When engineering data lives behind a subscription, every renewal is a renegotiation over work you already paid to create. The vault is yours only until the next invoice. That is not a digital thread. That is a rented permission slip.
Thirteen vendors means thirteen renewal cliffs, thirteen price ladders, and thirteen ways last year’s BOM becomes unreadably expensive to keep. Connectors do not fix ownership. They rent you another year of syncing copies across PLM, ERP, and the rest of the stack.
N23D‘s bar is blunt: one native Rust binary, a permanent license, a local-first data plane. Sign in with Entra if you want. Keep the thread on your floor. Homepage pass/fail stays the same — One platform. Full digital thread. If you still need a landlord’s permission to open last year’s record, we failed. See licensing.
Demand ownership of the record, not another seat that expires the truth. That is the Rust-native claim — and that is N23D.