— Independent innovation studio, est. 2021 Isle of Man . GMT+0

Turning visionary ideas into market- leading innovation.

Koneqt is a senior, cross-border innovation studio. We partner with ambitious companies and governments to build sovereign AI products on ontological engineering — intelligence that learns the shape of your enterprise, runs on infrastructure you control, and compounds into a moat we can scale across jurisdictions.

The six EVOLVE pillars — Fig. 01 . EVOLVE / six pillars

Six practices that compound into a single outcome: sovereign AI products that lead their markets, protected by IP that scales across borders.

Everything we do sits on four pillars. Sovereign — on-premise by default, the intelligence stays inside your walls. Ethical — reasoning traces and source attribution on every answer; the system shows its working. Agentic — specialised SLMs per department, not one generic chatbot. ESG-conscious — lower energy-per-query than hyperscaler equivalents, because long-term viability is the only viability.

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Applied AI and product innovation

We design, prototype and ship AI-native products, from data model to UI. Specialists in turning proprietary data into defensible product advantage. Sovereign deployment by default, because the only durable AI moat is data you own.

Flagship. EVOLVE, the ontological engineering platform delivered through Yentra.AI.

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IP creation and commercialisation

We help you identify, protect, and commercialise the intellectual property that sits inside your systems and data, not just in your patent portfolio. Data structures, ontologies, agent workflows, training corpora, and the moats they create.

Flagship. Koneqt Core, the CRM and enterprise knowledge engine that underpins client deployments.

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Scalable system architecture

Engineering foundations that support growth, regulatory shift, and market adaptation. Built to outlast the trend cycle, not ride it.

Flagship. A portfolio of sovereign AI runtimes — LIA, Open CLAW, and the agent layer powering EVOLVE — designed for on-premise, regulated and cross-border deployment.

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Cross-border structuring

Koneqt is itself a holding company. We take equity stakes, co-found ventures, and structure SPVs and JVs where other firms would deliver a deck and invoice. We know the regulators, capital-markets vehicles, and partners across jurisdictions because we use them for ourselves.

Flagship. BITA Global Forum. Iggy chairs it. That is how cross-border trade conversations start for our clients.

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Sustainable innovation

Reducing environmental impact through blockchain-grade carbon infrastructure, science-backed ESG frameworks, and technology choices that are actually lower-emission. Long-term viability is the only viability.

Flagship. Planet First Registry and Carbon Plant (blockchain carbon infrastructure we built and run), plus an AI advisory role to the ESG Institute worldwide — shaping how sustainability standards meet applied AI alongside recognised voices in the field.

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Future of work and learning

AI-driven pathways for individuals, and workforce planning for organisations. Preparing teams for what comes next, including the work that AI will change rather than replace.

Flagship. The ESG Diploma — a 30-module training programme authored for the ESG Institute, now going to market worldwide. Delivered in partnership with sector allies, including Kastro (our Ireland-based AI partner).

We believe the next decade of innovation will be won by teams that can move between strategy, code and capital without switching costs.

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Strategy that ships

Decks don't build businesses. Every engagement ends with something running in production, in market, or in a patent office. We measure our success in shipped artefacts, not slides produced.

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Senior only

No offshoring, no bench-filling, no junior-on-the-account. You work directly with the people making the decisions. The team that wins the work is the team that does the work.

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Own the data edge

The only defensible AI moat is proprietary data. We design the loops that create one. Your data, structured and licensed on your terms, running on infrastructure you control.

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Built for the long arc

Sustainable practice. Durable architecture. Teams that can carry the work after we leave. We'd rather help a client become independent of us than create a dependency that looks like recurring revenue.

Selected work.

Engagements where Koneqt carries the architectural mandate — not a deck, not a pilot, but the design of the durable system and the capital vehicle it sits inside. Some are under NDA, some are pre-announce. Ask about the ones that aren't here.

— 01 Yentra.AI and the EVOLVE platform Sovereign enterprise AI
2025 — present
Mandate

Co-architect and co-founder

Thesis

"Commoditised models cannot carry durable advantage. A company's moat is the ontology of its own operations, not the LLM it rents."

