“AI sovereignty” gets thrown around in enterprise slide decks until it stops meaning anything. It’s whether you know what’s in your stack, who built it, and where your data goes once it leaves your machine. The metaphorYour project is a castle, and inside the walls sit your code, your models, your business logic, the stuff you fully own and understand. Can I reproduce this build in six months, or does it only work because of a model version that’s already gone? A moat is built from a lot of unglamorous decisions made on purpose, at every layer, instead of by default.