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Protoworks / Defence / 2026

Introducing Protoworks

A software engineering agency specialising in data management and operational intelligence.

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Protoworks Arms / Field systems / 2026

Protoworkshelpssecurity,defence,andspecialoperationsteamsmovefromdisconnecteddataandrepetitiveprocessestopurpose-builtsoftwareapplicationsthatsupportclearerdecisionsandbetterexecution.

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What we build

  1. Artificial intelligence

    Panoptes

    The target-assembly engine. One query gathers what is knowable about a person, vehicle, address or area into a single dossier — entity resolution, link analysis, pattern of life, screening — carrying provenance on every fact.

    • 1,628 sources
    • 1.4M documents
    • 1,110 verified live

    Ingest shipped · dossier specified

  2. Geospatial intelligence

    Area monitoring

    Persistent watch over an area of interest, fused into one picture. Synthetic-aperture radar reads whole provinces through cloud and darkness on free imagery; commercial tasking is spent only on ranked candidates.

    • Sentinel-1 wide screen
    • Umbra · Capella · ICEYE
    • Live ADS-B, AIS, STAC

    Shipped and running

  3. Vertically integrated

    Sensors we build

    We design and cost the devices rather than reselling them — RF, vehicle, operator, site, edge camera and drone subsystems on South African bills of materials, including Wi-Fi sensing that meets the envelope of radar costing fifty times as much.

    • 18 costed devices
    • 14 sensing modalities
    • 229 reference designs

    13 ready to build now

  4. Drones and counter-UAS

    Aerial ISR

    The drone is a tasked sensor, not an airframe. EO, IR, thermal and LiDAR held over a target, geolocated from telemetry without overflying it, painted onto the same picture the control room and the ground unit already share.

    • Two geolocation methods
    • Passive Remote-ID detection
    • TAK / ATAK gateway

    Specified on the shipped core

Built for

  • Defence
  • Police and metro
  • Special operations
  • Private security
  • Farm protection
  • Anti-poaching

At Protoworks we build

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