The people behind Saykai.
Saykai is built by someone who learned firsthand how risky it is when software changes real-world hardware behavior without a proper safety gate.
> SYSTEM: SOFTWARE_CONTROLLED_DRONE_STACK
> STATUS: LIVE_FIELD_TESTING
From drones in the field to safety gates in CI.
The foundation of Saykai stems from direct experience deploying custom-built, software-controlled drones in active commercial environments.
Operating these systems required building, programming, and tuning critical control parameters—such as motor behavior, speed settings, and stabilization—that directly dictated how the hardware performed in the real world.
"While not fully autonomous, these were software-controlled physical systems. Updates often carried inherent risk until tested live, where a minor bug or behavior drift could result in a critical failure. This highlighted a fundamental gap in the deployment pipeline: the need for a deterministic safety gate before new code reaches physical hardware."
When software changes how hardware behaves, the real world should not be the first place you find out whether an update is safe.
Today, Saykai is built out of Las Vegas, where real-world hardware, automation, and AI systems are increasingly intertwined with continuous software delivery.
Why build a safety gate now.
This operational background drove a deeper focus on CI/CD infrastructure, robotics, and how engineering teams actually manage risk when shipping changes that affect the physical world.
The pattern was the same across physical systems, robots, and high-stakes agents:
- Behavior changes moving into production faster than review processes can keep up.
- Strong engineering teams, but inconsistent structure around what “safe enough to release” actually means.
- Incidents and near misses that should become replayable tests before the next release.
Saykai is the answer.
It turns the idea of a safety gate into something that lives in CI, next to your tests, instead of as a vague checklist in someone’s head.
You work with the people building it.
Saykai is early on purpose. Early pilots work directly with the people designing the product, not an account team.
Sitting down with you.
We work with your engineers and operators to define the first Safety Spec.
Wiring the CI pipeline.
We help you implement the Saykai gate in a single, critical pipeline.
Iterating on Specs.
We refine the Safety Packs based on your real incidents and near misses.
> If you choose to run a pilot, you are not just buying a tool.
> You are helping shape how a safety gate for robots and agents should work.