[01] hero · sha:5302cf3deb77 · build:2026-04-21T09:01:57.630Z

Centennial Defense Systems

Fail-closed, audit-first, deterministic software for operators who cannot afford execution drift.

It doesn't answer. It testifies.

See what ships →

[02] ships · sha:5302cf3deb77 · build:2026-04-21T09:01:57.630Z

What ships.

Every product enforces the same three invariants in code: fail-closed, audit-first, deterministic. All shipped products are available today.

Archivist

[ship-01]

Local-first investigative evidence intelligence. Content-addressed, tamper-evident archives with chain-of-custody export and a standalone verifier. macOS. Zero network calls during operation. v6.1.0.

Personal $49 · Professional $99 · Investigator $249/year

archivist.tools →

Fleet Watch

[ship-02]

Process governance for AI workloads on a single machine. Port, GPU, and repository collision prevention with a hash-chained audit log. Local only. Zero configuration.

pipx install fleet-watch

MIT · v0.2.0 · PyPI →

Sworn

[ship-03]

Deterministic, fail-closed AI code governance. Git pre-commit and CI-diff gates that emit tamper-evident evidence logs. CMMC-scoped compliance support.

pip install sworncode

Apache 2.0 · v0.4.0 · GitHub →

In progress.

Buddy Core — Behavioral regulation runtime. Operator physiological and cognitive state as a governed input to system safety. Phase 1, internal.

Agent Civilization — Empirical study of governance primitives in multi-agent populations. P1 paper under submission for NeurIPS 2026.

SafetySpine — Fail-closed governance kernel for autonomous drone systems. SBIR-track; Navy FY26 topic selection in progress.

[03] believe · sha:5302cf3deb77 · build:2026-04-21T09:01:57.630Z

What we believe.

Most software is built on the assumption that the network is there. Centennial Defense Systems is built on the opposite assumption.

The environments that need governance most — a disconnected operator on a ship, an aircraft at 35,000 feet with no WiFi, a forward-deployed system where calling the cloud for policy is not an option — are the environments where cloud-dependent security models fail.

So every product is built to run without the network. Policy is evaluated locally. Evidence is captured locally. Decisions produce receipts. Uncertain states halt instead of guessing.

Receipts prove what happened under policy. They don't outrank it.

[04] who · sha:5302cf3deb77 · build:2026-04-21T09:01:57.630Z

Who.

CJ Chanhnourack. Founder, Centennial Defense Systems, Inc. United States Marine Corps veteran — aviation supply, Hawaii. Exercise science at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Started writing software in December 2025. Founded 2026. Solo-operated. CAGE-registered Delaware C-Corp. Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Writing: The Internal OS on Substack — cjchanh.substack.com

Code: github.com/cjchanh

[05] engagements · sha:5302cf3deb77 · build:2026-04-21T09:01:57.630Z

Engagements.

Product inquiries, engagement proposals, SBIR partnership discussions: cj@centennialsystems.com

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