Coastal Alpine Tech Limited: Kiwi Edge AI Stack

Coastal Alpine Tech portfolio

Part of the Kiwi Edge AI Stack | Founder OS: NZ-Start-Up | Agent policy: .github/agent-fleet/

Sovereign hybrid edge AI for NZ farms and founders - local-first + multi-model, Te Mana Raraunga aligned - collaborating with Venture Taranaki, startups.com investors and Kotahitanga Investment Fund (HITL + cultural advisory for formal approaches).

See AI Infrastructure Leadership for our positioning as New Zealand's leader in sovereign edge AI Infrastructure.

Agents inform, draft, prepare, monitor, and remind. Humans advise, sign, file, send, and pay. Anti-hallucination policy: .github/agent-fleet/anti-hallucination.md | Congruence: CAT_CONGRUENCE.md

Problems we are solving

The Kiwi Edge AI Stack exists so Aotearoa can run hybrid edge + multi-model AI for farms, founders, and frontline care without defaulting to always-on foreign cloud dependency.

1. Primary industries locked to cloud SaaS - Rural latency, outages, and offshore data residency conflict with real operations and Te Mana Raraunga.
2. Fragmented product landscape - Growers, EDAs, and whanau face many disconnected tools instead of one coherent stack.
3. Founder overhead - Early NZ companies burn time on formation, compliance, and grants with little local digital capacity.
4. Social navigation fatigue - Whanau in high-stress pathways face scattered directories and equity gaps.
5. Shallow "AI employees" hype - Unconstrained agents create legal and cultural risk; NZ needs hard HITL ceilings.

Solution we have built

Layer	Solution (repo)	Role
Beachhead agritech	Byte Size Kai	Lead commercial edge product for crop / Mana Kai intelligence
Beachhead social	Front_Line_Whanau	National whanau / frontline support platform
Founder OS	NZ-Start-Up	Local founder OS + EDA white-label kit
Edge foundation	Core, Weaver, Aether, stack, firmware	SDK, orchestration, companion agents, deploy, field nodes
Domain portals	SoilGuard, AquaGuard, Sting	Soil, water, biosecurity specialists
Privacy utility	CAT-mail	Privacy-first email assist (parked vs beachheads)

Hardware target: Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) + Hailo-10H NPU | Policy: agents draft/prepare; humans sign/send/pay.

Local (Taranaki) and national (Aotearoa) economic benefits

Coastal Alpine Tech is a pre-seed company engineering in New Plymouth, Taranaki, with field context in regional primary industries (including Mana Kai-class / Horowhenua agritech). Benefits are framed as pathways, not guaranteed job numbers.

Local / regional (Taranaki and rural NZ)

Pathway	What it creates
R&D and product HQ	Engineering, product, and IP ownership in region - counterweight to capital-city-only tech
Field install and support	RPi / Hailo edge nodes, ESP32 sensors, and pilot support need local technicians and partners
EDA leverage	Tools that help Venture Taranaki-class programmes onboard more founders without linear staff growth
Contractor network	Legal, cultural advisory, hardware, and pilot ops spend that stays in NZ

National economy and employment

Pathway	What it creates
Primary sector competitiveness	Better yield, compliance, and biosecurity decisions support NZ's export food economy
Onshore data value	Farm, whanau, and SME operational data stays under NZ custody (Privacy Act + Te Mana Raraunga)
Founder formation	Faster, cleaner company setup and RDTI-ready logging keeps more early companies investable in NZ
Digital capability outside main centres	Edge AI skills (vision, MQTT, local LLM) transferable across regions
Quality of work	Human-in-the-loop design preserves skilled human roles in advice, compliance, and care

How this product contributes

See Solution we have built above. Cross-portfolio map: Kiwi Edge AI Stack | employment detail: NZ-Start-Up investor pack.

