Istari Digital

CybersecurityData & AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceSecurity AssuranceCritical Systems
Written By Cat Ntegra

  • Dr. Will Roper and Christopher Benson​

  • 2020​

  • Arlington, VA​

  • 51-200​ Employees

  • $55.05M, Series A

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Overview​

Istari Digital is a sovereign, peer-to-peer data collaboration platform for aerospace and defence, positioned as a "GitHub for secure industries." Led by former US Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, it supports live engineering programmes including Boeing and Blue Origin.​

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Key Technology Insights​

The platform lets organisations share engineering data across firewalls without copying or centralising it, keeping data sovereign and auditable. It handles ITAR, classification and IP natively, auto-extracts from CAD into machine-readable formats, and uses Universally Unique Identifiers and hashes to ensure collaborative integrity and prevent hallucination when AI agents query data on the platform. ​

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Industry Application​

Aerospace and defence is the lead sector. Boeing Australia’s externally accessible engineering environment for the Australian RAF’s MQ-28 enables ten-plus prime contractors to share data, giving suppliers OEM-level access. Blue Origin used agentic AI to design a lunar battery with a full engineering audit trail through Istari Digital. ​

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Strategic Perspective​

Istari is bringing Git-style collaboration to industries the internet was never built for. In early growth with high-profile programmes, its advantage lies in a sovereign, vendor-neutral architecture and defence credibility, positioning it to scale as engineering AI demands trusted data.

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