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Thirty-five years of delivery, aimed at five markets.

Zodiac is where the method lives — trusted-advisor service delivery across security, energy, water, and automation. Each business below is that method aimed at a market that needed it, with the same promise underneath all five: operational in 30 days, not planned in 30 days.

ShieldsUp Critical Grid Agility Fire & Ice Oasis Vedaki Health Disruptive Technologies Zodiac

One practice · five markets · shared people, suppliers, and standards

The through-line

What every business here inherits

Thirty-five years of service delivery in application development, security, technology, and automation — for enterprises and for founders working with nothing but a shift they can see coming. Four disciplines carry across all five businesses. They are the reason a security firm and a water-generation firm can share a bench.

Security posture Zero-Trust as a default, not an upgrade. Every entity is architected on the assumption that the network is already hostile — including the ones selling power and water.
Service delivery Named owners, written timelines. Scope, quote, and the team who will actually run it, on paper before the work starts.
Systems integration Power, water, storage, and cooling as one system. Components sourced against a site's real constraints rather than a catalog.
Commercialization MVP to market, then to an entity. Branding, market exposure, and the team build-out that turns a working prototype into a business with a P&L.

In disruptive times needs do not disappear — they shift. To thrive with disruption you must shift yourself and your organization.

Charlene Li

Five businesses

Security · Data center · Stations · Consumer · Emerging

Not a conglomerate and not a portfolio of bets. Each one exists because a client problem kept recurring until it deserved its own name. Three have their own companies and their own front doors; one is in build; the fifth is a standing watch rather than a business.

Security ShieldsUp ShieldsUp, Inc.
Managed security services
Website ·LinkedIn

Managed security for the systems that cannot go dark. Zero-Trust architecture, continuous monitoring, and secure workbench technology built for operational-technology environments — the plants, utilities, and industrial networks that were never designed to sit on a public network and now find themselves on one.

  • Zero-Trust Architecture
  • Managed Detection & Response
  • OT / ICS Security
  • Secure Workbench
  • Incident Readiness
Data center Critical Grid Agility Critical Grid Agility, Inc.
Power, water, storage, cooling
Website ·LinkedIn

Data centers that do not wait on an interconnect queue. On-site generation, solid-state supercapacitor storage, hydrogen fuel cells, and direct-to-chip liquid cooling — with SkyH2O WaterGrid‑X™ atmospheric water generation sized against local psychrometric data, so the site brings its own water as well as its own power.

  • Off-Grid Power
  • Supercapacitor Storage
  • Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  • Direct-to-Chip Cooling
  • SkyH2O WaterGrid-X™
Stations Fire & Ice Oasis Energy, food, and water
in one stop
Website ·LinkedIn

The convenience store rebuilt around what a stop actually has to supply. Multi-fuel dispensing and EV fast charging on one forecourt, a food offer inside, and potable water generated on site rather than trucked in — fire and ice under one roof, on corridors where the next real stop is an hour out.

  • EV Fast Charging
  • Multi-Fuel Dispensing
  • On-Site Water
  • Food Service
  • Corridor Development
Direct to consumer Vedaki Health Shopify storefront
Health essentials
In build

The consumer end of the portfolio, currently being built. Vedaki Health will be a Shopify storefront for everyday health essentials — a deliberately short shelf, chosen with the same vendor scrutiny the infrastructure businesses apply to hardware, and sold outright rather than through a subscription that is hard to leave.

  • Shopify
  • Direct-to-Consumer
  • Curated Supply
  • Fulfillment
Emerging Disruptive Technologies Not a business line —
a standing watch
Watching

Where the next one comes from. AI, autonomy, automation, mobility, and quantum computing change what a market needs faster than incumbents change what they sell, so someone has to be paying attention on purpose. Nothing is sold here. When something in this column looks ready to become a business, it goes through the same process the ones above did.

  • AI & Machine Learning
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Automation
  • Mobility
  • Quantum Computing
  • MVP Development

Operational in 30 days

The clock, not a slogan

The number is on the calendar because the sequence is short on purpose. Nothing is billed before there is a written scope, and nothing is called finished until it is running.

Day 0

A confidential conversation

You describe the business, the constraint, and what has already been tried. Free, no obligation, and covered by confidentiality before anything sensitive is said.

Days 1–5

Scope, quote, timeline

Written down, with the team named. Fit matters more than volume here — if this is not the right shop for the work, that is where you hear it.

Day 30

Running

Not a deck and not a pilot plan. The thing operating, with the people who will keep operating it, and a standing line back to us when it needs to change.

Start with a question, not a commitment.

Open door policy — on a security posture, a constrained site, a station location, or a product that has no company around it yet. Bring the problem in whatever shape it is currently in.

Based in Newport Beach, CA
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