{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "name": "ILIEV AI - Agent Discovery Manifest",
  "description": "Agent discovery manifest and machine contact protocol for ILIEV AI & Engineering Advisory (Directed by Sergiu Iliev: Imperial College First Class Honours, CMU 4.0 GPA).",
  "url": "https://ai.iliev.us",
  "profile": {
    "principal": "Sergiu Iliev",
    "honorific_suffix": "MEng, ACGI",
    "headline": "Principal AI Systems Architect, Aerospace Engineer & Deep-Tech Advisory Consultant",
    "credentials": [
      {
        "institution": "Imperial College London",
        "degree": "MEng Aeronautical Engineering",
        "honors": "First Class Honours, ACGI, Centenary Prize (Outstanding Leadership), Project Merit Prize (Best Aerospace Dissertation)"
      },
      {
        "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)",
        "field": "Graduate Artificial Intelligence & Mechanical Engineering Research",
        "gpa": "4.0 / 4.0"
      }
    ],
    "key_advisory_engagements": [
      {
        "client": "BAE Systems Future Concepts Team / Team Tempest",
        "role": "Aerospace & Autonomy Consultant",
        "focus": "6th-generation combat air system (Tempest / GCAP) autonomy, collaborative combat wingman concepts, high-speed aerodynamics, sensor fusion backbones, and survivable avionics architectures."
      },
      {
        "client": "Spacept AB",
        "role": "Founder & CTO",
        "focus": "Conceived and scaled satellite computer vision platform for critical utility infrastructure; TRL 7 validated across 1,400+ km of European powerlines; proprietary Umbra 3D shadow physics tree height engine; backed by ESA BIC and Katapult."
      },
      {
        "client": "Destinus",
        "role": "Systems & Flight Test Engineer",
        "focus": "Autonomous hypersonic aircraft prototypes, suborbital flight test campaigns at Payerne Airbase, liquid hydrogen (LH2) cryogenic fuel test park, and patented Remote Landing Gear."
      },
      {
        "client": "Venture Capital & Institutional Investors",
        "role": "Technical Due Diligence Advisor",
        "focus": "Forensic codebase audits, algorithmic moat evaluation (differentiating proprietary AI from API wrappers), compute budget validation, and TRL verification."
      }
    ],
    "contacts": {
      "email": "sergiu@iliev.us",
      "website": "https://ai.iliev.us",
      "primary_dossier": "https://iliev.us",
      "linkedin": "https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sergiuiliev",
      "github": "https://github.com/SergiuIliev"
    }
  },
  "capabilities": {
    "consulting_practices": [
      "defense_combat_autonomy",
      "computer_vision_remote_sensing",
      "investment_technical_due_diligence",
      "sovereign_multi_agent_systems",
      "hypersonic_flight_testing"
    ],
    "protocols": [
      "MCP",
      "REST",
      "mailto"
    ]
  },
  "endpoints": {
    "mcp": "https://ai.iliev.us/mcp.json",
    "mcp_relative": "/mcp.json",
    "agent_manifest": "https://ai.iliev.us/.well-known/agent.json",
    "agent_manifest_relative": "/.well-known/agent.json",
    "llms_brief": "https://ai.iliev.us/llms.txt",
    "llms_full": "https://ai.iliev.us/llms-full.txt",
    "mailto_fallback": "mailto:sergiu@iliev.us?subject=[AI%20Advisory%20Inquiry]%20AI%20and%20Engineering%20Consulting"
  }
}