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RevAIsor Secures £800k Innovate UK Project to Build Sovereign ‘AI Autonomy by Design’ Capability

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – August 25, 2026 – RevAIsor Ltd, a pioneer in AI governance and safety architectures, today announced it has secured funding from Innovate UK to launch SENTINEL Phase 2. Valued at approximately £800,000 in total project size, this 12-month initiative is dedicated to maturing a sovereign, fully defensible UK capability for securing autonomous AI systems by design. This funding is part of a 3-phase project from the Sovereign AI program of a £500m fund.

As artificial intelligence moves from assistive tools to fully autonomous agents, the risk of adversarial attacks and unpredictable behaviors has escalated. The SENTINEL project aims to solve this by building a deterministic, neuro-symbolic assurance engine—essentially a mathematical safety shield that guarantees AI systems operate strictly within pre-defined, secure boundaries.

“This funding from Innovate UK is a massive validation of our vision,” said Dr. Edgar Lopez-Rojas, Founder and Project Leader at RevAIsor Ltd. “We are not just building software; we are building a sovereign AI assurance infrastructure. By embedding security and responsible AI principles at the foundational level, we are enabling enterprises and government bodies to adopt autonomous systems with absolute confidence.”

The Sovereign AI (https://www.sovereignai.gov.uk/) initiative is a UK government-led program supported by a £500m fund, designed to secure the nation’s strategic, economic, and cultural autonomy in artificial intelligence. The initiative aims to reduce national dependency on a narrow cohort of international technology providers by maturing sovereign-grade AI capabilities. RevAIsor aligns with the financial services sector by automating compliance and providing deterministic audit trails, and fits the defense sector by implementing formal verification and ‘Safety-by-Design’ principles to prevent malicious exploits and ensure system resilience.

A World-Class Strategic Team

To deliver this highly ambitious R&D project, RevAIsor has assembled a world-class team bridging enterprise AI, cybersecurity, and deterministic evaluation. Key project leaders include:

• Dr. Edgar Lopez-Rojas (Project Leader): Spearheading the execution of the SENTINEL project and overseeing the core neuro-symbolic engine development.
• Tiansi (Responsible AI Leader): Architecting the core compliance and ethical boundary frameworks to ensure autonomous models remain fair, transparent, and strictly aligned with UK and international safety standards.
• Carsten Maple (Verify AI / Senior Security SME): Acting as a strategic subcontractor and Subject Matter Expert in AI, Security, and Defence, bringing unparalleled academic and practical expertise to harden the AI pipelines against adversarial threats.
• Karol See (Strategic Advisor): Leveraging extensive cross-industry expertise to guide the strategic deployment of sovereign AI capabilities.
• Chris Leong (Operations & Partnership Lead): Driving engagement with enterprise partners and scaling commercial operations to ensure the widespread adoption of SENTINEL safety frameworks.

The Sovereign AI Initiative and RevAIsor’s Strategic Fit

The Sovereign AI initiative is a UK government-led program supported by a £500m fund, designed to secure the nation’s strategic, economic, and cultural autonomy in artificial intelligence. The initiative aims to reduce national dependency on a narrow cohort of international technology providers by maturing sovereign-grade AI capabilities. The initiative prioritizes the development of AI architectures that are ‘provably safe, deterministic, and interpretable,’ aiming to secure AI infrastructure ‘from the soil to the token’ across critical strategic sectors.

RevAIsor aligns with these sectors for the following reasons:

Fit for Financial Services

Financial institutions face a ‘verification crisis’ where traditional ‘black box’ AI models introduce significant operational and regulatory risks. RevAIsor provides the necessary assurance by:

Transforming Compliance: It automates governance processes to align with the EU AI Act and FCA regulations, shifting compliance from a deployment bottleneck to a scalable, automated asset.

Providing Deterministic Audit Trails: The neuro-symbolic engine produces human-interpretable reasoning, allowing financial institutions to trace AI decisions back to specific regulatory rules, which is essential for meeting requirements like the Consumer Duty.

Reducing Cost and Risk: By enabling synthetic data testing and continuous monitoring, it allows banks to validate models against rigorous constraints before they ever impact live transaction environments, avoiding costly regulatory penalties.

Fit for Defense

In defense and critical infrastructure, the stakes of AI failure are extreme, requiring ‘Safety-by-Design’ rather than post-deployment auditing. RevAIsor fits this domain by:

Formal Verification: The SENTINEL architecture uses symbolic logic as a ‘Safety Shield’ that formally verifies every action proposed by an autonomous agent against inviolable, human-defined rules.

Preventing Malicious Exploits: This deterministic layer prevents catastrophic failure modes, including prompt injection and data exfiltration, ensuring that agents cannot enter prohibited states even when interacting with adversarial inputs.

Sovereign Resilience: As a ‘sovereign’ capability, it enables the secure deployment of autonomous systems within a domestic ecosystem, ensuring that critical defense infrastructure remains under local control and is resilient against third-party supply chain vulnerabilities.

Strategic Call to Action

With the project officially kicking off, RevAIsor is actively seeking strategic collaborations to accelerate the commercialization and real-world deployment of the SENTINEL architecture:

1. Call for 10 Enterprise Testing Partners RevAIsor is opening its doors to 10 forward-thinking organizations (across defence, finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure) to act as early-stage testing partners. Selected partners will get exclusive, pre-deployment access to the SENTINEL assurance framework, allowing them to rigorously test their own AI models against RevAIsor’s cutting-edge safety shields.

2. Call for Strategic Investors To fuel RevAIsor’s wider Business-As-Usual (BAU) operations and rapidly scale the commercialisation of this Innovate UK-backed technology, the company is actively opening conversations with strategic venture capital and equity investors. We invite investors who are passionate about DeepTech, AI Safety, and Sovereign Defence capabilities to join us in shaping the future of autonomous systems.

3. Call for Talent: RevAIsor is looking to expand its engineering team and is actively hiring an AI Engineer with a PhD to contribute to our core safety architecture development.

About RevAIsor Ltd RevAIsor governs, tests, and certifies AI across its whole lifecycle—so enterprises can prove their models are safe, fair, and compliant, not just claim it. By combining technical rigor with responsible AI principles, RevAIsor provides the critical infrastructure needed to move AI from merely powerful to provably secure.

About Innovate UK Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency. We support business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies, and UK regions. They help businesses grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes, and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive, and easy to navigate.

Media & Partnership Contact: Name: Dr. Edgar Lopez-Rojas Email: contact@revaisor.com Website: https://revaisor.com

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