About

Decision-making for American leaders is becoming painful. Whether they serve in the Department of War, U.S. government agencies, U.S. pensions, institutional investors, or allied sovereigns, decisions are taking longer, costing more, and carrying more risk, especially around leaders’ five most critical needs: capital, clients, talent, information/IP, and materials.

Each must be sourced, analyzed, verified, decided on, integrated, and measured. Leaders attempt this with dozens of vendors. Diligence takes months and often arrives after the window has passed.

The supplier who turns out to be connected to an adversarial nation, and you had no way of knowing. The co-investor whose money you never would have accepted had you known its source. Sometimes it is existential: a headline reveals an adversary inside your company, your institution, or your program office.

USAX is built by American leaders who navigated and triumphed over these situations: from deployments in combat zones to leading venture-backed companies to serving in the White House and briefing governors.

USAX is built to be the most trusted platform
to make American leaders’ decisions defensible.

The company is built around the Provenance Engine, invented by our CEO and CTO. Before computers, practitioners built engines: machines that served the person running them. We architected the Provenance Engine in that tradition: a new class of engine, built to serve the leaders and their teams using it.

The first deployment of the Provenance Engine is at usax.com. We’re honored that our first customer is the Department of the Air Force, via the United States Space Force and SpaceWERX.

Provenance means origin: the record of where a thing came from, what touched it, what changed, and whether the story holds up. Understanding the source of any of them saves your teams time and money, and sometimes protects against existential risks. It also gives you the ultimate strategic advantage: understanding and quantifying your exposure, whether to black or red swans.

The USAX platform resolves entities across sources that disagree. We score claims and tell you how much confidence they deserve. We keep every fact traceable to its source, so you can audit a claim instead of trusting it. We route access selectively: prove something without handing over everything.

We serve the American leaders and warfighters who must defend their decisions later: before a board, a regulator, an inspector general, Congress, or a secretary.

We serve U.S. and allied leaders at pensions, institutions, sovereigns, and banks who want to ensure decisions align with U.S. and allied interests.

We are patient about the right things and impatient about everything else.

If you make decisions in complex situations and know the risk you carry, we should talk. You might find USAX is the one dashboard you love to keep open all day.

USAX’s Phase II effort is sponsored by AFWERX, a component of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). USAX is not endorsed by the Department of the Air Force or the U.S. government.