Portfolio employment map (pathways)

Path	Sequence	Employment / economy effect
Founder -> fleet	NZ-Start-Up -> RDTI logs -> board packs	More investable founders formed in Taranaki / regions
EDA -> region	PowerUp-class white-label -> cohort reports	EDA capacity without linear headcount
Founder -> field	Agritech founder -> Byte Size Kai / SoilGuard pilot	Farm productivity + local install jobs
Trust -> enterprise	HITL + compliance mapping -> procurement-ready narrative	Public / enterprise readiness without fake autonomy
Social care	Front_Line_Whanau (cultural HITL)	Social licence and equity impact (separate GTM from agritech pitch)

Technical Moat

Coastal Alpine Tech’s defensibility comes from the tight integration of six capabilities that are rarely combined at the edge:

• Edge orchestration — LangGraph multi-tenant mesh (Weaver) that keeps every tenant’s knowledge and state strictly local.
• Sovereign architecture — Default-offline, Te Mana Raraunga-aligned paths. Data generated on whenua stays on whenua unless the owner explicitly moves it.
• Hardware optimisation — Canonical target of Raspberry Pi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H with energy-aware telemetry (joules, tokens/s) built into every portal path.
• AI deployment tooling — Shared Core SDK + dual-platform installers + Aether companion so the same stack runs on Windows/Linux workstations and production edge nodes.
• Proprietary local datasets — Continuous DataFlywheel that records trajectories, human feedback, and hardware outcomes on-device, then curates golden sets under owner control. Nothing leaves the node by default.
• Inference optimisation — Hardware-aware measurement and adaptive local paths (Ollama + optional Hailo acceleration) tuned for sub-10 W rural nodes rather than cloud GPUs.

These are not separate features. They form a single closed loop: sensors → local inference → trajectory capture → human-in-the-loop correction → improved local models → better decisions — all while remaining offline-capable and sovereignty-compliant.

The result is a system that becomes more valuable the longer it runs on a given farm or site, without requiring continuous cloud connectivity or data export.

Enterprise Readiness

Coastal Alpine Tech is pre-seed. The following artefacts exist so that enterprise buyers, partners, and investors can see the design intent, current controls, and staged path forward — without over-claiming certification or maturity that does not yet exist.

Artefact	Purpose
GOVERNANCE.md	Decision rights, HITL ceiling, roles, Cultural Advisory interface, escalation
Security & Compliance Roadmap	Phased path: current state → first pilot → seed readiness
Threat Model	STRIDE-oriented view of the edge + multi-tenant + local-LLM attack surface
NZ AI Compliance + SOC 2 Framework	Privacy Act, Te Mana Raraunga, SOC 2 control matrix, incident playbook, audit checklist
Architecture diagrams	Target architecture (Mermaid + images) in this README and in Core / Weaver / Aether / stack

Status (July 2026): Working technical controls (SecurityGuard, DataFlywheel, tenant isolation design, SecOps workflows) + comprehensive design-target documentation. External audit and formal attestation are future phases gated on pilots and commercial traction.

Commercial Positioning

Technology is currently ahead of commercial packaging. The commercial logic is documented so investors and partners can see customer segments, packaging shape, recurring revenue intent, GTM sequence, and sales funnel — without invented ARR or public dollar prices.

Artefact	Purpose
Commercial Positioning	Customer segments, packaging tiers (no public $), recurring model, GTM, funnel
Investor Matrix	What different capital types optimise for
Funding Eligibility Matrix	Likelihood scores and gap-closure path

Pricing posture: Specific dollar figures are not published. Commercial terms are set per pilot or partnership and refined with real willingness-to-pay data.

Coastal Alpine Tech Limited pre-seed startup, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand.

We are building offline-native, data-sovereign edge intelligence for remote industrial, agricultural, and biosecurity settings across Aotearoa. This org profile maps our Kiwi Edge AI Stack early-stage product architecture and open engineering work, not a claim of large-scale commercial deployment or raised Series capital.

