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HELSINKI — Lifetime Oy today announced the launch of DWS IQ Aegis, a standalone dual-use AI platform purpose-built for defence agencies, military industry enterprises, and dual-use manufacturing supply chains operating under EU regulation. Aegis covers all 21 EU-regulated industries and is available exclusively on European sovereign cloud or enterprise private cloud.

Named after Athena's shield in Greek mythology, DWS IQ Aegis provides protection through intelligence — not just walls. The platform packages orbital satellite intelligence, sovereignty monitoring, autonomous agent governance, and EU AI Act compliance into a single hardened deployment, addressing the unique intersection of defence requirements and EU regulatory obligations that no existing platform serves.

Defence and dual-use supply chains face the same EU compliance obligations as civilian industry — CSRD, CBAM, NIS2, and the EU AI Act — plus export control (EU Reg. 2021/821), data sovereignty requirements, and dual-use classification. Existing alternatives — Palantir AIP, Anduril Lattice, C3.ai Defence — are US-based, CLOUD Act exposed, and lack EU AI Act compliance infrastructure.

Six autonomous agents, governed by KYA (Know Your Agent):

• ArgusAgent — AI orbital target labeling via SAR satellite data (all-weather, day/night)
• SovereigntyMonitor — CLOUD Act exposure detection, EU data residency verification
• Article12Logger — EU AI Act audit trails for every AI decision
• KYA Engine — Agent identity verification, MicroVM isolation, kill authority
• ComplianceAgent — Dual-use export control + EU climate compliance scoring
• SiteSenseAgent — Defence construction site safety and logistics

The Argus agent is designed for integration with SAR satellite data, including providers such as ICEYE — the world's largest SAR constellation, headquartered in Espoo, Finland — providing all-weather industrial infrastructure monitoring regardless of cloud cover or lighting conditions.

DWS IQ Aegis aligns with the Finnish DEFINE / Defence Tech Hub ecosystem, including the NATO DIANA Accelerator operated by VTT in Espoo, and the 60+ member companies of Finland's defence technology cluster.

"Defence supply chains cannot afford to choose between compliance and capability. Aegis delivers both — sovereign AI agents that satisfy EU AI Act Article 12, dual-use export control, and climate regulation simultaneously. Every agent decision is logged, governed, and auditable. This is what responsible dual-use AI looks like." — Risto Paarni, Founder & CEO, Lifetime Oy

Pricing:

• Aegis Platform: EUR 59,990 one-time + EUR 599/mo (full skilled agent fleet, 20 industries)
• Enterprise: Custom (dedicated sovereign instance, SLA, custom agents)
• Government: Custom (private cloud, air-gapped option, security clearance support)

For product enquiries, partnership opportunities, or government procurement, contact [email protected] or visit dws10.com/dual-use-industries.

HELSINKI — Lifetime Oy today announced the opening of Platinum Industry Captain seats for DWS IQ 6, the industrial climate intelligence platform covering ETS, CBAM, CSRD, EPBD, and 12 more EU mandates across 16 regulated industries.

DWS IQ 6 is the orchestration platform. The Lifetime World Model is the proprietary intelligence layer. Together they turn commodity AI into a deep tech compliance engine that runs where cloud can't reach. Edge AI deployment on NVIDIA Jetson devices saves customers EUR 333,000 per year versus cloud-only competitors.

The company is seeking operators who know their vertical inside out — not passive investors, but founding crew members who will shape how the platform serves their industry. Each Platinum Captain owns one of 16 EU industry verticals on the platform, with status, visibility, and direct influence over the product roadmap.

"This is not a generic angel round. Every Captain brings domain knowledge — not just capital. A Captain of Construction understands building sites. A Captain of Maritime knows what happens mid-ocean. A Captain of Chemicals has the Rolodex that opens procurement doors. We are matching investors to industries so every seat accelerates the platform." — Risto Paarni, Founder & CEO, Lifetime Oy

Key terms:

• 8 Platinum Industry Captain seats at EUR 50,000 SAFE (first tranche)
• Deputy Captain seats available at EUR 25,000 SAFE
• EUR 3.8M valuation cap with 18% discount
• Round target: EUR 500,000
• Second tranche: remaining 8 Platinum seats at higher valuation

Platform traction:

• EUR 7-14k MRR from Fleet division (Uber, Taksi Helsinki, Kela)
• EUR 59,900 in signed Q1 2026 pilot contracts
• EUR 15-50/month infrastructure cost
• Three InvestEU Portal listings (INPO-20254383 — DWS 3, 4, and 6)
• Strategic partners: Google, AWS, Groq, NVIDIA, GitHub Enterprise

For more information or to inquire about available seats, contact [email protected] or visit dws10.com/captain.

HELSINKI — Lifetime Oy today published the technical thesis behind DWS IQ 6, its industrial climate compliance platform, explaining why the system qualifies as deep tech rather than an AI application layer — and why it saves customers EUR 333,000 per year compared to cloud-only alternatives.

The thesis identifies three independent defensibility pillars, each requiring years to replicate:

Pillar 1: The Lifetime World Model — proprietary intelligence. A domain-specific knowledge base indexed across 15,000+ EU regulatory documents and 20 industry verticals. Unlike generic AI wrappers, the World Model understands the relationships between regulations — mapping CBAM carbon intensity data to CSRD disclosure obligations to ETS allowance positions simultaneously. Built over seven years across six platform versions. Estimated time to replicate: 3-5 years.

Pillar 2: Edge AI deployment — hardware+software integration. DWS IQ 6 runs inference on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano devices at construction sites, factory floors, and maritime vessels — environments where cloud connectivity is unreliable or unavailable. The result: EUR 0 inference cost (vs. EUR 27,750/month for cloud competitors), under 100ms latency (vs. 2-5 seconds), and full offline capability. Annual infrastructure cost: EUR 17,000 including hardware, versus EUR 350,000+ for cloud-only competitors. Estimated time to replicate: 2-3 years.

Pillar 3: Model-agnostic orchestration — the swap test. DWS IQ 6 uses Claude (Anthropic), Google Gemini, and Groq as inference engines, but the intelligence lives in the World Model and the orchestration logic — not in any single model provider. Replace Claude with a different LLM tomorrow and the platform still works. Built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) for standardized agent coordination. Estimated time to replicate: 1-2 years.

"DWS IQ 6 is the orchestration platform. The Lifetime World Model is the proprietary intelligence layer. Together they turn commodity AI into a deep tech compliance engine that runs where cloud can't reach. The LWM is what makes it defensible. The edge deployment is what makes it hard to copy. Everything else is execution." — Risto Paarni, Founder & CEO, Lifetime Oy

Validation and traction:

• Three InvestEU Portal listings by the European Commission (INPO-20254383 — DWS 3, 4, and 6)
• NVIDIA Inception Program participant
• Microsoft Founders Hub L1-L4
• Strategic technology partners: Google, AWS, Groq, NVIDIA, GitHub Enterprise
• EUR 7-14k MRR from Fleet division + EUR 59,900 in signed Q1 2026 pilots
• Platform runs on EUR 15-50/month infrastructure

Deep tech ventures require, on average, 11 years to reach institutional funding. Lifetime Oy is in year eight — ahead of the curve, with a platform already generating revenue and validated three times by the European Commission.

The full deep tech thesis is available at dws10.com/investor-relations. To inquire about Industry Captain seats, contact [email protected].