Kodachi is expandingbeyond software.

This is not an idea looking for a factory.

Kodachi OS is a privacy and security focused Linux distribution in continuous release since October 2013. It ships as a live and installable image, carries its own desktop dashboard, its own signed binary suite, its own licensing and update infrastructure and its own privacy network. The software business is already running and already has paying customers. What comes next is hardware, and hardware needs a distribution layer that Kodachi has no reason to build from zero.

From a download to a device.

The people who need a privacy operating system most are often the least likely to download an image, verify its signature and write it to a USB stick. The engineering problem is solved. The remaining problem is that privacy still arrives as a file. A verified physical product removes the hardest step from the customer experience and, in the same move, creates a unit price, a shelf position, a channel margin and a recurring service attachment that a free download can never carry.

Three lines. Three different asks.

Each line needs a different kind of partner and each sits at a different point on the curve. They are listed with their real status, because a partner who is told a research programme is a product will find out at the worst possible moment.

Kodachi brings the technology. A partner brings the scale.

Kodachi is not seeking investment, an acquisition or a transfer of control. It is seeking the one layer it has deliberately never built: the global machinery that moves physical product into the hands of customers. The split below is the whole proposition and is meant to be read as two complete halves rather than as a wish list.

Neither side is asked to rebuild what the other already has. That is the entire point of the arrangement.

Six ways this can be structured.

Commercial terms are set per partner, per product line and per territory, and are discussed privately. The structures below are starting points rather than a menu, and more than one can apply inside a single relationship.

Manufacturing should never require blind trust.

A privacy product a customer has to take on faith is a contradiction. The Kodachi supply chain is designed so that the factory is a manufacturing step and not a trust boundary. A production partner receives finished, signed images and never receives Kodachi signing keys. A partner manufactures, configures, distributes, promotes and sells. Kodachi alone defines what an authentic Kodachi release is.

The second column is engineering work and is stated as engineering work. Kodachi does not present it as shipped, and no partner will be told otherwise.

One brand, several form factors, one trust model.

The objective is a privacy and security product family a customer can recognize on a shelf, find in an enterprise catalogue, see on a partner line card and verify cryptographically in every form it takes. Software establishes the service relationship. A device adds hardware revenue, shelf presence, service attachment and a renewal, through a channel that already exists.

Four steps, from first call to pilot.

Kodachi is owner operated, so a qualified enquiry is reviewed directly by the founder. Commercial and technical questions are answered by the person who can decide them, which is what keeps the timeline short.