The Sovereignty Stack
Self-Assessment
This is the part of the book you can use on a whiteboard. The goal is not a score to put in a slide. It is an honest conversation about where your dependencies actually are — before one of them gets tested for you.
For every statement, rate your organization from 1 to 5. Be honest. A defensive 4 you cannot defend in a real incident is worth less than a truthful 2 you can act on.
Your answers never leave your browser. They are saved locally so you can come back mid-meeting.
Reading your results
Look at the shape, not just the total. The stack is governed by its weakest link.
The questions worth asking out loud
If the numbers are too neat, sit the relevant people in a room and ask the inconvenient ones directly: Where would we be genuinely stuck if a single provider changed its terms next quarter? Which dependency did nobody actually decide to take on? Which layer would embarrass us first under real stress?
If you want help turning this shape into explicit own / govern / rent decisions — with named owners and a tested exit path — that is the work I do.