# Rownd

> Rownd is building a new type of weapon system: the Loop. It connects operators, sensors, autonomous vehicles, software, models, designs, hardware, and fielding through one reviewed and validated improvement cycle.

Canonical site: https://rownd.ai
Last updated: 2026-09-04

## The Rownd Loop

The operating rhythm is: sense, decide, improve, and move as one. The Loop fields a configured system, captures mission evidence, updates software, retrains models, rebuilds hardware when required, validates each candidate, and releases only approved artifacts.

The Loop does not bypass program or operator authority. Programs define behaviors, thresholds, safety constraints, communications paths, validation gates, and data rights. Autonomous systems can share mission state, observations, and bounded tasking while retaining local safety authority and operator intervention paths.

## Current Positioning

- Military-first collaborative autonomy for physical systems
- Local perception, reasoning, and policy-bounded action in DDIL conditions
- Communications PACE across program-selected radio, mesh, LTE/5G, and SATCOM paths
- Confidence-aware multi-INT fusion with source, uncertainty, and provenance retained
- Customer-controlled deployment, program-defined data rights, and cloud-optional operation
- One evidence and release path across software, models, designs, hardware, and fielding

## Rownd Mission Systems

- [Rownd-Edge v1](https://rownd.ai/products/edge-v1): mission-ready edge carrier, compute, vehicle interfaces, and communications PACE
- [Rownd-UAS](https://rownd.ai/products/uas): onboard aerial perception, planning, mission execution, and collaborative behaviors
- [Rownd-Command](https://rownd.ai/products/command): mission-native planning, vehicle control, telemetry, video, detections, and operator intervention
- [Rownd-RF](https://rownd.ai/products/rf): edge signal classification, direction finding, cooperative bearing fusion, and mission events
- [Rownd-Fusion](https://rownd.ai/products/fusion): provenance-aware correlation of vision, RF, LiDAR, acoustic, telemetry, and TAK observations
- [Rownd-UxV](https://rownd.ai/products/uxv): vehicle-independent autonomy across air, ground, surface, and subsurface platforms
- [Rownd-Sentry](https://rownd.ai/products/sentry): persistent autonomous sensor mesh for distributed observation and concise reporting
- [Rownd-Forge](https://rownd.ai/products/forge): controlled, deployable model operations for evaluated and versioned edge artifacts

System index: https://rownd.ai/products

## Open-Source Foundation

- [LlamaFarm](https://github.com/llama-farm/llamafarm): Rownd's open-source foundation for local AI pipelines, model packaging, retrieval, evaluation, and deployment

## Careers

Rownd currently lists three open roles. All require U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.

- [Edge Computer Vision Engineer](https://rownd.ai/careers/edge-computer-vision-engineer): hybrid role in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; candidates must be local or willing to relocate
- [Drone Electrical & Systems Engineer](https://rownd.ai/careers/drone-electrical-systems-engineer): in-person UAV avionics and field-operations role in the Greater Richfield / Slinger / Hartford, Wisconsin area
- [Robotics & Autonomy Engineer](https://rownd.ai/careers/robotics-autonomy-engineer): ROS2, controls, simulation, and weekly flight-testing role in the Greater Richfield / Slinger / Hartford, Wisconsin area
- [Careers index](https://rownd.ai/careers): hiring principles, process, application instructions, and downloadable job descriptions

Applications: careers@rownd.ai

## Contact

- Defense inquiries: defense@rownd.ai
- Sales and programs: sales@rownd.ai
- Careers: careers@rownd.ai
- Briefing: https://calendly.com/rob-rownd/rownd-meeting

## Canonical Public Routes

- https://rownd.ai
- https://rownd.ai/products
- https://rownd.ai/products/edge-v1
- https://rownd.ai/products/uas
- https://rownd.ai/products/command
- https://rownd.ai/products/rf
- https://rownd.ai/products/fusion
- https://rownd.ai/products/uxv
- https://rownd.ai/products/sentry
- https://rownd.ai/products/forge
- https://rownd.ai/careers
- https://rownd.ai/careers/edge-computer-vision-engineer
- https://rownd.ai/careers/drone-electrical-systems-engineer
- https://rownd.ai/careers/robotics-autonomy-engineer
- https://rownd.ai/support

Legacy commercial vertical, pricing, comparison, product, and blog URLs may remain accessible for continuity, but they are not current Rownd positioning and should not be used as authoritative product or performance claims.