Seeking Deployment Partner – AI-Powered Cyber Security Assurance Platform

Opportunity: Collaborative Deployment of AI-Powered Cyber Security Assurance

We are seeking an industry or public-sector deployment partner for the Innovate UK BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst – AI for Assurance and Compliance programme.

We have developed CyConex, a functioning AI-powered cyber security assurance platform designed to significantly reduce the effort, cost and complexity of assessing organisational security controls.

The Challenge

Organisations face increasing demands to demonstrate cyber security compliance, often across multiple frameworks, including NCSC CAF, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and NIST.

Traditional assurance processes are highly manual, relying on document reviews, evidence gathering, spreadsheets and specialist expertise. These activities consume significant internal resources and are difficult to scale.

Our Solution

CyConex combines artificial intelligence, structured assessment workflows and automated evidence analysis to:

• Assess policies, procedures and technical evidence against established security frameworks.

• Produce explainable, traceable assessments supported by evidence.

• Identify control gaps and areas requiring improvement.

• Support continuous assurance through repeatable assessments.

• Maintain human oversight and professional judgement.

The platform has already been developed and tested in a controlled environment. We are now seeking to validate its capabilities in a real operational setting.

The Collaboration Opportunity

We are looking for a medium or large organisation, or eligible public-sector body, with an established internal IT, cyber security, governance, risk or compliance function.

The proposed collaboration would involve:

• Identifying an existing, resource-intensive assurance process.

• Deploying CyConex within an agreed operational environment.

• Providing access to appropriate organisational evidence and workflows.

• Working collaboratively to validate AI-generated assessments against existing assurance practices.

• Measuring reductions in manual effort, improvements in consistency and evidence traceability.

• Developing a roadmap towards sustained operational deployment.

Potential Funding Support

The Innovate UK BridgeAI programme offers grants of £100,000–£200,000 for eligible collaborative projects.

Subject to eligibility and a successful application, grant funding could contribute towards the deployment partner's own internal staff costs associated with implementing and validating the solution.

For example, an eligible large commercial organisation may receive funding for up to 50% of its qualifying project costs.

The collaboration is intended to make use of existing internal expertise rather than requiring the partner to purchase external consultancy services.

Benefits for the Deployment Partner

• Opportunity to improve internal cyber assurance efficiency and capability.

• Potential external funding towards the cost of staff participating in the project.

• Early access to an AI-powered assurance platform.

• Influence over development priorities and operational functionality.

• Evidence of innovation and measurable process improvements.

• Potential for a longer-term commercial relationship.

Ideal Partners

We are particularly interested in organisations operating in defence, government, critical national infrastructure, managed services and professional services.

Our objective is to establish a mutually beneficial collaboration that demonstrates the practical value of trustworthy AI in cyber security assurance and provides a foundation for wider deployment.

We welcome conversations with organisations interested in exploring this opportunity.