What IT leaders ask in first calls
Three questions show up in almost every pilot conversation: hosting, audit, lock-in. How we answer — and why it's not marketing fluff.
After a dozen first calls with founders and ops leads, the pattern is clear: the first three questions are almost always the same. Not features, not AI hype.
1. “Where does data live — and can it leave our network?”
Often: no external cloud by default. Answer: your Hetzner box, your Kubernetes, on-prem or air-gapped. Kumiko is built for teams that need to control data flow — not “trust the SaaS vendor”.
2. “Who changed what when — audit is mandatory”
Compliance reviews, GDPR, customer audits. Answer: event-sourcing by default, not a bolt-on log table. Every change is an event — reconstructible, not “we’ll add logging later”.
3. “What if you’re gone tomorrow?”
Answer: the repo stays yours. Generated code, Postgres, deploy path — no per-user lock-in. Enterprise gets framework source access for reviews.
If your technical lead asks the same three questions: good. Those are exactly the places Kumiko is intentionally different from Retool, Notion, or generic no-code boxes.
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