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I constantly vent my spleen because, as is the norm with AIM shams, the CEOs lie all the time. Repeated RNSs stating ‘material uplift due to…’ this and that, only nothing ever comes. I’m loaded in here and only need to hit 3p for a significant profit but boy it’s taking an age to see any progress or even activity. Don’t forget we were told in the last August final results that one of MAC’s investments had gone bust and another was in serious trouble. That’s the skill level of the CEO and his team. We just have to hope they get lucky with Weardale but the longer the silence goes on there the more I think Stewart Dickson’s heart isn’t really in it for the long haul. How, after a Govt Grant and local council approval giving you the go ahead for a demonstration plant, an in light of the UKGovt’s critical minerals strategy document, AND the price of lithium carbonate almost doubling in under a year, he still can’t find any partners or organise ANY external funding seems poor, not to say astonishingly lacking in business acumen. Oh, that’s something he supposedly has in buckets with his time in the City. Maybe he’s not in the City any longer for a reason…

Anyway, and the wait for news goes on whilst we see Cornish Lithium and Northern Lithium tar great strides towards production. At Weardale meanwhile….stick the kettle on please.

We have to be honest about the situation here. Nothing for marechale news wise since August, apart from the raise of a whopping £200k, and nothing from Weardale in the last 12months. I’m starting to think Stewart Dickson might never have intended to take Weardale Ltd forward but rather was simply happy to bide his time and wait for a buyer. I guess one will arrive sooner or later but by which time how desperate will anyone be to take what Weardale have ? Not looking good with the amount of money exciting MAC every week. Thank heavens for all those trades that keep arriving with less than £10!

Funny shaped candle…. Can’t see anything remotely resembling one in fact. But I’m no Chartist. Please translate msuk

Laughable post. ‘ Any day now this month’

A revenue model is one thing, but in order for it to actually provide revenue you need paying customers. They don’t have any and I still developing the product, also we are told. Maybe the CTAI directors think the money owed them by Klarian is so piffling and it’s not worth worrying about. Brave considering the amount is more than 20% of the entire market cap

There isn't going to be a 'launch RNS'! That's something that's totally been made up by retail investors. Don't mislead please.

CTAI is Alludium's biggest backer, which isn't saying much let's face it.

Alludium (alludium.ai), a no-code AI Agent Operating System, commercially launched at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon (November 2025), following an early access launch in May 2025. Backed by Catenai PLC, the platform allows users to create, deploy, and share custom, collaborative AI agents.

Key Aspects of the Alludium Launch:

What is Alludium: It is an agent-based operating system designed to build AI teams that can act autonomously without requiring coding skills.

Launch Timeline: The platform initiated an early access program at the LangChain AI Conference in May 2025. The full commercial launch was showcased at Web Summit in Lisbon, 10–13 November 2025.

Key Features: Enables users to create specialized AI agents for various tasks, fostering multi-agent collaboration and integration with existing tools.

Developer/Backer: Catenai PLC (AIM: CTAI) invested in Alludium, with John Frizelle as the founder of Alludium.

Definitely think the new CEO will help them raise the £60m the management said they will be looking for.

Think that will be the first announcement once the new man has his feet under the table and hand in the biscuit tin

Lithium carbonate prices dropping. Looks like Stewart Dickson of Weardale, for all his banking experience, seems to have failed to move Weardale forward since last year and no partners on the horizon. All suggests Weardale (and MAC’s 8% ) are likely going to be snapped up by northern lithium imho. If that’s who the uk Govt decide to support up north then it’s game over for Marechale as they have made a loss do several years in a row now and the only one with any real potential was this one in Weardale. News soon or it just collapses. Directors buddies who put £50k in Oct won’t be best pleased but maybe that was just punt money to them. An awful lot of money has exited MAC in the last month & all in the midst of several trading flurries that are rarely for more than £10. Loads of them all at once spikes the sp and then hey presto someone manages to dump £10k at a higher price. Been going on for weeks now so I personally think someone knows what’s on the cards and is making their escape.

Adnatrob

‘ Worth noting who Alludium is already aligned with: NVIDIA (Inception), AWS Activate, and Atlassian for Startups. Serious AI, cloud and enterprise ecosystems. Early-stage platforms don’t get this level of backing by accident.’

There are hundreds of start ups signed up to the Nvidia inception prog. It means very little in itself.

What do you expect to happen next for Alludium?

Don’t think so.

‘ cash at bank to £312,000 as at 14 January 2026.’

That’s grown since the autumn. It’s one small positive sign that all the Directors bought more shares last October to the tune of £70,000

They are all going to make a lot of money if Weardale can find a partner. How much I have no idea, but from here we could all do really well. They’ve had a year since local permission was granted so I confess I’m getting nervous we’ve still not heard anything from Weardale but news could land at any moment that could catapult MAC’s share price upwards.

Steve, your posts are just made up, imaginary blx.

His post doesn’t give any hint as to what they were doing. Having a jolly, drinking Guinness? The post itself seems quite defensive: why?

‘Our team just spent two days together in Waterford, Ireland.

