How It Started

The Story:

This mission was born from firsthand experience witnessing the technical challenges operators face in the field. There was an abundance of data to be collected, processed, and analyzed for intelligence value. Often there were plenty of people with placement and access, but bottlenecks in expertise and equipment created delays or prevented the collection of potentially valuable data all together. It was clear that there was need for forensic and cyber tools that were user-friendly, standardized, faster to deploy, and more analytically expedient.

We strive to build a superior user-experience-focused platform that reduces operator load to deliver actionable insights at scale—simplifying the mission while guaranteeing technical and forensic integrity.

The use of AI:

daarc Inc is an AI-native company by design. From operational strategy to our core engineering and software development, we have integrated AI in everything we do. This provides us with a decisive advantage: the agility to develop, refine, and deploy mission-critical capabilities at a speed that we believe legacy development models cannot match. For our users, this translates into a more powerful, stable, capable, and evolving toolkit designed to meet their needs faster and more tailored than before.

 Values

  • The 'Why': Our relationships demand the highest level of trust. That trust isn't just in our technology; it's in the character of the people who create it. We believe true success is built on doing the right thing, because who we become on this journey is one of the ultimate measures of our individual success. It's about being people of our word, treating others with respect, and taking full ownership of our actions and outcomes.

    How We Live It:

    • Take Ownership of Outcomes: We are accountable for our results. When we make a mistake, we own it, learn from it, and make it right. We don't make excuses or blame others.

    • Transparency in Process: We are transparent with all our partners, from collaborators to customers, providing the insight they need to make informed decisions. We ensure our technical users understand exactly how our tools work, empowering them to validate results and testify with confidence.

    • Clarity is Kindness: We commit to direct, honest, and timely communication, knowing that clarity is the foundation of respect and efficiency.

    • Build Each Other Up: We foster an environment where team members are surrounded by people they respect and enjoy working with. We give credit where it's due and actively work to help our colleagues succeed.

    • Do the Right Thing: We keep our word. We treat everyone—customers, partners, and each other—with the dignity and respect we would want for our own loved ones.

      Treat others well, not because of what they deserve but because of who you are.

  • The 'Why': Our products are built for professionals in high-stakes environments—from tactical operators in the field to meticulous examiners in the lab. This value places the user at the center of our universe. We succeed only when they can perform their mission more effectively, confidently, and safely because of our tools.

    How We Live It:

    • Field-First Mentality: We design for the "Technician" profile—the user in a deployed or field environment who needs speed, simplicity, and absolute reliability under pressure.

    • Speed and Reliability are Features: We understand that in our users' world, time is critical. We prioritize performance, stability, and consistent quick-access efficiency in our product development.

    • Listen, Learn, Integrate: We actively seek feedback through direct engagement and interviews with practitioners in our target markets to ensure we are solving their real-world problems.

  • The 'Why': Our market is filled with powerful but often technically complex tools. This complexity creates bottlenecks in expertise and equipment, leading to critical delays or preventing the collection of valuable data altogether. Our core mission is to cut through that complexity, making powerful capabilities accessible, efficient, and user-friendly. We want to give users additional options to collect, process, and productize intelligence.

    How We Live It:

    • Intuitive by Design: We obsess over the user experience, ensuring our interfaces are clean, intuitive, and reduce cognitive load for the operator.

    • Automation as an Imperative: We relentlessly seek to automate intricate and repetitive tasks, freeing our users to focus on analysis and decision-making, not on software management.

    • Clarity Above All: Every feature, button, and workflow is evaluated through a simple lens: "Does this make the user's job easier and the results clearer?" If not, we redesign it until it does.

  • The 'Why': Our long-term vision is not just to create another tool, but to evolve into a leading software company that sets a new industry standard. This requires forward-thinking innovation, but not for its own sake. Every new idea—from our platform approach to AI integration—must be purposefully aimed at better serving our core values of simplifying the complex and empowering the operator.

    How We Live It:

    • Platform-Minded Approach: We build a flexible and extensible platform designed to adapt to our users' varied operating environments—from a controlled lab to the back of a vehicle. This approach allows for tailored, interactive options that meet their immediate needs while creating future opportunities for third-party integration and scalability.

    • Strategic Technology Adoption: We leverage new technologies like AI and automation as powerful tools to achieve our mission, not as buzzwords. The goal is always to deliver tangible value and efficiency to the user.

    • Embrace Continuous Learning: As a company and as a team, we embody the "rapid learner" mentality, constantly exploring new artifacts, techniques, and technologies to stay ahead of the curve and continuously improve our offerings.

  • The 'Why': Building something truly new means we will inevitably face problems without a known solution. Technical challenges, market shifts, and unforeseen obstacles are guaranteed. This motto is our commitment to relentless resourcefulness. It’s the belief that a solution always exists, even if it’s not obvious, and it’s our job to uncover it through creativity and persistence. This is how we will achieve our long-term vision and accomplish things that we didn’t think possible.

    How We Live It:

    • We Challenge Assumptions: We don't accept "it can't be done" as an answer. We think beyond conventional methods and are willing to explore unconventional approaches to solve a problem.

    • We Are Persistent Problem-Solvers: We view obstacles not as dead ends, but as opportunities to learn and innovate. We dig deeper, test hypotheses, and iterate until we find a path forward.

    • We Bias Toward Action: We avoid analysis paralysis. We believe in the power of doing—we experiment, we build, we test, and we learn from the results.

    • We Win with Honor: Our methods for finding a way must always align with our value of Uncompromising Integrity. We get it done, and we do it the right way.

About the Founder

With over 14 years as a network analyst and field operations officer at the Department of Defense and National Media Exploitation Center, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most incredibly talented and mission focused people you could hope to meet. Throughout this time frame I had the opportunity to staff multiple deployments and field operations and provide cyber and digital forensic support to special operations, intelligence, and law enforcement missions around the world. It was truly an honor.

I started writing basic scripts to automate aspects of my workflow to utilize spare hardware resources that were otherwise shelved. After returning from my last rotation I decided rebuild the concepts into a fully marketable product. Following an initial entrepreneurial venture in 2020 that provided valuable lessons in business development, I founded daarc Inc. to build this vision from the ground up.

I believe that with persistence we can figure out just about anything we put our minds to. I appreciate you stopping by and I’m unbelievably excited to see where this company can go.