Sovereign Computing Initiaitve

For providers

Build, support, and host within a recognised category

If you build, integrate, support, or host open source infrastructure, the category gives your work a recognised, procurable shape - a shared definition buyers can ask for, and a conformance framework you can build to. It is designed to grow the market for sovereign infrastructure, not to compete with the organisations that deliver it.

What the category asks of you

Conformance is about openness and replaceability: open, documented interfaces between every support level, upstream practices that let others maintain and verify your components, and terms that let a customer source support independently. The full picture is in conformance and the Sovereignty Test.

Check where you stand

The provider self-assessment is a self-check against the framework and the Sovereignty Test. It is not a formal audit - it shows you, honestly, which requirements you already meet and where the gaps are, with a link to the source for each.

How recognition works

The Mark grades a conformant platform into a tier and, in time, certifies it - giving buyers an at-a-glance signal backed by a verifiable report. The framework is being developed in the open, and conformance is something you can work towards on a published roadmap.

Roles in the ecosystem

Sovereign computing is delivered by a community of specialists across the support levels:

Business consulting and design
helping customers compose the right architecture for their needs.
Build and customise
extending and integrating the open source components.
Implementation and deployment
standing the platform up in production.
Support and operations
keeping it running across the support levels, and hosting where required.
Education and training
building the skills that make sovereign infrastructure operable without specialist lock-in.

Our commitments

The initiative defines shared ground; it does not compete with your client base or channel. The goal is a category where buyers can specify what they need, several providers can compete to deliver it, and upstream projects are funded through the support chain.

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