The manifesto

A policy is a promise.
We are selling an architecture.

Every home security camera on the market is bolted to a wall, sees one fixed angle, and sends what it sees to somebody else's computer. We are building the one that moves, and the one that never leaves your house.

At 2am something trips a sensor in the backyard. You get a ten second clip of a shape at the edge of frame. You have two options, and both are bad: open the door and go look, or lie there not knowing. The four cameras you bought cover four angles. Everything else is dark.

Luna is a drone that lives on a dock on your house. When something trips, it lifts off, flies the arc of your property, and streams to your phone while you watch from bed. Twenty seconds from trigger to eyes on the back fence. Then it lands and charges. That is the product, and it is the easy half of what we are doing.

The hard half

In 2025, reporters at 404 Media found that local police departments had run roughly 4,000 immigration-related searches through Flock Safety's camera network, functioning as a warrantless side door for federal immigration enforcement.

Flock's own written policy prohibited exactly that use. The searches happened anyway.

Since then, 214 cities and counties have ended their Flock contracts. Ninety of those happened in a single month. The Washington Post separately documented at least 50 officers charged or accused of misusing these systems, many of them to track wives, girlfriends and former partners. Mountain View, California shut its network down after discovering federal agencies had been reaching into local data without the city's knowledge.

Read that sequence carefully, because it contains the entire thesis of this company. Flock did not fail because they were careless with their policy. They failed becausea policy is the wrong kind of object. A policy is a statement of current intent by people who can be replaced, under pressure that has not arrived yet, governing a capability that already exists.

If the door exists, the door opens. The only door that stays shut is the one nobody cut.

Amazon learned the same lesson from the other side. In February 2026 they killed a planned partnership between Ring and Flock, days after a Super Bowl ad triggered a public backlash. That was not Ring's first retreat on this. They ran police partnerships from 2018, discontinued the Neighbors "Request for Assistance" tool in 2024 after an outcry, added an Axon request feature in 2025, and abandoned the Flock deal in 2026. Ring keeps reaching for the surveillance business, and its own customers keep pulling it back.

Ring ships end to end encryption as a setting that is off by default, on a cloud-first architecture where your footage sits on Amazon's servers. Nest does all processing in Google's cloud with no local option at all. Every one of these companies could keep its promises today and break them in a firmware update eighteen months from now, and you would find out from a journalist.

What we did instead

The threat-detection model runs on the dock, in your house. Video is never uploaded to be processed, because there is nowhere to upload it to. Footage is stored locally and encrypted end to end from first boot, not as an advanced setting you have to go find.

We hold no decryption keys. That sentence is the whole company. It means we cannot produce your footage under subpoena, because the ciphertext is meaningless to us. Warrants go to you, the homeowner, which is where the Fourth Amendment always intended them to go. It also means we cannot be pressured, acquired, or subpoenaed into betraying you, because there is nothing in our possession to hand over.

There is no law enforcement portal. Not disabled, not gated behind a policy, not on a roadmap. It does not exist. There is nothing to abuse and nothing to sell.

The parcel geofence is enforced in firmware. Luna cannot be flown past your property line, which is a constraint rather than a setting, so it cannot be changed by us, by you, or by anyone who compromises either of us. The camera points down and inward while the aircraft is moving, so a neighbour is not captured in the first place.

All nine of our commitments are published, versioned, and dated at/commitments/v1, so any change to them is diffable by a stranger. They will be written into the corporate charter at incorporation, so an acquirer cannot void them. That last one is currently a promise rather than an architecture, and we are saying so plainly rather than letting you assume otherwise.

What this costs us

The obvious next product is a neighbourhood network. Every home with a Luna, sharing what it sees, a mesh across a subdivision. It is the single largest revenue idea available to us and it is the one investors will ask about first.

We are not building it. Not deferring it, not researching it. It is the exact architecture we exist to oppose, and declining it is the only proof that the rest of this document is real. We will not sell to law enforcement as a customer segment. We will not take defense or intelligence funding. We will not run advertising against your data or sell aggregated derivatives of it, which is the loophole everyone else uses.

Refusing that revenue caps our market. That is correct, and it is accepted, and we would rather you hear it from us than work it out yourself. A company that can be bought off is not the privacy option. It is just a company that has not been offered enough yet.

Why this is possible now

On 22 December 2025 the FCC added all foreign-produced drones and drone components to its Covered List. DJI, which held roughly 70 percent of the global drone market, can no longer get new models authorised for sale in the United States. By DJI's own estimate that is $1.5 billion in lost 2026 US sales. American retail inventory is draining and is not being refilled.

There is no domestic manufacturer serving the price point DJI is vacating. Everything American and compliant starts at $2,000 and is sold to enterprises and governments. Luna is $500, NDAA-compliant from the first unit, and pointed at a house instead of a city.

What we are asking

Nothing yet. There is no product to buy, no deposit to leave, and no card to enter. Luna ships to the first 500 homes and the list is how we decide which ones and in what order.

If you have spent the last year watching your town argue about cameras on poles, this is the other version of that technology. Same capability, pointed at your own property, owned by you, answerable to nobody else. Take a position in line.


Sources. FCC Covered List addition and DJI's loss estimate: FCC public notice, 22 December 2025, and DJI's filed comments. Flock immigration searches: 404 Media, 2025. Contract cancellations: DeFlock tally, reported August 2026. Officer misuse: Washington Post. Ring and Flock partnership cancellation: CNN and NBC News, February 2026. Every figure on this page is checkable, and we would rather be corrected than rounded up.