About

Panderose is a software firm building for defense and government, based in Prescott, Arizona. Founded in April 2026, Panderose develops compliance tooling and data systems for federal procurement.

Team

Hayden Fay

Hayden Fay

Co-Founder and CEO

Business operations and supply chain strategy. B.S. Global Business and Supply Chain Management, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Johnathan Hockersmith

Johnathan Hockersmith

Co-Founder and CTO

Software systems and AI architecture. Active NASA Space Research Fellow and EagleSat Payload Project Manager. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Tristan Overgaard

Tristan Overgaard

Proposals and Partnerships Associate

St. Olaf College.

Data Systems Intern

Research and Analysis Intern

Why

Complexity in federal procurement has outpaced the systems designed to manage it. Vendor relationships shift, ownership structures overlap, and risk builds up in the space between disconnected data sources. Panderose is closing that gap with software built for the problem, not adapted to fit it.

Mission

Panderose's current platform gives procurement teams visibility into risk before it becomes disruption. It's designed around the specific demands of defense and government programs, not commercial assumptions applied after the fact. That's the standard every system Panderose builds is held to.

Future

Panderose is built to grow. The current SBIR effort is only the beginning, laid on an architecture designed to extend well beyond a single program or agency. From here, Panderose is positioned to move into aerospace, logistics, and other domains defined by the same problem: hidden risk in complex systems.