BLAKFRAME LTD Sovereign Infrastructure for Global Data Distribution: Roadmap 2026 Company Number: 16726125 (England and Wales) Document Classification: Public Strategic Disclosure Date: February 2026 1. Overview BLAKFRAME LTD is finalizing a multi-region deployment of a geo-optimized data distribution mesh spanning seven initial jurisdictions. The system provides deterministic, bare-metal data routing with jurisdiction-aware path selection, enabling institutional clients to maintain localized control over their data while operating across international boundaries. This document describes the current operational phase, the deployment timeline through the end of 2026, and the economic and regulatory foundations that govern the infrastructure expansion. 2. Current Phase: Hardening As of February 2026, the firm is in the hardening phase. This phase consists of: - Stress testing of all critical logic paths under sustained load to identify performance degradation, memory pressure, and thermal throttling behavior across target hardware configurations. - Formal verification of consensus-critical components using the Creusot deductive verification framework and the Z3 SMT solver to prove the absence of panics, arithmetic overflows, and specification violations in production code paths. - Resilience testing against adversarial inputs, including malformed packets, resource exhaustion attacks on serialization routines, and Byzantine fault injection to verify that the system maintains correctness when individual nodes behave unpredictably. - Payment infrastructure integration testing across settlement nodes in the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Economic Area, utilizing Stripe and PayPal to verify settlement latency, currency conversion accuracy, and reconciliation integrity. 3. Deployment Jurisdictions The initial deployment targets seven jurisdictions selected based on their position as primary digital economies, the maturity of their data governance frameworks, and their strategic value as distribution hubs for adjacent regions. Jurisdiction Regulatory Framework Infrastructure Role United States US CLOUD Act, State Privacy Americas distribution hub United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 Legal domicile, EU bridge Germany GDPR, EU Data Act EU sovereign data node Singapore PDPA (Accountability Model) APAC routing hub South Korea PIPA East Asian distribution China PIPL, Data Security Law Mandatory localization node United Arab Emirates UAE Data Privacy Law 2026 GCC and MENA hub Each node operates within the regulatory constraints of its jurisdiction. Data routing rules are configured per-client to ensure that payloads are not transmitted through jurisdictions where the client has not authorized transit or storage. The regulatory landscape across these jurisdictions is converging toward stricter data localization requirements: - China requires mandatory local storage for datasets classified as "Important Data" and mandates annual risk assessments for large-scale data processors. - The UAE requires general processing licenses and specific permits for cross-border transfer of sensitive data categories. - The EU Data Act (effective 2026) promotes data portability and interoperability, reducing vendor lock-in and favoring infrastructure providers that offer standardized export and migration tooling. - The United Kingdom requires that public sector data remain within sovereign cloud environments under UK-jurisdictional control. This regulatory trajectory favors infrastructure providers that operate on owned or leased hardware within each jurisdiction, rather than providers that rely on third-party multi-tenant cloud platforms subject to foreign compulsion frameworks. 4. Milestone Schedule 4.1 Q1 2026: Foundation - Synchronization of payment processing nodes across integrated payment platforms (Stripe, PayPal), providing coverage across 160+ countries with multi-currency settlement. - Cloud compute provisioning through strategic partnerships, securing ND H200 v5 instances for development and testing of distribution node software. - Deployment of the first technical project. This project is currently in pre-launch development and is not discussed in further detail prior to its public release. - Initial revenue from the security research division through coordinated disclosure of vulnerabilities in open-source cryptographic infrastructure, targeting $100,000 by March 2026. 4.2 Q2 2026: Regional Pilot - Activation of the first regional pilot nodes in a subset of the seven target jurisdictions. - Partner integration verification: testing of client onboarding, data ingestion, and export workflows against real-world payload sizes and network conditions. - Compliance certification for the initial jurisdictions, including verification of data residency controls and audit trail completeness. 4.3 H2 2026: Backbone Activation - Full activation of the seven-node distribution backbone with production traffic. - Universal release preparation: documentation, client-facing tooling, and operational support infrastructure for institutional deployment. - Deployment of additional regional nodes based on client demand and commercial partnerships established during the pilot phase. 5. Deep Tech Classification BLAKFRAME exhibits the structural characteristics of a deep tech entity as defined by standard venture classification frameworks: 5.1 Long-Gestation Research and Development The firm's core technical assets are the product of sustained R&D in systems programming, formal verification, and cryptographic protocol analysis. These assets are not adaptations of existing open-source frameworks with application-layer customization. They are compiled from source using proprietary build configurations, run on a custom operating system kernel, and are verified against formal specifications using automated theorem provers. The development timeline from initial architecture design to production deployment exceeds 18 months, with no revenue generated during this period. This gestation profile is consistent with infrastructure-layer engineering rather than application-layer software. 5.2 Intellectual Property Maturity Technical assets are protected as trade secrets under the laws of England and Wales. The firm's IP portfolio includes: - Proprietary data ingestion and semantic partitioning algorithms - Custom operating system kernel integration and configuration - Deterministic concurrency primitives for distributed coordination - Formal verification toolchains configured for cryptographic protocols These assets are not disclosed in patent filings, as the firm's competitive advantage derives from the secrecy of implementation details rather than from exclusionary patent rights. 5.3 Capital Intensity The infrastructure requires high-density GPU compute (H100/H200 class), multi-jurisdiction server deployment, and sustained engineering effort from specialists in systems programming, formal methods, and cryptographic protocol analysis. The capital requirements for this class of infrastructure are substantially higher than those for application- layer software development, which typically operates on commodity cloud compute and open-source frameworks. 6. Economic Model 6.1 Revenue Sources The firm's revenue model consists of three components: - Security Research: Coordinated vulnerability disclosure through established security research platforms and direct engagement with protocol maintainers. This provides near-term revenue from research already in progress. - Infrastructure Services: Recurring revenue from institutional clients utilizing the data distribution mesh for jurisdiction-aware data routing, storage, and export. - Technical Projects: Revenue from purpose-built software tools deployed on the BLAKFRAME infrastructure, beginning with the forensic verification tool scheduled for launch in 2026. 6.2 Funding Structure BLAKFRAME is self-funded with no external equity investors. Compute resources are secured through strategic partnerships and non-dilutive mechanisms. This structure preserves full ownership of technical assets and avoids governance complications associated with external capital at the pre-revenue stage. 7. Existing Market Presence 7.1 Search Engine Indexing The firm's primary domain (blakframe.com) is indexed and returning results across all major search engines as of February 2026: - Google - Microsoft Bing - Brave Search - Naver - DuckDuckGo 7.2 Corporate and Business Intelligence Registries Platform Status Detail Crunchbase Active 87 algorithmic category listings Clutch Verified Active agency profile GOV.UK Active Company No. 16726125 Manifest Listed Business profile GoGetGPT Listed AI services directory 7.3 Historical Record The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) maintains timestamped snapshots of the firm's web presence, corporate disclosures, and director information from early 2026, providing an immutable third-party record of the firm's operational history. 8. Contact BLAKFRAME LTD 71-75 Shelton Street Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ United Kingdom Email: hello@blakframe.com Web: https://blakframe.com