🇺🇸 An open letter, from 🤫 hussh
A win-win-win, named out loud.
To America's Top 20 federal contractors, the companies paid the most, every day, from the taxes of the American people. A letter about building something where no one has to lose for everyone to win.
Dear stewards of the public's trust,
We are a small company, writing to some of the largest. We are not here to disrupt you, unseat you, or sell you something you do not need. We are here because the future we both want (sovereign, resilient, humane technology, paid for wisely with the public's money) is not built by one company beating another. It is built by partners who buy, build, and sell together.
That is the whole of who we are. Everything we do, we do with partners. We build with our design and engineering partners, in the open, on standards. We are funded by patient, permanent capital: people who do not need the quarterly income and can wait a decade for something real to compound. And we exist for the humans who matter most: the day-to-day people who sell their time, their craft, and the products and services they provide, whether they work for themselves or own a business together. Your workforce is exactly those people.
Here is the idea, plainly. 🤫 gives each person a sovereign, consent-first agent and their own supercomputer at the edge. The hardest, most sensitive work gets done where the data already lives, with an auditable receipt for every access. Instead of renting intelligence from a cloud that is effectively sold out, a network of American garage and warehouse owners runs it, on open rails, on Starlink, at the lowest cost per watt. The full leverage of modern AI, without the data-exposure liability that usually comes with it.
You have the reach, the trust, and the missions. We have a sovereign agent, owned edge compute, and a partner-first way of working that does not ask you to surrender anything to get the upside. Small and large is not a mismatch here. It is the point. The biggest institution and the single human win the same way: together, owning the hard things instead of renting them.
We write out of respect for the missions you serve and the people who serve them. This is an invitation: to buy, build and sell together on open rails, in a way the taxpayer would be proud to have funded.
With respect for the people who build what a nation trusts, and for the people who pay for it,
🤫
No one has to lose for everyone to win.
The American taxpayer wins
Every dollar the public pays you comes back as something more sovereign and more resilient. When the intelligence runs on American-owned edge compute, with a receipt for every access, the people who fund the work own a real stake in it. Not a promise: an architecture.
Your people win
Every person who serves gets a sovereign, consent-first agent and their own supercomputer at the edge. Real AI leverage on the hardest, most sensitive work, without handing the data to someone else's cloud. The humans doing the work get more capable, never more surveilled.
The nation wins
A distributed edge-supercomputing grid in American garages and warehouses, on open standards, keeps compute, value, and resilience inside American communities at the lowest cost per watt. When the cloud is sold out, the edge is ours. Sovereignty stops being a slogan and becomes the architecture.
Buy, build and sell together.
We are a small company with one way of working: owning the hard things together instead of renting them.
Buy together
We would rather own the hard things together than rent them from someone who owns neither of us. Compute, infrastructure, capability, bought as partners, kept as partners.
Build together
We build with our design and engineering partners in the open, on standards, so the work is legible and yours to keep. No walled garden, no lock-in, no hostage data.
Sell together
We go to market shoulder to shoulder (your reach and trust, our sovereign agent and edge compute) so the humans we both serve get more, and both houses grow.
Everyone in the room, aligned.
Financial partners
Patient, permanent capital: shareholders and investors who do not need the quarterly income, who can hold for a decade, and who are paid by something real compounding, not by a flip. We are built to last, so we partner with people built to wait.
Design & engineering partners
The people who make the work beautiful and true: our design and build partners, and yours. Apple-grade craft is not a coat of paint; it is how the whole thing is made, in the open, together.
The humans we serve
The day-to-day people who sell their time, their craft, and the products and services they provide, alone or as a business they own together. Your workforce is exactly these humans. They are the point of all of it.
America's Top 20 federal contractors.
The organizations the U.S. Government entrusts with its hardest, highest-stakes work, and the largest recipients of the public's obligated dollars in recent fiscal years.
Lockheed Martin
Aerospace & defense
RTX
Aerospace & defense systems
Boeing
Aerospace & defense
General Dynamics
Defense, IT & shipbuilding
Northrop Grumman
Aerospace & defense
McKesson
Healthcare & pharmaceutical distribution
L3Harris
Communications & defense technology
HII
Shipbuilding & national security
Booz Allen Hamilton
AI-native mission consulting
Leidos
Defense, intelligence & health tech
Humana
Health & government benefits
Centene
Government-sponsored healthcare
Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals & public health
Accenture
Digital & government modernization
Honeywell
Aerospace & industrial technology
BAE Systems
Defense & security
SAIC
Mission IT & enterprise modernization
Amentum
Engineering & mission services
KBR
Government & technology solutions
Peraton
National security & intelligence IT
A future the taxpayer would be proud of