Use Cases
Provable power governance for sovereign & public-sector AI
Sovereign & Public-Sector AI
National compute that is accountable, auditable, and verifiable
National AI infrastructure carries an obligation the commercial world rarely faces: every power action must be accountable to oversight bodies, procurement-auditable, and independently verifiable — frequently on-prem or air-gapped, under strict policy and chain-of-custody requirements. Spark-XC doesn't replace your sovereign stack — it sits above NVIDIA Mission Control, DCGM, Slurm, Kubernetes, Run:ai, DCIM, and BMS as a governance layer. Mission Control executes. Spark-XC validates.
Spark-XC encodes national and agency power policy in its policy and approval gate, then commits a tamper-evident Power Event Record for every governed action — approved, safe, auditable, financially real, on an append-only SHA-256 chain (ARIV), independently replayable and optionally HMAC-signed with an operator key. Nothing leaves the enclave: Spark-XC runs entirely within your perimeter, so an air-gapped deployment loses none of its provability.
- Sits above Mission Control, DCGM, Slurm, Kubernetes, Run:ai, DCIM, and BMS — no rip-and-replace
- Policy and approval gate encodes national / agency authority over power actions
- Every action is a Power Event Record — independently verifiable, no need to trust the operator
- Runs on-prem or air-gapped with no external data egress
- Optional HMAC signing with an operator key for chain-of-custody integrity
11:42:07 [P4] Power-limit request 700W → 850W on NODE_ALPHA
11:42:07 [P4] Evaluating against agency policy NATL-AI-PWR-2026
11:42:07 [P4] Ceiling 800W · approval gate: program authority required
11:42:08 [P4] Authorized · operator override #A-2291 on record
11:42:08 [P1] Applied 850W · readback 850W · delta 0W
11:42:08 [P5] seq 81044 · prev_hash 3c9a…f7d1
11:42:08 [P5] entry_hmac b6e2…04af · HMAC-signed
11:42:08 [OK] PER committed · independently verifiable · no egress
Why It Matters
Power authority that proves itself
100%
Power actions independently verifiable
Air-gapped
On-prem deployment, no data egress
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Policy-encoded validation paths
HMAC
Optional signed, tamper-evident PER
Sovereign Scenarios
Real obligations, governed and proven
Scenario · Procurement & Oversight
Procurement audit of a national compute program
An oversight body questions whether power actions across a national AI cluster stayed within the procurement-mandated envelope. Rather than reconstructing the answer from fragmented operator logs, auditors replay the tamper-evident Power Event Record chain for the period in question — every policy evaluation, applied action, and readback, in sequence, independently verifiable against the SHA-256 chain.
Audit answered by replaying PERs. No reliance on operator assertions.
Scenario · Air-Gapped Deployment
Sovereign cluster with no external connectivity
A defense-research data center runs fully air-gapped, with strict prohibitions on data leaving the enclave. Spark-XC deploys above the existing stack inside the perimeter, encoding agency power policy locally and committing every Power Event Record to the on-prem chain. No telemetry, evidence, or metadata is ever transmitted out.
Full governance and provability with zero external data egress.
Scenario · Incident Accountability
Power incident on classified infrastructure
A power anomaly disrupts a sovereign training run, and an inquiry demands a complete, defensible account of what happened. The Power Event Record chain provides a tamper-evident timeline — what was requested, what authority applied, what the hardware confirmed, and the exact sequence — replayable and HMAC-verifiable, leaving no gap for dispute.
Complete tamper-evident timeline, independently replayable for the inquiry.
Scenario · Cross-Agency Reporting
Coalition program with shared accountability
A multi-agency or coalition AI program needs each partner to report power governance against one trusted account. Because every Power Event Record is independently verifiable, each party can confirm the chain without trusting the others' operators — producing consistent cross-agency reporting from a single verifiable source of truth.
One verifiable account, reportable across every agency and partner.
How Spark-XC Fits Sovereign AI
Provable authority, inside your perimeter
Policy Gate Encodes National Authority
National and agency power policy is expressed in the policy and approval gate — ceilings, approval thresholds, program-authority overrides, and chain-of-custody rules. Power actions are authorized against that encoded authority, not against operator discretion.
Path 4 · Policy & Approval
Independent Verifiability
Every Power Event Record sits on an append-only SHA-256 chain (ARIV). Auditors, regulators, and oversight bodies verify the chain themselves — there is no need to trust the operator's account of what happened.
Path 5 · Evidence Chain
On-Prem / Air-Gapped Friendly
Spark-XC runs entirely within your enclave. No telemetry or evidence is sent out, so an air-gapped or classified deployment retains full governance and provability with zero external data egress.
Sovereign Deployment
Optional HMAC Signing
Each Power Event Record can be HMAC-signed with an operator key, binding the entry to a known authority and hardening chain-of-custody for procurement and oversight review.
Path 5 · Evidence Chain
Sits Above the Existing Stack
Spark-XC governs above NVIDIA Mission Control, DCGM, Slurm, Kubernetes, Run:ai, DCIM, and BMS — no rip-and-replace of the sovereign infrastructure already in production.
All Paths
Correlated, Financially Real Records
GPU telemetry, scheduler context, and facility power correlation are committed alongside each action, so every Power Event Record is approved, safe, auditable, and financially real — defensible to any oversight body.
Paths 1 · 2 · 3
Sovereign & Public-Sector AI
Make every national power action provable
Bring a real power action from your sovereign stack and we'll replay its Power Event Record — approved, safe, auditable, financially real, and independently verifiable. We work with government and national AI infrastructure programs to encode agency authority and deploy Spark-XC on-prem or fully air-gapped.