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Enterprise Visibility Infrastructure

Govern what
people and AI can see
while work is happening.

For collaborations across organisations, systems and trust boundaries.

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Active workstream

Inside one boundary

A workstream begins inside one organisation. Suppliers, partners, contractors and an AI system then connect in a fixed sequence, and work moves in both directions across the organisation boundary.

What changed

Work no longer stays inside one organisation.

Work now flows across teams, partners, suppliers, systems and AI.

The enterprise has become an ecosystem. Security still asks only who can enter.

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Two different questions

Access controls who can enter.
Visibility governs what they can see.

Where the gap opens

Access should not mean full visibility.

A person or AI may need access to a project without seeing everything inside it.

Access Control

Can they enter?

Enterprise Visibility

What should they see right now?

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Assembly TH-204

Binary project access

Vertex ComponentsMachining supplier · Manufacture component

Information visible

0 / 6

Needed for task

3 / 6

Component geometryNeeded
TolerancesNeeded
Material dataNeeded
Adjacent assembliesNot needed
Design rationaleNot needed
Commercial termsNot needed
Access deniedTask blocked
Binary access control either blocks the task entirely or reveals every project area, even though the supplier needs only a subset of the information.

What is missing

The missing layer is visibility control.

What each person or AI can see should reflect who they are, what they are doing and the context of the work.

  • Identity
  • Role
  • Task
  • Context
  • Asset Sensitivity
  • Policy
  • Risk

Enterprise Visibility Infrastructure evaluates these signals at runtime to determine what becomes visible.

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NEED2KNOW™

The platform for Enterprise Visibility Infrastructure.

The right view, for the right task at hand, at the moment it is needed.

NEED2KNOW™ applies the need-to-know principle to digital collaboration, governing what each person and AI can see as work happens.

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Assembly TH-204

Project access granted

Vertex ComponentsMachining supplier · Manufacture component
Runtime visibility decisionEvaluating current work context0/6

Governed view

Turbine housing assembly

Select an area to see why.

3 visible · 1 masked · 2 not visible

Decision rationale

Production geometry is required to manufacture the component.

Project access remains granted while NEED2KNOW™ evaluates identity, role, task, context, sensitivity, policy and risk to calculate a different visibility outcome for each information area.

Why Now

Three shifts make visibility control urgent.

  • 01

    Distributed
    Innovation

    Complex products and systems are increasingly built across organisational boundaries.

  • 02

    Artificial
    Intelligence

    AI systems retrieve, analyse, generate and act. What context they receive is itself a security decision.

  • 03

    Expanding
    Ecosystems

    Supply chains, research partnerships and strategic collaborations are redefining the enterprise perimeter.

Security must evolve from controlling entry to governing visibility.

Where it applies

One visibility layer.
Many environments.

Protect sensitive content as work happens between organisations, systems and AI.

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What AI changes

AI makes it more urgent.

It can read, combine and infer across environments.

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Validation

Built through research.
Applied to real work.

  • Intellectual Property

    Licensed foundational technology

  • Academic Validation

    Research partnership with Birmingham City University

  • Enterprise Validation

    Active pilots across defence, energy, AI and semiconductors

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Affiliates and Partners

  • Birmingham City University
  • LLoyds
  • Azure
  • Tech Nation | Rising Stars
  • Innovate UK | Business Growth
  • Founders Forum Group
  • Piece Future | Asia's Global Private IP Bank
  • Sinnobator
  • Microsoft for Startups | Founders Hub
  • Barclays | Eagle Labs
About Partners

CUDE Labs

Building the visibility layer
for modern enterprise work.

CUDE Labs is a research-led technology company building NEED2KNOW™, the platform for Enterprise Visibility Infrastructure. We work with enterprises, governments and research partners to govern what people and AI can see across distributed digital work.

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The next step

Make visibility governable.

Bring an enforced need-to-know discipline into the way your organisation works.

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