The barbarians are at the gate again - this time it belongs to big tech and the ERP incumbents. A podcast for owners running sovereign, AI-native systems.https://barbairians.comenhttps://barbairians.com/blog/barbarians-at-the-gate-of-enterprise-softwarehttps://barbairians.com/blog/barbarians-at-the-gate-of-enterprise-softwareThe 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.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsovereigntyAI-nativecompetitionstrategyhttps://barbairians.com/blog/sovereign-ai-is-procurement-not-patriotismhttps://barbairians.com/blog/sovereign-ai-is-procurement-not-patriotismDigital 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.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdigital sovereigntyEUprocurementriskhttps://barbairians.com/blog/open-weights-are-the-means-of-productionhttps://barbairians.com/blog/open-weights-are-the-means-of-productionA 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.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen weightslocal LLMvendor riskreproducibilityhttps://barbairians.com/blog/your-saas-stack-is-a-rental-agreementhttps://barbairians.com/blog/your-saas-stack-is-a-rental-agreementNobody 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.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTlock-inSaaSexit costprocurementhttps://barbairians.com/blog/system-of-action-replaces-the-erp-stackhttps://barbairians.com/blog/system-of-action-replaces-the-erp-stackSystems 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.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI-native OSERPSystem of Actionagents