The fleet is the machine.
Every era of automation made the individual machine smarter. The next one makes the group smarter than the sum of its members. We believe coordination is the capability: not an add-on to autonomy, but the thing itself. Sentinel exists to build that layer, prove it in the hardest domain, and carry it to every fleet that needs it.
Edge first
Decisions happen where the data lives. Links enhance the mission; they never carry it.
Deterministic under pressure
Behavior stays predictable and auditable precisely when conditions are worst. That is when it matters.
Humans in command
People set intent, rules, and boundaries. Machines execute inside them. Every action is attributable.
One core, every domain
Validate the coordination once. Configure it per mission. Never rebuild the foundation twice.
Decades of hardware that could not fail.
Launch vehicle engines, spacecraft mechanisms, the James Webb Space Telescope, autonomous flight test. Flight-critical, real-time systems where a coordination failure ends the mission: the exact discipline SYNAPSE runs on.
Michael Knight
Founder · Chief Executive Officer
Tristan Maneja
Chief Technology Officer
Trevor Clark
VP of Advanced Technology
David Strobel
Technical Advisor
Nicholas Johnson
Strategic AdvisorBuild the mind that flies the fleet.
We hire deliberately, in small numbers, for people who build flight-critical software.