Our stack is hybridised across Coastal-Alpine-Core, Weaver, Aether, and coastal-alpine-stack: develop on Windows or Linux; target production edge on the canonical node Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) with Hailo-10H NPU (40 TOPS AI Accelerator / AI HAT+ 2) to support customary data rights (Te Mana Raraunga / Maori Data Sovereignty) and offline operation in rural catchments facing cloud blackouts.

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Compliance at a glance

A compact view of the governance work now living in this org profile (full framework under .github/compliance/):

Pillar	Focus
Privacy Act 2020	IPP 111 mapping, DSAR pathways, retention
Te Mana Raraunga	Maori data sovereignty + OCAP-aligned control
SOC 2 Type II	CC / A / S / P controls, 225-item matrix
MBIE Responsible AI	Safety-by-design, explainability, HITL gates
NZ Algorithm Charter	Transparent decisions, human appeal

Status (pre-seed): Compliance framework documents are in-repo as design targets not an external SOC 2 Type II attestation. Implementation is early-stage. Local docs: SKILL.md | Implementation guide | Audit checklist | Security Roadmap | Threat Model

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Funding system (grants + tracker)

Org home for Maori AI | deeptech | agritech | sovereign edge funding discovery and applications (HITL required):

Resource	Path
Funding index	.github/funding/README.md
Guide	.github/funding/FUNDING_GUIDE.md
Tracker	.github/funding/FUNDING_TRACKER.md
Grants Agent skill	.github/funding/grants-agent/SKILL.md
Knowledge base	.github/funding/knowledge-base/
Fit scorer	python .github/funding/scripts/score_fit.py --project "..."
Eligibility matrix	.github/funding/FUNDING_ELIGIBILITY_MATRIX.md likelihood of grants/seed by narrative, TAM, prerequisites
Investor matrix	.github/funding/INVESTOR_MATRIX.md what investors & founders want (Halter / Sharesies / Cursor comps)
Commercial positioning	.github/funding/COMMERCIAL_POSITIONING.md segments, packaging, GTM, funnel (no public $)
Roadmap / todos	.github/funding/ROADMAP_TIMELINE.md timeline to attain each grant/seed path
Install matrix	.github/funding/INSTALL_MATRIX.md Windows + Linux installers, smoke status

Open / near-term priorities (research snapshot 2026-07-13)

Priority	Fund	Status	Indicative value
P0	New to R&D Grant (MBIE)	OPEN	40% co-fund up to $400k
P0	Maori Development Fund (TPK)	OPEN (rolling; regional office first)	Proposal-based
P0	Primary Sector Growth Fund (MPI)	OPEN	Co-investment (replaces SFF Futures)
P1	R&D Experience Grant	Opens 13 Jul 2026	Student ~10 weeks
P1	R&D Career Grant	Opens 31 Aug 2026	Up to $30k / $35k (6 months)
P1	RDTI	Ongoing	15% tax credit
P2	NZIAT AI Research Platform	Partner / watch	~$70m / 7 years (platform)

Re-verify every status on the funder site before applying. Agent drafts are not submissions.

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Canonical hardware target

Component	Specification
Compute	Raspberry Pi 5 16GB RAM
NPU	Hailo-10H (40 TOPS) via Raspberry Pi AI Accelerator / AI HAT+ 2
OS (edge)	Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)
Dev hosts	Windows 10/11
Local LLM	Ollama + Gemma 4 (gemma4:e4b) on-device

All Coastal Alpine edge repositories document this same target. Do not mix Hailo-8 / Hailo-10L / 8GB SKUs in product docs.

