SovereignStrUKture: Sovereign AI compute, built in Britain.
SovUK.
Sovereign AI compute, built in Britain.
The problem
Where does British AI actually run?
Most AI used in the UK is trained and served on infrastructure outside UK jurisdiction.
List hubs and companies
- Seattle · Microsoft, Amazon
- Bay Area · OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia
- Northern Virginia data centres · AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Dublin data centres · Microsoft, Google, Meta, AWS
- Paris · Mistral AI, Scaleway, OVHcloud
- Frankfurt data centres · AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Hangzhou · DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud
Showing today: requests from the UK travel to overseas AI and cloud hubs and back.
A prompt typed in the UK can be processed thousands of miles away — on hardware, and under laws, the UK does not control.
Illustrative — approximate headquarters and data-centre hubs of major AI and cloud providers.
Who we are
We are a British team building the framework, policy and infrastructure for AI that is trained and run entirely in the United Kingdom. Not because the rest of the world is a threat — but because a nation that cannot compute for itself cannot decide for itself.
Onshore by default
Data, weights and compute stay within UK jurisdiction.
Open and auditable
Standards anyone can inspect, verify and build on.
Built with, not for, government
Policy and engineering designed side by side.
The stack
Sovereignty is a stack, not a slogan.
Every layer — from energy to policy — has to be British for the whole to be sovereign.
01Policy
UK law, open standards and clear rules for who may take part.
- Accreditation criteria
- Audit and rollback
- Open standards
UK law, open standards and clear rules for who may take part.
- Accreditation criteria
- Audit and rollback
- Open standards
Follow a request
One prompt. Never leaves the UK.
- 01You
You send a prompt
Everyone uses one public endpoint. It looks like any AI service — but it's hosted in the UK.
- Endpoint
- One UK address
- Feels like
- Any AI service
- 02Gateway
It lands at a UK gateway
The gateway checks the request and keeps it onshore. There is no fallback to an overseas provider.
- Hosted
- In the UK
- Checks
- Identity, limits, safety
- Overseas fallback
- None
- 03Router
A router picks the model
A small, fast classifier reads the prompt's length and complexity and chooses the right-sized model — no bigger than it needs.
- Reads
- Length, complexity, reasoning
- Chooses
- The right-sized model
- 04Registry
The registry picks a node
A live registry of accredited nodes finds the nearest one with that model loaded and room to run it.
- Tracks
- Status, capacity, location
- Only
- Accredited nodes
- Picks
- Nearest with room
- 05UK node
A British node answers
The model runs on UK hardware. Training carries on underneath, so spare capacity is never wasted.
- Hardware
- UK-hosted GPUs
- Model
- Latest verified version
- Meanwhile
- Training continues
- 06You
The answer comes home
The response returns to you and the request is recorded for audit. At no point did it leave the UK.
- Endpoint
- One UK address
- Feels like
- Any AI service
Roadmap
From framework to national capacity.
We start in Westminster and build outward — until sovereign compute covers the whole country.
Map showing Framework: London.
Framework
Define what 'sovereign' means for AI compute, end to end.
- Sovereignty criteria
- Reference architecture
- Open consultation
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Define what 'sovereign' means for AI compute, end to end.
- Sovereignty criteria
- Reference architecture
- Open consultation
Team
The founding team.
Three equal co-founders, from mathematics, architecture and astrophysics.
Toby Chen
Co-founder
- Background
- Mathematics · First-class graduate, Queen Mary University of London
- Leads on
- Models, routing and evaluation
Victoria de Bruijn
Co-founder
- Background
- Architecture · Master's in Architecture, University of Leeds
- Leads on
- Sites, energy and physical infrastructure
Emma Walker
Co-founder
- Background
- Astrophysics · University of St Andrews
- Leads on
- Distributed compute and large-scale data
Research
What we're working on.
Policy briefs and papers on sovereign AI compute, each with a named lead and a target date.
Get in touch
Build sovereign AI with us.
Investors, policymakers, researchers and future colleagues — we'd like to hear from you.