"Your margin is my opportunity." — Europe's chance in sovereign AI

“Your margin is my opportunity.” Jeff Bezos’ line describes exactly the biggest opportunity for sovereign solutions out of Europe right now.

The sovereignty question is, at its core, settled: in June 2025, Microsoft’s chief legal officer could not guarantee under oath before the French Senate that European data is protected from US access. The CLOUD Act doesn’t get any clearer than that.

But: sovereignty doesn’t sell on morality. Bitkom president Wintergerst puts it precisely — a European cloud is more than a niche product only if it keeps up on performance and price.

That is exactly where the opportunity lies. The US hyperscalers earn extremely well. Those margins are our room to move: with a radically shorter value chain and the right partners, you deliver comparable quality. And win economically.

Sovereignty becomes a side effect of the better math, not a surcharge. feld.ai starts at the foundation: splitting, classifying, extracting, rotating documents. Unspectacular, but the base every AI agent stands on. Pure OCR is only a fraction of the effort — the rest sits in orchestration and scaling. Whoever builds this themselves underestimates the full cost. Even in the age of Claude Code.

With a specialized solution, at 100 million documents per year, under €0.50 per document is achievable — for splitting, classifying, extracting and rotating.

We now deliver the foundation for billions of documents that have to be processed precisely and cheaply in a business context. Sovereign, by the way.

After that, we’ll see.

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