I started building the tools I wanted as an analyst.
I'm Jesse Morgan. I founded Thornveil to build AI infrastructure that analysts can run locally and control themselves. 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, perception models too heavy to run on the hardware that actually gets fielded.
I'm still on active duty. 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.
Background
- Status
- Active-duty USMC
- 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. Contact for evaluation access. Tell me what you're working on and which system you want to evaluate.