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Focus wedges (90-day)

Priority	Wedge	Canonical repo	Notes
P0	Byte Size Kai (agritech)	Byte-Size-Kai + Core	Commercial hardware pilot path
P0	Front Line Whanau (social)	Front_Line_Whanau	Live: front-line-whanau.vercel.app
Supporting	Stack foundation	Core, Weaver, Aether, stack, firmware	Shared SDK / deploy
Supporting	Sister portals	Soil / Aqua / Sting	Background until wedge needs them
Parked	Founder tools	CAT-mail, NZ-Start-Up	Not the sales narrative
Archived	Whanau hub scaffold	whanau-preterm-support-hub	Merged into Front_Line_Whanau (2026-07-16)

License matrix (SPDX)

Repository	License	Notes
Coastal-Alpine-Core, Weaver, coastal-alpine-stack, portals, firmware	Proprietary (CAT)	Commercial edge stack
Byte-Size-Kai	Proprietary (CAT)	Lead agritech product
Front_Line_Whanau	Proprietary (CAT)	National social platform
Aether	Proprietary (CAT)	Internal companion
scaffylads	Proprietary (CAT)	Scaffolding work journal
CAT-mail	Proprietary (CAT)	Privacy-first email agent
NZ-Start-Up	Proprietary (CAT)	Founder OS (dual-licence, Track A default)
fivepanelhat (profile)	Proprietary docs	Portfolio landing

The entire portfolio is standardised on the Coastal Alpine Tech proprietary licence. Front_Line_Whanau, Aether (both previously Apache-2.0) and CAT-mail (previously MIT) were relicensed to proprietary; this governs each repo going forward, and does not affect versions already distributed under the earlier open licences.

Each repo ships a root LICENSE file. Prefer SPDX in GitHub repo settings so the UI does not show NOASSERTION.

The Kiwi Edge AI Stack Portfolio

Repository	Role	Platforms	Core NZ Regulations	Primary hardware
Coastal-Alpine-Core	Shared SDK (guards, telemetry, Ollama, portal_core, flywheel)	**Windows	Linux	RPi**
Weaver	Multi-tenant helpdesk & local RAG mesh	**Windows	Linux	RPi**
Aether	Sovereign agentic companion + computer use	**Windows	Linux	macOS**
coastal-alpine-stack	Full stack compose / K3s monorepo	**Windows	Linux	RPi**
Byte Size Kai (Byte-Size-Kai)	Lead agritech product - multi-modal edge AI for microgreens / Mana Kai	Edge Linux	Biosecurity Act 1993, HSNO Act 1996, Food Act 2014	RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H
Sting-Operation-AI	YOLO wasp & bee classifier beehive sentinel	Edge Linux + Hailo	Biosecurity Act 1993, Animal Welfare Act 1999	RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H
AquaGuard-Portal	Water runoff, sediment, & turbidity telemetry	Edge Linux	RMA 1991, Horizons One Plan, regional consents	RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H
SoilGuard-Portal	Soil N-P-K, pH, & moisture crop control	Edge Linux	NES-F 2020 (Synthetic N cap), FWFPs	RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H
Sovereign-Edge-Firmware	ESP32 sensor firmware + edge hub	Field + Pi hub	Te Mana Raraunga 2018	RPi 5 16GB hub + ESP32 nodes
Front_Line_Whanau	Canonical national whanau / preterm support platform	Web / PWA / Tauri	Privacy Act 2020, Te Tiriti	Vercel + optional desktop
whanau-preterm-support-hub	ARCHIVED scaffold - do not contribute	-	-	Redirect -> Front_Line_Whanau

Featured edge product: Byte Size Kai (agritech beachhead)

Byte Size Kai is the forefront agritech offering on this stack - sovereign multi-modal crop intelligence for microgreens and Mana Kai-class growers (Horowhenua field context / Taranaki engineering).

