Step inside Allen Control Systems in Austin, TX, for an exclusive tour with co-founder Steve Simoni. In this episode of Blueprint America, we go behind the scenes of Bullfrog, ACS's flagship AI machine gun redefining what’s possible for American defense manufacturing.ACS has one goal: Creating autonomous precision weapon stations to safeguard our military and partners, ensuring dominance on every battlefield.

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Blueprint America - Manufacturing - American Made - Automation - Bullfrog - Allen Control Systems

We spent the day in Long Beach with Arc CEO Mitch Lee to get a test drive of the Arc Sport, the company’s fully electric wake boat. From a full walkthrough of the boat's insane design and performance to an in-depth conversation with Mitch about the future of electrified watercraft, this is your front-row seat to the next wave of marine innovation. Arc is one of the most exciting startups in the country. Backed by investors like Andreessen Horowitz and led by a team of ex-SpaceX engineers, they're building the Tesla of the water.
Miramar Health is dedicated to helping veterans reclaim their lives through compassionate, structured addiction recovery programs. With personalized treatment plans and a focus on accountability, Miramar guides veterans through early sobriety and helps them avoid the common pitfalls along the way. If you or a loved one is struggling, visit https://miramarhealth.com to learn more.

In this exclusive tour, we go inside the Austin factory of Aalo Atomics, the Texas startup aiming to build 100 nuclear reactors a year. Aalo manufactures next-generation sodium fast reactors — small, scalable nuclear plants that could power tens of thousands of homes and reshape the global energy landscape.

In this episode of Blueprint America, CEO Matt Loszak gives the Demo Day team a tour of the Aalo facility and explains how each Aalo reactor can power 10,000 homes, and how a full “Aalo pod” of five reactors can deliver reliable, zero-carbon energy to over 50,000 households. With plans to manufacture 100 reactors per year, Aalo is moving at breakneck speed — going from incorporation to breaking ground in just three years, a pace unheard of in the nuclear world. Matt also shares the mission behind the company: to unlock the economics of sodium-cooled reactors, bring America back into the nuclear lead, and usher in the long-awaited Second Atomic Age.

In this exclusive interview, we go deep inside Base Power, the Texas startup redefining home energy with smart batteries and a bold vision for the future of the grid. From a behind-the-scenes tour of their high-tech lab to a demo of how their battery systems actually work, co-founders Justin Lopas and Zach Dell break down how Base is building for reliability, affordability, and grid-wide impact. We cover everything — from Texas energy politics to the coming grid bottleneck, why Base is winning over homeowners, and how their $200M raise is fueling expansion across the state. We even visit a Texas homeowner to get a look at his Base unit and ask him a few questions about what he really thinks of it. If you care about the future of energy in America, this is an interview you don’t want to miss.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:07 - Tour of the Base office and battery demo wall

5:58 - Tour of the Base lab

9:52 - What is Base Power?

12:41 - Customer testimonial at his home

16:04 - How does Base Power make money?

19:56 - Regulated vs. deregulated power markets in TX

23:55 - Base Power founding story

26:14 - The Grid

32:59 - How working at SpaceX and Anduril influenced Justin

34:31 - How Base advertises to Texans

35:52 - What it means to be Michael Dell's son

37:59 - The $200M Raise

44:08 - The gospel of Base

45:42 - Outro