Concept
What data sovereignty is
The idea in plain terms and why it decides who really controls your data.
We enable data sovereignty.
Can you prove you own your data?
Why now
Time to chart the course.
Regulation, geopolitics, and cost make data ownership urgent.
67%
67% of the Dutch (semi-)government and vital-sector domain names examined are linked to at least one US cloud service.
Regulatory pressure
EU rules influence architecture choices on portability, oversight, and third-party risk.
Geopolitical uncertainty
Access can be denied due to geopolitics.
Rising costs
Lock-in compounds: cloud and migration costs keep rising.
Ethical considerations
Who benefits from data, who bears risk, and how do decisions stay explainable and fair?
What we do
We advise, build and run data platforms you own.
We work with regulated organisations end to end: we map where your data lives, set the strategy, then build and run the platform that ties it together. You keep the keys and can leave whenever you choose.
Advise
We map your data and platform landscape, surface the dependencies and set a sovereignty strategy you can act on.
Build
We design and build a portable data platform on open standards and hand over the source code that runs it.
Run
We keep it running with security and governance built in and get your own team ready to take over whenever you want.
How we work
Visualize. Strategize. Execute.
In three phases, we make dependencies visible, decisions explicit, and execution provable.
01 · Visualize
We draw the map
What we do
- Interviews with stakeholders and process owners.
- Analysis of your data and platform landscape.
- Inventory of ownership across hardware, software, and data, and the contracts beneath them.
What you get
- An ecosystem blueprint.
- Red / amber / green indicators with explanation.
- Recommendations per indicator.
- A sovereignty-focused SWOT.
Our flagship project
A Learning Analytics Platform for the Dutch Ministry of Defence
Co-developed with Next Learning Valley, TNO and NLR: a training platform for 200,000 soldiers meeting NATO security requirements and embedded compliance.
The platform
A sovereign data platform that runs where you need it.
We are building what we wish existed: a data platform designed for sovereignty from day one.
Portable
Container-based, standards-first. Move between clouds, on-prem, or air-gapped without rewrites.
Mature
Security, governance, and compliance built in, not bolted on after launch.
Turnkey
Configure, don't build: one artefact set per target and GitOps bootstrap, so a small team can operate it.
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The Data Sovereignty Toolkit
A practical field guide to owning your data and the systems around it. Plain-language concepts, checklists, vendor questions and AI prompts you can use today.
Checklist
Are you ready to exit?
A step-by-step check of how easily you could leave a supplier.
Vendor questions
Before you sign
The questions to put to any supplier before you commit.
AI prompt
Read a SaaS contract
Paste a contract and let AI flag the lock-in clauses.
Insights
Notes from the work
Writing on data sovereignty, ownership, and keeping control of your data.
Vendors reassure mental-healthcare providers that patient records are safe and secure, stored according to NEN7510 and ISO27001 standards. We checked what that means across the EPD market, supplier by supplier. Location is not control.
You can own the hardware, the software and the data and still not control them. The fourth layer of data sovereignty is the contract, and it decides whether you can exercise the other three.
You cannot hold legal title to data. But strip ownership to its core and three rights remain: to possess, use, and dispose. Those you can hold, and that is data sovereignty.
Ready to reclaim ownership of your data?
Get in touch
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about data sovereignty and our approach.
Data sovereignty means meaningful ownership over your data and the infrastructure that makes it usable. It covers legal rights, technical control (access, encryption, portability), and organisational governance, across hardware, software, and data.
We work with regulated organisations (government bodies, healthcare institutions, financial services, and critical infrastructure operators) that need to prove control over their data and reduce dependency on external parties.
No. Sovereignty is not about avoiding the cloud. It is about having choice. We help you understand your dependencies, regain control where it matters, and ensure you can move if you need to.
We follow a three-phase approach: Visualize (map your current landscape), Strategize (prioritise and plan), and Execute (implement with provable results). Engagements usually start with a 90-minute baseline assessment.
It is a portable, turnkey data platform we are building, designed for sovereignty from day one. Container-based, standards-first, with security and compliance built in. It runs where you need it: cloud, on-prem, hybrid, or air-gapped.
Most IT vendors retain all intellectual property rights over custom software unless you negotiate otherwise. We reverse that default: for custom-developed work, you get the right to the source code and can further develop it for your own business processes. If you want full IP transfer, you can request it, and we will work with you to make it happen. It is sovereignty applied to code, not just data. See Article 11 of our General Terms for the details.
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