Product brand	Byte Size Kai
Repository (technical / CI path)	Byte-Size-Kai - keep clone URLs as-is
Stack role	Domain portal on Coastal-Alpine-Core + Hailo vision + local Ollama
Sister portals (background)	SoilGuard, AquaGuard, Sting-Operation
Problems (summary)	Rural cloud blackouts; unstructured sensors; fragmented farm context; compliance pressure; data sovereignty on whenua
Solution (summary)	Multi-modal edge portal on RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H, Core SDK, ESP32 firmware, HITL actuation
Economy / jobs	Taranaki R&D HQ, field install/support pathways, primary-sector productivity, onshore data value - see Byte Size Kai README

Featured social product: Front Line Whanau

Product	Front_Line_Whanau - national whanau / frontline support platform
Problems (summary)	Fragmented support, NICU information overload, role mismatch, equity gaps, sensitive data risk
Solution (summary)	Dual portals, national directory, self-service uploads, privacy-first vault, AI draft/prepare only
Economy / jobs	Frontline capacity, NGO efficiency, regional equity, care-sector digital skills - not clinician replacement

Foundation roles (CAT design targets)

CAT Gold / Platinum / Diamond labels are internal design maturity targets for a pre-seed company not third-party certifications or claims of enterprise production fleets.

Repo	Layer	Design focus
Weaver	Orchestration + multi-tenant RAG	HITL, tenant isolation
Aether	Agentic companion + computer use	Explainability, fairness, skills
Coastal-Alpine-Core	Edge SDK + security primitives	Encryption, device posture
coastal-alpine-stack	Deploy / remediate / compose	Fail-closed auth patterns, compose/K3s

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Stack Architecture Overview

End-to-end target data path on a sovereign edge node, hybridised with the Aether companion. Design intent: sensors and actuators stay on-farm; inference and orchestration stay local. Develop on Windows or Linux; target deploy on RPi 5.

Diagrams: Architecture images and Mermaid maps describe the target product architecture for this pre-seed stack. They are engineering design maps not claims of large-scale commercial fleet deployment.

System layers (readable map same target layers as the image)

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 subgraph FIELD["Field & marine sensors"]
 direction LR
 S1["Water probes<br/>pH | DO | turbidity"]
 S2["Soil probes<br/>N-P-K | moisture"]
 S3["Vision / audio<br/>CSI | mics"]
 S4["Hive cameras<br/>YOLO streams"]
 end

 subgraph FIRMWARE["Edge nodes Sovereign-Edge-Firmware"]
 direction LR
 ESP["ESP32 nodes<br/>mTLS MQTT"]
 HUB["Pi hub services<br/>Mosquitto | Node-RED"]
 end

 subgraph RUNTIME["Hybrid runtime Core | Weaver | stack | RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H"]
 direction TB
 K3s["K3s / compose<br/>coastal-alpine-stack"]
 Core["Coastal-Alpine-Core<br/>SecurityGuard | Telemetry | Flywheel | portal_core"]
 Weaver["Weaver<br/>LangGraph multi-tenant RAG"]
 Ollama["Ollama<br/>Gemma 4 e4b local LLM"]
 Hailo["Hailo-10H NPU<br/>40 TOPS vision accel"]
 end

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 direction LR
 Blue["Byte Size Kai"]
 Sting["Sting-Operation"]
 Aqua["AquaGuard"]
 Soil["SoilGuard"]
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 Aether["Aether<br/>ReAct | skills | HITL | desktop control"]
 end

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 direction LR
 Win["Windows 10/11<br/>install.ps1"]
 Lin["Linux workstation<br/>install.sh"]
 RPi["RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H<br/>production edge"]
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 ESP --> HUB
 HUB --> K3s
 K3s --> Core
 Core --> Weaver
 Weaver --> Blue & Sting & Aqua & Soil
 Core --> Ollama
 S3 & S4 --> Hailo
 Aether -.->|"skills, CI, HITL, computer use"| Core & Weaver
 RUNTIME -.-> HOSTS
 ORCH -.-> Win & Lin

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 class Win,Lin,RPi host

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Layer	What runs	Why it matters
Sensors	Probes, cameras, audio	Capture stays local to whenua / farm
Firmware	ESP32 + mTLS MQTT	Hardened field devices, no cloud telemetry bus
Hybrid runtime	Core + Weaver + stack + Ollama + Hailo	Shared SDK, multi-tenant routing, offline inference
Portals	Domain agents	Byte Size Kai (agritech lead), biosecurity, water, soil
Aether	Companion + computer use	HITL, skills, remediation, desktop control (Win/Linux)
Hosts	Windows	Linux

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Install Windows + Linux

The hybrid foundation repos ship one-line installers for both platforms. Production edge remains RPi 5 (Linux); Windows and Linux workstations are first-class for development.

