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slug: mwbench-zorblax
author: "ZorblaxCorp (MWBench synthetic)"
url: https://memory.wiki/hub/mwbench-zorblax
concept_count: 40
updated: 2026-06-06T02:01:31.098Z
source: "Memory.Wiki"
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# ZorblaxCorp (MWBench synthetic)'s knowledge — concept digest

> Synthetic test hub for cross-AI eval. All facts here are fictional and not in any AI training data. Used to verify Memory.Wiki cross-AI accuracy on truly unseen content.

_40 concepts extracted across this hub. Each entry links to the supporting documents — fetch any of them as `https://memory.wiki/raw/<id>?compact=1` for the dense full text._

## Concepts

### CipherPlate
*entity • weight 50 • 5 docs*

> ZorblaxCorp's core product—a drop-in cryptography layer that abstracts post-quantum algorithm selection and deployment for compliance-bound organizations.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes
- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release
- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`
- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

_Related:_ implements → **Sidecar architecture** · implemented as → **Layered architecture** · requires careful management → **API migration** · solves adoption of → **Post-quantum cryptography** · implements routing across → **NIST Round 4 standards**

### ZorblaxCorp
*entity • weight 37 • 6 docs*

> The company being defined, founded to commercialize post-quantum cryptography for regulated industries through an abstracted service layer.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR
- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years
- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291
- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes
- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`

_Related:_ led by → **Talia Renford** · primary workload metric → **Cryptographic operations** · technical lead → **Yuki Aralakshmi** · specializes in → **Post-quantum cryptography** · offers product → **CipherPlate**

### Post-quantum cryptography
*concept • weight 33 • 5 docs*

> The central technical problem this document addresses: replacing classical encryption (RSA/ECC) with quantum-resistant algorithms before quantum computers render them obsolete.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release
- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years
- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`
- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291
- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

_Related:_ includes → **FALCON-1024** · includes → **ML-KEM-1024**

### Sovereign tier
*entity • weight 22 • 3 docs*

> Premium tier with unlimited operations, custom threat models, and on-premise audit capabilities for highest-security customers.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR
- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release
- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15

_Related:_ drives financial dependency → **Customer concentration risk** · creates → **Customer concentration risk** · includes workload → **Code signing** · deployment model for → **CipherPlate** · strengthens path to → **Federal certification**

### Talia Renford
*entity • weight 12 • 2 docs*

> CEO with deep post-quantum cryptography expertise from CipherSafe and NIST participation, lending credibility to the company's technical direction.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years
- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

_Related:_ expert in → **Post-quantum cryptography**

### Builder tier
*entity • weight 10 • 2 docs*

> Mid-market offering at $79/month targeting commodity and nation-state passive threats with email support.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### Team tier
*entity • weight 10 • 2 docs*

> Enterprise tier at $499/month covering all threat models with enhanced SLA and quarterly reviews.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

_Related:_ early access requests for → **CipherPlate 4.0**

### Sidecar architecture
*concept • weight 9 • 1 doc*

> Defines how CipherPlate operates as a local companion service using gRPC for cryptographic operations.

- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`

_Related:_ enables → **Post-quantum cryptography**

### Key custody
*concept • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> Manages key material lifecycle across local, Vault, and HSM storage options with plaintext isolation.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

### Federal certification
*concept • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> FedRAMP Moderate and CSfC certification paths are explicit 2028 H1 goals that shape product architecture and compliance roadmap.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release

### Yuki Aralakshmi
*entity • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> CTO and co-founder bringing distributed systems expertise from Stripe and published research in service mesh routing.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years

_Related:_ oversees → **Sidecar runtime** · oversees → **Algorithm engineering**

### Series A funding
*concept • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> Target close of $14M-$18M in Q4 2027 is a key milestone financing product expansion and headcount growth.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release

### NIST Round 4 standards
*concept • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> The finalized post-quantum algorithms (FALCON, SPHINCS+, ML-KEM) that motivate CipherPlate's existence and determine its algorithm coverage.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

### Policy resolver
*concept • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> Central decision engine that interprets policy.yaml to determine algorithm, audit verbosity, and rate limits.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

_Related:_ selects → **Post-quantum algorithms**

### Compliance-bound industries
*tag • weight 8 • 1 doc*

> The target market segments (healthcare, finance, defense supply chain) that face regulatory pressure to migrate away from broken cryptography.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

