Silicon
Processors designed by American companies are fabricated overseas. Until that changes, hardware origin claims stay qualified — and we say "assembled" only where assembly genuinely happens in-house.
Origin & supply chain
The Homeland Pledge
Plenty of companies say "Made in America." Very few will tell you what they mean by it. Here is exactly what we claim, what we do not, and where it is genuinely hard.
What we claim
- American-owned and American-operated. The company, its officers and its work are in the United States.
- Designed, engineered, assembled, and supported in the United States. The architecture, the code and the people answering your questions are all here.
- No code or components from foreign adversary nations. Dependencies are checked for national origin before they enter the stack.
- Built on a U.S.-anchored open-source stack. The foundations under our software are governed predominantly by U.S. organizations.
What the Pledge covers
Our software and our hardware.
Not our merchandise.
The claims above apply to what we build and control: our software, the hardware we specify and assemble, and how this company is owned and run.
They do not apply to printed merchandise. Apparel, posters and similar goods are produced by third-party print-on-demand vendors. We do not manufacture the blank garments, we do not make the inks, and we cannot audit the suppliers our vendors choose. Those vendors also route each order to whichever of their facilities is nearest the customer, which can be on another continent.
So we make no origin claim on merchandise at all — not "Made in USA", and not "Printed in the USA" either, because neither would be reliably true. Every garment carries its own country-of-origin label, which is the accurate answer for that specific item.
We could quietly leave merchandise out of this page and few people would notice. Naming the limit is the point: a pledge that covers everything covers nothing, and a claim we cannot substantiate would undo the ones we can.
What we refuse to claim
We do not say "100% American-made." We used to. We stopped, because it is not defensible and we would rather be accurate than impressive.
The legal standard for an unqualified "Made in USA" claim is that all or virtually all of a product — traced back to raw materials — is of U.S. origin. No commercially available processor or storage drive on the market today meets that bar, no matter whose logo is on it. Software has the same problem one layer up: the open-source foundations everyone builds on have international contributors by design.
So we make specific claims we can substantiate instead of a broad one we cannot. That is a weaker sentence and a stronger promise.
Where it's genuinely hard
Open source
Some load-bearing components in our stack are governed outside the United States. We track which ones, we say so internally, and adversary-nation origin is a hard exclusion rather than a preference.
Certification
We are aligned to NIST SP 800-171 and preparing for CMMC Level 2. We are not certified, and we will not use the word "compliant" until an assessment earns it.
The longer aim
We would like to make the hard part easier.
The gaps above are not permanent facts about the world — they are facts about where things are currently built. Closing them domestically is a long-term goal of this company, not a slogan attached to it.