This lab is a working canvas for the four documents Cordero has published on European digital sovereignty. It is built for one-to-one sparring conversations with collaborators and prospective clients, not as a broad public launch. If the arguments here resonate, the natural next step is a 45-minute conversation. Reach Raul at raul@corderomgmt.com.
These are not slogans. They are the load-bearing arguments in our published work, defended with evidence and sustained across all four documents in our library.
AWS and Azure are 4 to 10 times more expensive than Hetzner, Scaleway, or OVHcloud on equivalent compute. The cost myth survived because lock-in was engineered. It is no longer load-bearing. The migration is a cost-reduction programme with a compliance side-benefit.
NIS2 makes individual directors personally liable for cybersecurity governance failures, with fines reaching €10 million. The era when sovereignty could be delegated to the CIO is over by statute. The required artefact is documented, defensible, board-approved due diligence.
Operational risk reduction (2026 to 2027). Operating-model transformation (2027 to 2029). Structural builds — sovereign AI, quantum, post-quantum cryptography, identity rails (2029 to 2035). The coalition delivering Horizon 3 must include builders and independent voices, not only incumbents.
Cordero publishes openly. The full library is freely available to anyone who finds it useful, not only to clients. Read in order or pick the document that fits your role.
The practitioner framework. Seven dimensions of sovereign transformation, four levels of sovereignty, brownfield versus greenfield migration playbooks, the French Cloud au Centre case study, change management, KPIs, and the pitfalls we see most often.
Download PDF →The fiduciary case for the board. Why sovereignty became a director topic in 2024 to 2026, the four exposures, the cost of inaction, the financial case, the eight questions every board should be asking management this quarter, and a 90-day starter.
Download PDF →The argument we left out of the main brief. Why sovereign cloud is structurally cheaper than the hyperscaler status quo, and why agentic AI on European sovereign infrastructure beats the offshore labour-arbitrage operating model on cost, quality, and jurisdiction simultaneously.
Download PDF →Cordero's forward-looking thesis. The three horizons of sovereignty. The five structural builds Europe must complete by 2035. The democratisation imperative — why the closed CIO room cannot deliver this alone. The four board postures: funder, anchor customer, partner, follower.
Download PDF →Two interactive tools turn the documents into something you can play with. Both are free, no registration, mobile-friendly. Built to be linked, shared, and challenged.
Three trajectories, six measurable dimensions, one decision your board is already making. Toggle between Horizon 1 (default drift), Horizon 2 (transformation), and Horizon 3 (structural build) to see what each path produces by 2030.
Open the simulator →Cordero-evaluated 2x2 plotting of European sovereign technology suppliers across nine strategic categories. Cloud, identity, AI, productivity, collaboration, and more. Inventory sourced with credit from european-alternatives.eu; positioning is Cordero's own view.
Open the quadrants →Three fields. Thirty seconds. A 300-word briefing in Cordero's voice, tailored to your role, sector, and country. Anchored in the same evidence base as our published documents. Use it to start the internal conversation, or to decide whether a longer one with us is worth having.