Active-duty USMC. Solo founder. 10 systems shipped since January.

The shift from analyst to builder happened gradually, then all at once. I taught myself to code on overnight watches, then on weekends, then between deployments. The systems started piling up — each one solving a real mission problem I'd run into firsthand. By January 2026 the work had compounded into something coherent: a portfolio of defense-relevant systems that nobody else was building. Sub-million-parameter perception models that match SOTA in their weight class across six unrelated domains. An IL5-pathway AI chat application with classification-gated routing enforced at the type-system level. A distributed AI mesh with substitute-on-failure inference, validated end-to-end with cryptographically chained audit logs. An autonomous AI red team gated by a capability-based safety pipeline. A memory-safe Rust autopilot with 98K lines of code and 47K lines of parity-audit notes.

Thornveil is the company that ships those systems. Ten of them today, all on github.com/thornveil-ai for review. Trade-secret-grade internals where they need to be. Public-companion repositories everywhere else for evaluators and partners to read. Production-grade test coverage, signed commits, NIST 800-53 traceability where it matters.

Until December 10, 2026, I'm still a one-person shop on active duty. That's a regulatory constraint, not an execution constraint — the work keeps shipping. What it means for you: there's no commercial transaction we can close before separation, but every conversation that starts now compounds. Customers, partners, primes, federal program offices — review the work, get on a call, and we'll be in the right position when the calendar turns.

Co-founder applications are open now. The seat is for a senior offensive cyber operator with a post-uniform defense-AI startup rotation. Federal Rolodex required. The technical wedge is already shipped — your work compounds onto a substrate that's already credible.