BLACKGRID CYBER LIMITED

What BLACKGRID CYBER LIMITED does

BlackGrid Cyber Limited is a privately held UK cybersecurity company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Bolton, England, that builds sovereign AI defence systems targeting AI-driven fraud, deepfake impersonation, and cyber-enabled deception. The company's core innovation is its focus on the 'decision layer' — the moment when money is sent, access is granted, or authority is exercised — which traditional cybersecurity tools do not monitor. BlackGrid's platform analyses behavioural and contextual signals surrounding actions rather than the content of communications or personal data, detecting high-risk decision conditions in real time without biometric surveillance, message reading, or individual tracking.

The platform is anchored by TrustOS, the sovereign decision-layer operating system, and the Learning AI Defence Brain, the central AI engine. These coordinate five integrated modules: CloneTrap (impersonation and deepfake voice detection), GeoLock (geographic and jurisdictional risk intelligence), Intercept Engine (proportionate intervention with human authority preserved), TrustScore (a 0-100 UK Cyber Trust Rating), and FraudWatch (a public-facing threat awareness platform). All processing, learning, and decision logic run exclusively within UK data centres in Manchester and London, with no foreign servers, no offshore jurisdiction, and no US CLOUD Act exposure.

BlackGrid operates a sales-led enterprise go-to-market targeting UK public sector organisations (councils, NHS Trusts), telecom providers, managed service providers (MSPs), and UK businesses. Pricing is quote-based and NDA-ready, with secure pilot programmes that begin in observe-only mode before moving to enforcement. FraudWatch is offered as a non-commercial public good funded by enterprise revenue. The company has no disclosed funding rounds, revenue, headcount, or management team, and operates with a homepage-claimed 160,000+ reach metric that is not corroborated by named customer logos or disclosed contract values.

Name

BLACKGRID CYBER LIMITED

Legal name

BLACKGRID CYBER LIMITED

Website

https://blackgrid.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BlackGrid Cyber Limited is a UK-based cybersecurity company that builds sovereign AI defence systems detecting AI-driven fraud, deepfake impersonation, and cyber-enabled deception at the decision layer, serving UK public sector, NHS Trusts, telecoms, MSPs, and businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Cybersecurity / Decision-Layer Security

NAICS

Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Detective, Guard & Armored Car Services (7381)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Authenticity, Watermarking & Deepfake Detection (HDAAAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Privacy-Preserving ML & Data Protection (e.g., federated learning, differential privacy) (HDAAAMAD), Spam, Fake Engagement & Content Abuse Prevention (HDADALAG)

Keywords

• Sovereign AI cyber defence
• Decision-layer security
• Deepfake impersonation detection
• Behavioural fraud analytics
• Cyber trust rating

Headquarters

HQ city

Bolton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Security Platform Licensing: BlackGrid operates as a B2B SaaS platform providing sovereign AI defence capabilities to enterprises and public sector organisations. The company offers pilots followed by broader deployment, suggesting a subscription-based commercial model. FraudWatch is funded through commercial success, indicating the core revenue comes from enterprise/government customers.
2. Public Good Initiative (FraudWatch): FraudWatch is funded through BlackGrid's commercial success and partnerships, ensuring public protection grows alongside enterprise adoption. This is a non-commercial give-back to the community, not a primary revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

BlackGrid sells a UK-sovereign, subscription-based AI cyber defence platform that protects the "decision layer" — the moment money is sent, access is granted, or authority is exercised — by analysing behavioural and contextual signals surrounding actions rather than the content of communications. Its integrated product set (TrustOS, Learning AI Defence Brain, CloneTrap, GeoLock, Intercept Engine, TrustScore and FraudWatch) detects deepfake impersonation, mandate fraud, authority abuse and AI-enabled deception in real time for UK councils, NHS Trusts, telecom providers, MSPs and other enterprise/public-sector organisations.

Product overview

BlackGrid is a UK-sovereign AI cyber defence platform that protects the decision layer — the moment when money is sent, access is granted, or authority is exercised — where traditional cybersecurity cannot see. The platform uses a unified product architecture anchored by TrustOS (the core decision-layer operating system) and the Learning AI Defence Brain (the central AI engine), which together coordinate risk detection across five integrated modules: CloneTrap (impersonation and deepfake detection), GeoLock (geographic/jurisdictional intelligence), Intercept Engine (proportionate intervention), TrustScore (numerical trust rating), and FraudWatch (public-facing threat awareness). TrustOS sits above existing security tools, analysing behavioural and contextual signals without inspecting content or profiling identities, feeding safer decisions into existing infrastructure. The platform is built and hosted exclusively within UK data centres with no foreign servers or offshore jurisdiction exposure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FraudWatch: Public protection and awareness platform that translates complex threat intelligence into clear, practical guidance for everyday people, especially vulnerable populations.
• TrustOS
• CloneTrap
• GeoLock
• Intercept Engine
• TrustScore

