The shift from analyst to builder happened gradually, then all at once.
I'm Jesse Morgan. I founded Thornveil to build the AI infrastructure I wanted to use as an analyst — local, data-sovereign, accountable to the people running it. Eight years as a Signals Intelligence Marine — six countries, national-level reporting under classified handling — taught me how brittle the cloud-dependent toolchain is for the people doing the actual mission.
I taught myself to code on overnight watches, then on weekends, then between deployments. Each system in the portfolio solves a problem I ran into firsthand: brittle cloud routing for classified queries, inference that hangs the second a worker drops, audit chains that won't survive a 3PAO, autopilots that can't tell the difference between a real GPS signal and a spoofed one.
Active-duty until December 10, 2026. That's a regulatory constraint, not an execution constraint — the work keeps shipping. What it means for federal evaluators: we can start the technical conversation today, walk you through the substrate today, sign an evaluation NDA today. Direct contracts queue for December.
Co-founder applications are open for a senior offensive cyber operator with a post-uniform defense-AI startup rotation.
Background
- Status
- Active-duty USMC · DD-214 December 10, 2026
- Clearance
- TS/SCI
- Service
- USMC, Staff Sergeant (8+ years)
- Discipline
- Signals Intelligence — 6 countries deployed
- Languages
- Modern Standard Arabic + 3 dialects
- Education
- BA, Arabic — Defense Language Institute
Want to talk?
Direct line to the founder. Federal inquiries welcome — direct contracts open December 10, 2026. Co-founder applications open now. Tell me what you're working on; the substrate is already there to compound onto.