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Guardian Bikes was scaled into a vertically integrated Indiana factory producing…

2026-04-07 · 14:22 UTC ·thebrianriley ·1 min read

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Guardian Bikes was scaled into a vertically integrated Indiana factory producing $100M+ revenue with 500,000+ sq ft and on-site tube lasers, robotic welding, CNC, powder coating and assembly. The founder argues the site is a rare, high-volume, high-mix deployment environment for robotics/physical AI; they're building an AI-native MES with full sensors and computer vision and inviting partners to test there.

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title: @thebrianriley: We built Guardian Bikes into a vertically integrated factory doing $100M+ in rev...
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published: 2026-04-07T14:22:26+00:00
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We built Guardian Bikes into a vertically integrated factory doing $100M+ in revenue - tube lasers, robotic welding, CNC, powder coating, assembly - all under one roof in Indiana with 500,000+ sq ft of production space. Here’s what I’ve realized: we’re sitting on one of the rarest assets in robotics and physical AI, a real, high-volume American factory with full operational control and the willingness to let you break things. Most robotics companies are building incredible technology but struggling to find real deployment environments. Demo cells and lab setups only get you so far. You need messy, high-mix, real-world production to actually train and validate. We have that. And we’re building an AI-native MES from the ground up with full sensor instrumentation and computer vision baked in. So here’s an open invitation: if you’re building robotics or physical AI for manufacturing - humanoids, manipulation, autonomous mobile robots, vision systems, whatever - and you need a real factory to develop and prove your technology, let’s talk. We’ll give you the environment. You bring the technology. We’ll build the future of American manufacturing together. DMs open.

Posted: 2026-04-07T14:22:26.000Z
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