Part 3/5 – Digital sovereignty and strategic technological autonomy[AI software factory is a critical technology for the EU economy]

Parallel to the discussion on productivity, there is a growing debate about the risk of becoming too dependent on external AI suppliers. Analyses for management and supervisory boards even point to a "sticky spot": companies see reputational, regulatory, and ethical risks, but often lack a strategy for the most important question – what will happen if we base critical processes entirely on closed, foreign platforms over which we have no real control?

The issue of agents only reinforces this: if the entire logic of processes – from credit decisions to infrastructure security – is embedded in black boxes outside the EU, digital sovereignty becomes a fiction. That is why it is so important that key agent technologies – especially those that affect digital infrastructure such as software development – are developed and maintained where they will be implemented.

The current infrastructure boom - gigawatt data centers, growing energy and water consumption, tensions around local communities—is turning data centers into the new "heavy industry" of the digital economy. Building their own hyperscale data centers is not a realistic option for most countries and companies, which is why another dimension of AI sovereignty is emerging: sovereignty at the software and cognitive layer.

GENESIS-AI meets this condition - it is being developed in European jurisdiction, in accordance with GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and the requirements of regulated sectors, and is designed to operate both in a fully on-premises model and in an EU-cloud-only variant, in cloud regions subject to European regulation and supervision. The second key element is the ownership and portability model:

• you generate code in standard technologies (Python, C, SQL, popular web frameworks),

• you give the customer the full, readable source code and deployment artifacts,

• you do not enforce your own closed runtime, without which the system will not work.

This virtually eliminates vendor lock-in at the code level – the organization can maintain solutions on its own or collaborate with any partner, migrate between cloud and data center infrastructures without rewriting the system, and treat the agent-based software factory as a tool rather than a cage.

In the context of warnings about the "AI blind spot," which emphasize the need for conscious decisions by management in the area of critical technologies, GENESIS-AI is an example of how this gap can be closed: instead of relying on a single, external ecosystem, you build your own agent competence to generate code that is fully compliant with European regulations and standards. GENESIS-AI thus strengthens the EU's technological sovereignty in the area of AI for software development, reducing dependence on solutions from outside the EEA and directly contributing to the objectives of STEP and the AI Act framework.