This Valentine's Day, Break Up with Promises and Have Proof!

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Feb. 10, 2026 - PRLog -- This Valentine's Day, Lithuanian startup Quokkio is asking companies a different kind of relationship question: Can you prove why your AI said no?

Led by its virtual quokka "CEO," the company announced its mission to build what founder Adrijonas Leonavičius calls "the Vanta for AI compliance," infrastructure that captures Chain-of-Thought reasoning and converts automated decisions into regulator-ready audit trails.

EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2026, with penalties up to €35 million for high-risk AI systems that can't explain their decisions. Yet companies deploying AI for hiring, lending, and customer decisions have zero infrastructure to document why their algorithm rejected a candidate or flagged a transaction.

"When regulators ask 'how did your algorithm decide this?' most companies have screenshots and promises," said Leonavičius. "We're fixing that."

Quokkio sits between a company's application and AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, capturing the complete decision context. The platform provides Compliance Dashboards for risk categorization, Chain-of-Thought Receipts with cryptographically signed documentation, and Trust Pages for public transparency.

"We're not just logging API calls," said Leonavičius. "We're creating the first EU-native transparency infrastructure, GDPR-compliant by design, hosted in European data centers."

Unlike technical observability tools built for ML engineers, Quokkio targets compliance officers who need documentation without writing code. The company is positioning as infrastructure, not stakeholder: "We record what happened. We don't judge guilt."

The startup documents its journey publicly, combining serious infrastructure with unconventional brand energy. Within two weeks, Quokkio has attracted attention from early-stage investors and AI governance circles across the EU.

"This Valentine's Day, give your compliance officer the gift they really want: proof you didn't discriminate," said the quokka CEO.

About Quokkio

Founded in 2025 and based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Quokkio is developing EU-native AI transparency infrastructure that captures Chain-of-Thought reasoning and converts automated decisions into regulator-ready audit trails. The company takes its name from the quokka, the world's happiest animal, because compliance doesn't have to feel like homework. Learn more at https://quokkio.com