Heaviside AI, LLC is an infrastructure company in Mesa, Arizona with a single thesis: the safest data is the data that no longer exists. We build NiaShield™, Gateway, and the SDIP-6™ protocol — Non‑persistent Infrastructure Architecture for organizations that cannot afford for AI to remember.
The industry's answer to AI risk is to collect everything and promise to protect it. Every stored prompt is a liability with a shelf life: it can be breached, leaked, sold, subpoenaed, or quietly trained on. The perimeter has to win every day; the attacker only has to win once.
We took the other path. If nothing persists, there is nothing to defend. Heaviside AI builds infrastructure where non-retention is a physical property of the system, not a paragraph in a privacy policy — and where every deletion is proven, not promised.
Sessions run exclusively in RAM, inside your own Azure tenant. On termination, the SDIP-6™ protocol overwrites session buffers in six passes before the memory is reclaimed. Non-retention is the default state of the system, not a cleanup step someone has to remember.
Heaviside AI holds no customer keys, no customer data, no session content. We operate no servers in the data path. What we structurally do not possess cannot be breached at our end — and cannot be compelled from us.
Every session closes with a Certificate of Incineration™ — a SHA-256 signed record of start, termination, and sanitization that an auditor or a court can verify without asking us anything.
Oliver Heaviside was the self-taught engineer who reduced Maxwell's twenty equations to the four the modern world runs on — and who gave engineering the step function: the mathematics of a system switching cleanly between two states. On or off. One or zero. No in-between.
That is the standard this company builds to. A session either exists or it does not. Data is either present or it is gone. There is no “deleted but recoverable,” no residue, no gray state a lawyer or an attacker can live in. The step function is the company.
NiaShield™ did not begin with a government mandate or an enterprise requirement. It began with a single user — and a simple observation: inside regulated industries, the people with the most to gain from AI are the ones most afraid to use it.
Watch how careful people work at a defense prime, where the discipline for an ITAR violation is not a write-up — it is handcuffs. They use AI the way you would handle live ordnance: starve it of context, strip out the specifics, treat every prompt as a future exhibit. The tool that should multiply them is throttled by the residue it might leave behind, and the caution is the tax they pay every single day.
Protect one person completely, and they become fearless. That was the founding premise — not anti-data, not anti-AI. Anti-residue. Somewhere, someone needed to exist who would let people use AI at maximum strength and walk away with zero residue of the work performed. Build that for one user, and it scales to fifty thousand without changing the idea: the cautious behavior doesn’t have to be trained away — it simply stops being necessary, no matter who you work for.
Steve McKim is the founder and chief executive of Heaviside AI, and the inventor of record on the U.S. provisional patent applications behind SDIP-6™ and the Certificate of Incineration™ (64/042,610 · 64/068,643). He designed Nia — Non‑persistent Infrastructure Architecture — on a single conviction: a person should be able to use AI at full strength and leave nothing behind to fear. He started with one user, not a market — the market turned out to be everyone who works under a regulator. He builds in Mesa, Arizona.
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