What does sovereign AI mean for an agentic system? +
That your company decides which processes must stay under its own control, and for those can change the model, the cloud or the vendor behind an agent without rebuilding it, keep data where it has to stay, and hold the keys, code, prompts, evaluation sets and any fine-tuned weights itself. We treat it as a property of the system that can be tested, dependency by dependency.
What does sovereign AI consulting include? +
Three pieces of work. First, a dependency register for each agent: data flows by provider and region, cost exposure per task, and which dependency needs an exit first. Second, the engineering: a model layer between your agents and every provider, an evaluation set for each model change, and an open-weight fallback for sensitive, critical steps, in your cloud account and region. Third, a tested exit plan for each critical dependency, with keys, accounts, repositories, evaluation sets and weights registered to your company.
Do we have to stop using hosted models? +
No. Many systems keep a hosted model for most steps because it is the best fit. The point is that the switch is possible: a model layer between the agent and the provider, an evaluation set that tells you whether a replacement is good enough, and an open-weight fallback for the steps where it matters most.
Are open-weight models good enough for our use case? +
It depends on the step. Narrow tasks such as extraction or classification often run well on smaller open-weight models, while long multi-step reasoning may still need a larger hosted one. We answer the question with an evaluation run on your own cases rather than a public leaderboard.
Can the agents run entirely in our own environment? +
Yes, in your cloud account and a region you choose. Running on your own hardware with open-weight models is possible and scoped per project, because your team then runs the capacity: we size it with you and write the runbooks before handover.
Does this make us compliant with GDPR or the EU AI Act? +
We help you assess what those requirements mean for the system and engineer for them: data residency, logging, human oversight and documentation. We do not certify systems or give legal advice; your legal and compliance team makes that call with the evidence we produce.
What is in an exit plan? +
For each dependency: what replaces it, how data and configuration move across, which evaluation proves the replacement works, roughly how much effort the switch takes, and who on your team runs it. The plans are tested on the dependencies that matter most, not only written down.
Will we depend on Vstorm afterwards? +
No. Vstorm goes on the dependency register like any other supplier. The code, keys, accounts and runbooks are yours, there is no license or platform fee, and your team can change providers, or change us, without asking.