Our Bond, Inc.
Business Overview: Our Bond, Inc. (NASDAQ: OBAI)
Executive Summary
Our Bond, Inc. (operating as Bond, and known until its 2025 Nasdaq listing as TG-17, Inc.) is a small, early-stage personal security company. Founded in Delaware in 2017 by CEO Doron Kempel, Bond sells subscription-based, AI-assisted "preventative" security services delivered through a smartphone app, human Personal Security Agents, and 24/7 command centers.
Headquartered with operations reaching 28 countries, Bond's pitch is that most personal-security products (panic buttons, GPS trackers) only react after something goes wrong, while Bond's platform is built to intervene before an incident occurs — using phone-sensor data (location, motion, sound) to flag anomalies and route a live agent in, by its own claim, about four seconds. The company says it has handled over 1.28 million service requests and has invested roughly 350 engineering-years (~$70 million) building the platform. It is a Nasdaq-listed "controlled company": Kempel and officers hold about 95.76% of voting power.
Why it matters here: Bond is a genuine, revenue-generating operating business with enterprise (B2B) and direct-to-consumer customers, not a shell — but it is tiny, unprofitable, and newly public, which shapes every section below.
1. Core Business Model & How They Work
Bond sells recurring subscriptions to a suite of smartphone-based security services, monetized primarily through employers buying coverage for their workforce, supplemented by consumer brand partnerships and direct app-store sales.
[ Member activates Bond App ] ➡️ [ Phone sensors stream signals (location, motion, sound) ] ➡️ [ Command Center AI flags anomaly ] ➡️ [ Personal Security Agent engages member ] ➡️ [ Guide / deter / coordinate with 911 & first responders ]
Key Operational Drivers
- Subscription revenue: Annual or monthly plans sold mainly B2B (employers purchasing coverage for employees), plus consumer-brand partnerships and direct-to-consumer sales via the Apple App Store and Google Play.
- Human-in-the-loop AI: Automated command centers triage sensor data, but trained Personal Security Agents — not bots — make the actual intervention decisions, which the company positions as a trust differentiator versus pure software panic-button apps.
- Adjacent services: A drone first-responder service (piloted in Coral Gables, FL), executive protection/guarding, and security consulting extend the core subscription business into higher-touch, higher-margin engagements.
- Heavy reliance on infrastructure partners: The platform runs on AWS, Twilio, Bandwidth, the Apple/Google app stores, and open-source AI tooling — none of which Bond owns.
2. Business Segments
Bond does not report distinct financial segments; it is run and disclosed as a single personal-security services business. The practical split is by service tier and customer channel rather than reporting segment:
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│ Our Bond, Inc. │
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│ B2B Enterprise│ │ Consumer Brand & │ │ Executive Protect./│
│ (40+ employer │ │ Direct-to-Consumer │ │ Guarding/Consulting│
│ customers) │ │ (app store subs) │ │ + Drone Response │
└───────────────┘ └───────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘
3. Product Portfolio
| Service | Category | Purpose | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bond App (14 services, 8 "preventative") | Core subscription | Video monitoring, route tracking, scheduled check-ins, siren/alarm, anomaly detection | The core recurring-revenue product; preventative framing is Bond's main differentiator vs. reactive panic-button apps |
| 24/7 Command Centers & Personal Security Agents | Service delivery | Human agents triage AI-flagged anomalies and coordinate with 911/first responders | This is the operational backbone that justifies subscription pricing above a pure software app |
| Drone First-Responder Service (Coral Gables, FL pilot) | Adjacent service | Dispatches a drone ahead of/alongside human responders | Early-stage proof point for a scalable, lower-cost response layer; not yet proven beyond one market |
| Executive Protection & Guarding | Adjacent service | Traditional physical security services for high-net-worth/corporate clients | Higher-touch, higher-dollar engagements that leverage the same agent network |
| Security Consulting | Adjacent service | Advisory engagements for enterprise clients | Smaller, services-style revenue line |
4. Competitive Landscape
Bond's 10-K explicitly argues that most named competitors are panic-button providers rather than true like-for-like competitors, since Bond frames itself as "preventative" rather than purely reactive.
