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Sovereign Artificial Intelligence · In depth

The detail behind
sovereign Artificial Intelligence.

For the CIO, CFO and COO who check the claims: how we score readiness across eight dimensions, the reference architecture, the three hosting tiers and the standards we map your controls to.

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Readiness, architecture and standards

How we assess, build
and assure it.

How we score readiness, the reference architecture, the hosting tiers and the standards we map your controls to. Each part has a tested alternative, so no single supplier decides your future.

Readiness: eight dimensions, one honest view

Each dimension is scored from 0 (Exposed) to 4 (Verified), today and as a realistic 12-month target. Level 4 is not achievable on every dimension for any single organisation. Chips, for example, are made by a handful of companies.

0 · Exposed1 · Nominal2 · Controlled3 · Resilient4 · Verified
Strategy & value
Governance & accountability
Data residency & control
Operational control & security
Model sovereignty & language
Compute & resilience
Portability & exit
People & operating model
Where an organisation stands today Its 12-month target (example of how results are shown)

Reference architecture: six layers, two planes

Governance & assuranceArtificial Intelligence (AI) register, model and agent registry, evaluation and release gates, Arabic benchmarks
  1. Channels & identityStaff single sign-on, national digital identity where relevant, staff and customer or citizen assistants.
  2. Knowledge & agentsRetrieval over governed content, including Arabic documents; agents connected to the ERP, read-only by default.
  3. Gateway & guardrailsRouting by data classification, redaction of personal data, prompt-injection filtering, quotas and no cross-border fallback.
  4. ModelsOpen-weight models, for example Falcon or Jais for Arabic–English, plus permitted commercial models, chosen to fit your requirements.
  5. Platform & orchestrationGPU scheduling and isolated tenancy for each entity or business unit.
  6. Sovereign infrastructureHosting tiers matched to data classification, on the in-country or sovereign cloud your rules require, with multi-site recovery.
Security & observabilityCustomer-held keys, immutable logs, security operations feed, cost metering

Three hosting tiers. No silent fallback.

Tier A · Restricted

On-premises or air-gapped

For the most sensitive government and commercial data.

Tier B · Confidential

Certified in-country sovereign cloud

For confidential and internal data that must stay in-country, on the national or sovereign cloud you choose.

Tier C · Public

In-region cloud or API

For public information only, never as a silent fallback for the tiers above.

Models, clouds and tools are examples. We are product-agnostic, and the choice follows your requirements and your regulator.

Standards we map your controls to

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