Mark Braddock

AI Readiness, the Honest Trial

The sales call ended on a high. The copilot drafted a perfect customer reply in seconds. Someone said “this will transform the office.” Seats were almost ordered before the kettle boiled. Then Monday arrived. The inbox was not the clean demo mailbox. It was half-finished threads, job notes with

A working definition of Digital Sovereignty for people who have to ship work on Monday

You have to ship something on Monday. The tools you already use will probably get it done. They are fast, familiar, and mostly invisible — until the day a vendor changes terms, a region becomes politically awkward, or a model provider decides your account is no longer worth the risk. That