Built here. By people you can name.
Flight software is safety-critical and, increasingly, sovereignty-critical. Our operating rules exist so you never have to wonder where your code came from.
US-only development. No offshoring.
Every engineer who writes, reviews or tests code on a Visie engagement is a US citizen working inside the United States. We do not subcontract offshore, we do not use overseas "augmentation" teams, and we do not route work through intermediaries who might. If a task needs more hands than we have, we tell you, and we bring on US-based people you'll meet.
This matters for ITAR-sensitive programs, for customers subject to export-control or federal-contract requirements, and for anyone who has been burned by code nobody can explain.
Local-first toolchain.
Builds, simulation runs, CI and artifact storage run on hardware we administer. Source control lives in repositories you own from the first commit — we're collaborators on your GitHub organization, not custodians of your IP. Where cloud services are used, they are US-region, and we'll list them in the statement of work.
AI-assisted tooling is used for leverage, never as an author of flight-critical code. A named engineer is accountable for every merged change.
Engineering process.
- Multiple approaches, one recommendation. Architecture documents present at least two candidate approaches and state why we chose one. You get to disagree before we build.
- Simulation first. No behavior is flown until it has a Gazebo scenario and a pass/fail metric.
- Upstream-aware. Customizations to PX4 or ArduPilot are structured to survive upstream updates, with a written rebase procedure.
- Hand-off is a deliverable. Source, build system, parameter sets, documentation and a recorded walkthrough. The goal is that you don't need us — and call us anyway.
Company
- Entity
- Visie Drones, LLC — Sanford, North Carolina
- UEI
- X9G2WNZEQU61
- Registrations
- SAM.gov unique entity ID; SBIR.gov small business concern
- Principal
- Ricky Whittaker, founder and principal investigator