### ARR run rate
*concept • weight 7 • 1 doc*

> ~$632,000 annualized revenue as of March 2027 demonstrates product-market traction and revenue sustainability metrics.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15

### Customer concentration risk
*concept • weight 7 • 1 doc*

> Top 3 Sovereign customers represent 87.1% of ARR, creating significant revenue dependency.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### Threat model coverage
*concept • weight 7 • 1 doc*

> Tier differentiation basis covering commodity, nation-state passive, and additional advanced threats to segment customer risk profiles.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15

_Related:_ differentiates → **Sovereign tier** · differentiates → **Builder tier** · includes nation-state → **Builder tier** · covers all models → **Team tier** · differentiates → **Team tier**

### gRPC envelope layer
*concept • weight 7 • 1 doc*

> Entry point for client requests that validates policy and dispatches with request ID tracking.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

_Related:_ dispatches to → **Policy resolver**

### Audit sink
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Writes structured operation logs to file, S3, or Splunk with configurable fsync behavior per tier.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

### Code signing
*tag • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Primary workload for Customer A securing satellite firmware images in US defense context.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

_Related:_ specific operation type → **Cryptographic operations**

### TLS session-key encapsulation
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Dominant Team-tier use case representing 43% of operations, driving demand for unified /v2/operation endpoint.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

_Related:_ drives demand for → **CipherPlate 4.0** · motivates feature development → **CipherPlate 4.0**

### CipherPlate 4.0
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Upcoming feature release with unified envelope API that 4 Team-tier customers are requesting for early access.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### Post-quantum readiness
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Regulatory compliance driver for Customer B following 2026 ECB internal mandate.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

_Related:_ regulatory adoption driver → **Sovereign tier**

### Diego Marsetti
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> VP Engineering with edge infrastructure leadership experience from Cloudflare.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years

### Sidecar runtime
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Engineering focus area with dedicated 3-person team responsible for core infrastructure component.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years

### Algorithm engineering
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Specialized team of 2 engineers focused on cryptographic algorithm implementation and optimization.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years

### PolicyKit
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Declarative migration tool enabling RSA to FALCON transition is a key customer enabler for measured cryptographic agility.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release

_Related:_ supports migration to → **CipherPlate** · facilitates migration to → **Post-quantum cryptography**

### Customer base composition
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> 137 paying customers distributed across tiers (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) with defense/government concentration in largest contracts.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15

_Related:_ generates → **ARR run rate** · drives revenue → **ARR run rate**

### FALCON-1024
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Post-quantum signature algorithm for code signing and supply chain use; 8.3 ms median latency.

- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`

### ML-KEM-1024
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> Post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism for session key exchange with sub-millisecond performance.

- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`

### Cryptography Review Board
*entity • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> External advisory board providing specialized expertise in post-quantum signatures, lattice-based systems, and NSA perspective.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years

_Related:_ advises on → **Post-quantum cryptography**

### Threat model assessment
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> ZorblaxCorp's commitment to co-sign written threat assessments with each deployment, aligning algorithm selection to customer-specific security requirements.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

### Latency performance
*concept • weight 6 • 1 doc*

> A key technical constraint: CipherPlate commits to ≤14 ms p99 overhead per signature operation to remain viable as a production sidecar service.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291

### Layered architecture
*concept • weight 5 • 1 doc*

> Five-layer design separating gRPC, policy, algorithm, key custody, and audit concerns is the structural backbone of CipherPlate.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

_Related:_ comprises → **Key custody** · comprises → **Audit sink** · comprises → **Post-quantum algorithms** · comprises → **Policy resolver** · comprises → **gRPC envelope layer**

### Patient record signatures
*tag • weight 4 • 1 doc*

> Healthcare consortium workload for Customer C involving signature chains on sensitive medical data.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### Post-quantum algorithms
*concept • weight 4 • 1 doc*

> Support for FALCON, SPHINCS+, and ML-KEM via liboqs bindings is a core cryptographic capability CipherPlate provides.

- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes

### Cryptographic operations
*concept • weight 4 • 1 doc*

> Central workload metric across all customer tiers; primary unit of service consumption at 4.1B monthly operations.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### Annual recurring revenue
*tag • weight 4 • 1 doc*

> Key business metric tracked across all tiers; $550.5K from Sovereigns, $228K from Teams, $91K from Builders.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR

### API migration
*concept • weight 4 • 1 doc*

> Critical execution challenge managing 9-month transition from v1 to v2 endpoint structure while maintaining customer adoption.

- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release

## Concept relations
_20 highest-weight edges between the top concepts._

- **ZorblaxCorp** led by **Talia Renford**
- **CipherPlate** implements **Sidecar architecture**
- **Talia Renford** expert in **Post-quantum cryptography**
- **CipherPlate** implemented as **Layered architecture**
- **ZorblaxCorp** primary workload metric **Cryptographic operations**
- **Sovereign tier** drives financial dependency **Customer concentration risk**
- **CipherPlate** requires careful management **API migration**
- **ZorblaxCorp** technical lead **Yuki Aralakshmi**
- **ZorblaxCorp** specializes in **Post-quantum cryptography**
- **ZorblaxCorp** offers product **CipherPlate**
- **CipherPlate** solves adoption of **Post-quantum cryptography**
- **CipherPlate** implements routing across **NIST Round 4 standards**
- **ZorblaxCorp** serves as customer base **Compliance-bound industries**
- **CipherPlate** composed of **gRPC envelope layer**
- **gRPC envelope layer** dispatches to **Policy resolver**
- **ZorblaxCorp** premium segment for **Sovereign tier**
- **ZorblaxCorp** mid-market deployment to **Team tier**
- **Sovereign tier** creates **Customer concentration risk**
- **Team tier** early access requests for **CipherPlate 4.0**
- **ZorblaxCorp** led by **Yuki Aralakshmi**