System

EVOLVE is a sovereign ontological engineering platform. It ingests a client's unstructured operational estate (documents, spreadsheets, line-of-business databases) and performs automated ontology construction — entity extraction, relationship discovery, conflict resolution and knowledge-graph assembly. A foundational LLM generalises; domain-specific SLMs specialise, one per business function. LIA is the user-facing Living Intelligent Assistant produced by that loop, with reasoning traces and source attribution on every answer. Runs on-premise or in a customer-owned cloud — air-gapped when required.

Outcome

Twelve-engineer build team. Distribution into LATAM, Africa and the Gulf. Architected as the platform the rest of the Koneqt portfolio standardises on.

— 02 Carbon Plant and Planet First Registry Climate tech . blockchain carbon
2024 — present
Mandate

Founder and CTO

Thesis

"A carbon market without audit-grade chain-of-custody is a market priced on trust alone. We built the audit grade."

System

An end-to-end stack for permanent carbon removals. Carbon Plant owns project sourcing, MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) and scientific validation of removals. Planet First Registry is an independent blockchain-based registry that issues, tracks and retires credits with a full chain-of-custody, from soil sample to retirement certificate. Agentic AI handles anomaly detection, corpus enrichment, ESG-compliance checks and on-chain reconciliation.

Outcome

Jurisdiction-aware from the Isle of Man. Audit-grade by default. Reviewed by the ESG Institute.

— 03 Gfinity plc and Athlos platform AI Listed esports and entertainment
2026
Mandate

Fractional CTO . AI and product strategy

Thesis

"An eleven-million-player consumer platform is a data asset before it is a gaming asset. Treat it accordingly."

System

AI integration roadmap and frontend modernisation for Athlos, the competition platform owned by AIM-listed Gfinity plc. Engagement frame includes Ludo Club deployment design, prospective Clash of Clans / Supercell integration, and the telemetry model that turns competitive play into structured training data for EVOLVE-derived SLMs.

Outcome

Recurring engagement since Q1 2026. Board-level AI advisory into a listed vehicle.

— 04 UG World consortium Holding group . multi-sector operations
2024 — present
Mandate

Group CTO

Thesis

"AI transformation is a change mandate, not a procurement exercise. The durable outcome is a workforce that can still run the system five years from now."

System

Group-wide mandate to bring applied AI into research, daily operations and decision-making across the consortium. Diagnostic led by the 4C Readiness Framework (Capabilities, Culture, Compliance, Constituents) and the 8-Pillar maturity lens. Operating architecture built on the EVOLVE pipeline — foundational LLM, domain SLMs per group company, and LIA interfaces embedded where humans already work. Parallel workstream on workforce capability and governance.

Outcome

Monthly recurring engagement at group scale. Reference case for the "proprietary data plus sovereign agents" thesis.

— 05 Wellman Ireland, industrial modernisation Regulated industrial recycling
2025 — present
Mandate

Platform deployment lead

Thesis

"Operational knowledge that lives only in people's heads is a liability. Captured, structured and licensed back to the business, it is a balance-sheet item."

System

EVOLVE deployment inside the UG World consortium, adapted for a regulated industrial environment. Ontology spans operational knowledge, cross-site workflow, compliance reporting and supplier relationships. SLMs tuned to plant operations and regulatory submission. Deployed with a three-layer governance model mapping ethical principles → operational guardrails → use-case controls.

Outcome

Follows the UG consortium playbook, hardened for industrial compliance.

— 06 Tier-1 bank, sovereign AI engagement Listed financial services (anonymised)
2025 — 2026
Mandate

Strategic advisory . sovereign AI and CIE

Thesis

"For a regulated bank, 'AI in the cloud' is not an architecture. It is a disclosure risk."

System

Strategic engagement on a sovereign AI and Customer Intelligence Engine programme. Benchmarked against the MIT-NIST AI risk framework. Architecture designed for on-premise and private-cloud deployment with reasoning traces, source attribution and jurisdictional data residency. Work paired with a competitive-moat workshop grounded in the Advantage Paradox — how to build defensible advantage when models themselves are commodity.

Outcome

Anonymised by mutual agreement. Shaped Koneqt's point of view on applied AI inside regulated finance.

— 07 Fleet and operations AI Telematics . operational intelligence
2026
Mandate

EVOLVE deployment

Thesis

"Most operational telemetry is accumulated, not used. The question is not 'do we have the data' — it is 'can we ask it a question and get an answer in the meeting it was asked in.'"

