Thinking out loud about
sovereign AI.
Articles, technical notes, and points of view on building and running AI on South African terms — written for the people who have to make the call.
Recent and coming up.
The cheapest AI is the one that costs you your data.
The sovereignty argument, long-form. Why every prompt sent to a foreign API is a small export of your business, and what to do about it.
POPIA and the foreign-API problem nobody's costing properly.
What POPIA actually demands of cross-border inference, and the practical reconciliation work most teams have been skipping.
What we learned benchmarking open-weight models against the frontier APIs.
The AI Factory evaluation work, made readable. Where open-weight wins on its own merit, and where frontier earns the premium.
Open-weight vs frontier: a decision framework for enterprise workloads.
A working framework for routing each workload to the right model — by sensitivity, scale, latency, and economics.
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Reading is good. Trying it is better.
Pick a workload. We'll show you what sovereign looks like — running, not described.