Your company runs on someone else's law.

Three sentences that decide the matter.

01

Where the server stands is not the jurisdiction

The US CLOUD Act obliges US companies to hand over data they own, hold or control — anywhere in the world. A data centre in Frankfurt operated by a US subsidiary does not change that.

02

Availability is a political quantity

Licences, cloud accounts and app stores can be switched off. This is not hypothetical: sanctions and export controls have already frozen accounts, certificates and software updates. A company with no exit has no leverage.

03

Lock-in is a price, not a state

Dependency does not cost you on the day you sign. It costs you at the next price rise. A company that could migrate negotiates differently — even when it stays.

Talking does not help. Counting does.

Four tools that build on each other. Start with any of them — but in this order they add up to something you can put in front of a board.

01
Sovereignty check
Answer what you use. You get a score per layer and see where the risk actually sits.
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02
Dependency map
Your stack as layers, coloured by jurisdiction. Shows at a glance which layer carries all the others.
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03
Alternatives directory
134 European replacements, with jurisdiction, maturity and effort — and the catches vendors leave out.
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04
Migration roadmap
Your answers turned into stages: what you can do this week, what takes six months, what is a project.
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4 August 2026

AI without US vendors: what actually works in 2026 — and what does not

Changing model provider is one line of code. Changing the compute underneath is not. An honest account of what European AI delivers today.

9 July 2026

Leaving Microsoft 365: the order most projects get wrong

The technology is the smaller problem. Start with email and you lose the workforce. Start with video meetings and you have proof after four weeks.

18 June 2026

The EU Data Act has applied for a year. Almost nobody uses it.

Since September 2025 cloud providers may not charge exit fees and must help you switch. Most companies do not know this — and their providers are not reminding them.