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Executive summary

Introduction
Introduction: Why now ?
The benefits of digital preparedness
How this guide is meant to be used
The threats you are preparing for
Choosing your posture

Operational runbooks
1. Communication when everything is down
2. Identity and access survival
3. Define Minimum Survivable Service (MSS)
4. Vendor, supply chain, and platform dependencies
4b. AI, models and inference portability
5. Data preparedness
6. Infrastructure exit strategy
7. Banking, finance, and financial continuity
8. Legal, compliance, and corporate control
9. Intellectual Property, source code, and knowledge survival
10. Workforce continuity and human resilience
11. Devices, tools and workplace continuity

Getting started
Operational runbooks that work under stress
Test one failure scenario per year
Cost, trade-offs, and founder reality
30/90/365 day preparedness roadmap

Conclusion
Preparedness as a strategic advantage

Exhibits
Threat matrix
A practical framework for digital resilience

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4bis. AI, models, and inference portability

4bis. AI, models, and inference portability

The CTO saw it first in the weekly dashboard: median inference latency had drifted from 1.4 to 2.8 seconds over three weeks. No alerts. No incident. The provider's status page was green. But two days later, the internal eval suite came back. Contract extraction quality had

Introduction: Why now ?

Introduction: Why now ?

Why now ? For more than a decade, companies have built on the assumption that major cloud providers are effectively permanent utilities: always available, globally reachable, and politically neutral. In the past months, each of those assumptions has been challenged. * In 2024, multiple undersea internet cables were sabotaged in the Baltic

The benefits of digital preparedness

The benefits of digital preparedness

Digital preparedness starts from a pragmatic assumption: serious digital disruptions are possible, even if they never materialize. The value of preparedness therefore exists in two very different futures: one where a disruption happens, and one where it does not. And both futures generate tangible benefits. When a disruption happens If

How this guide is meant to be used

How this guide is meant to be used

This is a tactical guide This document is intentionally practical. It focuses on: * decisions you must make before a disruption, * actions you must take during a disruption, * and capabilities you must retain after a disruption. You will not find generic advice about “being resilient” or “embracing multi-cloud”. Instead, each chapter