The Substitution Ladder: A Better Way to Read the Quantum Supply Chain
Grade every component by how many weeks of engineering a replacement costs. Three rungs, three procurement strategies, and one order of purchase that protects…
How to Read China’s Quantum Supply Chain
China went from zero domestic dilution refrigerator makers in 2021 to roughly ten. Here is how to read a supply chain claim like that…
Quantum Sovereignty and Geopolitics: The Short Version
Export controls, investment screening, and diverging PQC standards have turned quantum sovereignty into a procurement question. The short version, for architects and buyers.
When Geopolitics Becomes Architecture
Export controls now trigger on qubit count and gate error rate together. Sovereignty has moved out of the policy brief and into the bill…
Running a Sovereignty Stress Test That Can Fail
Most sovereignty tabletops end with the finding that the organisation would cope, because nobody defined coping first. A design guide for an exercise that…
Sovereign Optionality: What Quantum Independence Looks Like in a Contract
National strategies announce quantum sovereignty. Contracts decide it. The terms that determine whether a buyer can change supplier, jurisdiction, or architecture without restarting.
Access, Not Ownership: How Governments Screen Quantum Deals
Investment screening in quantum no longer asks who owns a company. It asks who can reach the technology. A field guide to the five…
Deemed Exports: When Explaining Your Quantum Work Becomes an Export
Since September 2024, a screen share with a foreign colleague can require a US export license. What deemed export rules mean for quantum teams,…
Quantum Research Is an Intelligence Target
Foreign intelligence services are collecting against quantum work at every level, from national labs to seed-stage startups. What the public record shows, and what…
The Four Capabilities an Alliance Cannot Give You
Coalitions supply roadmaps, standards, funding and facilities. They cannot supply the capability to specify, verify, integrate and substitute. Here is what each member has…