Britain’s defence industry is undergoing a revolution, and 33-year-old entrepreneur Alexander Fitzgerald is at its forefront. His company, Isembard, uses AI-powered manufacturing to produce components for drones, jet engines and robotics, helping meet surging demand as Britain and its allies rearm. @davidblairdt paid him a visit ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Bulkhead will make 60k drone motors per month

« Pour être libre, il faut être craint. Et pour être craint, il faut être puissant. » Le succès du tir d’un missile M51.3 depuis Le Vigilant est une nouvelle démonstration de la crédibilité de notre dissuasion, dont la pérennité est assurée.

Don’t be the sales guy who writes an 8 paragraph manifesto to your boss asking for a bunch of stuff. I’ve seen this way too many times, and it almost always does more harm than good Here’s how to ask for something from your boss in an email: -use bullet formatting -start with the ask, don’t bury the lead -provide 2-3 sentences of context (if necessary) laying out the problem being solved -describe why this solves the problem -describe what the implications are for your boss and/or the business if you don’t get what you’re asking for -stick to facts & avoid emotional editorializing -end with gratitude

Reindustrialisation won’t be delivered by city-regions, 10-year plans, or our large industrial companies. @andrewmkramer on building Britain’s industrial future, one software-first factory at a time. isembard.substack.com/p/one-…

America has 16,876 machine shops. 83% employ fewer than 20 people. Just nine employ more than 500. New defense companies are moving from prototypes to mass production, and every missile, drone, ship, and rocket they ultimately produce needs to run through one of these small shops. That friction is a national security liability. Connor Love and Collen Larson on the next generation of American manufacturing that gets built by smoothing it: a16z.news/p/the-case-for-the…

“Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.” Will Stone MP on why industrial capacity has to exist before we need it. Watch the full conversation: piped.video/watch?v=ZSGJ2sRY…

MP for Swindon North Will Stone sits down at the Isembard London factory to lay out his vision of the reindustrialisation of Swindon and the UK. Watch the full conversation on YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=ZSGJ2sRY…

We’re serving pioneers at every stage. Imperial College Space Society and the people behind its rocket engine. Watch the full film: piped.video/Ps0C1TM8ogM

Imperial College Space Society builds a rocket engine with the help of Isembard. Watch the full film here: piped.video/Ps0C1TM8ogM

Moving a huge CNC machine into Isembard’s new central London factory. Watch the full film here: piped.video/BWwD-n05KlE

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 @andyburnham wants to reindustrialise Britain. Read our collection of essays on what that means, with contributions from @bengglover, @paulmasonnews, @CitySamuel, @andrewmkramer, @dc_lawrence, @DEHEdgerton and others. 🔗futureoftheleft.substack.com…

Isembard Founder & CEO @AFitzgerald1992 shares how the company is building a new industrial base involving software, talent and franchising: "Rather than go set up a McDonald's franchise, you could go set up and own your own factory making rocket parts." "There's that scene from the Founder, that movie about McDonald's, where he's like, 'What makes an American town is the flag, the church house, the courthouse,' and he was saying the McDonald's, but my argument is it'll be an Isembard factory." "There's this product layer of products, whether it's an Apple iPhone or a drone. They all need to be made by the component manufacturing layer." "90% of the components in all these critical industries are made by small, medium-sized businesses." "We're building a new industrial base through, one, software robotics; two, really talented people; and then third is actually like our unique business model, which is franchising."

This is peak urbanism imo. Bringing factories back into cities will tap into far more competitive labour markets than the bau model of out of town business parks The trick now is to anchor new town and city extensions around new factories and workplaces

Isembard is building big things. We’re opening our new UK headquarters, the biggest factory in central London since World War II. Watch the full film: piped.video/BWwD-n05KlE

Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)

“Our national productive capital sits in Units 4–6 of the industrial estate off the A-road ten minutes from where you’re reading this.” writes @andrewmkramer on building an armada of software-first component factories to reindustrialise Britain. 🔗 futureoftheleft.substack.com…

This episode is sponsored by Isembard, the industrial base for the West. If you want to own and operate a factory in Britain, America, Germany or France, email franchise@isembard.com and go reindustrialise the West.

1/ Will Blyth spent twelve years in the British Army, then went to Palantir, then Helsing. Now he runs Arondite, the London defence company named after Lancelot's sword. We interviewed him about the software Britain's next war runs on. His story:

Hugely exciting reason to be cheerful. @andrewjb_ is a force of nature.