# Protoworks Defence

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

Protoworks helps security, defence, and special operations teams move from disconnected data and repetitive processes to purpose-built software applications that support clearer decisions and better execution.

Part of Protoworks (https://protoworks.dev). Contact: defence@protoworks.dev. Security reports: security@protoworks.dev.
Content last updated: 2026-08-04.

## What we build

Each item carries its honest build status as published on the site.

### Panoptes — Artificial intelligence

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.

- Figures: 1,628 sources; 1.4M documents; 1,110 verified live
- Status: Ingest shipped · dossier specified

### Area monitoring — Geospatial intelligence

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.

- Figures: Sentinel-1 wide screen; Umbra · Capella · ICEYE; Live ADS-B, AIS, STAC
- Status: Shipped and running

### Sensors we build — Vertically integrated

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.

- Figures: 18 costed devices; 14 sensing modalities; 229 reference designs
- Status: 13 ready to build now

### Aerial ISR — Drones and counter-UAS

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.

- Figures: Two geolocation methods; Passive Remote-ID detection; TAK / ATAK gateway
- Status: Specified on the shipped core

## Built for

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

## Start a conversation

Tell us what your teams are working around, and we will tell you what we would build. Email defence@protoworks.dev.

## Links

- [Protoworks Defence](https://defence.protoworks.dev/): the full page
- [Security contact](https://defence.protoworks.dev/.well-known/security.txt): RFC 9116 security.txt
- [Protoworks](https://protoworks.dev/): the engineering studio behind it