Residency answers one place. Sovereignty answers six.

Every enterprise AI stack sits on top of six dependency places you did not build and cannot fully see. Each is a switch someone else can flip — under a jurisdiction you may not be under.

Audience · CIO · CISO · DPO · GC · Board Read · 3 min Guardrails · No political actors named

The one-sentence version

She had been careful about everything she could see. Securing what you hold does nothing about what holds it.

— The teachable moment from The Kill Switch parable

🌐 Jurisdictional envelope · customer chooses

You don't own AI by owning the data. You own it one place at a time.

Six real dependencies. In the past 24 months, every one produced at least one publicly-reported "flip."

Reasoning ↑ ↓ Substrate

Agencywhat it is allowed to do

CISO · Agent Platform Owner · Risk

Improvementwhat it learns from you

CDO · DPO · General Counsel

Inferencewhere the thinking happens

Head of AI Platform · SRE

Contextwhat you feed it

CDO · DPO · Head of Data

Weightsthe intelligence itself

Chief AI Officer · Head of Data Science

Computethe capacity to run it at all

VP Infrastructure · CTO

◤ Every place is a switch 6 places · 1 envelope Envelope wraps all six ▸

Why now — the trigger eventslast 24 months

▸GPU export controls renegotiated quarterly — the card did not change; its legal ability to compute did.
▸Container registries blocked jurisdictions overnight; open-source licenses converted mid-life.
▸CLOUD Act reaches into in-region data operated by foreign-headquartered vendors.
▸Foundation-model behavior changes between API versions — silently.
▸Cloud identity-provider outages made governed AI environments unreachable for hours.

The envelope decides reach

Every place sits under some country's law. The envelope is the legal geometry that determines whether a switch is theoretical or reachable.

CLOUD Act — US-HQ vendors, worldwide

EU AI Act — high-risk classifications

DORA — operational resilience (FS)

NIS2 · UK IPA — sectoral, regional

BaFin · BSI · ANSSI — national

Sovereignty is a customer choice, not a vendor claim. The customer chooses the envelope.

The Teradata answer1 platform · 6 places

The Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform answers every place, under one Policy Layer, in an envelope you choose.

P1 Teradata Factory · air-gapped · runs inside your frame

P2 BYO-LLM · pinned versions · substitute on your tests

P3 Keys you hold · corpus re-embeddable · no reuse

P4 In-Database processing · inference in-region

P5 Your data does not train what you do not control

P6 Embedded RBAC · identity you revoke · policy you author

Two hours. One written gap register. No further commitment.

The Sovereignty Gap Workshop: 30-min self-assessment · 60-min place mapping · 30-min migration/coexistence. Bring CIO or CISO + DPO + GC + one architecture lead. You keep the register.

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