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From AI SaaS to Critical National Infrastructure: The Repositioning Underway
A certain kind of software is quietly crossing a line — from application you can swap out to infrastructure a country depends on. When it crosses, almost everything changes: how it has to be built, how it gets bought, and who has to care about it. Most vendors haven't noticed the line move.
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By Aaron Gammon · Founder, Inferrex · June 2026
I spent eighteen years selling software into government and large regulated organisations, and I've written separately, at length, about what I think is wrong with how the British state handles its own data — that's The State Cannot See Itself, and I won't repeat it here. This is the companion argument, pointed forward: not "here's the problem," but "here's the category shift happening underneath it, and what it means for how this kind of software gets built and bought."
It's a thesis piece — argument first, sourced where it leans on a fact. Where it touches what Inferrex does, I keep to outcomes, not methods. Live figures at inferrex.com/claims.