Roadmap

AIEP is designed to be adopted in phases. Each phase adds capabilities without invalidating earlier adoption. The protocol must remain usable while the ecosystem grows.

Phase 1 — Q4 2025 — Complete

The first milestone is a clear public Hub that explains the vision, publishes the governance stance, and exposes the machine endpoints under /.well-known/aiep/. This phase makes AIEP discoverable and lets AI systems inspect the protocol from the source itself.

Delivered: Hub live · machine endpoints published · protocol specification public · 9 GB patents filed · 21 open-source repositories published under Apache 2.0

Phase 2 — Q1–Q2 2026 — Active

The second milestone is adoption. Organisations publish Mirror endpoints and knowledge artefacts start to exist in the places where they originate.

Delivered in Phase 2:

• Piea — a complete enterprise AI assistant built on the full AIEP Piea Surface (P116–P128). Implements GENOME R1–R8, Dissent Signal Engine, Replayable Reasoning Chain, Semantic Branch Detection, multimodal ingestion, governed file output, and live evidence audit trail. Piea is the first production system to demonstrate the complete Piea Surface architecture.
• AIEP Miner — an open-source reference implementation of the AIEP protocol applied to autonomous hardware control. Connects to ASIC miners, governs decisions through evidence-bound cycles, writes every action and every suppressed action to an append-only ledger. Demonstrates the Negative Proof record, execution governance gates, and deterministic cycle replay on physical hardware. Source: 13_repos/public/aiep-miner. Apache 2.0.
• Mirror publisher onboarding · builder programme open · schema catalogue stable · 128-spec patent portfolio (P01–P128) · 6 AGI cognitive architecture applications filed 08 April 2026 (P200, P209, P210, P264, P265, P269) · 2 serialisation & encoding applications filed 11 April 2026 (P270, P273) — 26 GB applications confirmed · Gate 1 filing condition MET (14 April 2026) — Piea public release live

Phase 3 — Q3 2026 — Planned

With Phase 2 delivering complete end-to-end reference implementations across Piea (AI knowledge), Forecast (construction intelligence), QARDL (verifiable identity), and AIEP Miner (hardware governance), Phase 3 is the ecosystem shift: from controlled reference implementations to independent third-party adoption. The protocol moves from demonstrated to adopted.

Target: First third-party certified publisher · regulated sector deployments · Piea enterprise programme launch

Phase 4 — Q4 2026 onwards — Planned

Once the publication pattern is demonstrated, the ecosystem can expand. More publishers, more artefacts, more validated schemas. Developers build tools that validate and retrieve artefacts. Institutions and enterprises adopt AIEP for their own domains.

The roadmap remains open because AIEP is open: open use is always permitted. The goal is not to control the web. The goal is to make verifiable knowledge publishing normal.

Extension layer repositories — Phase 3 targets

These open-source repositories implement extension layers above the frozen kernel. Each is independently adoptable. None is required for core AIEP adoption. All are targeted for Phase 3 release (Q3 2026).

Already live (Phase 2):

See also: /piea · /aiep-miner · /explainer · /builders · /certification