How One Backend Team's Post-Mortem Exposed a Critical Gap in Their AI Vendor Geopolitical Risk Framework (And the Architecture They Built to Fix It)
In early 2026, a backend engineering team at a mid-sized SaaS company discovered something deeply uncomfortable during a routine incident review: their entire agentic AI pipeline could be taken offline by a single regulatory dispute they had absolutely no control over. The trigger? Anthropic's high-profile standoff with the