Every vendor in this market says it is neutral, so the word is worth nothing. Here is a test you can run against any of them, including us: remove one supplier and see what your company can still do on Monday.
remove the model
Claude
GPT
Gemini
open weights
Skills, rules, evals and traces repoint. Route the routine work somewhere cheaper.
remove the harness
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
your own agents
Every one of them reaches the same brain and the same governed tools.
remove the cloud
this VPC
another cloud
on-prem
air-gapped
It already runs inside your boundary. Moving it is a deployment.
remove us
SynOS
The brain, the rules, the corrections and the traces are on your infrastructure, in your account.
what leaves with the vendor
Nothing of yours was ever inside them.no brain, no rules, no corrections, no traces
what is still standing on Monday
✓The Company Brainentities, relations and bindings, profiled from your systems
✓The rules your people wroteevery exception and judgement call, versioned
✓Every correction ever madereviewed, promoted, and reaching every agent
✓The traceswhat ran, what it touched, what happened next
✓Your private evalsscored against your outcomes, not a public benchmark
✓The agents and apps your teams builtand the skills they were assembled from
Integration lock-in is dying: agents can rewrite a connector in an afternoon, and we will not pretend otherwise. What cannot be rewritten is what your people taught it.