Palladyne AI Corp.

Good day, and welcome to Paladine AI's strategic update conference call and webcast. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note, this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Brian Siegel, Senior Managing Director of Hayden Investor Relations.

Thank you, operator. Today I'm joined by Ben Wolf, Paladine's AI's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Trevor Thatcher, Paladine's Chief Financial Officer. On this call, Ben will discuss the details of the strategic transformation announced in this morning's press release, followed by a Q&A. Any forward-looking statements made during today's prepared remarks or in the question-and-answer session whether general or specific in nature, are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results in the future to differ materially from those discussed on today's call. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, specific risks and uncertainties disclosed in Paladin AI's periodic SEC filings. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or to update the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that are discussed on today's call. Please note that today's press release and this presentation will be available on the investor relations page of Paladine AI's website. They have also been filed on form 8K with the SEC. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Ben to discuss this morning's exciting news in more detail.

Thank you, Brian. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. Today is a defining moment for Paladine AI, an American company where artificial intelligence meets the physical world. We build embodied AI. Systems that don't just analyze data, but sense, decide, and act at the edge in real time. Our mission is to be America's first multiplier, whether for the Department of War or industrial customers. Today, I'll cover how the GuideTech and the Crucis Company's acquisitions, which for the latter I'll refer to as Crucis in today's presentation, and the launch of Paladine Defense transform us into a fully integrated AI and defense technology company. Before we begin, a brief reminder, today's presentation includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties described in our SEC filings. With that said, let's begin the strategic review. Most people think of AI as something that happens in a data center, algorithms that analyze information and deliver insights. Embodied AI is different. It's intelligence that lives in the real world. Again, we enable physical systems that can sense, decide, and act at the edge in real time. That difference between intelligence that analyzes and intelligence that acts is where the next generation of capability will come from. The Department of War has made it clear the future advantage lies not in analytics alone, but in autonomous systems capable of executing missions in complex, contested environments.