webAI announced the appointment of Dr. Paul J. Maykish as Chief Intelligence Officer and introduced the webAI Intelligence Lab, a dedicated unit designed to develop accessible, sovereign, and defensible intelligence solutions for public sector and enterprise environments.

Dr. Maykish joins webAI after a distinguished career in national security and technology strategy. Prior to this role, he served as Vice President for technology strategy at the Special Competitive Studies Project and as Director for Technology Competition at the National Security Council. With 24 years of military experience, Maykish has led classified AI research for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and commanded the U.S. Central Command’s Combined Air Operations Center, where he oversaw AI program commissioning during the ISIS conflict.

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In his new role, Dr. Maykish will lead the Intelligence Lab and guide webAI’s long-term vision of building Superintelligence through a network of interoperable, domain-specific intelligence systems rather than a single centralized model. These systems are engineered to work together securely, operate locally, and improve over time, while also providing immediate and practical enhancements to webAI’s current platform.

“Our mission is simple, but non-negotiable: advance towards Artificial Superintelligence that is accessible, sovereign, and defensible,” said David Stout, founder and CEO of webAI. “We believe the future of intelligence is something you own, operate, and trust wherever it is needed. The Intelligence Lab exists to build that future.”

The webAI Intelligence Lab will concentrate on developing systems built for operational reliability, data sovereignty, and resilience in contested environments. In particular, the lab’s initial priorities include:

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  • On-device and edge intelligence for local execution
  • Secure architectures designed for integrity and adversarial resistance
  • Repeatable deployment patterns that can scale across organizations and missions

“AI is rapidly becoming operational infrastructure, and the bar is rising,” said Dr. Maykish, Chief Intelligence Officer at webAI. “The Intelligence Lab will build systems that organizations can control end-to-end, from data to models to runtime, with performance and trust that hold up in the real world.”

The announcement comes shortly after webAI revealed its latest funding and valuation milestone, which is now driving expanded hiring and investment across product development, engineering, and deployment programs to meet increasing demand for sovereign AI solutions.

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