Why now — Palantir alternatives for Europe
The recording, the deck and the procurement checklist from the session on 3 September 2026: what a Foundry-class platform actually is, the five sovereignty tests applied to a live system, the European field described fairly, and where Scrydon fits and where it does not.
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The session in one line: "sovereign" is not a label on a datasheet. It is five tests you can run against a live system — jurisdiction, keys, operating staff, disconnected mode, exit — and a platform decision you only make once.
The middle fifteen minutes were a live system rather than slides: a real estate deployed disconnected from its own guide, identity as configured, a model swapped out under a running process, Iceberg tables anyone can read, and the ontology with egress control and microVMs underneath. Anything we could only claim rather than show, we said so out loud.
The deck
All 36 slides, including the five backup slides — one per sovereignty test, with what passes and what fails.
Sovereign procurement criteria
The seven questions from the closing slide, scored. Jurisdiction, keys, operating staff, disconnected mode and exit — plus whether the offer covers all four layers, and whether each answer was demonstrated on a live system or asserted on a slide. Run it once per name on the shortlist, including the incumbent. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
That is the checklist for a vendor. This is its companion, for your own team: the questions to answer before enterprise AI leaves the pilot.
Enterprise AI to production: the checklist
About thirty questions to put to your own team, grouped under grounding, governance, orchestration and sovereignty. Tick what is true for you today and see a score per dimension. One page, yours to print.
Everything else we pointed at
The links from the closing slides — no funnel, no sequence. A person follows up only if you ask.
- The comparison, kept currentPalantir, Databricks, Fabric, Copilot and the rest of the field — vendor by vendor, against the same tests.
- Pre-read: Palantir Foundry alternativeThe four layers in writing — data foundation, ontology, AI and agents, process flows — and what an alternative has to answer for.
- Score your own estateThe European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework as a self-assessment. Run it before any vendor is in the room.
- The ontology, in depth"What Palantir got right with ontologies" — the layer most alternatives quietly skip.
- Too specific for the chat?A 30-minute sovereignty briefing — the same conversation, one to one, with a written next step including "not us". A person replies.