route.fastAbout · AOvidi Ltd
Fighting AI with AI.
AOvidi Ltd builds route.fast — an AI-native router that lets networks defend themselves. A small Welsh company taking on a problem usually left to the giants: making the Internet's defences autonomous, coordinated and explainable.
Why we exist
Attacks now move at machine speed. Defence has to as well.
Static keys, signature lists and manual playbooks were built for a slower Internet. They can't keep pace with adversaries that probe, adapt and coordinate using AI — and they leave the hardest question unanswered: why did the network just do that?
route.fast takes a different stance. Each router carries an on-device AI brain, authenticates intent rather than identity through the LIP-4D protocol, and coordinates with its peers as a swarm. Every action is bounded, reversible, and explained in plain language — so autonomy never costs accountability.
The company
AOvidi Ltd
AOvidi Ltd is a UK company based in Wales, and the originator of the LIP-4D intent protocol. We build route.fast across two tracks: an open-source Community Edition for the wider ecosystem, and an Enterprise / Defence Edition for sovereign, mission-critical networks.
Our work draws on more than three decades of cybersecurity and cloud-infrastructure experience — including UK nuclear-research collaborations and ethical-AI validation projects — and our Defence-grade pathway is aligned with UK Defence innovation objectives.
We keep our core open so anyone can run, inspect and extend it — and reserve the Enterprise / Defence Edition for the regulated, sovereign deployments where that assurance is required.
The founder
The person behind route.fast.
Founder · AOvidi Ltd
Angelo
Angelo has spent more than three decades in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure, with work spanning UK nuclear-research collaborations and ethical-AI validation projects. Convinced that the next era of attacks would be driven by AI — and that static keys and manual playbooks could never answer them — he created the LIP-4D intent protocol and founded AOvidi to build route.fast: a router that reasons, coordinates and explains itself.
He started AOvidi to prove a point: that autonomous defence can be powerful and fully accountable at the same time — and to put that capability within reach of the operators who need it, not only the giants who can afford it.
How we think about it
The principles behind the product.
AI-native
On-device reasoning over telemetry, proposing mitigations as structured, reviewable decisions.
Intent over identity
LIP-4D authorises purpose, context and reason — not standing secrets that leak and sprawl.
Swarm, not silos
Routers corroborate and reach quorum together, so one node's blind spot isn't the network's.
Explainable by design
Every action carries its rationale and an evidence digest. Audits start with answers, not guesses.
Metadata, not payloads
The AI reasons over signals, never packet contents. Forwarding stays in the kernel/ASIC.
Standards & no lock-in
FlowSpec, BGP, ACLs and an open-source core. Interoperable by default, inspectable by anyone.
Open by default
One mission, two editions.
Open innovation
The open-source core router, LIP-4D engine and distributed swarm — for ISPs, research labs and ethical hackers.
Sovereign assurance
Central LIP-4D services, multi-tenant governance and compliance tooling for regulated and national-infrastructure networks.
Get in touch
Building the Internet's immune system.
Want to pilot route.fast, back the open-core campaign, or talk shop about autonomous defence? We'd love to hear from you.