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. Features and AI hype rarely come first.
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.
2. “Who changed what when? Audit is mandatory”
Compliance reviews, GDPR, customer audits. Answer: event-sourcing by default. Every change is an event and can be reconstructed.
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 the places where Kumiko is deliberately different from Retool, Notion, or generic no-code boxes.
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