Master Plan
A long-term roadmap for physical intelligence
By: Chris Hacken, Founder & CEO|April 2026
Chris Hacken
Founder & CEO, Dragonfly Autonomy
Background: Previously the Founder of Loop Internet (8-figure exit). My sole focus is Dragonfly Autonomy. I'm building this company with a long-term view toward real-time coordination and shared awareness across physical environments.
Our mission
Expand what human operators can see, trust, and act on in real time.
Across fixed cameras, mobile agents, and distributed sensors, so the live picture isn't fragmented across disconnected tools or dropped between systems.
Dragonfly is a small team focused on one problem: a unified picture of everything happening across a physical area, from fixed nodes on the ground to an aerial agent miles away. We've built the coordination layer that ties those field assets together into one live operational picture for operators.
Why Dragonfly matters
Physical environments are too large, too dynamic, and too high-stakes for the status quo: siloed feeds, passive cameras, and mobile assets that don't share a common picture. Dragonfly is the layer that unifies heterogeneous agents into one real-time operational intelligence network.
Dragonfly isn't another point solution. The product is the mesh and intelligence. That means correlation across nodes, edge coordination, and an operator view that stays live. Hardware is interchangeable; the network and the brain are the moat. That's the innovation: persistent situational awareness at scale, across industries that run on the physical world.
How we build
Operators first.
Everything we build is validated against one question: does it leave the person running the operation both better informed and more confident?
Awareness before automation.
Autonomous systems are only useful if a human can trust them. We build toward total situational awareness first. Automation follows from confidence, not the other way around.
Sensor-agnostic intelligence.
We build from the ground up with computer vision at the core. Cameras and drones generate the data. The intelligence layer turns that data into a coherent operational picture.
Any hardware. One network.
We build the intelligence that connects fixed cameras, aerial agents, and ground robots, whether you deploy them today or tomorrow.
Real-time, not retrospective.
The value isn't in the playback. It's in the moment. Everything we ship is oriented around what's happening now.
We're selecting deployment partners.
If you run physical security operations and want to shape what we build, we want to hear from you.