Your edge devices generate data on every mission.
Most of it disappears when they shut down.

Bootstrap and Artificial Cognition give any physical device — from a £30 microcontroller to an enterprise platform — persistent operational memory that survives power cycles, works without cloud connectivity, and starts accumulating from the first datapoint with zero configuration.

No integration project. No labelling. No schema design. No cloud dependency. No per-query cost.

Connect the stream. Memory starts immediately.

Two Problems. One Entry Point.

Most device deployments fail at integration — months of schema work before a single datapoint is useful. Bootstrap eliminates that entirely. Artificial Cognition then handles the harder problem: persistent memory across mixed sensor types, on the device itself, with no cloud in the loop.

COST STRUCTURE

Infrastructure Pricing — Not Consumption Pricing

Your costs don't grow with your query volume

Cloud AI memory bills per prompt, per query, per token. As your fleet scales, so does the cost. VAAS-X runs as infrastructure — one deployment cost, regardless of how many devices connect or how many memory retrievals they make per day.

  • No per-query billing on core memory operations
  • Predictable monthly operating cost from day one
  • On-premise or air-gapped deployment eliminates cloud fees entirely
EDGE & PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Artificial Cognition

Multimodal memory that runs on the hardware you have

AC encodes mixed sensor data — vision, audio, motion, thermal, depth — into a single persistent memory store on the device itself. No cloud round-trip. No retraining cycle. Memory that accumulates across every mission.

  • Supports vision, audio, IMU, depth, thermal, and numeric channels
  • Cross-modal recall — find similar situations across any combination of sensors
  • No labelled training data required to start
  • Validated live on ESP32-class hardware — the £30 microcontroller tier

How It Works

No integration project. No specialist hardware. Operational from the first datapoint.

Step 1 — Connect

Stream structured data from any device. Bootstrap accepts the feed without manual schema preparation — it learns the data structure from what arrives.

Step 2 — Profile

Bootstrap analyses incoming channels automatically — identifying which signals are stable baselines, which carry dynamic information, and which correlate with operational outcomes.


Step 3 — Encode

AC fuses available sensor modalities into unified memory episodes — each recording what was observed, what happened, and what the outcome was.

Step 4 — Recall

When a similar situation arises, VAAS-X retrieves the closest matching episodes — ranked by outcome — in milliseconds, on the device itself, with no cloud call.

Any Sensor Combination. One Memory Store.

Artificial Cognition encodes any active combination of these modalities into the same episodic memory structure — no separate pipeline per sensor type, no reconfiguration when the sensor mix changes.

IMU / Motion

Accelerometer, gyroscope, and motion state — for platforms where orientation and dynamics matter.

Numeric Sensor Arrays

Industrial and machine channels ingested via Bootstrap — temperature, pressure, vibration, flow, current, and more.

Vision

Camera-derived scene state encoded as episodic context alongside other sensor channels.

Audio

Acoustic signatures for machine fault detection and environment state monitoring.

Depth / Spatial

Depth and point-cloud data integrated into operational memory for spatial awareness across missions.

Thermal

Thermal state ingested alongside other channels — particularly relevant for industrial and defence deployments.

Validated Evidence

NASA CMAPSS FD001 — Blind Trial

NASA CMAPSS FD001 is the canonical benchmark dataset used globally to evaluate predictive maintenance AI. Bootstrap was presented with 24 turbofan engine sensor channels with all identifiers replaced by opaque numeric labels. No prior information about sensor identity, physical meaning, or domain was provided.

Bootstrap autonomously profiled each channel from the incoming data stream and correctly classified all 24 channels with zero configuration and zero domain knowledge.

  • 24 sensor channels — all identifiers obscured
  • 100% correct identification of stable operational channels
  • 100% correct identification of dynamically significant channels
  • Zero configuration. Zero domain expertise. Zero prior knowledge.
  • Validated on the same dataset used by the global research community

ESP32 Edge Deployment — Live Shard

M5Stack Cardputer is an ESP32-based microcontroller. The ESP32 platform has over 800 million units deployed globally across industrial, consumer, medical, and defence applications — it represents the practical floor of commodity embedded hardware.

The Cardputer was deployed as a live offline memory shard with an active AC vertical, accumulating multimodal episodic data on-device and syncing to the main substrate in real time. The shard operated fully offline — no cloud dependency, no round-trip latency.

