We put early defence prototypes in front of people who have used the real thing: former and reserve personnel from EU and NATO forces. The work is paid, part-time, and happens on ranges and training areas in the EU.
Sessions run in the EU, on ranges and training areas, in controlled and simulated conditions. Nobody takes a prototype to a war, and nobody asks you to. What we need is the same judgement you would apply to kit you had been issued, said out loud.
A short call first. What you have used, what you can test, and roughly where in the EU you are.
You see the scenario and what the client wants to learn before you agree to the session. Nothing on the day is a surprise.
You handle the prototype and use it the way issued kit gets used. Controlled and simulated conditions. Filmed.
You say what failed, what you would change and whether you would carry it. The client hears it from you, on a call.
Former and reserve personnel from EU / NATO forces: infantry, UAS crews, EOD, medics, signals. Not only special forces.
Airframes, payloads, FPV. Flown for work rather than as a hobby.
Detection, effectors, jamming, direction finding.
Radios, relays, waveforms, and what happens to all three when the terrain stops cooperating.
Carriage, power, wearables, optics and thermal. Kit that still has to work at the end of a long day.
Approach and render safe, ground robotics and teleop, casualty movement, and what a medic actually carries.
We do not publish operator identities, and we never ask which unit you served with.
Clients see capability and domain. That is what goes in a report and it is all that ever goes on this website. Many of the people we talk to still serve.
Nothing here asks you to give up a job or commit to a schedule.
One session at a time. You get the date, the site and how long we need before you commit, and you can turn a session down without explaining yourself.
The work is paid. We agree the fee per session, before the session runs, and we discuss it on the call. No retainer and no unpaid trial.
Every operator signs an NDA before a session. Nothing from a session is published: the footage and the report go to the client and stay with them.
What you say goes into the report as a quote, attributed to a capability and a domain, never to a name.
We are two people and we are booking the first evaluations now. There is no roster and no queue of work waiting behind this page. Tell us what you can test and we will come back to you when there is a session that fits, and tell you honestly where things stand.
Anything missing, put it in the email or ask on the call.
No. Infantry, UAS crews, EOD, medics and signals are exactly who we mean. What matters is that you have used this kind of equipment for work and can say what was wrong with it.
No, and many of the people we talk to do. Your obligations come first and we schedule around them. Nothing that identifies you is published, and we do not ask which unit you are with.
It is agreed per session, before the session, and we discuss it on the call. We are not going to publish a day rate we cannot stand behind for every kind of session and every system.
In the EU, on ranges and training areas. The site depends on what is being tested: an open range for anything that flies, an urban training area for comms and ground robotics, indoors for optics and software.
Yes. The video goes to the client with the report, under the same NDA, and nothing from a session is published. Anything we ever use publicly shows hands and kit, never faces.
There is no form and no account. One email, read by one of the two of us.
Three lines is enough: your domain and what you have used, roughly where in the EU you are, and how much time you could give. That tells us whether to book a call.
Leave out your unit, your service number and your full name. None of it helps us at this stage, and we would only ask you to take it out again.
Tell us what you can test.
That opens your mail app. If it does not, the address is [email protected].