The Problem

Digital Sovereignty was born out of my desire to use great software to order my life without selling an arm and leg. Endlessly endless subscriptions for bookeeping, CRM, project managment, automation, etc.; upsells upon upsells; giving all my data to big brother. Being tired of all this, I set to find a solution for ordering my house. I believe my findings are valuable.

Most well-known softwares constantly thrown at small businesses are muy expensive—annually: proprietary telemetry data farms; and they are designed to trap you into dependence on the big tec bottle for your daily milk.

But it need not be so: software developers all over the world have created amazon open source tools; it’s a proper golden age. These  tools are not small projects, but well maintained enterprise-grade platforms which are used globally. These softwares are ownable, with no license traps. Many business people simply don’t know how to use these tools, or are  frequently too busy doing what they do best to learn to manage servers, to secure backups, etc.

The Principle

Digital sovereignty exist to move businesses off the digital plantation onto their own estate. We build and maintain your private cloud, while you keep the keys, the data, and the authority. We are not your landlord, but your builders and stewards. Digital Sovereignty means that you hold the keys to the infrastructure your business relies upon.

Consider for a moment the difference between owning or renting a house. Renting appeals to many people; these who don’t mind paying more for less responsibility and risk. They rely on someone else to squash the bugs and fix the walls, these don’t mind someone else having the right to do what they please with the house in which they, and these renters don’t mind if the owner is building his home off of their own rent payments.

The owner, on the other hand, is responsible for their own estate. They answer to God and Caesar alone; they are responsible that they (or their steward) maintain and repair and insure the safety and well-being of their estate; in exchange, they have the soveriegnty to do what they please with what is their own. Indeed they still have costs associated with their estate, but much less, and the have what the other does not: dominion.

The same is true for the digital world.

Digital sovereignty is about taking responsibility for your digital infrastructure. It means repairing the roof and chainging the air-filters yourself; digital self-governance. Our clients hold the keys to their infrastructure, control their data, and the services you use.

The Solution/Service

What this means practically, is that the client pays for us to manage a reserved, isolated environment under your name, to host and run the applications, and maintain and store the data safely.

In practice, this means your business systems — CRM, automation, accounting software, and file storage — run on your own private cloud, under your name and control. We handle the technical side, but you retain the keys, data, and ownership. We can’t erase all dependence, no one is fully autonomous; we ourselves rely on services like Hetnzer, and upon the developers who have created the open source projects we use. But you can exchange your relationship with exploitative Tec overlords for an honest partnership which you can understand and control.

The Outcome

Technology should serve people, not people technology. Software can be a blessing which enables you to take dominion, or it can be the means by which you pay to rest your business upon a digital landlord to use something which you do not own. You can use it to take dominion, or you can be means of the dominion of another. Our goal is for you to have a digital cloud which replaces manifold SaaS subscriptions, typically at a fraction of the total subscription cost; a cloud that allows you the freedom to do what your business does best.

Digital Sovereignty is run out of North Carolina, founded by Michael Seethaler. I just received news that my wife is pregnant with her first child, and I want to ensure that I can provide for my family with the skills the Lord has given me.