System

EVOLVE deployment across a fleet-and-operations platform. Built a live ontology across vehicles, routes, maintenance records, driver behaviour and compliance events. LIA interface surfaces operational intelligence through natural-language queries with full reasoning traces. Dynamic Relevance Optimisation dynamically prioritises high-value alerts over low-value administrative noise.

Outcome

Decision cycles collapsed from multi-day analyst turnarounds to single-meeting answers.

— 08 TTRO, next-generation learning intelligence Learning technology . reskilling
2024 — present
Mandate

Strategic partner . AI and platform

Thesis

"The workforce problem of this decade is not training delivery. It is figuring out what to train for, at the pace applied AI is changing what work looks like."

System

Strategic partnership with TTRO on learning intelligence at institutional scale. Work spans agentic tutors, workforce-planning analytics, and curriculum instrumentation that keeps pace with applied AI. Underpinned by the Educational Elevation Framework — the system proactively suggests the right learning based on the questions a user actually asks.

Outcome

Delivered across individuals, organisations, regions and continents. Anchors the next-generation education thesis across the Koneqt portfolio.

Additional engagements across Edlatam Alliance (LATAM university network), Dubai market entry, and several board and advisory positions are available on request under NDA. We do not publish logos we did not architect.

A senior bench across seven regions.

Koneqt is a small senior core, amplified by a standing network of specialists we've worked with for years. The network lets us move fast in regulated, cross-border contexts where a generic agency would stop at the visa paperwork. We don't publish names here. People are introduced when the work calls for it.

Region . Isle of Man and UK

Corporate structuring, sovereign tech, capital markets, blockchain carbon.

AIM-listed ventures, regulated finance, climate infrastructure, government.

Region . Ireland

AI diagnostics, regulated-industry CX, behavioural-insight service design, university partnership.

Banking, insurance, public sector, industrial recycling, academic corridor work.

Region . EU

Marketing strategy for AI SaaS, enterprise platform adoption, change management, joint ventures.

Pan-European enterprise, Italy and Lithuania AI-sandbox work.

Region . LATAM

Higher-education transformation, edtech investment, regional scale-up, agent automation.

Universities in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. Retail, finance and mining. Distribution via alliance partner.

Region . Canada

Healthcare governance, telecom infrastructure, strategic connection to institutional buyers.

Long-horizon institutional work, caregiver-support systems, hospital boards.

Region . MENA and the Gulf

Sovereign AI, oil and gas digital transformation, Arabic learning content, regulated carbon markets.

ADGM, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi. Energy, regulated finance, government training.

Region . USA

Capital-markets middleware, fractional advisory, AI product distribution, Florida SPV structuring.

Listed-vehicle plays, fintech, healthcare telematics, media AI.

The network is not a list. It is eight years of relationships compounded into the right-person-in-the-room problem, solved before you walk into the room.

Koneqt is a holding company. We invest, co-build, license and embed — wherever the commercial logic points.

Koneqt Limited is registered in the Isle of Man. It carries equity stakes, IP licences and co-founder positions across a growing portfolio of operating companies. We structure JVs and SPVs, run M&A and corporate-finance workstreams for partners, license our platforms into client vehicles, and take fractional or embedded senior roles where a capital table is more useful than an invoice. Every engagement is delivered through whichever vehicle fits the jurisdiction and the deal.

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Equity stakes and co-founders

Koneqt takes shareholdings in the companies it helps build — Yentra.AI, Carbon Plant, Planet First Registry, Kastro.ai, and others. Skin in the game is not a slogan here, it is the cap table.

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JVs, SPVs and M&A

We set up joint ventures where two parties bring complementary assets, SPVs to ring-fence specific projects, and we run buy-side and sell-side workstreams for partners. The Isle of Man domicile is deliberate — it is a serious capital-markets jurisdiction.

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IP creation and licensing

Koneqt Core, EVOLVE, LIA, Open CLAW AI, the ESG Diploma — a growing catalogue of products and frameworks we build, protect and license into client deployments and sector partnerships. The licence is the product.

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Fractional and embedded senior roles

Chair, NED, fractional CTO, fractional CAIO, interim transformation lead. When a venture needs a senior operator more than it needs a consultant, we embed — and step out on an agreed runway.

We work with AI specialists everywhere. That is the point.

Koneqt runs a senior bench of AI, data, product and capital-markets specialists across EU, UK, Ireland, LATAM, Canada, MENA and the USA. No offshoring, no junior-on-the-account, no two-office conceit. You get the right senior for the problem, in the right jurisdiction, on a vehicle that fits.

