About us

Gentle Weapons is an American company, founded in 2026 in Mesa, Arizona.

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We build the software infrastructure autonomy teams need to ship to fielded systems: a hardened operating system, a private network, and a deployment plane.

We've shipped scale, compute, and GPU infra.

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Jk Jensen

Scale + compute + reliability. 10 years shipping emerging technology to production.

Ex-Meta (Orion, Quest 2, trusted computing) and Mysten Labs (Sui) infrastructure engineer. Prior founder.

  • Meta
  • Mysten Labs
  • XION
  • Haulynx
  • Arizona State University
  • Brigham Young University
TEAM

Deep expertise in edge runtime, secure networking, and ML systems.

  • Amazon
  • Dedrone by Axon
  • General Motors
  • Naval Postgraduate School
  • UC Berkeley
  • The Wharton School
  • Striveworks
  • Monitor Deloitte

We build managed software infrastructure for unmanned systems.

01 / Run

Ship best-in-class product security on a hardened Linux distribution.

GWOSHardened Linux
BootKernelRootfsSigned

A Linux foundation with signed updates, separate operating system slots, and health checks before committing a new image.

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02 / Swarm

Communicate system-to-system via a private network.

PoolnetPrivate mesh
BackhaulMesh

An encrypted mesh that forms itself, heals after a partition, and keeps routing with the backhaul down.

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03 / Deploy

Ship software to 10 or 10,000 units in any environment.

PoolboyControl plane
CanaryWaveFleet

Fleet software management with staged releases, device health reports, and control over which devices receive an update.

More on Poolboy

Built for one unit or one million.

We build flexible, scalable software infrastructure for unmanned systems. We'll take your company from one unit to one million units, on one platform, with no re-architecture in between.

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HQ
Mesa, AZ · United States
FOUNDED
2026
HEADCOUNT
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BACKING
  • Fuse
  • Antler
  • Convoi Ventures
DOMAINS
AUTONOMY · ISR · GCV · C2
CMMC
L2 ROADMAP

We're hiring.

We're hiring senior and staff engineers to build software infrastructure for unmanned systems. If you're interested in powering autonomous systems at the edge, let's chat!