Rocky Shocky
This week’s update is short: the consolidation phase is complete, and the machinery is running. We spent months getting the sequence right. Now we can move through it.
Structure
For much of this year, KCM’s administrative setup demanded more attention than we wanted. The work mattered, but it was not the goal. Our accounts are being submitted. We expect the Companies House record to update, subject to processing. Submission and public visibility are separate steps. We’ll report each when it happens.
The planned transfers should begin early next week. We’ll confirm completion alongside the corporate milestones, formalising the people and research capacity. TLDR: Things are looking up from West to East on our individual globe.
Product
The roadmap priorities are unchanged: core mechanical and materials integration, followed by rectification and reference circuitry, connectors, power conditioning and repeatable validation.
Our piezoelectric platform is designed to harvest energy already present in real environments. Potential applications remain distributed sensing, remote monitoring, industrial machinery and autonomous systems. The next task is to make the architecture buildable, testable and repeatable. The noteworthy development on this crucial front: more testing and pilots are underway.
WP1 Mobilisation → Concepting & Design → Validation → 2027 Pilot
Our next Iterations update is planned for the end of October. We want it to show real progress, not just another week passing.
R&D Focus
Our research now spans materials, engineering information and practical applications.
At Robert Gordon University (RGU), we’re continuing preparations that provide a basis for confidential discussions on piezoelectric materials, battery research and experimentation facilitated through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, grants and commercialisation are possible routes, but we’ll scope the work first.
In Birmingham, the joint Industry Track paper for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) is progressing towards submission. This strengthens KCM’s internal research capability: retaining what we learn, connecting evidence and making defensible decisions.
Meanwhile, we are preparing an exploratory exchange with multiple expert companies on potential piezo-module applications. The immediate questions are technological maturity, intellectual property, demonstrators and application fit.
Across these strands, the approach is consistent: identify the real question, test the case and follow the evidence.
Ecosystem
Upcoming invitations not mentioned in the last Blog entry, include Beyond Borders, focused on raising, scaling and going global; Scaling Responsibly in the AI Era with Sage on 29 October; Barclays Eagle Labs’ Entrepreneurs Festival; the World Economic Forum’s discussion on the future of labour in an AI-driven economy; the Festival of Innovation; and White & Private Label’s sourcing event.
Looking further ahead, the Innovate UK Business Connect Advanced Manufacturing Showcase takes place in Manchester on 2 February 2027.
We’ll be selective. An invitation is a conversation, not a commercial result. We want people who challenge the technical case, partners who help make it real, and opportunities that lead beyond the meeting.
The important question is what we can build together.
Operations
One practical note for this weekend: with AI-enabled abuse and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) threats increasing, we’re hardening our website security.
The KCM website may be temporarily unavailable on 24–25 October. If it goes offline, we expect it back early next week. But most likely, our defenses hold and you may continue browsing our page without ever noticing bots hitting our walls.
This is routine security work. Protecting our communications and infrastructure is part of operating an R&D company properly. This includes knowing that this week, we got more digital traction in Hong Kong than in Dublin.
Outlook
Not everything is finished. Filings still need to appear publicly, transfers need to clear, mobilisation needs to happen, and research and engineering still need to deliver in parallel. But the consolidation phase is complete, and execution is now the focus.
We’re not interested in making the loudest claims. We intend to become difficult to dismiss. That takes technology that works, evidence that holds up, people who deliver, and an organisation that can do it again without repeating earlier missteps. Those are our standards. The next phase is where we demonstrate them.
To everyone who helped us get here, challenged us, contributed, or stayed patient while we put the structure in place: thank you.
We know what remains. Now we get on with it.
Energy. Time. The Future.
— The KCM Team 🚀