Products and services

• TrustOS TrustOS is the core sovereign decision-layer operating system of the BlackGrid platform, coordinating how risk is detected, assessed and responded to across the platform. It analyses behavioural patterns, timing and urgency signals, contextual consistency and decision-making conditions around actions — without inspecting the content of communications or profiling identities — to ensure decisions remain calm, proportionate and human-governed. It is positioned for UK organisations (councils, NHS Trusts, telecoms, MSPs, enterprises) that need to defend the moment of trust where money is sent, access is granted or authority is exercised.
• Learning AI Defence Brain Learning AI Defence Brain is BlackGrid's sovereign AI engine that understands, retains and evolves with modern fraud and cyber-enabled deception. It analyses behavioural manipulation patterns, pressure and urgency dynamics, authority abuse signals, contextual inconsistencies and routing/jurisdictional risk, recognises new threats without relying on predefined attack lists, remembers them and responds earlier the next time they appear — without relying on content inspection or personal-data harvesting.
• CloneTrap CloneTrap is BlackGrid's impersonation and deepfake detection module. It protects against impersonation, identity abuse and AI-generated deception — including deepfake voice attacks, executive impersonation, supplier and mandate fraud, and repeated re-entry attempts — by detecting behavioural inconsistencies that indicate authority abuse, without biometric surveillance or voice-content analysis.
• GeoLock GeoLock is BlackGrid's global contextual intelligence capability that detects geographic and jurisdictional risk including VPN-masked routing behaviour, foreign routing, spoofed numbers and other anomalies — without tracking individuals or monitoring devices, and adapts as attackers change infrastructure.
• Intercept Engine Intercept Engine is BlackGrid's intervention module that determines when and how BlackGrid responds. It supports proportionate, explainable responses — pause, challenge, verify, escalate, and allow — while preserving human authority and providing clear reason codes for every decision.
• TrustScore TrustScore is BlackGrid's UK Cyber Trust Rating (0-100) — a simple, sovereign metric showing how safe an organisation really is. It aggregates threat coverage including behaviour patterns, identity signals, route behaviour, synthetic probability and anomaly clusters into a single explainable score for organisations.
• FraudWatch FraudWatch is BlackGrid's public protection and awareness platform that translates complex, real-world threat intelligence — informed by the Learning AI Defence Brain — into clear, practical fraud-protection guidance for the general public, with explicit support for vulnerable populations including older people, those with disabilities, children and young people.

Quantifiable outcome

• 160,000+ customers served
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• BioCatch: Behavioural biometrics fraud detection platform analysing how users interact with devices and sessions. Closely comparable to BlackGrid's behavioural and contextual signal approach to detecting fraud at the decision layer, particularly in UK banking and enterprise accounts.
• Featurespace: UK-based adaptive behavioural analytics fraud detection vendor serving banks, payments, and fintech. Closely comparable target market and behavioural analytics methodology to BlackGrid's TrustOS and Learning AI Defence Brain.
• Pindrop Security: US-based voice fraud and deepfake detection vendor serving banks, insurers, and contact centres. Most directly comparable to BlackGrid's CloneTrap module for deepfake voice impersonation and authority abuse, though Pindrop leans on voice biometrics rather than BlackGrid's content-blind behavioural approach.
• Tessian: UK-based email security vendor using behavioural analysis to detect impersonation, misdirected emails, and data exfiltration. Comparable mission (stopping people-targeted attacks like mandate fraud) and UK customer base; now part of Proofpoint.
• Callsign: UK-headquartered behavioural biometrics and identity fraud vendor. Comparable as a UK-based fraud-prevention competitor with similar target customers (UK banks, public sector) and overlapping behavioural analysis methodology.
• IDVerse (formerly Sensity AI): Deepfake and synthetic identity detection vendor. Directly comparable to BlackGrid's CloneTrap deepfake detection capability, though IDVerse leans on document and biometric analysis rather than BlackGrid's content-blind approach.

Broad incumbents

• NuData Security (Mastercard): Behavioural analytics fraud detection vendor now part of Mastercard. Comparable behavioural-fraud approach and large enterprise customer base, though operating as a feature inside Mastercard's broader identity and fraud stack.
• Darktrace: UK-headquartered AI cybersecurity vendor with a much broader enterprise portfolio (network, email, cloud). Comparable as a UK-based AI-cybersecurity incumbent whose scale and sales reach dwarf BlackGrid, but with no decision-layer or pre-identity specialisation.

Emerging players

• Arkose Labs: Bot detection and account takeover prevention platform. Comparable as a behavioural fraud-prevention vendor protecting the moment before digital action, though focused on consumer-facing account flows rather than enterprise authority abuse.
• Resistant AI: Document fraud and synthetic identity detection vendor. Comparable as an AI fraud-prevention specialist targeting synthetic-content abuse, overlapping with CloneTrap's identity-abuse detection use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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