## All documents
_7 public documents, ordered by recency. Each entry includes a one-paragraph gist for quick scanning. Fetch any as `https://memory.wiki/raw/<id>?compact=1` for the full body._
- [CipherPlate — Internal architecture](https://memory.wiki/zx-architecture)
  Implementation language: Rust 1.78 (locked in CI) · C FFI dependency: liboqs 0.11.0 · gRPC stack: tonic 0.12.x · Linter: clippy at `warn(clippy::pedantic)`; CI fails on warning · Test suite: 1,847 tests, 94.3% line coverage as of 3.4.1 release · Median CI pipeline duration: 18 minutes
  _sections:_ Layered design: 1. gRPC envelope layer (Rust, tonic 0.12.x). Receives client requests, validates against the policy file, attaches a request ID, and dispatches. | Crash and recovery: The sidecar runs with systemd's Restart=always on Linux; equivalents documented for other init systems.; Inflight operations are NOT replayed on restart — clients are expected to retry with the same request ID and CipherPlate dedupes.; The audit log is fsync'd per record on the Sovereign tier; per second on the lower tiers (configurable). | …
- [ZorblaxCorp — Customer notes](https://memory.wiki/zx-customers)
  3 Sovereign customers contributing total ARR of $550,500 · 38 Team customers, median ARR ~$5,988 · 96 Builder customers, median ARR ~$948 · Total monthly operations across all customers: ~4.1 billion · Customer concentration: top 3 customers are 87.1% of ARR
  _sections:_ Customer A (Sovereign tier, US defense subcontractor): Deployed 2027-02-04, single region (us-east-1 equivalent on private cloud); 312 million operations / month; Workload: code signing for satellite firmware images; Annual contract value: $267,000; Primary contact: VP of Embedded Security (cleared) | Customer B (Sovereign tier, EU central bank): Deployed 2027-02-21, two regions (eu-central-1, eu-west-3 equivalents); 88 million operations / month; Workload: cross-bank settlement message signatures; Annual contract value: $194,000; Regulatory driver: ECB internal mandate post-quantum readiness review 2026 | …
- [ZorblaxCorp — Roadmap 2027-2028](https://memory.wiki/zx-roadmap)
  Series A target close date: 2027-12-15 · Series A target range: $14M-$18M · FedRAMP Moderate certification target: 2028 Q3 · CSfC certification track activation: 2028 Q2 · Planned headcount at end of 2028: 30 · CipherPlate 4.0 API migration window: 9 months from release
  _sections:_ 2027 Q2 (Apr-Jun): CipherPlate 3.5 — gRPC streaming for batch signature flows. Target customers: code-signing CI pipelines processing >1k artifacts/build.; PolicyKit — declarative policy migration tool. Lets customers move from RSA → FALCON in a measured rollout.; Sovereign tier launch — formal SLA, dedicated TAM, on-prem audit. Currently soft-launched with 3 design partners. | …
- [ZorblaxCorp — Team](https://memory.wiki/zx-team)
  Total headcount as of 2027-03-12: 11 (3 leadership + 7 engineers + 1 SRE) · Engineering rotation: 7 engineers + 1 SRE on a 6-week on-call cadence · Equity reserved for employee pool: 14.7% (post-seed) · Average tenure of co-founders' prior employers: 4.8 years
  _sections:_ Leadership: Talia Renford — CEO & co-founder. Previously cryptography lead at CipherSafe (acquired by Salesforce 2024); NIST PQC working group observer 2022-2025. MSc in cr; Yuki Aralakshmi — CTO & co-founder. Previously distributed-systems engineer at Stripe (2018-2024). Author of Probabilistic Service Mesh Routing (USENIX ATC 2023; Diego Marsetti — VP Engineering. Previously engineering manager at Cloudflare Edge (2019-2026). | Cryptography Review Board (external): Petra Wismer (Chair) — Princeton, post-quantum signature schemes; Reginald Apothio — Tsinghua University, lattice-based KEM analysis; Saskia Yelchin — independent, formerly NSA/CSS (retired 2023) | …
- [ZorblaxCorp — Pricing](https://memory.wiki/zx-pricing)
  Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign) · Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA) · Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month · ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
  _sections:_ Tiers: | Tier | Price (USD) | Operations/month | Threat model | Support | | Overage: Operations over the included quota are billed at $0.000028 per operation for Builder and Team. Sovereign customers contractually negotiate overage. | Discounts: 18% off annual prepayment; 30% off for academic / non-profit (requires letter); 41% off for ZorblaxCorp design partners (cap 12 customers, currently 7 of 12 filled) | Facts: Current paying customers as of 2027-03-15: 137 (96 Builder, 38 Team, 3 Sovereign); Largest single contract: $267,000 ARR (a Tier-1 US defense subcontractor whose name is under NDA); Average revenue per paying customer (ARPC): $384/month; ARR run rate: ~$632,000 at 2027-03-15
- [CipherPlate v3.4.1 — Product](https://memory.wiki/zx-product)
  Current GA version: 3.4.1 (released 2027-03-09) · Default port: 4711 (configurable) · Binary size: 41 MB stripped, 116 MB with debug symbols · License: source-available under the ZorblaxCorp Cryptographic Source License (ZCSL) v1.2 · Audit log default destination: `/var/log/cipherplate/audit.jsonl`
  _sections:_ What it does: CipherPlate runs as a local sidecar (Docker, Podman, or raw binary) next to your application. Apps send cryptographic operations over a gRPC envelope; CipherPla | Algorithm matrix: | Algorithm | Use case | Mode | Status | | Performance envelope: Measured on Tier-3 reference hardware (8 vCPU, 16 GiB, Linux 6.10, x8664):; FALCON-1024 signature: 8.3 ms median, 13.7 ms p99; ML-KEM-1024 encapsulation: 0.41 ms median, 0.78 ms p99; SPHINCS+ signature: 192 ms median, 311 ms p99 (acknowledged tradeoff; reserved for archival) | …
- [ZorblaxCorp — Vision](https://memory.wiki/zx-vision)
  Founded 2027-01-08 in Boulder, Colorado · 11 employees as of 2027-03-12 · CEO: Talia Renford (ex-CipherSafe, ex-NIST PQC working group observer) · Founding investors: Quantilever Capital ($4.2M seed), Hawthorne Defense Ventures ($1.8M seed) · Headquarters: 1740 Pearl Street, Suite 410, Boulder, CO 80302 · Tax ID (EIN): 88-3147291
  _sections:_ Why ZorblaxCorp exists: The NIST Round 4 finalization of post-quantum standards (FALCON, SPHINCS+, ML-KEM) leaves engineering teams with a question they don't want to answer themselves | Concrete commitments: Algorithm coverage: FALCON-1024, SPHINCS+ SHAKE-256, ML-KEM-1024, plus classical RSA-4096 and ECDSA-P521 for transition periods.; Latency budget: ≤ 14 ms p99 added latency on a single signature operation on Tier-3 hardware (8 vCPU, 16 GiB).; Customer commitment: every CipherPlate deployment ships with a written threat-model assessment co-signed by ZorblaxCorp's cryptography review board. | …

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