The Future of Sovereign AI
Identity. Memory. Orchestration. Compliance.
The infrastructure layer for autonomous AI agents that enterprises can trust, audit, and deploy anywhere — including offline.
Founded
May 2025
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Stage
Pre-Seed
Focus
Sovereign AI
Market Opportunity
A Massive Untapped Market
1.3 billion AI agents by 2028. $15 trillion in B2B spend through agent exchanges. And no one is building the identity and governance layer.
$97.2B
Enterprise AI Market 2025
18.9% CAGR
$199B
Agentic AI by 2034
From $7.55B today — 26x
1.3B
AI Agents by 2028
IDC — zero have cryptographic identity
53%
Cite Privacy as #1 Barrier
Only 26% scale beyond POC
The Problem
The Agent Infrastructure Gap
The industry is building agents on infrastructure designed for chatbots. Enterprises need identity, memory, compliance, and offline capability. None of it exists.
Data Sovereignty Gap
Cloud AI requires sending sensitive data to third parties. 87% of organizations now consider data sovereignty when selecting AI vendors. The EU AI Act is in force.
No Agent Identity
1.3 billion AI agents deployed by 2028 (IDC) and not one can cryptographically prove who it is. Non-human identities already outnumber humans 50:1 in enterprises. No audit trail from authorization to action.
Memory That Forgets
Vector databases slow at scale (O(N) retrieval). Agents lose context between sessions. Overruled legal precedents are indistinguishable from current rulings.
No Compliance Infrastructure
No sovereignty scoring. No data residency enforcement. No HITL approval workflows. Regulated industries are locked out of agentic AI entirely.
Aethyr delivers the identity, memory, orchestration, and compliance infrastructure for autonomous AI agents
Our Solution
Private LLM Deployment
Full data sovereignty with self-hosted inference via Ollama. Your data never leaves your infrastructure. Cloud models available when appropriate.
Mesh Intelligence
Proprietary collective intelligence. Self-organizing agent squads with HDC-based cognitive state and autonomous task coordination. No central bottleneck.
Ontology Augmented Generation
Beyond vector similarity. HDC-powered retrieval encodes domain constraints geometrically. 100% precision on legal tests. Sub-millisecond queries on 100K documents.
241+ MCP Tool Integrations
HubSpot (49), ServiceTitan (81), Google (26), SharePoint, Outlook, Zapier, and more. Extensible plugin architecture via Model Context Protocol.
Post-Quantum Agent Identity
W3C Verifiable Credentials signed with ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204). Offline verification. When quantum computers break RSA, Aethyr credentials survive.
Enterprise Compliance
137-privilege PBAC (not RBAC). 8-dimension sovereignty scoring. Audit trails with 30+ event types. SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP-ready. Data residency enforcement.
Technology
What Makes It Possible
PSAM Cognitive Architecture
Rust-based on-device module. 31 hyperdimensional vectors encode agent identity, knowledge, personality, and context — a complete cognitive state in 1.2 MB.
Agent Operating System
Not an orchestrator — an OS. 84 syscalls across 22 categories. Agents emit syscall tokens in their output stream. The kernel intercepts and executes.
Deploy Anywhere
Same platform from cloud to air-gapped. Agents migrate between tiers carrying full cognitive state. DDIL-ready for contested environments.
Competitive Moats
Why Aethyr Wins
Mesh Intelligence
Self-organizing agent swarms with holonic hierarchy and HDC-based cognitive state. No competitor offers decentralized multi-agent coordination that works offline.
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Post-Quantum Identity
First agent identity system built on NIST FIPS 203/204. 16,400 signatures/sec. Offline verification. Every credential issued today survives quantum computing.
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Ontology Augmented Generation
HDC retrieval with validity binding. 100% legal precision vs 62.5% baseline. O(D) constant-time retrieval, 12x smaller storage. 18-month research head start.
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Full-Stack Sovereign AI
LLM hosting, agent OS, tool integrations, knowledge retrieval, identity, secrets, compliance, observability — one platform from inference to audit trail. Deploy cloud to air-gapped.
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SSI Heritage
Built on the same W3C DID and Verifiable Credential standards that power human self-sovereign identity — now upgraded with post-quantum cryptography for the agent economy.
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Defense-Grade Security
HashiCorp Vault envelope encryption. Optional Blue Team stack: Suricata IDS, Wazuh EDR, Zeek protocol analysis, Arkime packet capture, MISP threat intel. DDIL-ready.
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Traction
Milestones & Progress
Production MCP server with 241+ tools across 14 plugins
Agent Registry live — post-quantum W3C credentials
PSAM cognitive architecture — Rust (16,400 sigs/sec, 31-vector HDC memory)
Enterprise console — 217 data models, 137 privileges, HITL workflows
Full observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Blue Team
Delivered a paid engagement for a $12M residential construction firm
2-3 serious enterprise customers in pipeline
6 technical deep-dive publications on aethyrresearch.com
Q3 2026: 5 paying enterprise customers
Q3 2026: SOC2, HIPAA certifications
Q4 2026: Defense sector pilot (FedRAMP pathway)
Q1 2027: $50K MRR
Q2 2027: 10,000+ registered agents
Leadership
The Team
R. Demetri Vallejos
Founder, CEO & Chief AI Officer
- Founder and architect of Aethyr sovereign AI platform
- Drove the full stack from cryptographic codec to iOS app
- Designed PSAM cognitive architecture and HDC memory systems
- Enterprise AI strategy for defense, government, healthcare, and energy
Bruce Snyder
COO & Co-Founder
- Co-founder of Aethyr Research
- Leads operations, delivery, and go-to-market execution
Stan McHann
CTO & Co-Founder
- Co-founder of Aethyr Research
- Leads technical architecture and platform engineering
Core Team
Dave Owens
Business Development & Sales — Construction / GC
Arnauld J. Nakaha
Head of Revenue & Strategic Partnerships
Advisors
Stuart Oliver
Enterprise AI go-to-market
Greg T. Robleski
Enterprise & quantum strategy
Rob Clark
Platform engineering
Carol Sonnenberg, CPA
Finance
Tim Moore
Operating & commercial advisor
Plus additional operations & commercial contributors.
Investment Opportunity
Join Our Journey
$350K
Raising (Post-Money SAFE)
$8M
Valuation Cap
20%
Discount
Use of Funds
Projected Unit Economics
$43K
Lifetime Value
$4.3K
Customer Acquisition Cost
10:1
LTV to CAC Ratio
70-80%
Gross Margin
Go-to-Market
Four Beachheads
Construction — Primary Beachhead
An early commercial engagement delivered $61K in Phase 1 service revenue to Aethyr, with $75K committed for Phase 2. 14 enterprise integrations were deployed across ServiceTitan, HubSpot, Google, and Autodesk ACC, validating the full stack in production: Console + MCP + RAG + knowledge graph.
A $510B industry with data fragmented across dozens of systems — the proving ground for sovereign AI infrastructure with dual-use expansion into defense, enterprise, and residential.
Defense & Intelligence
Same stack, air-gapped. Post-quantum crypto, DDIL operation, Blue Team integration. The only agent stack that runs offline with full identity and compliance.
Regulated Enterprise
Financial services, healthcare, legal, energy. Sovereignty scoring, audit trails, HITL workflows, data residency. Same platform proven in construction.
Residential
B2B2C pathway: serve the remodeler, who serves the homeowner. Privacy-first AI for the home — local-first agents, no cloud required.
Market Timing
Why Now?
Agentic AI Explosion
$7.55B to $199B by 2034. 85% of enterprises implementing agents by end of 2025.
Sovereignty Mandate
62% of European orgs seeking sovereign AI. EU AI Act enforcement live since Feb 2025.
MCP Standard
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol enables interop. Aethyr is MCP-native with 241+ tools.
Local LLM Viability
NVIDIA NIM and Blackwell make production self-hosted inference practical.
Post-Quantum Deadline
NIST finalized PQC in 2024. Migration deadline: 2035. Agent credentials issued today on RSA will need re-issuance.
"The next frontier of artificial intelligence is agentic AI, which uses sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to autonomously solve complex, multi-step problems."
— NVIDIA AI
Let's Build the Future of Sovereign AI Together
1.3 billion agents by 2028. They need identity, memory, and governance. We built it. It's running in production. And it's post-quantum.