#niokvinnorASK (v2.0): making targeted & accurate smaller-scale software & hardware delivery as profitable as big-scale, particularly in the fight against cognitive & hybrid warfare
Who this page is for:
Allied governments interesting in winning against totalitarianism in the long-term; and
one, or perhaps two, large-tech corporates, interested in simultaneously transforming tech and geopolitics for the better, at the same time as exploring and delivering new ways of making money out of IT- and AI-technologies.
What our #niokvinnorASK currently consists of in its v2.0:
We would like to meet with one or two allied governments engaged by the idea of funding the development of intuition-friendly and intuition-positive software/platforms/hardware, alongside one or two large-tech corporates (one, non-Windows; one, Windows-based) which are prepared to contemplate a business model where their role focuses exclusively on delivering engineering solutions from discovery and consulting datasets nio kvinnor and its secrecy plus members will be solely responsible for obtaining.
(For more information, see below re the three legs of our proposal and how we want to add value.)
How we propose to add value for government (s) and the large-tech corporate(s):
The two approaches currently being used in IT can be called GPTs (general purpose technologies) on the one hand (what most corporates use and most investment heads massively in the direction of), and SPTs (special purpose technologies) on the other.
In the proposed holding nio kvinnor we suggest you now engage with, we want to use SPTs (which lend themselves to making money out of smaller-scale software & hardware delivery), so we can build intuition-friendly and intuition-positive software, platforms & hardware which are not only practical from the outset but, also, much more profitable from this point on.
We aim to achieve this with our own discovery and consulting processes designed specifically to make smaller-scale as profitable as big-scale.
And this we aim to do in the beach-head markets of security and related.
The structure of our business proposal:
This #niokvinnorASK page proposes a holding in Stockholm Sweden, built out of traditional and well-understood business structures.
The holding will be called nio kvinnor (“nine women” in Swedish).
The first market we wish to enter will be security and related: our goal is to differentiate ourselves from existing players by placing the emphasis on creating tools that make professional humans more significant not less in the day-to-day: what we call a human-primacy, versus the machine-primacy most of the security industry delivers.
An example: Hamas beat an Israeli focus on machine-primacy last October 2023, to terrifying effect. Meanwhile, almost a year later, Israel, learning its lessons, used the ingenuity of the human brain to repurpose the digital supply line of pagers delivered to Hezbollah with an equally powerful impact, this time in the region’s ongoing fight against terrorist groups.
The name of the security product & service-delivering members of the nio kvinnor holding will be Secrecy Plus.
The first three as follows, where markets support:
UK & Ireland.
Sweden, Nordics and the Baltics.
The US and related regions.
The three legs and the two processes that make us worth investing in:
The holding will be responsible for two processes across the whole group. The third leg of our offer will be offered by hyper-focused tech partners concentrating exclusively on engineering our own clients’ much more accurately determined (by now) real-world needs:
Discovery | secrecy-positive tools ensure real workplace truths are captured, always, during our Secrecy Plus members’ software & hardware delivery. This will reduce the need for reworking code and engineering later on in the process, so increasing the RoI of companies — and therefore their own investors — which will work with us.
Consulting | solution-agnostic consulting processes ensure that our own direct clients will not only get the best but also the most accurately relevant, always, of our big-tech partners’ engineering capabilities.
Engineering | software-, platform-, and hardware-engineering will be delivered by big- and top tier-tech corporations, to specifications it will be nio kvinnor’s responsibility to draw up and define, using our continuously researched processes from points 1 and 2 above.
Noted: in practice, Secrecy Plus members will be able to deliver points 1 and 2 above with their own personnel. However, the holding itself reserves the right to audit and certify processes & people when both discovery and consulting are being conducted in benefit of all our own clients.
One suggested set of profiles of governments and large-tech corporates we think will be interested in making money in the ways we are proposing is as follows:
You want to solve real-world problems in reliably unpredictable — ie, truly disruptive — ways. This means creating tech tools and platforms that stop criminality at the highest levels: Putin’s Russia, Iran, China and North Korea; the increasing prevalence of a societal harm conducted in all spheres of human activity which nevertheless remains out of reach of current criminal-justice systems.
You’re engaged by the circular and sustainable economies and their implications: they’re already a priority for you, which you will embrace with purpose and are increasingly determined to focus on.
You’re intrigued by the idea of a project like ours where humans will have their humanity enhanced by machines, in ways which shall surprise us beyond anything we have currently been able to imagine.
The nio kvinnor holding (“nine women” in Swedish) is a commercial business proposal which makes processes of smaller-scale software discovery, consulting, scoping, development, and delivery as profitable for corporates as the scattergun approaches of cloud (just one example) have been to date.
We distinguish between two development approaches.
The first one is not what we aim to do; the second is precisely why nio kvinnor is to be set up.
General purpose technologies (GPTs), such as these days email and cloud, and historically, the wheel and the printing-press. True GPTs can be applied in all areas of human activity. But much of what is called a GPT is actually standardised technology which has to be shoehorned using marketing techniques & persuasive language in order to convince a potential client that what they are buying into is made-to-measure and just what’s needed, when actually it is neither.
Special purpose technologies (SPTs), for the chosen business activities that nio kvinnor will be involved in, specifically for the delivery of intuition validation software & hardware architectures of an intuition-friendly/intuition-positive nature.
One process we are designing in order to achieve our objective of intuition-friendly/intuition-positive architectures:
https://newlean.org/why | a privacy-/secrecy-positive discovery process we call #newlean which seeks to avoid, to the maximum, the need to rewrite specifications and related code by identifying reliably the deeper truths about workplace needs, making profitable SPTs a reality
More on our Founder
Our Founder, Mil Williams, has an MA in International Criminal Justice from a UK university and a considerable lived-experience in the matters under discussion, particularly in the context of a longitudinal tech-driven gaslighting which a PhD proposal of his from 2018 calls Neo-terrorism on the Individual (NoI).
He is therefore particularly interested in the impact of cognitive and hybrid warfare on democratic citizens in their own lives as well as a wider collective, alongside the increasingly endangered capacity (or lack of the same) of nation-states in the West and similar to properly nurture and expand the concepts of what those of us in this geopolitical space would like democracy to deliver more widely and more reliably.
He has also been a teacher, a business facilitator & trainer, and worked on neurodiversity and related communication fields. He therefore understands the disruptive and creative power of the human brain to transform both itself and the world around, when given the right space and tools.
There are a multitude of online whitepapers on all the above which he has written. Please contact him on positive@secrecy.plus for more information, or go to his LinkedIn account and send him a direct message: