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About True Blade
For more than twenty-two years True Blade has provided IT and technology services built on careful engineering up front and continuity of the same principals. Clients have ranged from startups to large enterprises; several relationships have lasted more than fifteen years. We operate with national reach and are now based in Utah as well as our long-standing locations.
Our work is the long years of the same principals applying judgment up front so quality and relationships stay perpetual.
We concentrate on two areas where the need for accountable infrastructure is high: finance firms that must satisfy regulatory and data-control obligations, and aerospace/defense companies in the dual-use ecosystem that require an IT vendor or Outsourced CTO. The same approach serves uncarpeted workspaces—manufacturing, energy, industrial, and outdoor sites—whose growth depends on network, communications, and security infrastructure they have often never been shown in open-source or Cisco form. We like carpeted workplaces. We also have decades of work in uncarpeted environments and, in some cases, prefer them.
How we choose tools
Commercial enterprise software vendor relationships are frequently adversarial. Control of data, future licensing, telemetry, and exit costs sits with the vendor. We therefore use open-source software to the maximum practical extent and Cisco network and communications infrastructure. Linux is preferred for security and for freedom from Microsoft enterprise complications. The systems we deploy are secure by design and do not upload client data. This is how we bring dignity and add to dignity: the client keeps ownership.
Best-Cost means superior intellectual effort applied at the beginning so that quality and the relationship become perpetual rather than repeatedly renegotiated. It is not the lowest price. USA-origin people and open-source accountability are part of that judgment. Cheap or foreign substitutes have not produced the same results in our experience.
As a Best-Cost example of infrastructure we own and control, here is a live preview of real-time weather in southwest Utah from our Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 weather station. We previously operated earlier versions of this station in extreme weather locations in New York, on Long Island and in Manhattan. Fifteen-plus years, same principals, same weather hardware.
AI
We use AI where it personalizes cleanly to an expert user’s real needs—reducing repeat work without creating a new reporting or data-exfiltration layer. Large language models often report too much, retain too much, and shift control outward. Our boundary is the same one we already apply to infrastructure: non-invasive, open-source where possible, no automatic upload of client data, and under the control of the person who knows the work. If a use of AI cannot meet that standard, we do not deploy it. The value is not general automation; it is precise assistance that leaves dignity and ownership intact.
Standards
Ops, Execution, Tools, and People are held to high standards of care. Interactions are meant to stay free of money conflicts and operational conflicts. 24×7 concern and accountability are present without theater. People who work with us should feel the execution is quiet and the result is excellence.
We invite a conversation if the above matches the environment you are trying to keep clean while you grow.