Who we are
We’re a small Los Angeles–based collective of people who give a shit — about the work, the mission, and the people we build for. We come from different backgrounds but share one core trait: everything we build is designed to scale and engineered to perform. We’ve run projects across industries, cities, borders, and budgets — from gritty field deployments to high-spec tech stacks — and we’ve built things that last. When you work with us, you’re not getting a platform, a “solution,” or some glossy pitch deck. You’re getting a system that works, a team that shows up, and tools you can count on when it matters.
While our roots are in LA — fire-prone, fast-moving, and full of opportunity — we’ve designed everything we do to be flexible enough to work anywhere. Need a network of smoke sensors for the Sierra foothills? A weather array on the coast of Dover, England? A perimeter sensor net in the desert? We’ll figure it out. Everything we make is modular, rugged, and honest. We don’t overpromise. We overbuild. And once it’s live, we’re not disappearing — we’re here to make sure it keeps working.
Situational Infrastructure
As you can see in our product lineup, we focus on devices and technology that put eyes and actions on things and in places where humans can’t — or where you need AI/ML to filter noise so a human knows what to do, now. Situational infrastructure means building the systems that don’t just sit there — they sense, interpret, react, and communicate. They’re fast. They’re embedded. They’re tuned to reality instead of theoretical edge cases. Whether it’s a fire starting in a canyon, a power transformer spiking before failure, or a gas leak before sunrise, we believe the first response shouldn’t depend on someone noticing a smell or a glow on a hillside. It should already be known.
This kind of infrastructure doesn’t look like what we’ve been told to expect. It’s not always big, expensive, or permanent. Sometimes it’s a sensor on a pole. Sometimes it’s a network of them. Sometimes it’s a cluster of AI models running in a garage, watching your city breathe. It’s modular. It’s deployable. It goes where it’s needed and evolves as the world changes. We build infrastructure that sees — not just data, but context. And that context is what allows cities, utilities, and people to act with clarity instead of panic. That’s what we mean by situational. That’s what makes it infrastructure.
Ships to 200 countries?
Yeah, that’s how we think, that’s how we plan. That’s how we’ve operated. Have the resources, the connections, the people, the knowledge, to get what the client needs done, exactly, and on time. It sounds like a lot but the types of devices we make require that level of thought.
Not a real picture, but how we feel onsite.
Core Values
Yeah, we got those.give a shit
We don’t build for clicks, metrics, or trend cycles. We build for fire crews, infrastructure operators, and people who need tools that actually work. We take it personally. Giving a shit means we show up, we overprepare, and we keep fixing it until it’s right.
earn it every time
Trust isn’t granted. Whether we’re building a prototype for a hillside or deploying a hundred nodes across a city, we approach every project like we have something to prove — because we do. Every signal, every alert, every data point has to be earned.
keep it real
No hype, no vaporware. Just well-engineered, field-tested hardware and software that does what we say it does. We don’t oversell. We’d rather surprise you with what actually works.
No Lazy Work
We don’t copy-paste. We don’t cut corners. We know that the hard, annoying part is often where the real work is — so we do it. This is infrastructure. Someone’s going to rely on it. That matters.
Think Situational
Every deployment is different. Every risk is different. We design for the real world — not for ideal conditions. Modularity, adaptability, and failover aren’t features. They’re the baseline.
only human
We fail. We succeed. Things are forgotten. Steps can be missed. It’s about how we act in between. How do we react. How do we help.
overcommunicate
No one is allowed to say they didn’t get the memo, didn’t know, was unaware. We generate data which means we need to be really good at sharing it -especially with ourselves, our clients, our partners, everyone.
why 3m1
Because infrastructure isn’t optional when the stakes are real. 3M1 exists to build the things that keep working when conditions are bad, bandwidth is zero, or time is running out. We design systems that feel more like a tool than a product — the kind of systems you deploy once and trust for years, because you know exactly what they’re doing. We don’t believe in selling complexity or vapor. We believe in signal clarity, durability, and real‑world response. Every device we make is tuned to local reality — whether that means broadcasting over foothill Wi-Fi in a canyon, reporting heat and VOCs from a remote sensor in the desert, or capturing a powerline anomaly before it becomes a fire risk. Our hardware isn’t passive. It’s aware. It listens, watches, and tells you what matters, right now.
What makes 3M1 different is that we’re not just technologists — we’re responders. We’ve worked across industries and operating scales, from solo builds to multinational rollouts. But the thing we always come back to is this: when the signal comes in, it has to be right. That’s the north star. Our systems are designed with that urgency. They’re modular, fast to deploy, and made to blend in. They work offline. They boot instantly. They post locally first, and cloud only if you want it. When fire, weather, or uncertainty shows up, you don’t need a pretty dashboard — you need tactical truth. That’s what we make. Situational infrastructure. If you want to understand the state of a place — not just monitor it, but know it — this is how you do it. That’s why we’re here.