A self-paced training track that turns engineers, compliance leads, and AI policy professionals into sovereign practitioners. Free tier 1. CASA 1-4 paths from £99/yr. Industry-ready audit capability.
Enrol (free) → System CardEach module: 2-3 hours of self-paced material + lab + assessment. Free tier 1 covers modules 1-3. Modules 4-5 require Tier 1+2 (Foundation £99). CASA 3-4 require sitting the practical audit exam.
What "sovereign" means in substrate form. Mamba-2 SSM intuition. Bridge_think profiles. SIGIL anatomy. Care Membrane floor 0.95. 7 hard stops.
Article 5/9/12/13/14/17/22/26/27/47/48/49/50/74/86 — what each requires, what each citation needs to look like in court. Defensible evidence pack composition.
Ed25519 SIGIL construction. OTS Bitcoin anchoring. Hash-chain proofs. OSCAL 1.1.2 export schemas. 6 evidence export formats. Audit-grade provenance composition.
Byzantine fault tolerance for AI governance. 33-agent composition. 4-phase HotStuff. Care Floor enforcement at protocol level. Fork Doctrine. Quorum design.
Exercise: audit a defence AI deployment against UK JSP 936 + DSEC + NATO Art 13 + EU AI Act + GDPR Art 22 + DPA 2018 §14. Walkthrough with cited evidence. CASA 2 practical exam prep.
DEFONEOS Academy credentials are universally recognised. Each tier comes with a SIGIL-signed Watchdog Certificate that you can publish or hand to procurement. Renew annually.
Mapped to the 12 industries · 6 sectors · 30 sovereign charters.
| Sector / Industry | Modules most-applicable | CASA credential |
|---|---|---|
| Defence primes | 4 + 5 (BFT + audit lab) | CASA 2 minimum for RFP response |
| AUKUS-Pillar-2 integrators | 1 + 3 + 4 | CASA 3 for sovereign enclave work |
| CISOs / governance | 2 + 3 (compliance reading + SIGIL) | CASA 2 |
| Regulators | 2 + 3 (compliance reading + OSCAL) | CASA 3 for evaluators |
| Academic / research | 1 + 3 (foundations + SIGIL) | CASA 1 sufficient for citation work |
| End users / engineers | 1 (foundations) | CASA 1 for credibility |
| Press / media | 1 only | — N/A — |
| Audit firms (Big 4, Lloyd's-reg) | 1-5 | CASA 4 for lead assessors |
Free tier 1 includes Modules 1-3 + 20-question knowledge check + Watchdog Cert beginner badge. SIGIL-signed completion.
SIGIL-signed enrolment. UK-sovereign data. One-click certificate re-download. SEIS/EIS eligible.