Viewport 03 · Positioning
The custody spectrum
From the duopoly's 30-day retention to fully local, each delivery option trades capability against custody. The client picks where it wants to sit.
Duopoly · data leavesFully local · data held
Delivery optionCapabilityCustody / sovereignty
The duopoly end of the spectrum is concrete: 30-day default API retention, output filtering, and EU AI Act, DORA, and GDPR exposure. Moving right buys sovereignty and costs capability. But small local models cover most of the work, so the trade-off is gentler than it looks.