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The intelligence is software. The hardware is whatever you already carry.

Every Ceradon product applies the same thesis: put the capability in software, run it at the edge, and make it work on commodity hardware the operator already owns.

Close view of the copper windings of a small brushless motor stator.
The parts are ordinary: a brushless motor like the ones on any small quadcopter.3-D render · generic part
A generic 5-inch carbon quadcopter frame kit laid out with motors and hardware.
What changes is the software that plans and rehearses with them.3-D render · generic parts

Four design rules

Each one traced to a product you can look at.

01

Process at the edge, not in the cloud

Data is computed where it’s collected: a laptop on the tactical network, embedded compute on the platform. Nothing depends on connectivity, and nothing transits infrastructure the operator doesn’t control.

Demonstrated in

  • KESTREL: runs on one laptop
  • EARSHOT: plans stay on the device
02

Commodity hardware, software intelligence

The capability lives in the software, so the hardware can be cheap, replaceable and already in inventory.

Demonstrated in

  • KESTREL: a commodity Windows laptop
  • ARCHITECT: COTS-first UxS planning
03

Sense passively where physics allows

Emitting reveals position. Where the physics supports it, read signals already present rather than adding new ones.

Demonstrated in

  • EARSHOT: predicts links before anyone transmits
04

Operator in the loop, not operator replaced

Autonomy handles volume; the human holds judgement. Systems surface, rank and recommend, and a person validates before anything consequential happens.

Demonstrated in

  • ARCHITECT: decision support, not decisions
  • KESTREL: training the human half

Where the research is going

Labelled by maturity.

None of this is a product yet.

In development

Operator-directed edge retraining

RAPTOR: detection on a small edge computer that the operator can correct and retrain. Not working end to end yet.

In development

Passive sensing

VANTAGE: presence sensing from radio signals already in a building. An early prototype with no performance figures.

Applied research

Offline, open-weight AI

What fits on a laptop, a Jetson or a phone, with no connection: models, retrieval and tooling small teams can own.

Research partnerships

Bring a sensing or autonomy problem.

  • SBIR/STTR-eligible across multiple DoD topics.
  • Open to joint research with universities and FFRDCs.
  • Veteran-owned small business · CAGE 179U9 · UEI UZA9PFJ9RDL6.

New builds

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