Data Sovereignty — Engines + Automation — May 22

The May 22 Data Sovereignty webinar. Brady walks through the engines layer of an operator stack: trigger, steps, output. The four engines worth building first (intake, fulfillment, follow-up, reporting) and the build-vs-buy frame that decides where your logic lives. Engines + automations are how operators buy back velocity, speed, reliability, and synchronicity at the same time.

What this session covered

The engines layer that makes the rest of your stack compound. A working definition of an engine (trigger + steps + output running on its own), the four engines worth building first, and a real-stack walkthrough of an intake engine broken into six steps.

Manual work is silent debt — context-switch tax, latency debt, consistency debt, scale ceiling — each pays in different currency, all unseen until they hurt
Four engines first — intake, fulfillment, follow-up, reporting — pick one based on this month's pain, build it, let the rest compound
Use the tool, own the logic — vendor SaaS handles I/O; your orchestration is the moat. Replace the SaaS and your logic still works. Replace your logic and you've replaced what your business is.

Course Bridge

This replay supports: Supports Day 3 (engines), Day 4 (fulfillment), Day 6 (reporting). The course implements each engine as a worked example you can copy into your stack.

What this session didn't cover: The session walked through the frame and one intake engine in detail, but didn't get into the full operational set (fulfillment chains, error queues, retry logic, monitoring). The course implements each engine end-to-end across days 3-6.

If the engines frame clicked, the full 7-day Data Sovereignty Course ($297) turns each engine into a working build. Land on the /ds/course/ page for the full curriculum.