Digital sovereignty has moved from an IT concern to a boardroom one. Once AI is reading your email, your contracts and your customer records, the question is no longer just whether it works. It is who is in control. These are the four questions we suggest every board asks before an AI system goes live.
1. Who controls our data?
Where is the data stored, who can access it and can the supplier use it to train their own models? With Adam AI the data stays on hardware in your business, under your access controls, and is never used for training.
2. Which jurisdiction applies?
If your data sits in another country’s cloud, another country’s laws may apply to it. Keeping AI on your own premises in the UK keeps that question simple.
3. Who is accountable for what the AI does?
An AI agent that can send emails, raise quotes or update records needs the same governance as a member of staff: clear permissions, approvals for anything that matters and a full audit trail of every action.
4. Do we have operational certainty?
What happens if a supplier changes its pricing, its terms or its service? Systems you own and run yourself cannot be switched off or repriced by someone else.
How we use frontier models
Adam AI uses Anthropic’s Claude to orchestrate your agents, set up privacy first: training on your data is off, any context shared is kept for no more than 30 days, and your data itself stays on your own hardware. We walk every client through these settings before go-live.