Sight.
A ridge between two handhelds is a wall. The signal goes where the ground lets it, and a crest in the way ends the conversation.
01
Our mission
Somewhere past the ridge, a crew keys the radio and hears nothing back. Vexil Systems exists so that silence never decides what happens next.
We want to set the new standard for communication reliability.
We believe no crew should lose contact because of the ground they are working in. The people who head toward the fire and into the backcountry deserve to be heard, wherever the work takes them.
02
Why now?
Fires are getting bigger. Crews still can’t communicate.
- 155
- lives lost in wildland fire in the last ten years
- 62,500+
- homes destroyed in the last ten years
- $170B+
- in damage in the last ten years
The fires keep growing. The radios on the line have not changed, and crews still lose each other behind the ridges.
Sources: WFLLC 2025 Incident Review Summary; NICC annual reports 2016–2025; Climate Central, 2026 dollars.
Go to market
Search and rescue first. Then fire. Then expand.
03
2027
Search and rescue
Validate in the field.
We start with sheriffs and local rescue teams: training exercises and paid pilots that test coverage, deployment speed and endurance in real terrain.
04
2028
Wildland fire
Prove operational readiness.
Then our first wildfire contracts: proving reliability and meeting agency readiness criteria before the system goes to work on a fire.
05
2029
Expand
Disaster and commercial.
Then utilities, forestry and remote infrastructure, disaster response, and selected government programs. Each stage earns the next.
Why this route
The radios aren't changing. So we move the repeater.
We build a portable radio relay that flies itself to high ground. It carries a standard repeater up the ridge, lands just below the crest, and relays between radios that cannot reach each other directly. Crews keep the radios they already carry: no new device, no new channel to learn, the same call signs and the same procedures.
Deploy · Land · Relay · Leave
Three ways the ground beats a radio.
Distance.
Range falls fast in timber and canyon. The reach a radio has on open ground is not the reach it has on the line.
Motion.
The fire moves. The repeater stays where it was built. By the second shift the crew is on the far side of the hill from the nearest tower.
Figures appear here as they are sourced. None are quoted before that.