A. Big Tech’s Trap

Big Tech’s platforms have instrumented context as a proprietary commodity, embedding organizations within opaque inference grids that extract semantic capital with every interaction. In this trap, memory becomes telemetry—signals harvested to retrain external models and reinforce vendor lock-in. Decisions and documents are stitched into silos where the ownership of context drifts from the organization to the platform provider. As context sovereignty erodes, Reflex Economics quantifies this bleed as lost capital, forcing institutions into perpetual renewal cycles just to maintain operational continuity.