We're fully distributed. Always have been. We meet in person every quarter, and the rest of the time we build from wherever we are.

This feels slightly contrarian right now. The narrative in tech is that serious startups need everyone in an office.

I don't buy it.

Most work needs focus, not proximity. Our engineers ship faster from their own setups than they would in an open office.

The right rhythm matters more than the right address. Quarterly offsites give us high-bandwidth time for strategy, alignment, and human connection. Then we go back to shipping.

Geography is a feature, not a bug. We hire the best people for the role, not the best people within commuting distance.

I saw this firsthand at Red Hat, where distributed work was the norm even at massive scale. Done well, it's not a compromise. It's an advantage.

Distributed doesn't mean disconnected. Between Slack, constant collaboration, and pair programming, we're often more "together" day-to-day than teams sitting in the same building.

You don't need everyone in the same office to build something great. You just need to know what requires a room, and what doesn't.’

Not sure that gives any suggestion they’re about to go commercial or announce anything. That would have been the perfect time to hint at progress made. It doesn’t. It’s saying look, just because we’re not always together in an office that we’re working slowly. That’s it. Think February will turn into a washout

Steve, your post is factually 100% wrong

Just total made up BLX

CL know they have funding and are backed to the hilt by the govt.

Thank you for correcting your earlier totally false and misleading post. This latest one is far closer to the mark.

Anyone saying confidently that this is destined for huge success is I’m afraid talking blx. The directors are NOT aligned with ordinary share holders and they will already be thinking about where the next 12 months of salary cheques are going to come from. It’s an outfit that changes its name according to where ever the latest craze is. They raise lots of (your) money, chuck into something that’s incredibly risky - but something that could always do brilliantly at an outside chance of about 100-1 - reward themselves with big salary packages and if it comes to nought simply move on. Pis end up with nothing more often than not. It’s an easy game for them to play and some are willing to take the risk. However, anyone putting large amounts of their cash in here need to understand the way it works. If it’s a massive success then great but be entirely realistic about the extremely slim chances that a company like Alludium, plucked from total obscurity, is suddenly going to be selling its products to the likes of Google or other global businesses and make you millionaires is just stupid. It’s far more likely to fail and you lose everything you have invested in it. That’s the grim reality.

‘ People said February was going to be Alludium's roll out but has this ever been confirmed to be true?’

People, not Alludium said that. Something was obviously said and punters have jumped on it and made it a case of Chinese whispers. As far as I know the company never stated February for announcing paying customers or a starting point for commercial activity. It’ll be years if ever before they generate any income. I fear the CTAI directors have yet another dud on their hands. Still, they get paid even if it fails.

I think we are witnessing another episode of mms games which allow mates to exit at preferential rates.

Over £50k has exited in the last two trading days. That’s unthinkable with no news from the company. Over the last 6 months more often than not there have been no trades at all and yet now we repeatedly see multiple trades for less than a fiver, the sp rises and then delayed trades of nearly £10k two or three times a day. Someone knows something and it doesn’t appear to be very promising….

I don’t mind the sp going upwards at any time but in spite of recent sentiment just being on the up there yet again a lot more sells than buys and the Bid has been dropped.

There needs to be news from Weardale. That’s the only thing that can save MAC from a rather sad and slow demise. They’ve never picked any decent investment choices that have proved their ridiculous claim to be ‘ an established City of London based corporate finance house with a long-term track record and a strong reputation for advising and financing high growth consumer brands’

If Weardale don’t get into bed with any partners then this will whither and eventually disappear. Hopefully we can get away with at least a little profit should news land soon. 5p and I’m out of here

Was the reduction in Directors’ salaries ever implemented? Or did they find a way to circumnavigate it? ie it’s deferred ? I bet they are still taking their full whack even though they attempted to wipe retail share holders out. I will never understand how they got voted back in. Can’t trust them. Looks like DN has brought them to heel a little though and is pis’ white knight? Hope so.

Let’s face it, if you were Klarian and thought there’s a chance Alludium might go nowhere and as a result CTAI fails then would you be in any rush to pay back this loan? I think they’re looking at the situation as highly risky and just holding off to see if they can save themselves a lot of money. Conversely, if Alludium looks like it will gain some commercial traction then I think they’ll pay it off pretty sharpish before the sum grows even larger. At the moment it looks like the Klarian jury is still out on Alludium

Ok newuncle, how would you like to reassure people invested here that the money from Klarian will ever be repaid? What do you say to the fact that the CEO was in charge of a company that the FCA shut down and had delisted? Your posts are highly misleading people here into thinking this is all tickety boo and these directors are all great business people with a high degree of integrity. Don’t take my word for it folks. Look the guys up and the CEo’s record stands for itself. If you’re happy with him chucking £100ks of your money into highly dubious and speculative plays whilst taking a huge salary for it then fine. You take all the risk and pay him for it. When it all comes crashing down and they change company name yet again and it starts all over with retail having to bail the company out with yet more silly promises you’ll know you can go back and thank newuncle for his warm advice and soothing words on here.