  • £30 consumer hardware — no specialist embedded platform required
  • Full offline episodic memory shard operational
  • AC vertical active — multimodal IMU data encoded and stored
  • Real-time sync to main substrate confirmed
  • Confirms deployment range: £30 microcontroller to enterprise EC2 cluster
100%

Autonomous channel identification
NASA CMAPSS FD001 blind trial

24

Sensor channels correctly classified
zero configuration

£30

Minimum hardware validation point
ESP32 live shard confirmed

800M+

ESP32 units deployed globally
substrate validated on this platform

Bootstrap Doesn't Know What Domain It's In.
That's the Point.

Any system that emits structured operational data can connect to Bootstrap. It profiles the stream, identifies what matters, and starts building persistent episodic memory — without being told what it's looking at. The examples below are exactly that: examples. Not a list of supported verticals. Not a product category. Just evidence of how far the same capability reaches.

INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING

Machines That Remember Every Fault They've Ever Seen

A 200-machine production line traditionally means 200 integration projects. Bootstrap eliminates the per-site configuration entirely — connect any sensor output and it profiles each channel from live data, fleet-wide, from the first datapoint.

  • PLC, SCADA, MQTT gateway, OPC-UA — any JSON-emitting source
  • Validated on NASA CMAPSS FD001 — the global predictive maintenance benchmark
  • Fleet-scale memory from a single deployment, no per-machine setup
AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Platforms That Carry Their Operational History With Them

UAVs, ground robots, and autonomous vehicles discard everything when they shut down. Bootstrap connects to any sensor configuration on the platform and begins accumulating persistent mission memory — entirely on-device, no cloud required.

  • Any sensor mix — Bootstrap adapts, not the platform
  • Validated on £30 ESP32 hardware in live deployment
  • Memory persists across power cycles, disconnections, and resets
HEALTHCARE & REGULATED

Clinical Intelligence Without Data Processor Liability

Medical devices and patient monitoring systems emit continuous structured data. Bootstrap connects without needing to understand the clinical semantics. OKE encrypted retrieval means the infrastructure provider structurally cannot access what's stored — removing the compliance relationship before it forms.

  • Zero-config connection — no schema design, no clinical domain knowledge needed
  • Full cognitive operation over encrypted data at every stage
  • GDPR, HIPAA, and sovereign deployment pathways established
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Memory That Never Leaves the Control Boundary

Denied and contested environments can't use cloud-connected AI. Bootstrap accumulates operational memory entirely on-device from live data — no pre-training, no connectivity, no data leaving the platform. OKE means retrieval operates over encrypted vectors even on-device.

  • Fully air-gapped — no network dependency at any stage
  • Adapts to novel operational conditions without retraining
  • Validated edge range: £30 ESP32 to enterprise cluster — same codebase
AI INFRASTRUCTURE

Agent Memory That Persists — Without Token Cost Growth

AI agents reset between sessions. Bootstrap gives any agent framework a persistent episodic memory layer — what was observed, what action was taken, what outcome followed — retrievable in milliseconds, at infrastructure cost rather than per-query cost.

  • Cross-session episodic memory — agents build on experience, not just context windows
  • Outcome-weighted recall: surfaces what worked, not just what matched
  • Live deployment: 35,000+ episodes in autonomous cognitive loop
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Recall Instead of Recompute

Simulation-heavy research domains are bottlenecked by the cost of rerunning computation for similar parameter states. Bootstrap ingests simulation outputs as operational episodes — when an analogous state has been computed before, VAAS-X retrieves the outcome rather than rerunning the simulation.

  • Applicable to chaotic systems, materials discovery, quantum phase prediction
  • Same substrate, same API — no domain-specific build
  • Technical detail available under NDA
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS

Market Memory at Retrieval Speed

Markets are episodic by nature — state, action, outcome. Bootstrap ingests any structured market data stream and builds a persistent episodic memory of what conditions preceded which outcomes. HCI retrieval speed makes real-time analogical recall operationally viable for the first time.

  • Regime detection — classify current market state against historical episodes
  • Pattern recall across trading sessions without cloud dependency
  • Infrastructure cost model — not per-query consumption pricing
AND BEYOND

If It Produces Structured Data, Bootstrap Connects to It

E-commerce session behaviour. Clinical trial telemetry. Power grid sensor arrays. Satellite telemetry. Network traffic anomaly detection. RL training replay buffers. Logistics fleet state. Energy infrastructure monitoring. These are not edge cases — they are all the same problem. Structured operational data that needs persistent memory.

Bootstrap doesn't need to be configured for any of them. It needs a data stream.

The substrate is the same in every case. Only the episodes differ.

See It Running on Your Device

Tell us your hardware profile, data format, or deployment constraints. We'll show you Bootstrap running on something close to what you have.

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