We’re a virtual Blaze orange, helping hunters not shoot each other. (It happens a lot, actually)

No, not unless you’re laying in them, hunting turkeys. We are not cannabis aficionados and we sort of forgot that “blaze” is sometimes used as a verb.

We support R3 - Recruit, Retain, Reactivate. In a hyperconnected world, we’re trying to leverage technology to help make these activities safer and more acceptable to people who don’t participate, while still enabling the freedom of being “off-the-grid.” And, ultimately, 2A is the U.S.A.’s final line of defense. Anything we can do to stave off the 2A haters is a good thing.

We’re a lot like an AirTag or your Life360 app. But our social network never runs in the background. When it’s off, it’s off. When it’s on, we connect a sensor to your gun or bow that has a digital compass, and that compass overwrites the compass in your phone. Paired with the phone’s GPS, the app knows where you are and what direction you’re pointing. When you’re within 1 mile or so of another user, we can alert both users when someone is downrange.

For the first 1000 users, the app is free. It will stay free. Forever. After that, when the bugs are worked out, we’ll have to start charging. We anticipate an annual subscription of around $50 per year, and the hardware cost (the sensor) should be around $100, as a one-time fee.

You get premium access to the Blaze app, for life, at no cost. You get to help us identify bugs and test fixes. You get to give us feedback and help us design a faster, easier, more attractive product. And we’ll send you some free merch!

No. Your phone serves as the sensor if you don’t have one. But it then mostly only protects you, because your aim is no longer being tracked.

This is coming in 2027. We are exploring Meshtastic and CivTAK to integrate device-to-device communication. We’ve already integrated (x,y,z) velocity tracking, so we have some accuracy in GPS-denied environments. If you’re on StarLink, you’re already good to go.

Only if you want it to. We’ve all been out in the woods, and you hear a rifle shot, and thought, “Whoa, that was close,” and you had no idea someone was nearby. It’s startling. So this helps avoid some of that. There are three visibility settings, Seen by all, Seen by Friends only, and Hidden. In Hidden mode, the app knows you’re there, but you don’t appear on the map. So someone pointing at you still gets an alert.

Absolutely. If the landowner requires hunters to use the app, they should always be able to see if someone’s on their property and who it is. If you’re a hunter and you don’t hunt without permission, tell the landowners about Blaze.

Yes. But not yet. Future versions of the app will utilize the most advanced cybersecurity features to ensure our servicemen and women’s locations cannot be accessed. We’ll have fully secured CMMC compliant systems completely off the network for our friends in law enforcement and the military. We already have a military acronym. Battlespace Location and Aim Zone Emulator. (BLAZE)