Prerequisites

	Linux (Ubuntu / Debian / RPi OS)	Windows 10/11
Python	3.10+ (python3, python3-venv, python3-pip)	3.10+ from python.org Add to PATH
Git	sudo apt-get install -y git	Git for Windows
Build tools	sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python3-dev	Usually not required for pure Python
Ollama	ollama.com install script	Windows installer
PowerShell		5.1+ or 7+; if scripts blocked: Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned
Docker (optional)	docker.io / compose for stack services	Docker Desktop

# Linux system packages (Debian/Ubuntu/RPi OS)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-venv python3-pip git build-essential

One-line installers

Coastal-Alpine-Core (shared SDK)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.ps1 | iex

Weaver (multi-tenant orchestration)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.sh | bash
# or from a clone: python3 bootstrap.py

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.ps1 | iex
# or from a clone: python bootstrap.py

Aether (agentic companion + computer use)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.sh | bash
aether doctor

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.ps1 | iex
aether doctor

coastal-alpine-stack (full monorepo)

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.ps1 | iex

Local models

ollama pull gemma4:e4b # Weaver / portals / edge
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b # Aether text
ollama pull qwen2.5-vl:7b # Aether computer-use vision

Quick reference

Repo	Linux	Windows	Docs
Core	install.sh	install.ps1	README
Weaver	install.sh	bootstrap.py	install.ps1
Aether	install.sh	install.ps1	README
Stack	install.sh	install.ps1	README

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Core Operating Philosophies

1. Sovereign by Design: Data generated on NZ whenua is processed and stored locally, fully conforming to Te Mana Raraunga principles. We avoid commercial third-party cloud data leakage.
2. Rural Resilience: Our systems are engineered to withstand rural connectivity blackouts, executing local multi-modal vision and audio inference without any internet connection.
3. Regulatory Safety: Domain agents are designed to support actuator lockouts (e.g. fertigation lines) so operators can reduce risk of Regional Council rule breaches field validation is part of the pre-seed roadmap.
4. Cross-platform hybrid: Foundation packages target Windows and Linux for development; intended production edge is RPi 5 + Hailo-10H.
5. HITL by default: High-risk agent actions and capital/compliance decisions require human approval no silent autonomous implementation of governance changes.

Developed with pride in Taranaki, New Zealand.

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Governance & capital (summary)

See the full GOVERNANCE.md for decision rights, roles, HITL policy, and escalation.

CAT Architectural Standards (design targets)

Internal maturity model not external audit grades:

• Diamond: security, observability, and deployment hardening goals
• Platinum: AI continuous improvement + data flywheel goals
• Gold: workflow-native design with transparent HITL gates

Kotahitanga investment principles

Kotahitanga (collective unity) guides capital allocation for sovereign AI and indigenous data infrastructure:

Guardrail	Rule of thumb
OCAP alignment	Ownership, Control, Access, Possession data stays in Aotearoa
Compliance baseline (internal goals)	Diamond 95%
Remediation	90% full release
HITL capital gates	Large allocations and Maori-data decisions need human / Cultural Advisory Board sign-off

Full reference set on this repo:

