A Canadian company for the Arctic decade.
Sovereignty is an engineering choice, not a slogan.
Canada’s Northern Approaches are contested, instrumented, and undermanaged. Sensor feeds reach watchfloors in separate panes. Tracks land without chain of custody. Inference round-trips through foreign cloud. Classification labels live as bolt-on metadata, not as artifacts.
We started Nortex to fix that — provenance at the source, fusion on the device, exportable to allies because the wire format is the same one the alliance already speaks.
Founder-led. Canadian-built. Engineered for the procurement decade.
Engineering-first. We talk to operators directly, ship architecture deliberately, and treat every decision as defensible. The engineering tradition that built the Canadarm is the engineering tradition we build in.
Pre-deployment. The picture is live; it runs end-to-end on a single machine, on synthetic and open feeds. We are scaling the founding team and standing up the first deployable kit.
Canadian operating company. Customers and capital partners: the Government of Canada, and a small set of defence-aware Canadian and allied investors.
Built by an operator-engineer, not by a committee.
Gurkamal Dhahan — founder and engineer. Wrote the Nortex picture end-to-end: fusion, signing, alliance-clean output, operator UX. Background in applied machine learning and shipping production systems against compliance-heavy stakeholders.
Hiring for: a second founding engineer, an ex-operator advisor (RCN, RCAF, or CCG background), and a Canadian defence-cleared sales lead. In that order.
Brief us. Or fund us.
Operators: bring the problem, leave with a working session. Investors: read the brief, then a working session.