Basil

Building factories to manufacture rockets, satellites, and jets faster and cheaper. VP Product & Eng @HadrianInc. Co-founded Optimist 🇺🇸

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

More Capital
More Factories
More Capabilities

Not stopping until we rebuild the industrial base 🇺🇸

[Chris Power @2112Power]

Hadrian is announcing a $260m Series C lead by @foundersfund + @Lux_Capital + @MorganStanley for (Factory Expansion financing). We're also welcoming new investors @altimeter, @1789Capital + investments from existing investors @a16z, @constructcap, @137ventures and many others.

This capital will be deployed to help our customers and the DOD manufacture faster, at scale, and onshore with @HadrianInc - creating millions of new, advanced manufacturing jobs over the coming decade.

We're announcing:

Factory 3 (4x the scale of Factory 2 for machining) in Arizona, online by Christmas 2025;

Factories as a Service for parts, assemblies and products driven by DOD and Customer demand, and our entry into Welding, Casting, Additive and other manufacturing domains.

Dedicated divisions for Maritime and Munitions to meet the scale and speed needed to reclaim our birthright as the industrial superpower of the world;

And... 500k sqft of new R&D and HQ Space to enable rapid capability expansion.

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@EverestBrady Congrats Ev!

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@zanehengsperger Lfg

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@braveben @myopia_dystopia going to steal this one

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

Congrats to everyone that made this possible

Y'all have inspired a generation by doing the impossible

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

“It is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever.”

Only in America. Congratulations to @elonmusk @SpaceX. This is the American Dream 🇺🇸💪🚀

[Shyam Sankar @ssankar]

We should choose good quests.  Ones that lead to prosperity for the American worker and a stronger nation. 

AI shouldn’t be about frivolous pursuits that further fracture our attention and connection to humanity.  We are a great nation with serious challenges, amongst them the CCP waging a war to supplant and subjugate us and the legitimacy/capacity of our institutions, public and private.  To win we must reindustrialize, produce more energy, empower the American worker – and use our asymmetric advantage in AI to do it. 

Frivolous applications of AI do nothing to address the greatest challenges of our time and adds more weight to the growing anti-AI movement which sees America’s AI companies as disinterested in their fate, exploitative, and craven. 

What are the outcomes? Whose life is being improved?  What are you delivering to the American people and the nation?  These are the essential questions that all of us working on AI must answer.

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

Huge fan of Markie and what her team is building at Poetic

[Markie Wagner @markiewagner]

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.

We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination.

While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy.

So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code.

When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective.

In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four.

Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99%+ quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

Hiring a few forward deployed engineers to work with me on a very special program

If interested, send me your github and details about the most impressive thing you've built

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@danshipper @simpsoka Hook it up Dan 🙏

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@bentossell did you end up opensourcing this? would love to see it

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@jaimalik @AmcaInc @caffeinatedcap @lightspeedvp @a16z @Lux_Capital Hell yeah

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@OpenAIDevs @AriX @romainhuet Epic @AriX

[The Hill & Valley Forum @HillValleyForum]

"If you rank a Toyota Camry through to Starship and what the hardest thing to make in America is, nuclear submarine is easily the first."

Hadrian's Chris Power (@2112Power) on the $2.4 billion bet to save America's submarine program:

"We just announced a joint Navy-Hadrian investment of $2.4 billion across a 2 million-plus square foot production facility in Alabama to create a thousand jobs dedicated to Virginia and Columbia-class submarine manufacturing."

"There are a million welders short. You couldn't go hire a million welders today to catch up on that hours deficit, it's simply a math problem."

"Because we're highly automated we can actually produce labor using autonomy and a new labor force paired with AI and robotics."

"It's about 1/20th of what we actually need to catch up."

The Hill & Valley Forum 2026

@HillValleyForum @HadrianInc

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@imjaredz @cognition @promptlayer Excited for you and Devin

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

Use cloud agents friends

[roon @tszzl]

people are walking around with their laptops slightly ajar to keep their agents running

[Basil @_bsiddiqui]

@macbohannon $320!

[Hadrian @HadrianInc]

We formalized an historic public-private partnership with the U.S. Navy: $2.4 billion total ($1.5B in private capital + $900M Navy investment).

Factory 4, our 2.2 million sq ft, Physical AI-powered Factory of the Future in Cherokee, will mass-produce critical components for Virginia- and Columbia-class subs, solving bottlenecks, creating 1,000+ high-skill Alabama jobs, and accelerating the Golden Fleet.

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

when claude launches a feature they kill 1000 ai startups

when hadrian launches a factory they create 1000 manufacturing startups

[Archive: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan @SecNavPhelan]

Today, at @HadrianInc’s factory of the future we delivered the generational investment required to rebuild our @USNavy shipbuilding capacity, bringing those jobs back to Alabama and putting American skilled laborers back at the center of American strength. A new kind of strategic partnership.

None of this could have happened without the leadership of @POTUS and both chambers of Congress.

[Chris Power @2112Power]

We will Reindustrialize America alongside @SECNAV