[ COMPANY · 9 MOTHERS ]
AI mission systems. Built in Austin.
9 Mothers builds counter-drone defense systems for the modern battlefield — the engagements that legacy C-sUAS was never designed for. Hardware tempo measured in months, not decades.
[ MISSION ]
Defense must move at the speed of the threat.
01
The threat moved.
FPV drones rewrote close-range warfare in two years. Cheap, fast, expendable, autonomous. Legacy C-sUAS — built for fixed-wing intruders at altitude — doesn't engage them.
02
Procurement didn't.
The acquisition cycle that produced the last generation of air defense takes a decade. The threat iterates in weeks. The gap is the problem.
03
We close it.
Point defense engineered at infantry-mobile scale, priced for attrition, and shipped on software tempo. Built so operators can field it now — not after the next budget cycle.
[ APPROACH ]
Hardware on software tempo.
How we build determines what we can field. These are the disciplines we hold non-negotiable.
- Software discipline. Hardware reality.
- We build hardware the way modern software teams build product — small batches, fast cycle time, real telemetry, instrumented in the field. No multi-year waterfall.
- Engineered for attrition.
- Cost-per-shot, manufacturability, and serviceability are first-class design constraints, not afterthoughts. A weapon you can't afford to fire isn't a weapon.
- Operator-first.
- Designed with the people who will carry it, set it up, and use it under stress. Mass, setup time, and human factors are non-negotiable specs.
- Vertically scoped.
- We own perception, tracking, and engagement end-to-end so the kill chain is one system — not three vendors and an integrator.
[ ON FILE ]
- Backed by
- Y Combinator
- Batch
- P26
- Headquarters
- Austin, TX
- Status
- Active · Hiring
[ ENGAGE ]
Build with us. Or buy from us.
We work with operators, primes, and procurement teams already evaluating the next generation of counter-drone capability — and we hire the people building it. If either is you, get in touch.