Beyond Big Tech: A Founder's Journey to Digital Sovereignty copertina

Beyond Big Tech: A Founder's Journey to Digital Sovereignty

Beyond Big Tech: A Founder's Journey to Digital Sovereignty

Di: Tom & Wojtek
Ascolta gratuitamente

Offerte di stagione | 0,99 €/mese per i primi 3 mesi

A seguire 9,99 €/mese – si applicano condizioni. Puoi disdire mensilmente.

Can you build a business on European open-source tech without sacrificing quality or reliability? Join Tom Breza, transitioning his cybersecurity firm away from US Big Tech, and Wojtek Kołodziejczak, building a new, sovereign-by-design AI company, as they test the alternatives in real-time.

No sponsored reviews or ideology—just two founders stress-testing hardware, software, and cloud against three questions: Is it as good? Is it worth the money? Can I rely on it?

If you’re fighting vendor lock-in, this is your guide. New episodes weekly.

  • Is AI Making Experts Worse at Their Jobs? | Ethical AI
    Oct 11 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Is AI Making You Worse at Your Job? | Ethical AI

    The more we lean on AI, the less we use the skills that made us experts in the first place. So where does helpful end and dependent begin?

    This week, Tom and Wojtek are joined by Henri Allegra, founder of Homo Promptus, to talk about ethical AI and what it takes to use it without losing your edge. Who stays in control? What do we quietly lose along the way? And what does using AI responsibly look like in a real business?

    If you use AI at work, or you’re thinking about it, this one is worth your time.

    👉 Watch the full episode, and subscribe so you don’t miss the next one.

    🎙️ Guest: Henri Allegra, founder of Homo Promptus, a human-centred AI transformation programme that helps organisations work with AI while keeping human judgment and accountability front and centre. 🔗 Homo Promptus: https://homopromptus.com/en/ 🔗 Henri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriallegra/

    🎙️ Beyond Big Tech: A Founder’s Journey to Digital Sovereignty is a weekly show testing whether you can build a business on European and open-source tech without sacrificing quality, cost, or reliability.

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    48 min
  • Death by AI: Can You Actually Trust What AI Tells Your Business?
    Sep 8 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Can you trust what AI tells your business? Beyond Big Tech asks whether you can really build a company on European and open-source tech without sacrificing quality, cost, or reliability. Hosts Tom and Wojtek — two founders testing it in real time — sit down with Susan Luscombe, Strategic Growth Director at ResiCentral, to talk "death by AI": why real data you own beats a confident prediction, and why digital sovereignty runs deeper than software, right down to where your chips are made. 🔗 ResiCentral: https://www.resicentral.co.uk/

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    33 min
  • Digital sovereighty is not only about software. Testing Nothing phone
    Aug 26 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Every week, this show asks one question: can you actually build or rebuild a business on European and open-source tech — without sacrificing quality, cost, or reliability?

    Hosts Tom Breza and Wojtek Kołodziejczak test that question from two different directions. Tom, with 30 years in tech, is migrating his IT and cybersecurity business, Operum.tech, off US Big Tech infrastructure one layer at a time. Wojtek is an AI strategist helping organisations adopt AI in a compliant way, and he's building a brand-new company designed to be sovereign from day one. Every tool they test gets held to the same three questions: Is it as good? Is it worth the money? Can I actually rely on it?

    In this episode, Tom and Wojtek break from the usual guest format for a news roundup: the latest developments in digital sovereignty and AI worth paying attention to.

    Tom also shares his hands-on take on the Nothing phone — a UK-based alternative to the usual iPhone/Samsung duopoly. It's not a fully sovereign device (some American components and software are still under the hood), but Tom put it through its paces as a real-world test of how far you can get from Big Tech just by choosing a different brand, and what solutions — sovereign or not — actually exist inside it.

    New episodes weekly.

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    19 min
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Ancora nessuna recensione