SILICON
Silicon is physics. Software is a promise. We engineer the physics.
BlackSphere
Hardware-Enforced Biometric Governance
The UK has 21 million CCTV cameras—a silent, inactive graveyard of data [Products_Data_Commercialisation]. Under the Data (Use and Access) Act (DUAA) 2025, public and private estate owners are desperate to train predictive AI on these archives to intercept violence within the critical three-minute escalation window. The blocker is not compute. It is absolute legal liability.
Standard software-level anonymisation is a fail-open illusion. To train, software must un-anonymise faces in volatile memory. The millisecond it does, it triggers a strict three-year deletion clock, legally forcing organizations to delete their own historical archives [Products_Data_Commercialisation]. Furthermore, if the server crashes or gets compromised, raw biometric data dumps directly from RAM—and the asset owner gets fired.
BlackSphere is a hardware-enforced compliance shield fused directly to the silicon. By physically severing the video buffer at the transistor level, our processor literally lacks the internal wiring to see human faces. It extracts only kinetic movement patterns, mathematically obliterating individual identity before it ever reaches memory. We translate UK law directly into semiconductor physics.
BlackBox
Fault-Tolerant Edge Telemetry Persistence
In an era moving rapidly toward autonomous edge systems—UAVs, satellite constellations, and remote marine fleets—assuming reliable, continuous cloud connectivity is dangerously naive. When a connection goes dark, critical telemetry cached in standard volatile memory is highly vulnerable to power failure and data corruption.
BlackBox is an uninterruptible physical persistence engine designed to survive catastrophic power loss and hardware failure. It bypasses the operating system's volatile file cache entirely, committing telemetry directly to non-volatile physical storage the instant it is generated. If the power cable is severed mid-write, the data is already written.
Upon system recovery, the telemetry is transmitted to the network in a cryptographically sealed, tamper-evident chain of custody. The record of what occurred during the blackout remains absolute, unalterable, and legally defensible.
Architecture Principles
Zero Trust
Think of it like an F1 car's monocoque chassis. If the carbon fibre survival cell fails, no amount of engineering in the suspension, aerodynamics, or powertrain matters. Our silicon-enforced trust anchor is that survival cell. Everything else is built on top of it.
Role Enforcement
Access is not granted by role name. It is enforced by hardware-level capability tokens. A compromised administrator account cannot escalate privileges because the hardware physically cannot execute the instruction outside its assigned trust level.
Sovereign Architecture
Public cloud for wit. Hardware enclaves for secrets. We separate the intelligence layer (which can operate on commodity cloud infrastructure) from the identity and telemetry layers (which must remain in sovereign, air-gapped hardware).
Specification Gaming
Every AI system will eventually find an unintended shortcut. Our architecture assumes adversarial optimisation from day one. The hardware enforces the boundaries that the software will inevitably try to circumvent.