The positive programme of the manifesto insists: “the device does not on its own create a more sovereign market. It requires the mobilisation of buyers, who are the real arbiters.” As long as buyers do not ask, providers have no reason to publish. As long as investors do not question, startups do not integrate sovereignty into their trajectory. The structured demand for commitments is the lever that closes the loop — demand structures supply.
Four commitments organise this pressure on the demand side.
On the user organisations side, two complementary commitments. Integrating the Sovereignty Profile into procurement processes (see commitment user-002) — on the same footing as a GDPR file or an ISO 27001 certificate, asking candidate providers for their Profile and their declaration of assumed blind spots, and treating the absence as an explicit negative signal. This is the most structuring commitment on the demand side: it turns sovereignty from an informal criterion into a contractual one. Requiring Profiles from the entire chain (see commitment user-007) — publisher, hosting provider, integrator — because a single non-transparent link is enough to compromise overall sovereignty. Cascading transparency is a reasonable requirement, with zero cost if providers have already done the work.
On the investors and European funds side (see commitment fund-001), integrating the sovereign dimension into due diligence — strategic third-party components, governance jurisdiction, capital structure, continuity arrangements — at the same level as financial, legal or technical due diligence. Sovereignty is not a philosophical nice-to-have; for European investment targets it is a measurable geopolitical risk factor.
Finally, on the user organisations with high single-vendor exposure side, the commitment to seriously study migration (see commitment user-004) out of a critical single-vendor dependency — Redis, MongoDB, Elastic, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, etc. — is not only an internal preparation for risk. It is also a signal to the market: when several European organisations simultaneously study Valkey, OpenSearch or OpenBao, the ecosystem of these alternatives strengthens — feedback, contributions, feature requests, paid maintainers.
These four commitments share an effect: they turn sovereignty into a market expectation rather than a militant claim. The work of providers, foundations, contributors — everything the other themes address — bears full fruit only when demand calls for it. This page is the buyer-side counterpart of the entire device.