Cachai
Altiro Collaborative Autonomy Platform
They're making lots of drones, and they're making each individual drone very smart, but there's no distributed nervous system that turns a group of individual maneuvering drones into the problem-solving unit of adaptive capability that would constitute a swarm.
Why it mattersCachai's independent cloud software infrastructure provides the foundation to stand up isolated and private cloud capabilities (trustworthy real-time consistency among multiple computers for a shared common operating picture without a single point of failure.) This is what's missing from systems on forward operating bases or on ships that lack the bandwidth to leverage AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Warfighters are left with brittle, slow, and centralized systems that have a single point of failure and may not always be updated with the same information. That means they have to manually orchestrate among multiple systems that don't share a common operating picture (even if they can manage to ""talk to each other""). In order to integrate machine-speed command & control autonomy, there would first have to be what's called a ""shared state"" among the machines - that is the capability Cachai's cloud software infrastructure provides. It also provides a universal queue that can translate among protocols to share state across multiple systems. In short, while warfighters on the front line can't leverage ""The Cloud"" from a hyperscale provider, they can leverage Cachai in a dynamic mesh network among themselves and wherever possible with headquarters and other teams. We have been able to make this product because we are experts in distributed systems state management, the consensus process underlying state management, distributed cybersecurity, data messaging, middleware, and mesh networking. Key members of our team have built independent cloud software infrastructure for companies like PayPal/Ebay, L3 Harris, Samsung, and we are now transitioning to a product-based approach licensing software distilled from those decades of experience.
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Problem
Today’s “swarming” autonomy fails under pressure. This endangers warfighters and flummoxes integration architects: -- One node acts as leader or hub—disable it, and coordination collapses. -- No shared state: each drone has a different view of the mission -- No consensus: tasks are duplicated, dropped, or never completed -- Timing is inconsistent: one node thinks it’s 14:00, another 14:03 -- Integrators are stuck writing fragile glue code to hold everything together -- New nodes require manual trust/config — no dynamic mesh, no resilience -- Updates risk “bricking” nodes without orchestration or rollback The result: warfighters babysit machines, and autonomy can't scale.
Solution
Altiro by Cachai is a distributed autonomy engine that enables real-time state sharing, consensus, and coordination across heterogeneous platforms—with no cloud, no central brain, and no single point of failure.
Field Validation
At the July 2025 OUSD(R&E) T-REX event, we maintained a live Kubernetes cluster across multiple Raspberry Pis over wireless. These nodes shared mission state as a stand-in for live autonomous vehicles. August demos add vehicle integration. Logs and video available on request. Anticipated traction: $600K subcontract from Leidos (DEVCOM, late 2025) $100K NGREA-funded deployment via INDOPACOM units $1M follow-on OTA in pipeline (T-REX, AFWERX, xTech, SOCOM) Charging $30K for commercial pilots; 10+ expected in next 12 months Strategic Edge Most distributed systems experts are trained on hyperscale cloud. We built Altiro from first principles for the tactical edge. Patent pending. Two-year head start. No one else is this far along. User Altiro is "used" by GS-12–14 autonomy engineers at primes, not the warfighter directly. These integrators want to stop duct-taping systems together—and finally have infrastructure built for contested autonomy.
Problem
They're making lots of drones, and they're making each individual drone very smart, but there's no distributed nervous system that turns a group of individual maneuvering drones into the problem-solving unit of adaptive capability that would constitute a swarm.