Brandon Johns — Founder & Chief Engineer

The story

Discipline from systems that can't fail, applied to everyday work.

Modulus is the founder's second act. The first was almost 25 years inside United States defense and aerospace programs, building and reviewing systems where "it usually works" was never an acceptable answer.

Much of that work ran through the Missile Defense Agency portfolio: the Long Range Discrimination Radar, Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications, and the Link 16 tactical data link. Most recently, he worked on the In-Flight Interceptor Communications System Data Terminal at Northrop Grumman, where his Staff Systems Engineer role included Technical Oversight & Advisory Team work and engineering direction across subcontractors including L3Harris and CesiumAstro.

Earlier, while supporting the Missile Defense Agency Chief Engineer, he led interoperability work on a Link 16 issue that returned roughly $12M per interceptor in inventory savings. He was the sole engineer staffing the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense War Room, where he helped set the program's ~$8B baseline and sat on the Ground-Based Interceptor reliability study that launched the Redesigned Kill Vehicle program. It started on the flightline: he began as a United States Air Force avionics technician on the C-17 Globemaster III and C-5 Galaxy.

That may seem far from scheduling a service crew, but the operating habit is the same: be honest about what is true, make the reliable choice the easy choice, and respect the people depending on the software when the day is already moving.

~25

Nearly 25 years on mission-critical defense and aerospace systems.

$12M

Per-interceptor inventory savings from the Link 16 interoperability fix.

~$8B

Program baseline helped establish through Ground-Based Midcourse Defense War Room support.

Why Scape exists

From the flightline to field service operations.

The discipline of systems that cannot fail should not live only behind a security clearance. Scape brings that standard into the everyday work of route-based service teams.

Where it starts

A missed step has a cost

On the flightline and in the engineering rooms behind high-consequence decisions, he learned that small, quiet failures are the expensive ones — the skipped check, the assumption nobody wrote down, the handoff that didn't happen. The work was about catching those before they became real.

What operators face

Small operators get the leftover tools

The people who run contracting and field-service businesses carry the same kind of risk in a smaller frame. A dropped stop, a route that doesn't add up, an invoice that never goes out — each one costs a real day. Too many tools add friction instead of removing it, and too much software for operators is built far from the work it is meant to support.

The bet

Same standard, smaller stage

So Modulus is building Scape to the standard its founder would want on a program that matters: reliability teams can count on, customer data that stays with the customer, and decisions the software explains instead of hides. For a crew on a route, a missed schedule is its own kind of mission failure — and that's worth building carefully for.

Where it's built

Made on the Space Coast

Modulus is based on Florida's Space Coast, where NASA, Space Force, defense programs, and SpaceX launch operations are part of the local engineering culture. The company is building here in America, by a team that lives and works near the kinds of high-accountability operations that shaped its standards, rather than outsourcing the product to people disconnected from the work.

How the team builds

Three standards the product will not compromise.

Reliability you can prove

"It usually works" isn't a feature. Scape should do the same thing every time, especially on the ordinary Tuesday when nobody's watching it closely.

Your data stays yours

The records a company keeps about customers, routes, jobs, and payments belong to that company. No quiet selling, no hostage games. That is not a checkbox; it is the deal.

Software that advises, never blocks

The tools should hand operators the obvious choice and the reasoning, then get out of the way. The business runs the day. Scape is the helper, not the gate.

Get in touch

Want to talk, or put Scape against a real route day?

The Modulus team reads what comes in. If your company runs routes, crews, customers, and service promises every day, reach out or start a trial with your own schedule.

Start Scape Trial hello@modulus-software.com