The Telegraph · Jun 2026
Telegraph coverage of Cosine and Lumen Sovereign, highlighting the company’s push toward sovereign UK AI infrastructure and its positioning as an alternative to restricted US options.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Cosine (Buildt AI Limited) is a London-based, YC-backed AI software company building Lumen/Genie, an autonomous coding agent and model system for production software engineering. Its product spans CLI, desktop, cloud, and enterprise air-gapped deployments, with an explicit emphasis on maintainable code, legacy systems, and sovereign/security-sensitive use cases.
Primary product
Lumen / Genie autonomous AI coding agent for production software engineering
Founded
2022
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Team size
20-30
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI software engineering agent / generative AI software
Offices
Business model
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & COO
Head of Engineering
Head of Marketing
Head of Growth
Ops Lead
Cosine describes itself as in-office by design and values direct communication, ownership, high standards, and practical progress over theatre. The company also emphasizes ambitious work, maintainability, collaboration, and wellbeing.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Publicly stated compensation signals include competitive monthly salaries, eligible share options, and a workplace pension via NEST. No public salary bands were found.
Benefits
Pricing
Subscription pricing with task/credit allowances for individuals and teams, plus custom enterprise pricing for VPC/on-prem/private deployments.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
45.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
The Telegraph · Jun 2026
Telegraph coverage of Cosine and Lumen Sovereign, highlighting the company’s push toward sovereign UK AI infrastructure and its positioning as an alternative to restricted US options.
City A.M. · Jun 2026
Reports the industry coalition behind Lumen Sovereign and the blue-chip backing from major UK institutions, alongside the wider sovereign compute push.
Innovation News Network · Jun 2026
Covers the plan to train Lumen Sovereign on Isambard-AI under the UK government’s sovereign AI programme, with late-2026 deployment targeted.
UK Government · Apr 2026
Official government announcement naming Cosine among the first recipients of Sovereign AI support and compute access.
Tech.eu · Aug 2024
Covers Cosine’s seed round and identifies the main backers, including UpHonest Capital and Soma Capital.