Cachai

Overview

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.

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.