We didn't come together to build "better AI." We came together because we recognized a fundamental engineering void in the autonomous stack: the absence of an Authority Layer.

In mission-critical environments like aerospace and power grids, systems are designed with clear execution boundaries. There is a "Point of No Return" for every action. I spent years engineering these boundaries at NASA and Boeing, and our team includes engineers from NASA, Boeing, ASML, and TSMC, where execution authority and deterministic enforcement are fundamental to system operation. We observed that while the industry is focused on making AI more "intelligent" (the Reasoning Substrate), no one is building the system that determines if that intelligence is authorized to act.

The Insight: Intelligence is not authority. A system can be infinitely smart but still suggest a command that violates safety or governance protocols. Without a stateless, deterministic gate to enforce admissibility at the moment of execution, autonomous systems remain experimental—not industrial.

Our Mission: We are bridging the gap between reasoning and reality. By leveraging high-fidelity intent signals and rigorous systems engineering, we are building the definitive Authority Layer—the system that determines who is allowed to commit irreversible actions, and enforces that decision at runtime. These boundaries already exist in aerospace, infrastructure, and mission-critical systems. We are bringing them to AI.