We're not customer-heavy yet.
We're picking the first three.
SmartTec is in pre-launch. We're running a closed design-partner program for three teams who want launch pricing and direct engineering access ahead of Q4 2026 power-on.
Apply for design partnerThree slots remaining.
Slot sized for ~16 nodes of continued-pretraining or fine-tuning workload on dedicated InfiniBand fabric.
Slot sized for Cerebras CS-3 or dedicated GPU capacity serving low-latency production inference.
Slot sized for up to 2 MW of NDAA §889-compliant, single-tenant, US-built-hardware deployment.
If one of these is you,
the math usually works.
AI product teams
You have: A fine-tuned model in production and a cloud bill that doubles every quarter.
You get: Dedicated GPUs at a fixed monthly number — no noisy neighbors, no surge pricing, no egress surprises. Your invoice looks the same in month one and month twelve.
Inference-heavy SaaS
You have: Users who feel every 100 ms, and unit economics measured in tokens per dollar.
You get: Capacity tuned for serving: batch-optimized GPU nodes or Cerebras CS-3 for the fastest tokens available. We size against your real traffic, not a benchmark.
Research labs & universities
You have: Training runs that need two weeks of uninterrupted compute, a few times a year.
You get: Reserved burst windows on a private InfiniBand fabric — schedule the run, get the whole allocation, pay only for the window. No queue, no preemption mid-run.
Federal & compliance-sensitive
You have: A mandate: NDAA §889 supply chain, US-built hardware, and single-tenant isolation.
You get: US-based operations, single-tenant physical isolation, audit-ready telemetry, and supply-chain documentation scoped per contract under NDA. Compliance requirements are engineered in from the design phase.
Four steps. No mystery.
Scope call
30 minutes on your actual workload: model sizes, tokens per day, latency targets, compliance needs. No slideware.
Sizing + fixed quote
We run your numbers through the same calculators on this site and hand back a configuration and a fixed price. You can check our math.
Contract + onboarding
Reserve capacity, migrate data over the fiber, get SSH / Kubernetes / Slurm access. A named engineer owns your onboarding.
Live, with receipts
Real-time telemetry dashboard, uptime and performance against SLA targets, and a human who answers when something looks off.
The chemistry is proven. The site is ours.
No borrowed case studies. Everything below is verifiable today.
Proven LFP platform
z1power — a founder-owned partner company — has shipped LiFePO4 batteries to US customers since 2021: 4,000+ cycle cells, integrated per-cell BMS, 5-year warranties. Verifiable at z1power.com.
Engineered for compute
SmartTec engineers z1power LFP modules with commercial-grade inverters and UPS into behind-the-meter storage, orchestrated by AURA. Sub-10ms failover is the design target, validated at commissioning.
Deployed on owned ground
30 acres, three 3,000 sqft buildings, a 3 MVA transformer, and 100 Gbps symmetrical fiber under signed carrier quote — owned, not leased. No interconnection queue, no landlord.