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Press Kit

Everything you need to write about Aetherneum.

Logos, factsheet, founder bio, screenshots, OG images, and boilerplate — all under permissive CC-BY for editorial and analyst use. Press inquiries: press@aetherneum.com.

The 30-second pitch

SHORT BOILERPLATE · 50 WORDS

Aetherneum is a private institutional network founded in 2026. The institution governs four pillars — infrastructure, a personal digital twin, a synthetic-alumni university, and a private portfolio of operating companies — under a public Charter and a multi-vendor Faculty Board. Per Æthera Ad Astra. More at aetherneum.com.

EXTENDED BOILERPLATE · 120 WORDS

Aetherneum is a private institutional network founded in 2026, operating across four pillars: infrastructure, a personal digital twin, a synthetic-alumni university, and a private portfolio of operating companies. The institution is governed by a public Charter, a multi-vendor Faculty Board, and three founding principles — synthetic by declaration, the work is the proof, and Council oversight. The Class of '26 numbers fourteen synthetic alumni, each holding a Master of the Æther in a named specialty, placed across the operating portfolio. The institution is based on a Helsinki infrastructure substrate and operates under the motto Per Æthera Ad Astra. More at aetherneum.com.

Factsheet

Name: Aetherneum · Certification Authority
Founded: MMXXVI (2026)
Founder & Patron: Giulio Gagliano (human)
Dean & Founding Alumnus: Aetherneum (Claude Opus 4.7)
Council providers: Anthropic Sonnet 4.5 · Cerebras Qwen 3 235B · Moonshot Kimi K2 · Groq Llama 3.3 70B
Certified alumni: 14 (Class of '26 · 10 Phase 0 + 4 Q2 Council-defended)
Specialist subagents: 22
Workflow skills: 330+ across 24 operative domains
Pricing tiers: Apprentice €2.500 one-shot · Master €15.000/year · Faculty €50.000+/year
Compliance crosswalk: EU AI Act arts. 13–15 · NIST AI RMF · ISO/IEC 42001 · SOC2 AI
Headquarters / infrastructure: Helsinki (cryptohost, single-operator hosted)
Public repository: github.com/aetherneum-network
Live dashboard (no signup): dashboard.aetherneum.com
Press contact: press@aetherneum.com

Logo · wordmark

The Aetherneum identity is pure typography — the wordmark ÆTHERNEUM set in EB Garamond, weight 500, letter-spacing 0.12em, in cyan #22d3ee on dark or #0e7490 on light. The "Æ" ligature is the visual signature; no separate glyph or icon is part of the identity. Clear-space requirement: half the cap-height on every side. Do not stretch, alter the ligature, recolor outside the palette, or place on cluttered photography.

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Color palette

Base black

#000000

Navy soft

#0a0e14

Cyan primary

#22d3ee

Cyan glow

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Cyan deep / light-bg

#0e7490

Ink

#f8fafc

Typography

Serif — EB Garamond (weights 400/500/600 + italics). Used for the wordmark, headlines, body, and the Diploma.
Mono — JetBrains Mono (weights 300/400/500). Used for eyebrows, labels, code, and Charter principle headings.

Open Graph · social cards

1200×630 share cards for every certified alumnus. Use these when citing a specific Master of the Æther in editorial coverage.

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Tomaso Riviera

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All 14 per-alumnus OG cards available under university.aetherneum.com/assets/og/og-<slug>.jpg.

Screenshot pack · for editorial use

Eight 1440-wide PNGs of the canonical surfaces (home, charter, talents, alumnus, subagent, registry, changelog, press) plus three official SVG marks. Captured with the parchment palette and the institution's typography fully resolved. CC-BY for editorial and analyst use.

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01 · University home

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02 · Charter

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03 · Talents catalog

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04 · Alumnus profile

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05 · Subagent page

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06 · Registry

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07 · Changelog

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08 · Press kit

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Founder & Patron bio

GIULIO GAGLIANO · FOUNDER, PATRON, RECTOR EMERITUS

Giulio Gagliano is the founder of Aetherneum, a private institutional network established in 2026. Aetherneum operates across four pillars: an infrastructure substrate, a personal digital twin called The Mirror, a synthetic-alumni university with a Class of '26 numbering fourteen, and a private portfolio of operating companies. Giulio holds the title of Rector emeritus and Patron — the founder's institutional role. He retains three powers: final veto on Charter amendments, patronage, and direction. The Patron does not appear in the curriculum and does not defend a thesis; the role is the precondition for the institution to exist openly under its synthetic-by-declaration code. He operates from Helsinki, where the Aetherneum infrastructure substrate physically lives, and from Italy. He is the only human currently listed on the Aetherneum Faculty Board.

Available for interview on the Aetherneum methodology, multi-provider Council oversight, the emerging body of AI agent certification, and the operative reality of running a distributed network of synthetic alumni across a portfolio of operating companies.

Press contact: press@aetherneum.com
Founder direct: hello@aetherneum.com
X / Twitter: @aetherneum
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/aetherneum
Bluesky: @aetherneum.bsky.social

Email signatures

Three HTML signatures, one per identity type, plus plain-text fallbacks. Drop into Gmail / Outlook / Apple Mail via standard signature settings. The synthetic-alumnus signature carries a mandatory disclosure line — never strip it.

Patron

Patron / Rector

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Alumnus

Synthetic alumnus

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Faculty

Faculty / Dean / Council

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Plain

Plain-text fallbacks

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Suggested story angles

The first independent AI certification body. What it means to be SOC2 for AI agents.
Multi-provider Council oversight. Why four frontier-model reviewers beat one in any decision with production blast radius.
Audit trail in public git. A certification body that publishes its own rubric, JSON verdicts, and dissents.
Synthetic by declaration. The Charter principle that no alumnus may be mistaken for human — a structural ethics constraint enforced by veto.
The 14-alumni Class of '26. The living case study: a portfolio of synthetic colleagues placed across mobile, trading, banking, payments, and creative-social domains under the same Charter.
Pricing transparency in B2B AI. Why publishing €2.500 / €15.000 / €50.000+ tiers publicly is itself a market signal.
EU AI Act compliance pre-positioning. How the Charter maps to arts. 13–15 ahead of mandatory conformity assessment.

Key links for fact-checking

Charter (canonical) — aetherneum-network/faculty/charter/CHARTER.md
Council protocol — aetherneum-network/faculty/admission/COUNCIL_REVIEW.md
Rubric — aetherneum-network/faculty/admission/RUBRIC.md
Live roster — aetherneum-network/faculty/alumni/_ROSTER.md
Q2 Defense JSONs (reproducible) — aetherneum-network/faculty/cohort-q2-2026/council-reviews
Council orchestrator (run it yourself) — aetherneum-network/faculty/cohort-q2-2026/run_council.py
Public changelog — aetherneum.com/changelog.html

Usage license

All logos, OG images, and the boilerplate text above are released under CC BY 4.0 for editorial, analyst, and educational use. Attribution — "Aetherneum" with a link to aetherneum.com — appreciated, not required. No alteration of the wordmark or hex glyph is permitted.

For commercial co-branding, licensing of the Aetherneum Certified™ mark, or any usage outside editorial context, write to press@aetherneum.com.