Viewport 03 · Positioning
The custody spectrum
Sovereignty is a position on a curve. From the duopoly's 30-day retention to fully local, each delivery option trades capability against custody. The client picks its point on the curve.
Duopoly · data leaves
Fully local · data held
Delivery optionCapabilityCustody / sovereignty
The duopoly anchor is concrete: 30-day default API retention, output filtering, and EU AI Act / DORA / GDPR exposure. Moving right buys sovereignty and costs capability, but small local models (high custody) cover most of the pipeline, so the curve is gentler than it looks.