Patriot One Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: PAT) (OTCQX:
PTOTF) (FRANKFURT: 0PL) (“Patriot One” or the “Company”), is
pleased to issue the following letter from Patriot One CEO, Peter
Evans.
Dear Shareholders,
This letter is a bit later than I would have
preferred, having just completed a productive and successful week
at the ISC West, Vegas trade show last week, and finishing off a
very busy fiscal year end.
It has been a very compelling and busy quarter.
The acceleration is palpable. The first three months of the year
were about refreshing our sales and marketing activities, getting
very focused on specific customer segments, and getting out and
building pipeline as the world started to re-open from COVID-19. In
these past 90 days, it’s been about customer engagement, showcasing
our products, and selling. There is an old saying: “Be careful what
you wish for, you just might get it.” Ninety days ago, we “wished”
to engage with our key marketing segments, connecting and
introducing Patriot One to key security decision makers in casinos,
live entertainment providers and other organizations in our target
markets. Today, we are in weekly (or even daily) conversations with
those organizations, working with them to prepare for deployments
and supporting them with security operations design.
I am very pleased with the business progress,
and we have line of sight on a robust pipeline of sales
opportunities that we are working to close this quarter, or shortly
thereafter.
ISC West Conference
Last week we executed on a successful trade show
in Las Vegas for the International Security Conference &
Exposition – also known as ISC West. This event was timely, because
it represented a strong culmination of our efforts to execute on
the sales and marketing strategy we put in place six months ago,
ensuring complete alignment and validation of our technology, our
sales engagement strategy, and our market positioning. We had a
great show with outstanding performance of the solution and some
“Wow” moments with key customers, partners, and analysts.
We executed a different approach for the ISC
show this year, intentionally staying away from the exhibit floor
and the distraction of the “Trick-or-Treaters,” and instead
creating a demonstration space where we could have focused, quality
conversations with key customers, industry leaders and prospects.
With the significant reduction in traffic and exhibitors at the
show due to the pandemic, this strategy worked well for us.
Along with demonstrations at the ISC venue, we
also hosted customers at one of our casino customer locations. This
proved invaluable to progressing our sales initiatives. By
witnessing the solution operating effectively in a live environment
and allowing a constant fast and frictionless entry by casino
patrons, these customers were able to have an “Aha” moment and
understand the steps they needed to take to implement our solution
correctly. It was also pleasing to hear one member of the security
staff say, “Prior to this solution, it was a mess. We were wanding
everyone, and the line was 50 yards long down the hallway, which
frustrated customers, vendors and our employees. This solution has
been a lifesaver. Everyone just walks in, the customers are
happier, the vendors are happier, and we are happier.”
I am extremely pleased with how our products
measured up against the competition and am proud of how our
engineering group has delivered a threat-detection solution that
independent third-party testing shows detects items that the
competitors cannot, and that traditional walk-through-metal
detectors often miss.
Quarterly Observations – Creating Customer
Alignment
Since my last letter, we have continued to
aggressively focus on customer engagements. With a clear
understanding of customer needs from the prior quarter, we have
been refining and further enhancing the solution, and working with
customers to ensure that we have the end-to-end security operations
correct.
As previously stated, the process to close these
sales opportunities is complex. There are risks and liabilities to
organizations that are adopting new technologies and they are being
prudent in deployment, particularly larger organizations, teams,
and leagues. A typical engagement will progress through
site-surveys, trials and pilots (sometimes in multiple locations),
a redesign of the customer’s security operations, IT integration,
proposal negotiation and contracting, and budgeting. It’s a complex
sales cycle. In all cases, we are working with our customers on
pragmatic and phased deployments in alignment with their business
needs. Many of these large opportunities have requested specific
features and functionality which, when developed, should open the
gateway to broader deployments.
In the last newsletter, we highlighted a
demo-day completed in Vegas with positive results. The work and
strategic discussions in this past quarter have resulted in
demonstration days for three major sports leagues, which will occur
in August during highly attended events. These opportunities will
allow us to showcase our solution under the right conditions with
the right audience. We expect these league showcase events to be
attended by most of the teams in those leagues.
Further, I am very pleased that we have been
selected out of a group of competitors to deploy our solution for
evaluation and then later implementation into the headquarters of a
U.S. Federal organization. Like all Federal activities, I expect
this to be a longer process that will have solid growth over
time.
In summary, this quarter has been an amazing
learning opportunity for us to better position our products to meet
the needs of our customers and for our customers to better
understand the capabilities of our core solution. More importantly,
we have laid the groundwork for meaningful and productive customer
partnerships in the future.
Focus on Products and
Technology
Our Multi-Sensor Gateway (MSG) and Video
Recognition Software (VRS) solutions are working extremely well in
our target markets. In the past quarter, we were participants in
three independent technology reviews (or “bake-offs”) to assess the
technical efficacy of our products. I am pleased to share that we
were successful in winning all three of these bake-offs and
securing one small initial order from one of those
organizations.
Further repeating my comments from the last
newsletter, after meeting with many organizations in multiple
industries, it’s clear that the right solution for our customers is
not a simple matter of selling a pair of MSG towers. There is a
complex equation to work through to balance the detection rate, the
alert rate, the costs, the security operations model, spectator
throughput, and environmental conditions. These organizations do
not take lightly a shift from prior technologies to new untested
technologies, and are taking us through a series of progressively
complex tests to evaluate the solution before deploying more
broadly.
We continue to enhance the efficacy of the
solution, focusing on the detection of all threats required to meet
the safety standards published by the DHS, the sports leagues and
others. These same pro sports groups I mentioned earlier have also
partnered with us to identify future feature requirements to help
them improve their patron experience. We will continue to
collaborate with these groups to develop features and functionality
to further align our technology roadmap.
One example of how this type of collaboration
manifests itself came this quarter, when we announced the release
of our enhanced Alert Center capabilities that provides increased
operational flexibility to security operations. Alert Center gives
customers the ability to orchestrate alerts, so they go to the
right people or groups of people. More importantly, they enable
staff to receive alerts and get situational intelligence through a
mobile phone app, so they can respond more quickly and efficiently
to developing security and patron-experience-compromising events.
This is just one of the ways in which Patriot One is digitally
transforming the security business – instead of standing around
looking at people and monitors, guards can be out on the floor
responding to actual alerts in real time.
In Conclusion
ISC was a quality opportunity for everything to
“Come Together” in a very integrated manner. We have a high
performing solution - driven by continuous enhancements to our AI
engine - that outperforms the currently deployed
walk-through-metal-detection technology and security standards, and
significantly outperforms the competition. We have increased our
visibility and awareness in our target markets both through our
sales and marketing efforts, and through specific steps we’ve taken
to align ourselves with critical organizations within those
markets.
By addressing and surpassing these hurdles, we
are now being invited to showcase the technology in broader forums,
leagues, and venues where multiple organizations, teams, law
enforcement organizations, and others will witness our
capabilities.
The next communications will be an investor
Q&A webinar, scheduled for early September. By then, I hope to
be able to announce specific agreements. We welcome all questions
from our investors on that call and will also focus on addressing
the evolving vision and market opportunities for the Company, and
key customers who are adopting our vision and solutions to
fundamentally change their business models.
Finally, the best way that we can drive
shareholder value and stock price is to deliver revenue. This is
our priority and why the whole team is focused on customer
engagement.
Best regards, Peter
For further information, please contact:
Patriot One Technologies Inquiries
info@patriot1tech.com www.patriot1tech.com
Media ContactAndy
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