- Noonlight, Silent Beacon, Centeix Crisis Alert, ROAR For Good, Motorola Solutions Panic Button — reactive, button-press personal-safety apps/devices. Bond argues these only activate after a threat is already underway.
- Amazon — named in the filing as a company with the cloud infrastructure, consumer reach, and AI capability to build a competing platform if it chose to; the single most credible large-company threat.
- Traditional guarding/executive-protection firms — compete for the higher-touch end of Bond's business (executive protection, consulting).
PREVENTION vs. REACTION POSITIONING
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│ High [Bond] │
│ Prevention (AI-monitored, pre-emergency intervention) │
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│ [Traditional guarding/exec │
│ protection firms] │
│ Low │
│ Prevention [Noonlight] [Silent Beacon] [ROAR] │
│ (reactive, panic-button only) │
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Low Scale ────────────────────► High Scale
[Amazon — potential entrant]
5. Strategic Strengths & Risks
Strategic Strengths
- First-mover framing in "preventative" security: Bond claims to be the first company offering 24/7 pre-emergency monitoring at scale, rather than a reactive alert button.
- Sunk R&D investment: ~350 engineering-years and ~$70 million invested gives it a head start other small entrants would need to replicate.
- Diversified revenue channels: B2B employer contracts, consumer brand partnerships, and direct-to-consumer app sales reduce single-channel dependence, somewhat.
Real, Named Risks
- Going-concern-level capital risk: The company carries an accumulated deficit, a working capital deficit of roughly $4.1 million, and only about $599,000 of cash on hand at year-end 2025 against a ~$10.5 million net loss for the year — it will need substantial additional financing soon.
- Extreme customer concentration: Two customers accounted for 51.20% and 14.34% of total 2025 revenue — losing either would be material.
- Controlled-company governance: CEO Doron Kempel and officers hold ~95.76% of voting power, so public shareholders have minimal influence over strategy or board composition.
- Infrastructure dependence: The platform leans entirely on AWS, Twilio, Bandwidth, and the Apple/Google app stores; a pricing change, policy change, or outage at any of these could directly impair service.
- Thin competitive moat against well-capitalized entrants: The filing itself names Amazon as a company that could build a similar platform; Bond's technology is not patent-protected at a level that would block this.
- Liability and licensing exposure: Security-agency/officer licensing varies by state, and failures in a life-safety product carry outsized litigation and insurance risk.
6. Financial Overview
| Metric | Figure (FY2025) | Strategic Context |
|---|---|---|
| Net loss | ~$10.5 million (vs. ~$11.0 million in FY2024) | Losses narrowed slightly year-over-year but remain large relative to the company's size |
| Cash on hand (12/31/2025) | ~$599,000 | Very thin liquidity buffer for an unprofitable company |
| Working capital deficit | ~$4.06 million | Signals near-term financing need |
| Customer concentration | Top 2 customers = ~65.5% of revenue | High dependency risk on a handful of B2B relationships |
| Non-affiliate market value | ~$6.72 million (as of 6/30/2025) | Reflects a very small, thinly-traded public float |
| Shares outstanding | 20,673,185 (as of 3/31/2026) | Small-cap/micro-cap scale |
7. Summary Conclusion
Bond is a real, operating personal-security business with a genuinely differentiated "preventative" pitch, paying enterprise and consumer customers, and a meaningful (~$70 million) sunk technology investment — but it is a micro-cap company with a thin balance sheet, a going-concern-level cash position, concentrated customer revenue, and a founder who controls nearly all voting power. Its near-term story is dominated by whether it can raise additional capital and diversify its customer base before its cash runs out, not by its competitive positioning against reactive panic-button apps, which it has credibly differentiated itself from on paper. The larger long-term risk is that its core "prevention via phone sensors + human agents" model is not technically hard to replicate for a company with Amazon's resources — the filing names that risk itself.