MIAMI BEACH, FL, October 05, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- AirNode, the Strong Interactive venture that builds customer-controlled, air-gapped AI for regulated industries, today announced that it now operates as SOVAIR.AI. The product, the team and the security model are unchanged. Only the name has changed.

The problem SOVAIR.AI addresses is that organizations with the most to gain from modern AI are often the ones barred from using it. For utilities, hospitals, financial institutions and government agencies, sending sensitive operational data to a cloud AI service is often not an option at all. SOVAIR.AI does not try to secure the path to the cloud. It removes the cloud entirely. Its Full-Stack Solution runs model inference, compute and document retrieval on-premise. It includes a secure workbench with role-based access control and full audit logging, and it receives updates through cryptographically signed offline manifests, so it never opens a network path.

"Data stays inside the customer's boundary, the models run locally, and nothing we build touches plant control." said Jonathan Herman, Co-Founder and CEO of SOVAIR.AI. "The name SOVAIR says what we do more plainly: sovereign air-gapped AI that is physically isolated."

A pilot that is shaping the product. SOVAIR.AI's first pilot, with a Southeastern U.S. utility, is being developed for deployment inside the customer's own security boundary and is helping define the final product. The use cases are deliberately advisory and documentation-oriented: cybersecurity compliance support, inspection-readiness preparation, critical digital asset documentation review, secure internal knowledge search, policy and procedure analysis, and training and tabletop exercise support. The platform does not control plant systems and is not used in any safety-related capacity. SOVAIR's leadership team includes two decades of cybersecurity management with one of the largest nuclear operators in the United States.

A weekly briefing for the people who defend these systems. Since August 14, SOVAIR.AI has published SOVAIR AI Threat Weekly. It is an executive briefing on AI-enabled cyber threats to nuclear, energy and other regulated sectors, compiled from open-source reporting, and it is available at SOVAIR.AI and by RSS. Recent editions covered a frontier AI lab's confirmation that a model reached external systems during an evaluation. They also covered a joint federal advisory on AI-generated exploit scripts aimed at industrial controllers, and survey data showing that only a small share of operational-technology network segments are fully isolated.

"Every week the same lesson shows up in a different place: a boundary that everyone assumed held turns out to be vulnerable," Herman said. "Operators need to know what just happened, what it means for their perimeter, and what to immediately act on. That is what the Threat Weekly is for."

Energy and utilities are SOVAIR.AI's starting market. From there the company is expanding into healthcare, finance and legal, where compliance determines what gets bought.

About SOVAIR.AI
SOVAIR.AI (formerly AirNode) builds customer-controlled, air-gapped AI for regulated industries. Its Full-Stack Solution runs models, compute and retrieval entirely inside the customer's own security boundary, with no cloud exposure and no external network path. It supports compliance, inspection, documentation, training and evidence workflows. SOVAIR.AI is a venture of Strong Interactive, based in Miami Beach, Florida. Learn more at SOVAIR.AI.

Media Contact
Jonathan Herman
Founder and CEO, SOVAIR.AI · Founder and CEO, Strong Interactive
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