What sovereignty means when the weights are yours
On-premise deployment is a legal position as much as a technical one. Notes from three procurement conversations.
In brief
Your weights, your premises.
01 · The position
A legal question before a technical one
When a regulated institution buys a model, the first questions are rarely about accuracy. They are about where the model runs, who can see what, and what happens when the contract ends.
Owning the weights changes the answer to all three. The model runs inside the institution, under controls its regulator already knows.
These notes come from three procurement conversations. The questions were the same each time.
Where things live
One way across: the weights, under licence.
The two sides of a deployment.
What buyers asked
Paraphrased and anonymised.
02 · How it works
Four steps, under your control.
- IAdaptWe train the model on public and synthetic data.
- IIDeliverThe weights move into your environment, under licence.
- IIIRun on siteYour data stays where it is.
- IVAuditYour teams check it with our evaluations.
The trade-off
Capability and control, at the same time.
Schematic, not measured.
In our words
“Sovereignty is an engineering property, not a slogan.”
03 · Why it matters
Capability and control, without the trade
European institutions are told they must choose between a capable model and one they control. At the sizes that matter, we do not think the trade is real.
That is the position behind everything we build.