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🎓 Free sovereign AI training · 5 modules · earn Watchdog Cert credentials

DEFONEOS Academy

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.

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5-module training track

Each 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.

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Module 1 — Sovereign Substrate Foundations

What "sovereign" means in substrate form. Mamba-2 SSM intuition. Bridge_think profiles. SIGIL anatomy. Care Membrane floor 0.95. 7 hard stops.

⏱ ~2 h · 🧪 Lab · 🎬 12 video vignettes · ✓ 20-question knowledge check
Free · start now
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Module 2 — EU AI Act Compliance Reading

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.

⏱ ~3 h · 🧪 Lab · 🎬 15 vignettes · ✓ 40-question compliance read
Free · start now
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Module 3 — SIGIL Chains + OSCAL Bundles

Ed25519 SIGIL construction. OTS Bitcoin anchoring. Hash-chain proofs. OSCAL 1.1.2 export schemas. 6 evidence export formats. Audit-grade provenance composition.

⏱ ~3 h · 🧪 Lab · 🎬 18 vignettes · ✓ Build-an-evidence-pack lab
Free · start now
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Module 4 — BFT Council + HotStuff Consensus

Byzantine fault tolerance for AI governance. 33-agent composition. 4-phase HotStuff. Care Floor enforcement at protocol level. Fork Doctrine. Quorum design.

⏱ ~4 h · 🧪 Lab · 🎬 12 vignettes · ✓ 30-question consensus quiz
£99 · Foundation tier
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Module 5 — Defence AI Audit Live Lab

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.

⏱ ~6 h · 🧪 Live lab · ✓ CASA 2 practical exam eligible
£99 · Foundation tier

Credentials & CASA levels

🎓 The 4 CASA levels (CSOAI Audit-grade Standard)

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.

CASA 1
£99/yr

Foundation
Modules 1-3 complete
Personal AI users, students

Start £99/yr →
CASA 2
£499/yr

Practitioner
Modules 4-5 + lab exam
Org compliance teams

Start £499/yr →
CASA 3
£2,499/yr

Lead Auditor
Multi-system audit capable
ISO 17020 ready

Start £2,499/yr →
CASA 4
£15K+ £3K/yr

C3PAO Director
Accreditation-body grade
Audit & certification bodies

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Curriculum cross-walk

Mapped to the 12 industries · 6 sectors · 30 sovereign charters.

Sector / IndustryModules most-applicableCASA credential
Defence primes4 + 5 (BFT + audit lab)CASA 2 minimum for RFP response
AUKUS-Pillar-2 integrators1 + 3 + 4CASA 3 for sovereign enclave work
CISOs / governance2 + 3 (compliance reading + SIGIL)CASA 2
Regulators2 + 3 (compliance reading + OSCAL)CASA 3 for evaluators
Academic / research1 + 3 (foundations + SIGIL)CASA 1 sufficient for citation work
End users / engineers1 (foundations)CASA 1 for credibility
Press / media1 only— N/A —
Audit firms (Big 4, Lloyd's-reg)1-5CASA 4 for lead assessors

🎓 Enrol

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.