From Commercial API to Sovereign Infrastructure: A Practical Guide to LLM Workload Migration

In January 2026, a software company received a routine notification from their cloud AI provider: the model powering their production pipeline was being deprecated. No migration path, no extended support window, no negotiation. The model that their extraction logic, prompts, and evaluation suite had been built around was simply going away, and the “newer alternatives” were not producing satisfactory results.