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What is Platform Sovereignty?
Platform sovereignty describes the condition in which a private platform acquires practical governing power over an essential function because exit becomes difficult, slow, or institutionally costly.
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dependency
11 items across the journal, including 7 research pages and 4 cases.
Research
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What is the FCPI Index?
The FCPI Index is a framework for measuring when a platform, infrastructure layer, or service becomes a finality-bearing choke point with strategic consequences.
Framework
Finality Choke Point Index (FCPI): Measuring Platform Power and Strategic Dependency
A comparative method for identifying when control over a platform, infrastructure layer, or service becomes control over completion — the point at which dependency becomes leverage.
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The Indispensability Threshold
The indispensability threshold is crossed when replacing or bypassing a system ceases to be a normal procurement choice and becomes a strategic disruption.
Framework
How FCPI Scores Work on This Site
FCPI is a formal method, but this journal presents it in a public-facing score format so cases can be read quickly and compared consistently.
Framework
Jurisdictional Cover and Epistemic Cover
Two mechanisms that stabilise coercive infrastructure by making it physically unreachable and analytically invisible — and what the FCPI framework reveals about both.
Paper
Platform Neutrality Is a Temporary Illusion
A platform can look neutral while it is still optional. Once dependence deepens, neutrality gives way to governance.
Case Library
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AI Models as Choke Points: OpenAI, Google, and the FCPI Analysis of Model Power
Analysis of foundation model providers as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how AI model dependency creates sovereignty, continuity, and control risks.
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Cloud Providers as Sovereignty Choke Points: AWS, Azure, and the FCPI Model
Analysis of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how cloud dependency creates sovereignty and control risks.
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SWIFT as a Financial Choke Point: Payments, Sanctions, and the FCPI Analysis
Analysis of SWIFT as a high-FCPI financial infrastructure, showing how payment messaging systems create global dependency and geopolitical leverage.
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Foundation Models as Emerging Choke Points
Model access layers can become strategically consequential when institutions depend on them for cognition, workflow acceleration, and system coordination.