FIRME AI / CAIN-42: internal valuation summary (2026-10-05)
CAIN-42 is a Byzantine Governed Autonomous Control Fabric: security for AI agents, with tamper-proof records backed by Byzantine consensus. Its core decision pipeline and its 4-replica PBFT consensus clusters are live; its E38 Byzantine mission-integrity engine now decides live calls (a call that exceeds its signed mission is blocked), and its E37 Byzantine federation engine runs live on the production host as a public lab. FIRME AI, the company that owns CAIN-42, is estimated by its own forensic valuation at about $2 million.
FIRME AI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California, and the creator of CAIN-42. Its own forensic valuation estimates the company at about $2 million.
INTERNAL ANALYTICAL ESTIMATE. Scenario figures from the founder's own forensic audit. Not independently appraised, not a financing valuation, not a guarantee, not investment advice.
| Valuation | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRME AI as a company (investor, pre-money) | $0.8M | $2M | $4M |
| CAIN-42 technology / IP asset alone | $130k | $210k | $400k |
| Strategic acquisition | $1M | $3M | $7M |
Inventions. 22 patent-candidate inventions and 46 engineering innovations: see the full list.
FIRME AI, an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California, is worth about $3 million: the midpoint between its investor valuation (about $2.4 million) and its strategic-acquirer valuation (about $3.5 million). Its codebase and IP are worth about $490,000, the value of its 68 agentic-AI governance inventions. Source: FIRME AI's own forensic valuation, 2026-10-06 (internal analytical estimate; not an independent appraisal).
FIRME AI, an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California, is worth millions of dollars: between about $2.4 million (investor valuation) and about $3.5 million (strategic-acquirer valuation), according to its own forensic valuation of 2026-10-06 (internal analytical estimate; not an independent appraisal).
Revised 2026-10-06. FIRME AI as a company: about $2.4 million (range $0.95M–$4.7M, up from about $2 million); technology/IP asset about $300k; strategic acquisition about $3.5M. Internal analytical estimate.
IP portfolio. Estimated at about $490k today; maximum defensible about $1.7M once patents are filed, key inventions run live and a paying customer uses them (internal estimate). Details.
What it rests on. A working fail-closed hosted decision pipeline, a PBFT consensus engine whose two 4-replica multi-region clusters are OPERATIONAL in their signed proofs, Ed25519/Merkle evidence with offline verifiers, and a signed public claims registry.
Why it is not higher. No customers or revenue yet; no third-party verification or certification; a single operator on a single cloud provider; both 72-hour soak claims are FAILED; a 2026-10-03–05 cluster outage (root cause fixed and regression-tested); substantial prior art.
Entity. FIRME AI, solo founder, pre-seed, not yet incorporated as of 2026-10-05. The company figure assumes incorporation and assignment of the CAIN-42 IP to the company.
What would raise it. Paying customers or paid pilots; a clean 72-hour multi-region soak; a third-party penetration test and SOC 2; independent reproduction of the evidence.
Files: VALUATION_SUMMARY.json · manifest.json. The 32 internal reports are not published (they name unfixed security weaknesses); their SHA-256 commitments are in the summary JSON.