🇬🇧 UK-based company · UK data sovereignty · UK jurisdiction
COGNIOSYNTHESIS
The World's First Epistemic Intelligence Platform
£200,000 Pre-Seed | SAFE
We don't analyse what documents say. We analyse what they mean — and what they hide. All processing stays on UK soil.
Two Problems. One Platform.
The Meaning Problem
Organisations publish thousands of governance documents — policies, board papers, impact assessments. AI tools analyse what text says (sentiment, keywords, facts). Nobody analyses what text means — or what it hides.
Cultural blind spots, framing bias, and missing perspectives go undetected. The result: failed policies, judicial reviews, excluded communities, reputational collapse.
🇬🇧 The Data Sovereignty Problem
Every major AI analysis tool routes data through US cloud infrastructure. For UK public sector organisations handling sensitive governance documents — NHS patient data, council equality assessments, policy drafts — this is a compliance risk and a sovereignty failure.
UK GDPR requires data protection. Public sector procurement increasingly demands UK-jurisdiction processing. No current AI governance tool offers it.
Real-World Example
A UK council published a 47-page equality impact assessment for a housing development. It passed every review. 18 months later, three ethnic minority communities launched a judicial review. The document systematically excluded their perspectives — not through malice, but through framing.
No tool caught it because no tool analyses meaning. And even if one had — it would have sent the council's data to a US server to do it.
The Solution — The Trinity Stack
CognioNews
The Shopfront
- Live news intelligence platform
- Stories processed daily
- 7-dimension epistemic analysis
- Proof of concept & lead gen
CognioEngine
The Intelligence
- Analytical core powering everything
- Span-cited claim extraction
- 7-dimension risk scoring
- Governance-grade corrective rewrites
CognioAPI
The Product
- Engine-as-a-service for enterprises
- Submit any document for analysis
- Councils, universities, NHS, corporates
- The revenue engine
Aligned & Certified (alignedncertified.co.uk) — our training and compliance arm. EU AI Act assessments, professional certification, and in-house analyst training. Graduates become long-term CognioAPI users. Includes a live EU AI Act compliance tool.
1
EXTRACT
Submit any document. Engine parses full text and extracts every claim with span-cited references.
2
SCORE
Each claim scored across 7 dimensions. Returns severity score, explanation, and exact text span.
3
CORRECT
Generates governance-grade corrective rewrite showing what the document should have said, with evidence.
The 7-Dimension Framework
1. Cultural ContextDetects Western-centric assumptions and cultural blind spots
2. Framing & BiasIdentifies how language shapes perception and excludes alternatives
3. Missing PerspectivesSurfaces voices, viewpoints, and populations left out
4. Power DynamicsMaps who benefits, who decides, and who is silenced
5. Narrative DriftTracks how meaning shifts from source to publication
6. ContradictionsFinds internal inconsistencies and logical conflicts
7. Source CredibilityAssesses evidence quality and citation integrity
No known competitor operates across all seven dimensions. This framework is the product of a decade of anthropological research into how institutions construct meaning.
Traction & Proof
Market validation:
- 15-20 prospect organisations identified with named contacts (GLA, NHS England, Edinburgh, Camden, dxw)
- Startup profiles live on F6S, Wellfound, OpenVC, Wefunder, Dealroom, Vestbee
- Sample Board Pack & Risk Register produced from real data — ready for prospect demos
- YouTube channel, LinkedIn, Substack — content engine running
Market Opportunity
£5B+
TAM — Global GovTech + RegTech + document intelligence. AI governance market projected £4.2B by 2028 (34% CAGR).
£500M
SAM — UK/EU public sector + universities + mid-large enterprises. ~25,000 organisations x £20k avg contract.
£5M
SOM — First 250 customers within 3 years. Conservative 1% of SAM.