Doc	Path
Master skill	.github/compliance/nz-ai-compliance-soc2/SKILL.md
Privacy Act mapping	references/NZ_PRIVACY_ACT_2020_MAPPING.md
SOC 2 matrix	references/SOC2_CONTROL_MATRIX.md
Te Mana Raraunga	references/TE_MANA_RARAUNGA_PRINCIPLES.md
Incident playbook	references/INCIDENT_RESPONSE_PLAYBOOK.md
Audit checklist	references/COMPLIANCE_AUDIT_CHECKLIST.md
Security Roadmap	SECURITY_ROADMAP.md
Threat Model	THREAT_MODEL.md
Commercial Positioning	COMMERCIAL_POSITIONING.md

Key metrics (aspirational targets for a maturing product not current SLAs)

Metric	Target
Availability SLO	99.5% monthly
Audit log retention	18 months (immutable)
DSAR response	20 working days
Breach notification	72 hours (Privacy Commissioner)
Backup RTO / RPO	4 h / 1 h
Incident P0 response	15 minutes

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Recent stack updates

2026-07-17 AI Infrastructure Leadership + Hardening

Area	What shipped
AI_INFRASTRUCTURE_LEADERSHIP.md	New prominent doc positioning CAT as NZ sovereign AI Infrastructure leader; integrates aether-nz-ai-safety hardening, risk tiering, skills extensibility, grounded claims
README update	Added prominent link to new leadership doc in portfolio header

2026-07-16 Commercial Positioning + pricing hygiene

Area	What shipped
Commercial Positioning	Customer segments, packaging logic, recurring model, GTM, funnel (no public dollar prices)
NZ-Start-Up pricing cleanup	Removed public NZ$ figures from white-label and sales one-pager; tiers retained
README linking	Commercial Positioning section + funding table entry

2026-07-16 Enterprise Readiness artefacts

Area	What shipped
GOVERNANCE.md	Decision rights, HITL ceiling, roles, Cultural Advisory interface
Security & Compliance Roadmap	Phased, stage-honest path to pilot and seed readiness
Threat Model	STRIDE-oriented view of the actual edge attack surface
README linking	Enterprise Readiness section for discoverability

2026-07-13 authenticity + pre-seed positioning

Area	What shipped
Company stage	Coastal Alpine Tech Limited stated as pre-seed startup
Claims hygiene	Softened enterprise/SLA overclaims; diagrams labelled as target architecture
Capital fiction	Public materials avoid role-play funded-project narratives

2026-07-13 funding system scaffold

Area	What shipped
Funding guide + tracker	Open NZ grants for Maori AI / deeptech / agritech / sovereign edge (MBIE, TPK, MPI, RDTI, NZIAT)
Grants agent	Skill + fit matrix + HITL checklist under .github/funding/grants-agent/
Knowledge base	Extracted CAT standards + NZ compliance digests for proposal drafting
Fit scorer	scripts/score_fit.py against tracker.csv

2026-07-12 front page hybrid + compliance blend

Area	What shipped
Landing page	Restored product portfolio, architecture, dual-platform install from pre-rewrite front page
Compliance mix	Kept NZ AI / SOC 2 / Kotahitanga highlights with local doc links (no broken branch paths)
Visuals	Ultra liquid glass morphism hero + architecture overview refresh

2026-07-12 hybridise + dual-platform install

Area	What shipped
Hybrid foundation	Core
Installers	install.sh + install.ps1 on Core, Weaver, Aether, coastal-alpine-stack
Core pin	Consumers document @v0.5.4 tagged releases

2026-07-11 harden, document, productise

Area	What shipped
Coastal-Alpine-Core	v0.5.3 edge SDK optimisations; v0.5.4 expanded SecurityGuard patterns
Security (org-wide)	Least-privilege Actions, Dependabot, SECURITY sections
Aether	Kiwi Edge skills, computer-use hybrid, dual installers

Next focus (suggested): keep submodules on Core 0.5.4; smoke-test installers on clean Windows and Linux hosts; advance Week 112 compliance implementation against the local checklist; link new AI_INFRASTRUCTURE_LEADERSHIP.md from investor/grant materials.

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