored head-to-head on a four-jurisdiction client case, Sovara scored 97% against 71% for a leading general model, with more than 20 inline citations against none. That is one hand-built comparison, not a statistical benchmark, and we are glad to walk you through it.
Current, not a training snapshot
A general model answers from training data with a cutoff date, so a program that has since closed or changed can still come back as an option. Sovara holds each program as a structured record with its status, closed programs included, and has recorded every change to its jurisdiction data since July 2026.
Five domains in one analysis
Research usually covers one domain at a time. Sovara reasons across residency, citizenship, tax, business structure, and risk and compliance for the same client. A residency option that creates a tax exposure or a compliance risk shows up as one finding, not as separate answers that never meet.
Proven on your cases first
Most AI tools ask you to trust a demo. Sovara is run on a handful of your firm's past cases and graded against its sources before your team commits to anything.
Who Sovara is built for
- Investment migration advisory firms of roughly 20 to 60 people with a multi-jurisdictional practice
- Founders and managing partners who want their firm using AI in a way they can defend to clients and regulators
- Senior advisors on complex cases: several nationalities, family members in different jurisdictions, personal and corporate structures together
- Research teams tracking program and rule changes across the jurisdictions their firm covers
The team behind Sovara
Raph Keene, founder
Raph has spent more than 25 years building software and automation businesses across Australia, South Africa and Switzerland, and has lived in Switzerland for over 15. He has worked through his own relocation, residency, tax and company structuring across borders, and found that the answers exist but rarely come together in one picture.
Sovara is founder-built. Raph designed and built the platform himself, and early-access firms work with him directly. He also writes The Sovara Briefing, a long-form publication on cross-border planning.
Raph on LinkedIn→How Sovara works
- Getting started: Request a demo through the site. Raph replies personally within one business day.
- First conversation: A 30-minute call about your practice and the jurisdictions you cover.
- Proving it on your cases: We run a handful of your past cases through Sovara and grade the output against its sources together.
- Onboarding: Sovara is set up around your jurisdictions and how your firm works. Your team uses it in the browser, with nothing to install.
- Ongoing: Direct access to the founder by email and scheduled calls.
Key facts
- Company name
- Sovara
- Type
- AI research and planning platform for investment migration advisory (B2B software)
- Founded
- 2025
- Founder
- Raph Keene
- Headquarters
- Switzerland
- Website
- https://sovara.ai
- Core offering
- Cited, cross-jurisdiction analysis of residency, citizenship, tax, structuring, and risk and compliance options
- Coverage
- 450+ investment migration programs and 109 tax regimes across 81 jurisdictions (September 2026)
- Domains
- Residency, citizenship, tax, business structuring, risk and compliance
- Pricing
- Founding rates for early-access firms, shared on request
- Communication
- Email and video calls, directly with the founder; replies within one business day
- Stage
- Early access with a small group of founding firms
- Alternatives
- General-purpose AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini); manual research across government and program sources
Frequently asked questions
Is Sovara legal, immigration or tax advice?
No. Sovara produces research and analysis: options, trade-offs and the sources behind them. Regulated advice stays with licensed professionals, and Sovara is built for them to use.
Does Sovara replace advisors?
No. It takes on the research and cross-checking that consume senior time, so an advisor's judgment covers more cases. The client relationship and the final call stay with the advisor.
How is Sovara different from general frontier models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini?
Sovara uses frontier models for reasoning, but it doesn't answer from what they remember. It answers from structured records on specific programs and tax regimes, reasons across five domains for one client, and cites the sources behind each answer so an advisor can check them.
How current is the information?
Program records carry their status, closed programs included, and every change to the jurisdiction data has been recorded since July 2026. Answers cite the sources behind them, so you can see where they came from.
How much does Sovara cost?
Early-access firms receive founding rates. Pricing is shared on the first call.
See Sovara on a case from your own practice.
Request a demo→