What if Vantage goes away?
Your data and your system continue to operate whether or not Vantage continues. The system is deployed in your infrastructure, not Fulcrum’s.
This is not a reassurance. It is a structural fact. Every Vantage deployment runs in a Supabase project that belongs to the client. Fulcrum holds a service account during the engagement and revokes it when the engagement ends. The system does not depend on Fulcrum’s infrastructure being operational.
What would happen if Fulcrum ceased to operate
Your Supabase project would continue running. Your scored output would continue being generated by the system as it was last maintained. The weekly brief would not be delivered – that is a Fulcrum-managed workflow, not an infrastructure component. But your data, your scored pipeline, and your pattern library would all remain intact.
You would lose: Fulcrum’s ongoing optimization, quality gate review, maintenance of integrations, and the correction cadence support structure. The system would stagnate rather than improve. But it would not disappear.
What you would need to do
Find a technical resource who can maintain the system using the documentation and handover materials included in the standard offboarding package. The system is built on open infrastructure (Supabase, standard APIs) and the documentation is comprehensive. A competent developer can maintain it.
The underlying design principle
Vantage is built on the premise that infrastructure you rent is infrastructure you can lose. Every design decision – isolated tenant environments, documented architecture, portable exports, open infrastructure – reflects the goal that you should never be dependent on Fulcrum’s continued existence to keep what you built.
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Connected questions:
- What happens to my data if I cancel?
- Where does my data live and who can access it?
- Do we own everything when the engagement ends?
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