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PRESS · DOSSIER

Press dossier.

Biography in three lengths, book synopsis, the eight principles on a single page. All text is copyable directly — no need to request a ZIP.

SHORT BIO · ONE LINE

Leonardo Arguedas Rodríguez is a software architect and author of Sovereign Architecture, a framework for modernizing with AI without surrendering control.

MEDIUM BIO · ONE PARAGRAPH

Leonardo Arguedas Rodríguez is a software architect with two decades in critical systems for Latin American banking, government, and manufacturing. He is the author of Sovereign Architecture and founder of TransformIQ, the consultancy through which he applies the framework with public and private organizations across the region.

LONG BIO · FULL PROFILE

Software architect with two decades in critical systems for Latin American banking, government, and manufacturing. I worked from inside the transition from mainframe to cloud, and from inside the more recent moment too: the transition from cloud to models.

Sovereign Architecture was born of a question that kept reappearing in every project of the last three years — ministries, banks, large family-owned companies, small technical teams. The question is always the same: how to modernize without modernization becoming surrender. The industry's short answer — "adopt everything new as fast as possible" — is commercially convenient and operationally wrong. This book is the long answer.

I live in San José, Costa Rica. I write every two weeks. I teach occasionally. I accept invitations to speak when the context warrants it.

HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTO

In preparation — published as soon as a high-resolution photo exists.

BOOK SYNOPSIS

The first book by Leonardo Arguedas Rodríguez articulates a position the public AI conversation has been ducking: neither Karp's modernization-at-any-cost nor Varoufakis's technofeudal denunciation is enough for those who must decide, this week, what to sign and what not to sign. Sovereign Architecture proposes an operational framework — a double-stack doctrine, eight principles, and four applications — to keep the layer where decisions are made while modernizing the layer where execution happens.

THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES

  1. § 01Selective standardizationAdopt the common to free up capacity to decide what's your own.
  2. § 02Double stack: global execution, local decisionAn inviolable decision layer; a modernizable execution layer.
  3. § 03Layers over silosModernization happens by strata, not by departments.
  4. § 04Constitutional reversibilityNo contract should make a sovereign decision irreversible.
  5. § 05Endogenous productive densityProduce internally what multiplies the value of what is imported.
  6. § 06Deliberative legitimacyEvery decision layer must rest on deliberation, not technocratic delegation.
  7. § 07Generational gradientBuild today what the next generation can inherit and revise.
  8. § 08Personal sovereignty in transitionThe same principle applies to the individual trajectory in transition.