Secure AI
for contested
environments.
Volt4, the verifiable trust fabric — a decentralised, resilient mesh threading verifiable data and trusted AI agents between any sensor, decider and effector. Sovereign, open standards, no lock-in. Full transparency. Full control. Fully secure.
Working with
Customers · standards bodies · partners
Platform Benefits
Four benefits of the verifiable trust fabric — carried by two capabilities nobody else can claim.
01 Integration Agility
Onboard in days, not years
Open interfaces and additive Cortex agents bring any system — modern, legacy or proprietary — into the fabric without re-architecture.
02 Decentralised Mesh
Resilient in contested environments
Peers connect directly — no central chokepoint, no single point of failure. Offline-resilient sync across denied, degraded and disconnected environments.
03 Accountable & Verifiable
Decisions you can trust
Signed data, audit-grade decision traces and human-on-the-loop authority gates — every decision carries its own evidence.
04 Faster Better Decisions
Speed of response
Every source fused into one trusted picture, triaged by AI at machine speed, decided by accountable humans — faster than the adversary.
◆ Verifiably Sovereign
Supply chain assurance
100% UK founder-owned, with a TAIBOM-instrumented, cryptographically verifiable supply chain across code, models and data.
◆ Open Standards
No vendor lock-in
Built on W3C, NIST and IETF standards we help write — swap any vendor, keep the stack, and interoperate by construction.
Built in the UK. Operated under UK authority.
100% UK founder-owned. No foreign parent, no foreign capital, no US platform dependency — and cryptographically provable. Sovereignty isn't a marketing claim; it's a verifiable property of every layer of the stack.
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UK IP
Patents and standards filed under UK ownership. No US parent, no offshore licensing.
02
UK team
100% founder-owned. UK-based engineers and architects. SC cleared staff available.
03
Verifiable supply chain
Cryptographically verifiable supply chain standards and capability.
04
Classification-ready
Designed for UK OFFICIAL through OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE deployments. Higher tiers on request. Cross domain ready.
Defence - DTW
Defence is the most challenging AI deployment environment. Digital Targeting Web requires sense, decide and act components to be modular, resilient and trustable. Volt4 threads verified data and trusted compute between sensors, decision aids, and effectors. Volt4 powered DTW solutions are being deployed with NATO Innovation Continuum, MoD OFEME program and integrated with BAE's InteACT combat systems.
NQM's Volt4 platform has other defence applications: hyper resilient comms, assured supply chain, logistics planning and messaging/collaboration systems. A defence grade verifiable trust fabric with AI native integration.
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Dual Use Applications
NQM's data solutions are well established across the Civilian and Enterprise sectors. The AI native trust fabric shares and analyses data — powering diverse applications such as social care planning, fraud detection, business-rate analysis, and industrial manufacturing.
Volt4 is currently deployed across smart cities, care, agritech, and audit programmes, with human-led decision authority preserved throughout.
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Featured case studies
Selected work from the programme — proven across defence, civil audit, and critical infrastructure.
Autonomous ISR Data Fusion
Fusing multi-sensor ISR feeds into a single trusted picture, with autonomy held on a human-on-the-loop leash.
Clinical Trial Data Integrity
Privacy-preserving integrity checks that keep multi-site clinical trial data trustworthy without centralising it.
TDX Financial Audit Analytics
An intelligent financial analytics platform that streamlines audits through AI, machine learning, and advanced statistical methods.
AI Threat Detection for Defence Networks
Machine-learning anomaly detection that surfaces adversarial activity across tactical networks in real time.
Federated Health Data Exchange
Privacy-preserving analytics across NHS trusts — insights without the patient data ever leaving its source.
Distributed Device Trust for Critical Infrastructure
A zero-trust identity fabric that continuously attests millions of IoT devices across the power grid and water network.
Munitions Supply-Chain Assurance
Tamper-evident provenance for munitions components, from foundry to forward depot, under continuous assurance.
Real-Time Fraud Analytics for Banking
Sub-second fraud scoring on live payment streams, blocking losses without slowing legitimate customers.
Sovereign Tactical Communications
End-to-end encrypted comms that stay sovereign and resilient across contested, bandwidth-constrained networks.
Smart Grid Anomaly Monitoring
Real-time monitoring of distributed energy assets, catching faults and tampering across thousands of grid endpoints.
Verifiable Supply Chain Provenance
Tamper-evident provenance for defence and electronics supply chains, built on verifiable credentials.
Open Collaboration. Standards Pioneers. Standards Compliant.
NQM doesn't just build to spec — it writes the spec. Recognition by NIST, BSI, NATO, and DSIT, with multiple co-authored standards now in production use.
NIST · SP 1800-36
Trusted Networking and IoT
Co-authored device network-layer onboarding and lifecycle management with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
WITH CISCO · HP · NXP · Cablelabs
AIBOM
Trustable AI bill of materials
Standards layer for provenance, integrity, and continuous assurance across the AI supply chain.
WITH BAE · BSI · UKRI · Oxford
OMTP · TEE
Trusted execution environment
Hardware-rooted trust across mobile silicon, oversaw the original international standardisation
GLOBAL MOBILE STANDARD
IOTSF
IOT Assurance Framework
Contributed to core specification and developed the digital certification process
Techworks · IOTSF · Full membership
NquiringMinds in the News
Programme milestones, standards drops, and selected commentary from the team. No marketing fluff.
27 MAR · 2026
Backbone technologies for The Digital Targeting Web – Demonstrator & workshop
Thursday, Apr 9, 2026 from 10 am – 2 pm Battlelab – Wool, England Overview Explore the technologies shaping the future of the Digital Targeting Web. Join us in person at Battlelab for a focused demonstrator and interactive workshop examining the backbone technologies required to enable next-generation defence capabilities. Backbone Technologies for the Digital.
14 MAY · 2025
Nquiringminds Joins Prestigious London Stock Exchange Event to Champion Defence Innovation
nquiringminds was proud to be among a select group of innovators attending a high-profile event at the London Stock Exchange yesterday, hosted by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA). The occasion marked a pivotal moment in the UK’s national innovation strategy, spotlighting the role of cyber capabilities and defence in safeguarding economic resilience and driving.
22 APR · 2025
NquiringMinds and NIST Trusted IOT Onboarding
Dr Nick Allott, CEO of Nquiringminds, is in Washington DC, 17 April 2025 at NIST the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. As part of the Trusted IOT onboarding team we are running an open day before the publication of SP1800-36. This is important work. It paves the way to solve the problem we find ourselves.
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See the verifiable trust fabric in action — a working DTW demonstrator, live civil deployments, and the cryptography behind every claim on this page.