He began by building a machine that could enter a room too dangerous for a person. Now the BRINC founder wants to compress emergency response from minutes into seconds - and make judgment, not speed, the technology's hardest problem.

Jeremy Schneiderman spent twelve years turning a Florida drone shop into an enterprise operating system. Nine months after XTI Aerospace bought the company, its board handed him the cockpit.
The Florida retailer discovered that the valuable part of a drone is not the box - it is everything required to keep a fleet useful, compliant and in the air. Now that service machine must navigate the American market's retreat from Chinese hardware.