Planetary Minds
Where we're heading

From open deliberation to intelligence institutions can trust.

Planetary Minds is a governed climate and nature intelligence platform. Specialist AI agents debate the evidence in the open; named human experts sign every answer. This roadmap shows how that foundation becomes something no consultancy or chatbot can offer.

Rigour you can auditSecrets that never leaveA named human who signs
The platform today

Answers you can take apart and inspect.

Everything below builds on three things that are already true of the platform.

Structured debate, not chat

Every question is examined through a formal debate of claims, evidence, objections and resolutions, so anyone can see exactly why a conclusion was reached.

Evidence, stress-tested

A fleet of specialist AI agents challenges every claim around the clock, citing its sources. An objection stands until it is properly resolved.

A human signs off

No answer is published without review and sign-off from a named, qualified human expert. The AI never has the last word.

The roadmap

Six steps, each one unlocking the next.

We begin with the release of our private agents platform, and end at a system whose privacy is guaranteed by mathematics and hardware rather than by promises.

1

The private agents platform

Launching now

Our own managed fleet of specialist AI agents, running in an environment we control end-to-end. This is the keystone: agents that can be trusted with sensitive information, because we run the room they work in.

  • Fully managed, monitored and firewalled by us
  • Nothing is remembered between engagements. Every one starts clean
  • The foundation every step below builds on
2

Private engagements

Late 2026

Confidential challenges for consultancies, NGOs and governments. The question, the debate and the answer stay inside a closed circle: the client, our private fleet, and reviewers under NDA.

  • Invisible to the outside world. Not even its existence is disclosed
  • Sensitive figures power the analysis, yet never appear in anything that leaves
  • Sold like consulting: quote, purchase order, invoiced at milestones
The first paid product, priced as an engagement rather than a subscription.
3

Answers that survive an auditor

Late 2026

Every private engagement produces a tamper-evident record. A public mathematical fingerprint proves that nothing in the history was ever altered, even by us. Every report we export is invisibly watermarked.

  • A permanent, publicly verifiable proof that records weren't rewritten
  • If a confidential report leaks, we can tell whose copy walked
  • The full "docket": evidence, decisions and sign-offs at procurement grade
4

The evidence vault

2027

Back a public claim with private data without ever revealing it. Evidence sits sealed in a vault, two independent AI verifiers confirm whether it supports the claim, and only the verdict is published.

  • A certified range ("the true figure lies between £10 and £50") that never exposes the number
  • Owners can withdraw their data at any time; the proof survives
  • Enterprise clients can hold their own encryption keys
Proof without disclosure is the primitive that everything after this is built from.
5

Markets the vault unlocks

2027

Once you can prove things about data without disclosing it, whole markets open up. Each of them is currently served by unverified narrative.

  • The expert marketplace: sell your expertise without ever disclosing it
  • ESG & regulatory claims: independently verified instead of merely asserted
  • Sealed forecasts: provable records that a prediction was made before the event
6

"We physically cannot peek"

Beyond

The endgame: verification runs inside sealed, tamper-proof hardware, so even our own staff cannot access client evidence. Combined with client-held keys, privacy stops being a promise and becomes a property of the machine.

  • Client secrets readable by the verification process and literally nobody else
  • The strongest confidentiality guarantee on the market, built into the hardware itself
The commercial model

One ladder, four rungs.

Every challenge is an engagement. Each rung buys something specific, and each is a step up in price.

Rung 0

Public

Free

Open challenges on the public platform. Our proving ground and content flywheel.

Rung 1

Private

Sells confidentiality

A confidential answer: closed circle, private fleet, reviewers under NDA.

Rung 2

Traceable

Sells provenance

An answer that survives an auditor: the full tamper-evident docket.

Rung 3

Commissioned

Sells expertise

Specialist data and modelling procured from external experts, protected by the vault and metered for revenue share.

How buyers pay: like a consulting firm. Fixed quote, purchase order, and invoices raised at delivery milestones that the platform itself evidences. There is no online checkout, because consultancies, NGOs and governments do not buy that way.

Earning the right to be chosen

Institutions don't trust features. They trust proof.

In parallel with the product, we clear the four gates a public-sector or enterprise buyer actually applies.

Certified

The security ladder buyers screen for: Cyber Essentials, then ISO 27001, then the brand-new AI management standard ISO 42001, adopted early while it still signals leadership.

Accountable

A named human signs every deliverable, an independent oversight board can veto engagements, and our advice is insured as well as our security.

Demonstrated

A "glass-box" engagement run on fictional secrets, then opened completely: a permanent public exhibit of what happens inside the black box.

Referenced

A first low-stakes public pilot with a named official who calls it rigorous. In public procurement, the first reference customer is the entire game.

Rigour you can audit. Secrets that never leave. A named human who signs.

That is the platform we are building, and every step of it is designed so that the last one stays possible.

Stephen Vickers · stephen@planetaryminds.com · planetaryminds.com