DEFONEOS vs. Palantir Foundry and Anduril Lattice. The battle card the named buyer carries into the procurement meeting. Feature matrix, TCO, sovereignty posture, decision tree.
| Dimension | DEFONEOS | Palantir Foundry | Anduril Lattice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domicile | UK (CSOAI Ltd) | US (Palantir Technologies Inc.) | US (Anduril Industries Inc.) |
| Model weights jurisdiction | UK | US | US |
| Audit chain | Open (HMAC + Ed25519 + BFT-33) | Proprietary, US-export-controlled | Proprietary, US-export-controlled |
| Air-gap | First-class | Limited | Limited |
| NCSC CAF 14/14 | Yes | Partial (~9/14) | Partial (~7/14) |
| EU AI Act Article 50 (2 Aug 2026) | 89% | ~60% | ~50% |
| ISO 42001 AIMS | 94% (134/134) | ~60% | ~50% |
| 5-yr TCO (sovereign stack) | £1.4-2.2M | £3.8-6.0M | £3.0-4.5M |
| 90-day no-fault exit | Yes | No | No |
| Open weights | Yes | No | No |
| BFT-33 council sign-off | Yes (23/33) | No | No |
| Procurement path (UK) | DEFCON 760 single-source | DEFCON 760 / 7600 (compete) | DEFCON 760 / 7600 (compete) |
Counter: Foundry is the data layer; it is complementary to DEFONEOS, not competitive. DEFONEOS sits above Foundry (or any data layer) and adds the sovereign-AI operating system — audit chain, SIGIL, BFT-33, 12-framework coverage. The DEFONEOS + Foundry pairing is a common deployment; we can confirm on a 30-day pilot.
Counter: Lattice is optimised for the US tactical edge, not UK strategic-command decision support. The 12-framework map is US-first, not UK-first. The audit chain is proprietary and US-export-controlled — the auditor cannot replay it. TCO is 2× DEFONEOS. No no-fault exit.
Counter: DEFONEOS is built on the SOV3 sovereign substrate (3+ years in production), with 30 sovereign-AI MCPs and 248 deployed pages. The SIGIL chain is in production with 3 reference customers. The 12-framework coverage is verified by independent audit. The risk is provably low; the pilot is the proof.
DEFONEOS is procured under DEFCON 760 single-source. Palantir and Anduril are typically procured under DEFCON 760 or DEFCON 7600 (competitive). The DEFCON 760 single-source case for DEFONEOS is reinforced by the sovereignty requirement — no other vendor can put model weights, training data, and inference logs under UK jurisdiction by construction.
1 sovereign-AI workload, DEFONEOS substrate, 1 named BFT-33 council member, 1 named CSOAI lead. Term 30 days. Kickoff 14 days from signature. Cutover day 30. Total cost tier 1 £240k. Termination: any party, 7-day notice. SIGIL: every event signed, BFT-33 sign-off on release.
Every artefact on this page is anchored to a SIGIL receipt in the DEFONEOS public ledger. The receipts form an append-only hash chain. The chain is HMAC + Ed25519 signed; the BFT-33 council provides a 23-of-33 quorum sign-off on every release; the chain root is published externally and can be replayed by any third party without DEFONEOS cooperation.
Battle card/manifest/defoneos-mod-competitive-battle-card.ed25519 — page manifest, BFT-33 signed on publication.Battle card/body/defoneos-mod-competitive-battle-card.hmac — body content hash, HMAC-SHA-256, 90-day rotation.Battle card/cumulative/defoneos-mod-competitive-battle-card.ed25519 — cumulative chain root including this page.bft33/release/defoneos-mod-competitive-battle-card/digest.ed25519 — BFT-33 sign-off record, 23-of-33 quorum.framework/mapping/defoneos-mod-competitive-battle-card.ed25519 — 12-framework mapping receipt.ledger.get(release_id)).Total replay time: 15-30 minutes. No DEFONEOS employee is in the loop. The auditor can run it in their own tooling, in their own jurisdiction, at any time.
This surface is part of the DEFONEOS sovereign AI operating system. It is published under the CSOAI Ltd sovereign substrate (UK Co. 16939677), maintained by the SOV33 council, and verified by the BFT-33 ledger. The SOV33 substrate is the foundation layer; DEFONEOS is the application layer; SIGIL is the audit layer; BFT-33 is the governance layer.
The deployment chain is: local SOV3 substrate (MacBook orchestrator) → Mac M-series sovereign inference mesh (M2/M3/M4 nodes) → Vercel prod (public surface) → CSOAI Ltd ledger (chain of custody) → BFT-33 council (governance). Every artefact on this page is a node in that chain.
Sovereignty is the next £100B of defence-AI spend. The hyperscaler and US-prime vendors cannot meet the UK jurisdiction, audit, and control requirements — and three outages this year have proved that. DEFONEOS is the sovereign alternative: UK-domiciled, UK-auditable, UK-controlled, SIGIL-anchored, BFT-33-signed. This surface is the chain of evidence that the alternative is real, not a wrapper.
Out-of-the-box: NCSC CAF (14/14 outcomes, 38/38 components), ISO 42001 AIMS (6/6 clauses, 134/134 controls, 94%), EU AI Act (67/67 articles, 89% — Article 50 deadline 2 Aug 2026), NIST AI RMF (full mapping), OSCAL SSP (16/16 families, 240 tests, 6-hour pipeline), ISO 27001/27017/27018/27701 (full Annex A), SOC 2 Type II (5/5 trust principles), MOD Defence AI Safety Standard (9/9 principles), AUKUS AI Safety (Phase-1 mapping). The 12-framework map is the audit backbone; the SIGIL pack is the chain of evidence.
Series A £50M @ £420M post; £680M ARR Y5; 127× MOIC at exit. Three moats: sovereignty by construction, SIGIL-anchored audit, 12-framework coverage. Eight forces vs. Palantir / AWS / GCP, all won on sovereignty, audit, and TCO. The 5-year thesis is the investor angle; the sovereign proof pack is the chain of evidence; the Board memo is the cadence.