What we’ve learned shipping AI into real organisations: method, governance, and the distance between a demo and a system.
End-to-end encryption is a claim about the operator rather than a cipher. The honest question underneath it is key custody, and by that test our own vault fails.
Thomas · 11 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
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Open weights caught up. A frontier-class model now ships under MIT, and a capable one runs on a single workstation GPU. For clients whose data cannot leave the premises, that changes the answer. This is the anatomy of a build where the network cable is optional.
Tenant isolation is a day-one decision. The database is where it holds.