I write, prototype, and advise at the intersection of digital identity, compliance/AML, OSINT, and resilient infrastructure—with a dual‑use lens.
Digital identity is the new (programmable) money—and the missing layer for AI‑era governance, compliance, and resilience. I focus on identity systems that can operate across borders, sanctions, and fragmentation, bridging traditional KYC/AML with decentralized identity primitives.
In parallel, I research AI (and energy) sovereignty as infrastructure. Centralized “sovereign clouds” are brittle; distributed/edge architectures can be harder to map, more resilient by design, and economically aligned with prosumer hardware trends.
Reusable identity infrastructure: reduce repeated KYC friction, enable portability, harden verification in a post‑deepfake world.
Background spanning regulated fintech + venture activity (Life.SREDA & Arival). Useful when translating R&D into fundable, regulated, procurement-ready products.
Strongest clusters (high signal, low fluff): the threads that translate into programmes, prototypes, procurement, or advisory value.
Evidence-led argument that decentralization is the real sovereignty path; inference is feasible; prosumer hardware is at critical mass.
Model adversarial ecosystems as a compliance requirement: threat intel, fraud detection, identity abuse, KYC evasion patterns.
Packaging edge compute + secure services (local LLMs, APIs, hardening): a practical deployment unit for identity, OSINT, and resilience use cases.
How to enter defence/security innovation globally.
How to enter UK defence/security innovation, align to calls, and convert research → adoption.
Energy & AI infrustructure sovereignty. Dual-use as defence-shelters.
Robotics x 3D Printing x AI x Genetics for Dual-Use DefenceTech.
A curated set of ongoing research directions. These are “signal probes”: constraints, architectures, market dynamics, policy/ethics — then translated into prototypes, pilots, or venture theses.
Treat “shelter” as an engineering stack: physical barrier + life-support subsystems + operational doctrine. The boundary is where data centers, secure facilities, and civil defence converge.
Photonics isn’t “pure optical” — it’s hybrid integration + manufacturable packaging. The point is energy + bandwidth scaling under constraints.
A lens for civil defence & continuity: the market splits into “recreational readiness” (mass) vs “existential threat” (deep spend). Useful for product strategy and procurement narrative.
Mapping venture funding, reentry programs, and prison-adjacent tech. Focus: incentives, training rails, and ethics-by-design in “captive markets”.
Compliance-native product work; payments/fintech systems; bridge between regulation and shipping.
Founder/operator + investor lens: how products scale, how teams execute, how narratives convert.
Reusable identity thesis; ecosystem mapping; linking identity to AI-era trust, fraud, and governance.
Decentralized compute sovereignty; survivability infrastructure; edge AI as “civil defence hardware”.
Build and validate dual‑use concepts, threat models, and prototypes—especially in identity, OSINT, and edge AI deployments.
Start a product vehicle around resilience infrastructure (identity + OSINT + deployable edge compute), with a grant/procurement pathway.
Support teams and funds with positioning, diligence, product strategy, and “how it fails” risk thinking in regulated / security contexts.
I don’t provide instructions to build harmful systems. My work is defensive/resilience-focused: attribution, fraud prevention, secure deployment, compliance, civil protection.
If you’re hiring or building in dual‑use defence tech (identity, OSINT/EDD, secure edge AI, resilience infra), send a short brief:
All contacts are here: https://l.solodkiy.cv/calendly