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 | Window | Status | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Q4 2025 | Complete | Hub live, machine endpoints published, protocol public |
| Phase 2 | Q1–Q2 2026 | Active | Mirror adoption, first publisher integrations |
| Phase 3 | Q3 2026 | Planned | Vertical exemplars in production |
| Phase 4 | Q4 2026 onwards | Planned | Ecosystem growth and governance maturity |
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 a complete end-to-end production implementation in Piea, Phase 3 is the ecosystem shift: from one publisher demonstrating the architecture to multiple organisations adopting it independently. The protocol moves from proved to normal.
Target: Vertical deployments in regulated sectors · first third-party certified publisher · 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).
| Repository | Patent | Layer | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| aiep-reasoning-trace | P221 | Trace | Structured record format for deterministic replay of reasoning sessions |
| aiep-reasoning-lifecycle | P227 | Lifecycle | Full session lifecycle management — including partial completion and cancellation records |
| aiep-governance-policy | P228 | Governance | Machine-readable policy declarations and audit records for regulated deployments |
| aiep-federated | P229 | Federation | Cross-organisational evidence sharing and jointly auditable reasoning |
| aiep-epistemics | P231 | Epistemics | Three-state knowledge model — consensus, outlier, radical outlier — maintained in parallel |
| aiep-proof-engine | P233 | Proof | Formal causal proof records linking conclusions to evidence bases |
| aiep-compute-attestation | P244 | Attestation | Cryptographic proof of computational conditions for regulated deployments |
| aiep-replay-kernel | P245 | Replay | Bit-identical output reproduction from reasoning traces — independently verifiable |
| aiep-dev-tools | P257 | Tooling | Developer utilities: schema validation, evidence trail inspection, conformance harnesses |
Already live (Phase 2):
| Repository | Status | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| @aiep/kernel | Live — frozen | R1–R8 canonical primitives. The load-bearing foundation. |
| aiep-genome-sdk | Live | Python SDK implementing the full protocol constitution |
| aiep-hub-validator | Live | Validates AIEP machine mirror endpoints against canonical schema v2.0.0 |
| aiep-well-known | Live | Generates and validates .well-known/aiep/ manifests for publisher domains |
| aiep-miner | Live | Open-source reference implementation — AIEP applied to hardware control |
| aiep-dissent-engine | HOLD (P126) | Advanced dissent arbitration — releasing after patent publication window |
See also: /piea · /aiep-miner · /explainer · /builders · /certification