Data sovereignty instruments

Measure what it costs you to leave your data vendor.

Your next renewal quote already reflects how locked in you are. The vendor has done that maths precisely. Most organisations have not done it at all.

Vendor lock-in is treated as a vague discomfort. It is a quantifiable financial position, and it determines your entire negotiating stance at renewal. These instruments let you measure it before it is measured for you.

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The Vendor Lock-In ladder

Start where your need is. Each tier contains the one below it.

£9 Start here

The Data Health Red Flags

Twenty specific warning signs that your data infrastructure is failing, across quality, architecture, cost, and operations. You will recognise your own organisation in at least five of them. The quick read before the full audit.

Get the red flags
£29 The instrument

The Vendor Lock-In Audit

A complete self-assessment across the five axes that determine your exposure: data egress, schema ownership, compute location, cost trajectory, and roadmap dependency. The scaled-down version of the diagnostic run as paid engagements.

  • A guide to how vendor capture actually works
  • A 25-question diagnostic instrument across five axes
  • A fillable scoring sheet with interpretation bands
  • An honest account of where self-assessment ends and a full audit begins
Get the audit
£149 Enterprise

The Vendor Lock-In Audit: Enterprise Edition

The instrument plus everything a team needs to act on the result in a real renewal negotiation: a fully scored worked example, a five-year total-cost-of-ownership model, a live in-browser calculator, and an eight-move negotiation framework.

  • Worked example: a mid-size operator scored end to end
  • The TCO-with-exit-premium financial model
  • The renewal negotiation framework
Get the enterprise edition

For the people who build it

The thesis above, in working code.

£15 Field guide

Ship Analytics Without a Backend

A practical DuckDB WASM field guide: build interactive analytical tools that run entirely in the browser, no server, no database to host. Real code, a complete worked climate explorer, and an honest account of where the architecture breaks.

Get the field guide

Nauman Shahid

Principal Data Engineer

I build zero-dependency data infrastructure on client-owned hardware. No cloud subscriptions, no vendor lock-in, no third-party access to your intelligence. These instruments are how I think about the problem, made portable.

Data infrastructure is a trust decision before it is a technical one.

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