· analyses & theses

Our published positions.

analyses · omer taki · march 2026

We publish our decision frameworks and strategic theses. These analyses are for leaders who want to read the situation correctly before deciding.

· founding thesis
AI sovereignty: mastering your technological dependencies.
Sovereignty is not the absence of dependencies. It is the capacity to choose which ones you accept, which you refuse, and which you build deliberately.
Sovereignty
is the mastery
of dependencies.

Not their absence.
founding thesis · tointelligence · omer taki
strategic decisions
Most AI strategies fail before they are even implemented.
The problem is not execution. It is the quality of decisions made upstream.
dependencies
Most organisations are already losing control. They don't see it yet.
Dependencies form silently. Once installed, they are difficult to reverse.
EU AI Act
The EU AI Act is not a compliance problem. It is a power framework.
August 2026 is approaching. Leaders who anticipate turn it into competitive advantage.
governance
AI governance at board level: what really changes.
A charter is not governance. What it implies concretely for a board.
mid-market & AI risk
Why mid-market companies are most exposed to AI risk.
Neither the resources of large groups, nor the agility of startups. A specific structural vulnerability.
strategic trade-off
Build, buy or partner: how to arbitrate critical AI technology choices.
The most structuring trade-off a leader can make. It commits 5 to 10 years.
economic power
Economic power and AI: who captures value in your sector.
AI does not create value uniformly. It concentrates it. Who benefits in your sector?
strategic dependencies
AI: you are not using tools. You are creating dependencies.
Every integration outsources a capability. The risk is not depending : it is depending without knowing it.
· decision framework

Strategic intelligence in the AI era: the analytical framework

Strategic intelligence in the AI era refers to the capacity of executive leadership to correctly read the dynamics of power, dependency and competitive advantage that AI is generating in their sector : and to make strategic decisions that preserve and extend their organisation's position based on that reading. It is distinct from AI strategy consulting, which focuses on deployment roadmaps and use case prioritisation: strategic intelligence focuses on the upstream decisions that determine which competitive positions are available, which dependencies are acceptable, and which trade-offs define the organisation's trajectory for the next 5 to 10 years.

The analytical framework underlying tointelligence's published positions rests on a founding thesis: sovereignty is the mastery of dependencies. In the AI era, this means that competitive advantage flows not from AI adoption per se : which is becoming universal : but from the quality of decisions about which AI dependencies to accept, which to avoid, and how to structure governance so that critical decisions remain at executive level rather than being delegated by default to vendors, systems or regulatory necessity.

The analyses published on this site are decision frameworks for executives facing structuring choices: the build/buy/partner trade-off, AI governance at board level, EU AI Act compliance strategy, the mapping of technological dependencies, and the dynamics of economic power concentration in AI-era sectors. Each analysis is designed to be directly usable in executive-level strategic discussion : as a structured reading of the situation that precedes and enables better decisions.

strategic dependencies
AI: you are not using tools. You are creating dependencies.
Every integration outsources a capability. The risk is not depending : it is depending without knowing it.