Our capabilities

Capabilities.

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Architect &
Specify

Aerial canopy detail

We are experts in designing systems for constrained, disconnected, and high-assurance settings where properties like autonomy, fail-operational, security, and reliability are paramount.

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Edge inference

We fine tune, evaluate and deploy custom language and vision models for offline and edge inference use cases. We're able to tune and build custom inference pipelines and harnesses to meet your hardware, latency, and accuracy requirements.
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Offline-first / DDIL

We design and build systems that operate through disconnected, intermittent and low-bandwidth (DDIL) conditions. We implement local state authority, conflict resolution mechanisms, resumable sync and other resiliency techniques so that systems operate predictably in the face of unreliable links.
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SWaP-C

We can help you design for size, weight, power and cost to optimize the platform for existing software or build software to meet your target platform constraints.
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Data movement

We are extremely experienced in data movement and management at significant (petabyte) scale, including transport, query, store-and-forward behaviour, schema management, and time alignment. We can help you manage structured and unstructured data flows from edge to cloud.
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Ingestion & fusion

We build ingestion and processing / fusion pipelines that can combine heterogeneous data feeds from sensors, telemetry and third-party data into coherent, queryable, operational data. We are experts in cloud-based platforms as well as state of the art open source solutions.
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Build &
Deploy

Aerial canopy detail

We build intelligent, reliable, and secure software and infrastructure for the cloud, the field, and everything in between; from offline and air-gapped to hybrid and cloud-based.

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Offline-first applications

We build applications that operate without network connectivity, whether DDIL, air-gapped or hybrid. We can work within the constraints of your chosen hardware stack or help you build a suitable platform tailored to the environment.
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Edge & forward-deployed

We can package and deploy software (including LLMs) onto specialized hardware platforms, including ruggedized devices, vehicles and constrained compute platforms. We handle provisioning, over-the-air updates, remote telemetry and diagnostics for physically or geographically isolated systems.
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Operator interfaces

We design and engineer resilient operator interfaces built to perform reliably in mission-critical environments. By combining human-centered design with safety-certified software architectures, we ensure operators maintain situational awareness.
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Small LLMs & Fine-tuning

Small expert models trained for specific domains are emerging as the most powerful way to build custom intelligence into systems. We can help you with data curation, training, evaluation and serving infrastructure to get custom models into production at the edge or in the cloud.
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Platforms & infrastructure

We build and operate the platform layer underneath your applications, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration and observability. We are experienced across the major cloud providers, air-gapped and on-premise environments, and the hybrid arrangements in between.
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Test &
Verification

Aerial canopy detail

Verify that systems behave as specified now and in the future. Alongside conventional software quality practice, we apply formal specification and model checking to prove critical system properties.

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Formal methods

We use formal specification and model checking to prove properties about a system before it is deployed. We are experienced with TLA+, Alloy and property-based testing, and we can help you scope which components warrant formal methods.
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Test & assurance

We build test strategy and harnesses across unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop and end-to-end levels. We can work within your existing test infrastructure or stand up automated pipelines and coverage reporting from scratch.
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Data quality

We are deeply experienced with data quality, validation and governance. We can help you validate data as it moves, covering schema conformance, completeness, provenance, drift and other quality metrics. We can also help you instrument quality checks and alerting so problems surface at ingest rather than in downstream systems.
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Release management

We set up release processes that make deployments predictable and reversible, including versioning, staged rollouts, artifact signing and rollback. We are experienced with releasing into air-gapped and disconnected environments.
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Performance & endurance

We simulate and measure how systems behave under sustained load, constrained resources and long-duration operation. We can help you establish performance baselines, run soak and stress testing, and find the failure modes that only appear with prolonged operation.
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Secure &
Defend

Aerial canopy detail

Threat modeling, hardening and simulation against your real operating environment. Deter, defend, and if necessary—defeat.

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Threat-based hardening

We specialize in hardening systems against the threats they will actually face. We can help you build threat models and implement best practices including defence in depth appropriate to your domain and platform.
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Supply chain resilience

We are experienced with securing the software supply chain, including dependency provenance, SBOM generation, artifact signing and reproducible builds. We can help you establish trust in what you ship and detect tampering between build and deployment.
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Resilience simulation

We simulate degradation, denial and attack to establish how systems fail in real-world conditions. We are experienced with network emulation, fault injection and chaos engineering across DDIL and contested environments.
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Pentesting & audits

We conduct penetration testing and independent security audits across applications, infrastructure and embedded platforms. We deliver findings with reproduction steps and prioritized remediation.
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Secure cloud

We design and operate cloud environments for workloads with security and data sovereignty requirements. We are experienced across regulated applications, identity management, encryption standards and network integration.
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