How locked in are you,
really?

Lock-in is rarely a decision. It builds up from reasonable choices, such as a SaaS contract here, a proprietary data format there and an identity provider that now sits at the centre of everything, until the cost of switching exceeds the cost of staying, regardless of how the provider performs.

This scorecard measures six dimensions of your current provider relationships: contractual terms, data portability, technical dependencies, support concentration, access control, and negotiating leverage. Each question surfaces a specific type of dependency. The result tells you how much of your current IT situation is a genuine choice, and how much is structural constraint.

Who it is for: IT directors and leadership teams facing a contract renewal, a cloud strategy review, or a supplier relationship that has started to feel more like dependency than service. After the scorecard, the Sovereignty Index® scores vendor lock-in as one of five pillars of your estate's sovereign posture and produces a prioritised plan for reducing it.