The barbarians are already inside the gate
The barbarians of 1988 borrowed money and bought the company. The ones at the gate now build systems that make the company they are storming irrelevant.
- sovereignty
- AI-native
- competition
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The argument behind the show: why sovereign companies out-execute rented ones, what open weights change, and what leaving your SaaS stack actually costs.
Sovereign AI is procurement, not patriotism
Digital sovereignty gets argued as politics and decided as purchasing. The questions that actually matter are jurisdiction, exit cost and who can turn your systems off.
- digital sovereignty
- EU
- procurement
Open weights are the means of production
A weights file you keep behaves like a machine you bought. An API endpoint behaves like a lease with a clause letting the landlord change the machine.
- open weights
- local LLM
- vendor risk
Your SaaS stack is a rental agreement
Nobody budgets for the exit, which is why the exit never happens. How to price lock-in before the renewal instead of discovering it during one.
- lock-in
- SaaS
- exit cost
System of Action: what replaces the ERP stack
Systems of record store what happened. Systems of engagement collect it. A system of action decides and executes — which is why the old stack boundaries stop making sense.
- AI-native OS
- ERP
- System of Action