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The Team

We are building what we wish existed. We are Six Tango.

    • Former airborne infantry officer
    • Advisor at NATO’s defense accelerator
    • MBA/MPP at Harvard, BS at West Point

    Nils Olsen

    Founder & CEO

    • Local-first LLM and RAG for cyber operations, deployable off-grid
    • SOCOM Ignite Technical Award; researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • BS and MEng, Computer Science, MIT

    Garrett Campagna

    Software Engineer

    • Technical lead for AI agent orchestration at WebMD
    • Team Lead and Security Champion at Veracode
    • BFA in Painting, Mass Art

    Jacob Giberson

    Solutions Architect

Where we come from

  • Harvard University
  • MIT
  • West Point
  • U.S. Army
  • NATO DIANA
  • QLab

Large language models don't really understand three-dimensional space. And so they're not good for developing course of action.

Col. Ryan Bell/101st Airborne

Our Story

Keep it simple for us infantrymen.

The idea arrived sideways. While forecasting how AI would disrupt entire industries, Nils started seeing his wife's work in a new light. Her firm builds bespoke digital solutions for companies: cleaning and analyzing years of historical data, then training AI on that data until it understands the nuance of a business and drives real efficiency and performance.

The realization followed quickly. Virtually every organization has empirical data it can use to assess and improve how it performs. Tactical military units have none.

He had already run into it himself. In his last year in the Army, leading an initiative that needed quantitative analysis, he found that gathering data on fitness, training, and injuries was difficult and unreliable. There was no infrastructure for it, and no expectation that anyone would try.

He mentioned standard deviation. The commander cut him off: keep it simple for us infantrymen.

That is the gap. Not a shortage of intelligence or of will, but the absence of any expectation that a unit could be understood quantitatively at all.

So Six Tango is building the data layer that delivers relevant insights to the people who need them most. The first product is an AI-powered mission planning platform for front-line units, because planning is where the data starts. From there: training management, physical performance, and equipment readiness, all overlaid on the same operational snapshot.

Careers

We're looking for the right people to join our team.

We shape the role and the offer around the right person, not the other way around. Tell us who you are. We personally review every submission.

We ask because our work is export controlled and tied to federal requirements. It is not used for anything else.