Target customers:
- Tier 1 — UK Local Authorities & NHS Trusts: Equality assessments, board papers, policy review under statutory obligation
- Tier 2 — Universities: Research ethics, institutional strategy, REF submissions, student-facing policies
- Tier 3 — Regulated Enterprises: ESG reporting, DEI statements, regulatory submissions, supplier due diligence
- Tier 4 — Digital Agencies (dxw, TPXimpact, Made Tech): Resell audits to their public sector clients
Business Model
CognioAPI — SaaS Subscriptions
Starter£300/mo500 documents, 7-dimension scoring, API access
Team£900/mo2,000 docs, priority processing, dashboard, reports
Pro£1,800/mo10,000 docs, custom dimensions, dedicated support
EnterpriseCustomUnlimited, on-premise option, SLA, bespoke config
Professional Services
Corrective Audits£2-4kOne-off deep analysis — our entry point
Board Packs£1.5-3kExecutive-ready epistemic intelligence reports
Risk Registers£2-4k7-dimension risk mapping across document portfolios
Monitoring£1-2k/moOngoing scoring with deterioration alerts
Training (Aligned & Certified Programme)
£500-1,200 per person — creates in-house analysts who become long-term API users
The Ask
£200,000 Pre-Seed | SAFE
Allocation
Amount
Share
Detail
Sovereign AI Lab£55,00028%4 inference nodes, 2TB distributed memory, 10GbE mesh — all inference runs locally under UK jurisdiction — zero API dependency, no data leaves the country
Premises & Utilities£26,00013%Lab space, fibre broadband, electricity, fit-out
Founder Salaries (12mo)£75,00038%2 co-founders at £30k + NI + pension
Insurance & Legal£9,0004%Premises, cyber, PI, contracts, IP protection
Accounting & Compliance£3,0001%Annual accounts, bookkeeping, ICO registration
Growth & Marketing£10,0005%Conferences, pilot onboarding, content
Software & Tools£5,0002%API fallback, SaaS, domains
Contingency£18,0009%Buffer for unexpected costs
18-Month Milestones
- Month 3: First paying customer (Corrective Audit pilot)
- Month 6: 5-10 customers, £5k/mo recurring revenue, Sovereign Lab operational
- Month 12: 30+ customers, £15-20k/mo revenue, agency partnerships signed
- Month 18: £300k+ ARR, break-even in sight, ready for Seed round at £1-2M valuation
The Team
Kenny Lewis — Co-Founder, AI Engineering & Alignment
PhD Candidate AI (Anthropology/Philosophy) — University of Dundee
BA (Hons) Social Anthropology — UWTSD Wales
20+ years in technology. Built and deployed the full CognioEngine stack, API, and 4-agent AI architecture.
Rosemary Northover — Co-Founder, Ethics & Applied Anthropology
MSc Candidate Global Politics & Sustainable Leadership — UWTSD
BA (Hons) Applied Anthropology — UWTSD Wales
Specialist in institutional culture and power dynamics. Designed the 7-Dimension Framework from fieldwork research.
Sovereign AI Agent Team
4 purpose-trained AI agents, each specialised in a distinct operational domain: platform engineering & infrastructure, commercial strategy & marketing, financial compliance & SLA monitoring, and deep research & competitive intelligence. Not general-purpose chatbots — each agent carries domain-specific training, persistent memory, and cross-agent coordination protocols.
Running on dedicated on-premise hardware with 2TB shared distributed memory. All inference executes locally under UK jurisdiction — zero per-token API costs at scale, no data leaves the country, no sensitive governance documents routed through US cloud providers. Meets UK GDPR and public sector data sovereignty requirements out of the box.
Operational knowledge is documented and distributed across the agent mesh — not locked in founders' heads. Reduces key-person risk from day one.
Post-funding hires: Senior Engineer (Month 3) | Business Development Lead (Month 4)
Why Now
- EU AI Act enforcement begins 2026 — organisations need epistemic auditing NOW
- UK AI Safety Institute expanding mandate — governance scrutiny accelerating
- Institutional trust at historic lows (Grenfell, Post Office, NHS failures) — demand is fear-driven
- AI models now capable of executing anthropological analysis at scale — wasn't possible 3 years ago
- No competitor in epistemic governance — the window to define the category is NOW
"We don't analyse what documents say.
We analyse what they mean — and what they hide."