Friday the 13th. How fortunate.
November is proving productive.
Our final tax-record correction is confirmed, the technical team is preparing to assemble, and research, manufacturing and commercial preparations are advancing.
Following last week's Level Check, we're bringing our research, industrial development and international commercial activities into coordinated operating structures.
Much is happening behind the scenes. Next week should make more of it visible.
Last week, buckle up. This week, brace.
Structure
An important milestone: the final tax-record correction has been confirmed. The remaining steps concern formal implementation, corresponding corporate records and operational activation.
The underlying arrangements are established, and we're coordinating the next steps with the relevant parties. This brings a long administrative chapter to its conclusion and allows us to concentrate on what the structure is intended to enable. Our November programme connects technical onboarding, academic research, manufacturing and commercial preparation into one operating framework.
The priority now is execution across those workstreams, with formal milestones reflected as they become effective.
The foundations are in place. Now we build.
Product
Mk-X continues advancing towards reproducible experimental validation and its planned 2027 pilot phase.
Following delivery of our initial technical research package to Robert Gordon University, we're aligning next steps next week.
The initial focus is practical: controlled mechanical-to-electrical energy harvesting, storage and load testing, experimental controls, data retention and materials comparison.
Bench protocol → Harvesting & storage → Repeatability → comparison
The resulting evidence will inform decisions on ZnO growth, piezoelectric material scaling, electronic integration, form factors and manufacturability.
Our programme with the Manufacturing Technology Centre is approaching mobilisation. November remains the preferred commencement, subject to final requirements, with 1 December as a practical alternative if needed. We've also refreshed our Iterations page, aligning the current state of development with the roadmap towards our 2027 pilot applications.
The pathway towards deployment is becoming more precise.
Commercial
Our commercial direction is broadening as we're preparing an international sales-cooperation framework to bring established energy-storage systems into KCM's offering, targeting an initial market entry in early 2027. The proposed rollout would expand progressively throughout the year, subject to final agreements, product readiness and the necessary commercial arrangements.
Our Shanghai-linked data-centre introductions remain active, while an additional internal business case is exploring data-centre hardware reuse, including its technical compatibility and commercial feasibility.
These are distinct opportunities to bring recycling and efficiency into the foreground, but they support a complementary strategy: establish relationships and develop channels alongside the scaling of our proprietary production. Different products. One industrial direction.
R&D Focus
Our research organisation is entering its next stage.
Our first full AI/software-team kickoff, scheduled for Monday, is part of our foundations for 2027. The initial objective is to establish routines, , documentation standards and the tools required for development.
Following our first Scrum planning discussions, we're building a common workflow across research, experimental evidence, AI-supported information management and engineering.
Our developing framework connects:
Materials research and experimental validation
Technical documentation and traceability
AI-supported knowledge and evidence management
Engineering analysis and decision-making
Rather than creating separate islands of expertise, we preserve and extend knowledge across disciplines. Combined with our academic track record and manufacturing programme, this gives KCM an increasingly coherent research and engineering structure. The emphasis remains reproducibility, traceability and practical usefulness.
Good research should make the next experiment easier.
Innovation
Last week's UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2026 offered valuable perspective on the wider innovation landscape.
Its programme and exhibitor community, spanning quantum sensing, photonics, advanced materials, fabrication and technical standards, illustrated the growing industrial infrastructure surrounding emerging technologies. While our own development focuses on piezoelectric materials rather than quantum technologies per se, many underlying engineering challenges are familiar. The wider ecosystem is equally active.
Through Tech Nation, the World Economic Forum, Innovate UK Business Connect, Konfer and our international networks, we're following opportunities across research, investment, industrial manufacturing and technology deployment.
The upcoming programme includes:
18 November — Tech Nation: A further invitation into the founder and investor ecosystem through the Padel Open, following the recent Beyond Borders programme focused on growth, capital and international expansion.
18–20 November — World Economic Forum: Strategic Intelligence Outlook 2026, exploring resilience, global dependencies, strategic foresight and The Human Edge in an age of technological disruption.
25 November — Horizon Europe / EIC: Information sessions covering the 2027 European Innovation Council programme, including advanced materials for resilient energy grids, reliable AI and quantum energetics.
25 November–2 December — Battery Innovation Programme: Investor-partnership and collaborative R&D opportunities supporting battery technologies, manufacturing and commercialisation.
26 November — National Materials Innovation Programme: Digital Materials Sandpit expression-of-interest deadline, exploring digital approaches to accelerating materials innovation.
16 December — UK–India SME Trade & Investment Reception: An international business opportunity scheduled at the UK Parliament.
19 January 2027 — National Materials Innovation Programme: Investor-partnership funding deadline for eligible advanced-materials projects.
2 February 2027 — Innovate UK Business Connect: Advanced Manufacturing Showcase, Manchester.
9 March 2027 — Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain Initiative: A further industry gathering focused on manufacturing scale-up, infrastructure and supply-chain development.
Additional opportunities circulating include battery innovation feasibility studies, infrastructure challenges and cross-disciplinary AI applications.
We're evaluating these against our technical priorities, commercial roadmap and available development capacity.
The interesting part is not simply the number of invitations or programmes. It's their growing overlap with the capabilities we're developing.
KCM intends to be useful at all intersections.
Operations
Status: Reviewing
Our immediate focus is technical activation, manufacturing coordination and the infrastructure necessary to support a growing organisation.
We're also improving how we communicate our work to industrial audiences, including product documentation, technical presentations and potential visual explanations of our technologies.
For the emerging offering, supplier coordination, product compliance, documentation and sales processes form part of commercial preparation.
Our longer-term independent computing and network architecture remains planned for 2027, supporting a more integrated research and engineering environment. The walls hold. 🛡️
We aim to enter December with the major structural work behind us and a functioning research operation ahead. Ops might even get a holiday.
Outlook
Our direction for the remainder of 2026 is clear.
The next stage combines technical-team activation, RGU research alignment, manufacturing mobilisation and industrial battery sales preparation.
Throughout 2027, we intend to advance Mk-X through validation, expand complementary commercial activities and progressively develop the manufacturing capabilities required for proprietary materials production.
This broader approach supports our revised longer-range revenue milestone of 2028, brought forward from 2029, subject to technical development, commercial execution and manufacturing readiness.
The immediate roadmap is taking shape:
Next week: Transfers, Kickoff, RGU technical alignment, remaining structural implementation and the next manufacturing decision.
Remainder of November: Coordinated engineering workstreams, project activation and commercial preparation.
December: Operational consolidation, research planning and preparation for the next commercial stage.
2027: Industrial sales expansion, Mk-X pilots, manufacturing progression and expanded technical capabilities.
We approach the end of 2026 with broader opportunities, a more coordinated technical organisation and an increasingly defined route towards commercialisation. Now we convert preparation into results.
For our research partners: defined work packages. For our team: a functioning development environment. For our industrial counterparts: practical milestones. And for our stakeholders: measurable progression.
Next week, we'll assess the impact.
Energy. Time. The Future.
— The KCM Team 🚀
