MISSION COMMAND · BUILDING PILOT COHORT

Human-AI mission command
for autonomous operations.

Sentinel is the vendor-neutral command layer for one-human-to-many-machine operations. One operator coordinates drones, robots, sensors, and AI agents — across vendors, in real time, with policy and audit built in.

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DEPLOYMENT
Ports · Airports · Utilities · Bases
INTEROP
Vendor-neutral by design
FRAMEWORKS
CISA · FAA · NERC · JADC2
The Problem

The bottleneck isn’t autonomy.
It’s human bandwidth.

Operators at critical sites are drowning. More autonomous systems doesn’t fix it — it makes it worse, because every vendor ships its own console.

The unsolved problem isn’t building more machines. It’s making them governable by small human teams.

SCENARIO · PORT SECURITY, 2026
12 drones. 30 cameras. 4 robots. 5 vendor apps.
One human on the night shift.
  • Alt-tabs across five tools to triage a single event
  • Launches assets late because dispatch lives in a different app
  • Sends two units to the same sector — entire sectors go uncovered
  • No replayable record when leadership asks what happened
The Platform

Four capabilities. One command layer.

Sentinel translates mission intent into coordinated action across mixed-vendor autonomy — and produces a defensible record of every decision.

TRANSLATE

Mission intent → coordinated tasking

Operator says “sweep north perimeter”. Sentinel resolves it into per-asset tasks across drones, robots, sensors, and AI agents from any vendor.

VENDOR-NEUTRAL · MULTI-MODAL
PRIORITIZE

Thousands of signals → the few that matter

From thousands of inputs, surface only the few that need a human. Everything else is handled, queued, or logged automatically.

HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP · BY DEFAULT
AUTHORIZE

Policy & ROE → runtime checks

Policy, rules of engagement, and approval chains compiled into runtime enforcement. No escalation happens without the right human in the loop.

DEGRADED-CONDITION SAFE
RECORD

Every decision → replayable timeline

Every input, decision, override, and outcome timestamped and replayable. Audit-ready for operational review and regulators.

CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
Architecture

One layer between the operator
and every machine.

We sit between the vendor stack you already have and the human team you can’t hire more of.

ASSETS · MIXED VENDORS Drones Aerial autonomy Cameras Fixed & PTZ Ground Robots Patrol & response Sensors Radar · LiDAR · Acoustic AI Agents Detection · Classification SENTINEL · COMMAND LAYER TRANSLATE Intent → Tasks Per-asset orders across vendors PRIORITIZE Signals → Attention Surface what needs a human now AUTHORIZE Policy → Runtime ROE & approvals enforced live RECORD Action → Audit Replayable timeline of record OPERATOR · ONE HUMAN Mission Console Intent in. Decisions out. Full timeline. ACTIVE
Timing

Why now.

Three forces converging in the same 18-month window.

SUPPLY

More machines, more silos

Ports, airports, and utilities are adding drones, robots, and cameras — each from a different vendor, each in its own console.

DEMAND

Human bottleneck

Staffing pressure, turnover, and rising expectations. Headcount cannot scale with machine count.

REGULATION

Regulatory pull

CISA, FAA, NERC, and DoD JADC2 / Replicator are writing human-machine teaming and auditable autonomy into requirements.

Engagement

From walkthrough to deployed,
in under 90 days.

14 DAYS
Site Assessment
FREE

On-site walkthrough. We map your vendor stack, operator workflow, and bottlenecks. You get a deployment plan whether you continue or not.

60 DAYS
Paid Pilot
$25K — $50K

Sentinel installed on one site, integrated with your existing assets. Measured against your current operator KPIs.

ANNUAL
Production Contract
$150K — $300K / SITE

Full deployment with 24/7 monitoring, policy & ROE management, and audit pipeline. Expandable across additional sites.

Team

Built by operators & researchers
working the problem from both sides.

AC
Angelina Chen
CO-FOUNDER
  • · Army Research Laboratory Fellow — multimodal AI research
  • · Yale Air Force ROTC, cyber officer track
  • · NeurIPS first author at 16
  • · Prev. SWE intern at NASDAQ & Jane Street
  • · Young Role Model of the Year, Women in AI Awards 2025
EC
Eluit Cruz
CO-FOUNDER
  • · Yale STARS Program Researcher
  • · Researcher, Yale McDougal Lab
  • · Prev. software lead at BioMedizone
  • · Military family background
NOW ACCEPTING PILOT SITES

Make your autonomy stack
governable.

Free two-week site assessment. We’ll map your stack and show you what a single operator could actually run.

hello@trysentinelai.org