THE BORDERLANDS GROUP READINESS ASSESSMENT

WHO WE SERVE

Three audiences, one network

The relationships run in both directions — Western companies coming in, Ukrainian companies going out, and the governments that buy from both.

Western defense & technology companies

Proof your systems work under peer electronic warfare, and a path from battlefield demand to allied procurement.

START WITH THE ASSESSMENT →
Ukrainian innovators

Help meeting Western standards and reaching global markets — the same bridge, crossed in the other direction.

TALK TO THE GLOBAL MARKETS DESK →
Militaries & governments

The lessons of this war, from the people fighting it. Briefings and advisory engagements.

REQUEST A BRIEFING →

Why one firm serves all three

These are not three separate businesses sharing a letterhead. They are three sides of the same network, and each one makes the others work.

The frontline units that test a Western company's product are the same units whose requirements shape what Ukrainian manufacturers build. The attachés and embassy programmes that fund a purchase for one client are the channels that carry another client's letters of request. The ministries that brief a visiting government delegation are the ministries that decide procurement.

A firm that only pointed one direction would know a third of what this one knows.

ACROSS ALL THREE

ALL SIX RESULTS →
$58MM
Client sales closed
$150MM+
Raised by clients
15+
Companies served
STRIKE SYSTEMS · LOR
$50MM

US-government-funded letter of request, with a €100MM+ German follow-on in development.

AIR DEFENSE · CAPITAL
$100MM+

Raised by an air-defense interceptor company on the back of frontline letters of intent.

EARLY-STAGE STARTUP · LOI
$2MM

A letter of intent from a major Ukrainian company that helped the client into Y Combinator. A second LOI is in negotiation.

Clients are anonymised by category. Outcomes vary by product, performance, and demand. No specific outcome is guaranteed.

THE READINESS ASSESSMENT

Every engagement starts the same way

Three calls: a product and technical review with your engineering team, a team and readiness review against the Ten Rules, and a 60-minute decision call with Samuel Cook. You get a written readiness report and a clear decision. The fee is credited in full toward the engagement.

A fixed, credited fee. Scheduling begins within one business day.

THE BORDERLANDS GROUP, INC.
50.4501° N, 30.5234° E — KYIV · 38.9072° N, 77.0369° W — WASHINGTON
FOUNDED IN KYIV, 25 FEB 2022