Owning the hardware is the destination. This is the road.

Owning the hardware is the destination. The Sovereignty Audit is the road.

It's a forward-deployed engagement — we come on-site, sit inside the work, and go department by department: sales, ops, finance, service. In each one we find where a person is doing what a system should, where your data is leaving the building to get answered, and where a cloud meter is quietly charging you rent on your own knowledge.

You walk away with two things you keep whether or not you build another thing with us:

1. An ROI matrix — every opportunity we found, ranked by dollars freed against effort to capture. No hand-waving; the math is on the page.
2. A Roadmap to Sovereignty — the ordered sequence that takes you from renting intelligence to owning it, rung by rung, ending at a private AI stack running on hardware you hold title to.

The two levels, honestly:

• Level 1 — Operations Audit ($2,500 flat). Two weeks, mostly remote, maps the leaks and hands you a prioritized automation plan. The front door. Yours to keep.
• Level 2 — Sovereignty Audit (priced per scope). On-site, forward-deployed, department by department. The full ROI matrix and the Roadmap to Sovereignty. Because scope varies enormously by organization, it's priced per engagement — book a scoping call and we'll size it to your operation.

The only outside number worth citing: MIT found 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable value. They fail because they start with the model instead of the operation. We start with the operation. That's the whole difference.

The private stack you're heading toward is Drakon Forge; the operating layer that runs on it is Drakon Aegis.