Business Description

Innovative Technology at the Forefront

Citadel North was founded by US military veterans who bring over 15 years of technology experience and a personal dedication as fathers to the safety and security of communities. Motivated by a desire to improve responses to emergencies, crisis, and unforeseen scenarios that affect our families and friends, Citadel North harnesses, cutting edge, drone technology, to provide rapid, on demand emergency response services. Their drones, equipped with interchangeable payload, are stationed on site for immediate deployment, ensuring that every community has instant access to emergency assistance. Operated remotely from their command centers, these drones work alongside traditional emergency services to enhance safety and response effectiveness, transforming the landscape of emergency services across the United States by delivering solutions that are not only swift, but deeply personal and driven by a commitment to protect and save lives.

Problem

The High Cost of Delay

Traditional emergency response methods are often slow, expensive, and inconsistent. Please responses to active shooter situations average around 15 minutes, while general emergency responses can take up to 10 minutes. Each minute of delay in emergencies like fires can cause $6000 in property damage, and the human causes incalculable. This efficiency highlights the urgent need for a faster solution.

Solution

Multi-Role Capabilities

Citadel North EPSILON drones can be deployed within 30 seconds to handle emergencies, offering a significantly faster, more reliable response that saves lives and reduces costs. These drones can function as firefighters, medical assistance, or law enforcement support, bringing versatile, immediate assistance to critical situations. Their ability to quickly switch roles based on the emergency at hand, demonstrates their flexibility and efficiency.

Business Model

Scalability and Sustainability

Citadel North adopts a hardware as a service model. Clients lease drones annually within an optional monthly subscription that covers pilot services, maintenance, and real time data coordination. This model makes cutting edge, security and emergency response, accessible and cost-effective for all institutions, providing scalability as client needs grow.

Market Projection

Future Trends and Expansion Opportunities

The global market for emergency response drones is burgeoning, driven by advancements in drone technology and increasing adoption by emergency services. The market is projected to see substantial growth, particularly in heavy lift solutions and AI, enhanced operations, as drones become integral to emergency response strategies.

Competition

Direct Competition:

1. Sprinkler Industry – Currently Citadel North’s biggest competition is the sprinkler industry or other fire suppression systems installed on location. While there have been recent intelligent features added to sprinklers in the past decade (in rack sprinklers for inventory, more sensors) it has remained relatively unchanged in the past several decades and is ripe for disruption. We have also considered us a great augmentation to sprinkler systems as well.

Citadel North Advantages:
– Cost: We have seen savings of up to 40% for a 50,000 square foot building and these savings can go up to 60% in favor of Citadel North technology compared to installing a new system.
– Targeted: CN’s Epsilons can access areas sprinklers can’t. In addition, Epsilons are specific where they discharge their payload and can target the fire at its source compared. This also reduced the amount of collateral damage for compared to sprinklers that spray entire areas.
– Integrations: CN operators coordinate with local emergency services from the beginning of the incident – feeding critical information as fire fighters and other local authorities are en route.

Indirect Competition:

2. Drone Manufacturers – Citadel North manufactures its drones in-house in order to keep costs down and tightly control quality.  It is worth mentioning that other drone manufacturers could enter the same space Citadel North is operating in.  However, the only manufacturer to announce any plans to do anything similar was Axon who abandoned plans several years ago.

3. Smart Detection Technologies – There are multiple companies such as Asylon, Indoor Robotics, and Flyability that conduct indoor inspection, detection, and information fusion.  Citadel North mostly operates in the ability to take action in emergencies while overlapping with detection and information fusion.  You can consider these companies to be indirect competitors but CN does operate in a completely different space (no pun intended).

Traction & Customers

Building Trust and Proving Value

Citadel North has initiated, partnerships and pilot programs with entities like radical and Owen J Roberts school district, demonstrating early success and market validation. Customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, emphasizing the urgent need for such technology in schools and other public venues.

Investors

Bootstrapped Since Inception

Terms

Up to $1,200,000 in Common Stock at $1.20 per share with a minimum target amount of $9,999.60.

Offering Minimum: $9,999.60 | 8,333 shares of Common Stock
Offering Maximum: $1,200,000 | 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock
Type of Security Offered: Common Stock
Purchase Price of Security Offered: $1.20 per Share
Minimum Investment Amount (per investor): $300

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