Firms will negotiate hard on price, on contract length, and on support terms when choosing new software, but data ownership is often accepted as whatever the vendor's default happens to be. For a business setup company, that's the one term that arguably deserves the most scrutiny.
Why this deserves the same weight as other major decisions
A firm wouldn't hand a filing cabinet full of client passports to a third party without knowing exactly who controls access to it. Digital data deserves the same standard, even though it's less visible and easier to overlook in a software buying decision.
What non-negotiable data ownership actually looks like
It means the firm's data lives on infrastructure the firm controls, isn't shared with other companies, and isn't subject to a provider's unilateral policy changes. It means if the relationship with a software vendor ends, the firm still has full, immediate access to everything it entered.
Why this should be a starting requirement, not an afterthought
Rukn's domain-locked, self-hosted deployment model exists specifically to make this a non-issue — a firm's data ownership isn't a clause in a terms of service document, it's the actual architecture of how the platform is deployed.
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