# Visie Drones

> US-based drone flight software engineering firm in Sanford, North Carolina. Develops and customizes PX4 and ArduPilot firmware, companion-computer autonomy, multi-UAS coordination, and Gazebo simulation. All developers are US citizens working in the US; no offshoring. Client-owned repositories; local-first, self-hosted toolchain.

## Services
- [Flight software](https://visiedrones.com/flight-software): custom flight modes, MAVLink/MAVSDK integration, companion-computer autonomy, path planning, multi-UAS task allocation, failsafe design.
- [Firmware overview](https://visiedrones.com/firmware): PX4 vs ArduPilot vs custom decision criteria.
- [PX4 firmware](https://visiedrones.com/firmware/px4): uORB modules, drivers, control allocation, ROS 2 / uXRCE-DDS, board support.
- [ArduPilot firmware](https://visiedrones.com/firmware/ardupilot): ArduCopter, ArduPlane, TradHeli, Lua scripting, drivers, tuning.
- [Custom flight stack](https://visiedrones.com/firmware/custom): ground-up firmware only when licensing, certification or architecture rule out open stacks. No proprietary firmware product today.
- [Simulation](https://visiedrones.com/simulation): Gazebo airframe/sensor models, SITL, HIL, multi-UAS scenarios, CI regression harnesses.

## Company
- [How we work](https://visiedrones.com/how-we-work): US-only developers, no offshoring, local-first toolchain, multiple-approach architecture documents, simulation-first.
- [Contact](https://visiedrones.com/contact) — hello@visiedrones.com
- Machine-readable data: https://visiedrones.com/api/company.json
- Legal entity: Visie Drones, LLC. UEI X9G2WNZEQU61. Principal: Ricky Whittaker.

## Not offered
- Airframe manufacturing, flight controller sales, drone imagery from Chinese-origin platforms.