Koneqt is part of BITA globally, and we chair the BITA Global Forum — an international platform built around five pillars, including sustainability and communication, that shapes cross-border trade, technology and policy conversations.

That membership is how cross-border conversations start for our clients — the right ministries, regulators, operators and capital in the same room, before the pitch.

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AI advisor, ESG Institute.

We sit as AI advisor to the ESG Institute, shaping how sustainability standards meet applied AI. Feeds directly into Planet First Registry and the ESG Diploma.

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Education and next-gen systems.

A deep commitment to training, learning technology and workforce futures. Delivered through TTRO, the ESG Diploma (30 modules authored for the ESG Institute), Kastro (our Ireland-based AI partner), and academic partnerships with Edlatam Alliance across LATAM.

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A global AI bench, on call.

Senior AI and data specialists across eight regions. Engaged by engagement — no fixed overhead — so the specialist on your work is the specialist best suited to it, not the one sitting on the bench.

Portfolio and partners (selection)
Yentra.AI . Gfinity plc . Athlos Gaming . UG World consortium . Carbon Plant . Planet First Registry . Wellman Ireland . TTRO . Pier Group . Kastro.ai . Edlatam Alliance
Active regions
EU . UK . Ireland . LATAM . Canada . MENA . USA
Koneqt client portrait — Client portrait . 4:5

Before Koneqt, our roadmap felt impossibly complicated. After working with them, we had a practical strategy and, critically, something shipped.

Product and Strategy Lead
Enterprise partner

Answers to the things you were going to ask.

— 01 What does Koneqt actually do? +

We turn visionary ideas into actionable strategy and market-leading products, and we structure the commercial vehicles to own the upside. In practice: we design and ship AI-native products from the data model up; we identify and protect the IP inside our clients' systems and data; and we build or buy into cross-border ventures that commercialise the work, such as Yentra.AI (AIM-listed, 51% Gfinity / 49% Koneqt) or Planet First Registry. A bridge between cutting-edge technology and executive strategy.

— 02 How do you turn complex ideas into action? +

By refusing to stop at the deck. Every engagement ends with something running in production, in market, or in a patent office. Typical path: a 4C-and-8-Pillar diagnostic on AI readiness (Capabilities, Culture, Compliance, Constituents), four to six weeks of discovery across data, systems, regulation and IP surface, then a shipped prototype in weeks not quarters. From there: a platform build-out on the EVOLVE pipeline (raw data → automated ontological engineering → knowledge graph → domain-specific SLMs → LIA interface), a licensed-IP deal, or a new SPV or JV to house the commercial vehicle. We own the strategy-to-code-to-capital path because switching costs between those three kill most corporate AI programmes.

— 03 Do you work with startups or enterprise? +

Both, and crucially, we often work where the two meet. Koneqt itself is a holding company with equity stakes and co-founder positions across a portfolio — Yentra.AI, Carbon Plant, Planet First Registry, and several others. Client engagements include an AIM-listed entertainment company, a tier-1 bank (anonymised), the UG World consortium, and industrial and fleet operators. The most interesting engagements tend to be joint: an enterprise client with a data asset, wrapped in a new commercial vehicle that lets them monetise what they already own.

— 04 Do you support sustainable innovation? +

Yes, and it is embedded, not bolted on. We founded and run Planet First Registry, an independent blockchain-based carbon credit registry, and we sit on the Senior Technology and AI Advisor chair at the ESG Institute. The Yentra / EVOLVE platform is built with ESG and carbon consciousness as one of its four foundational pillars, alongside Sovereign AI, Ethical AI, and Agentic AI. Long-term viability is the only viability.

— 05 Can you help with global expansion? +

Yes. This is where Koneqt's holding-company structure does real work. The Isle of Man entity holds equity and IP across the portfolio, with senior operators across EU, Ireland, LATAM, Canada, MENA and the USA. Iggy chairs the BITA Global Forum, which is how cross-border trade conversations start for our clients. Distribution partnerships for EVOLVE are live with Edlatam Alliance (LATAM) and TTRO (GCC and Africa). If you need to land a product in a new jurisdiction, we probably have the senior in the room already.

Start something worth
building.

Isle of Man . EU / UK

Ignatius "Iggy" Rautenbach

Founder and CEO, Koneqt Limited