New Field Brief for Security Leaders Details How One Force Replaces the Vendor Patchwork, with Machines, Software, and Licensed Agents Under the ASF-7 Escalation Model
Knightscope, Inc. , the security technology company building the nation’s first Autonomous Security Force, published “Command Brief,” the first field brief in its series, ahead of the Force’s live debut at GSX 2026, the Global Security Exchange, Booth #3905, September 14-16, 2026, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The Field Brief makes the case that the way most security programs are bought is broken and shows what an operation that answers to its client looks like instead: one system, one contract, one team that owns the outcome.
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New Field Brief for Security Leaders Details How One Force Replaces the Vendor Patchwork, with Machines, Software, and Licensed Agents Under the ASF-7 Escalation Model
Security leaders are accountable for everything that happens on the property. Yet most programs hand them half of a security operation: guards from one vendor, cameras from another, and monitoring from a third, each with someone else to point to when something goes wrong. Cameras see everything but decide nothing. People carry judgment and cannot be everywhere. And every false alarm and every 3 a.m. judgment call lands on one desk. As the Field Brief puts it: security leaders were sold half of a security program, and they have been wiring in the other half themselves ever since.
The Command Brief details how the Force closes that loop: deter, detect, respond, learn, with machines, software, and licensed agents united under one escalation path and one chain of command. At its center is ASF-7, the escalation model of the Force: seven levels across three layers, autonomous detection, remote command, and physical response, with an accountable human holding escalation authority at every level, every hour of every day.
“Security leaders were sold cameras that see everything and decide nothing, and guards who carry judgment but cannot be everywhere,” said William Santana Li, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Knightscope. “The Command Brief shows what it looks like when one Force owns the whole loop. The weight stops landing on the client’s desk; it lands on us.”
Engaging the Force begins with three steps: book a briefing, tell Knightscope what the security leader is accountable for by location, and avoid a demo or a pitch. Knightscope architects the Force, including the machines, sensing, remote command, and licensed agents per site, and shows it in a digital twin before anything ships. Then the Force takes the watch, and incident reports stop landing on the security leader’s desk unresolved. The alternative is the status quo: a gap nobody owned, an incident nobody saw coming, and a report with no clean answer, bearing the client’s name.
Knightscope serves 434 clients across 42 states, and to date the Company’s machines have logged more than 4.4 million autonomous hours in the field.
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