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Section 07 · Market & GTM · 17 Jun 2026
Market & go-to-market

Where the budget actually is.

We size the market on defense and regulated-enterprise compute — real, current budget — not on speculative demand. K-12 is a distribution and mission wedge, not a revenue line. The motion is consultative and bespoke, and it lands the buy-side first.

Market sizing
TAM
$30B
Regulated-compute & verifiable AI infrastructure
SAM
$4B
Defense + regulated-enterprise on-prem compute
SOM
$6.8M 3-yr obtainable

Anchored on DoD FY26 IT spend (~$66B) and the disconnected/degraded/denied edge mandate. The edu-compute demand leg is deliberately excluded from sizing — federal AI-education funding targets curriculum, not compute procurement.

Built for four buyers
Prime contractors

Auditors live in the building. The substrate is for them as much as for the operators — a named-prime relationship to pull on.

Fortune 500 industrials

Every facility, supplier, and instrument as one queryable record. Bottom-up coverage; idle compute becomes a Tier 2 revenue line.

Federal & supranational

Compliance becomes a queryable property of the system. FedRAMP / CMMC are the gate; our team holds the federal access to clear it.

Custodial auditors

First-class participants — witness lineage is theirs to extend, not a quarterly report they reconcile after the fact.

The motion
01Land the buy-side first — ship the metered inference gateway; show real paid usage before scaling supply.
02Convert warm doors to signed pilots — a district, a university, a defense prime — sequenced behind product readiness.
03Audience-segmented language: verifiable-compute and tamper-evident attestation for federal and enterprise; chain framing only for crypto-native rooms.
Why we win & keep it
On-prem, behind the firewallMoat
Compliance built in, not bolted onMoat
Verifiable proof without the dataMoat
Idle compute → Tier 2 revenueLock-in

The defensible position is compliant, on-prem, verifiable compute — a category sovereign and regulated buyers can actually purchase.

The competitive wedge
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The named pipeline
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Named, signed traction outweighs any metric. The live pipeline is tracked by stage in the LOI vault.Section 05 · LOI vault →
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