THE BORDERLANDS GROUP READINESS ASSESSMENT

WHO WE SERVE

Ukrainian innovators

Ukraine builds some of the most combat-proven defense technology in the world. Very little of it is structured to sell outside Ukraine.

The product is proven. What is usually missing is everything around it — a corporate structure Western investors recognise, export documentation, procurement-grade paperwork, and the relationships that turn a demonstration into a contract.

We help Ukrainian companies meet Western standards, find partners and investors, and reach allied buyers. The same network that brings Western companies into Ukraine carries Ukrainian companies out.

We have taken Ukrainian clients on cash-and-equity terms where it made sense. If the technology is strong and the funding path is real, the structure is negotiable.

WHERE COMPANIES USUALLY STALL

The corporate structure is not investable.

Western funds and allied procurement bodies need a structure they recognise. Getting this right early is cheaper than retrofitting it during a raise.

The proof does not travel.

Combat performance is the most valuable asset you have, and it is usually undocumented. We help turn field results into evidence a foreign ministry of defense will accept.

No route to the buyer.

Allied procurement runs through attachés, national programmes, and relationships built over years. We have those, and they work in both directions.

WHAT THIS HAS PRODUCED

ALL SIX RESULTS →
$58MM
Client sales closed
$150MM+
Raised by clients
15+
Companies served
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.

AIR DEFENSE · CAPITAL
$100MM+

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

PRE-PRODUCT · CASH PRE-ORDER
$60K

A buyer paid cash up front to pre-order ten units from a company that had a concept and no hardware.

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

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

  1. An honest assessment of export readiness — product, documentation, structure, and team.
  2. Introductions to Western partners, integrators, and investors who are actually buying.
  3. Support through allied procurement processes and the paperwork they demand.
  4. Representation at trade shows and in allied capitals.

Talk to the global markets desk

WE ALSO WORK WITH

Western defense & technology companies

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

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Militaries & governments

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

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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