Ambassador Series — TSA Concept Configuration (Product Rendering)
Kante Designs
We provide our clients with custom turnkey AI-powered interactive solutions for customer facing guidance and information exchange.
Designed, built, curated and supported by Kante.
Our Ambassador Series intelligent kiosks combine interactive virtual avatars, computer vision, multilingual speech, bidirectional ASL, and queue management to deliver accurate, consistent, 24/7 coverage. Purpose-built for airport security passenger guidance, government agency queue management, and commercial hospitality operations.
BUILT ON THE NVIDIA AI PLATFORM
Riva ASR/TTS · DeepStream · TAO Toolkit · ACE · RTX 5000 Ada · AI Enterprise
ABOUT
Redefining Human-Machine Interaction
We build AI systems that see, listen, speak, and guide — replacing repetitive manual processes with intelligent, multilingual, accessible automation at the edge.
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Government
Purpose-built for TSA checkpoint operations. Our platform tracks 6–8 passengers simultaneously, detects items requiring removal, and delivers animated guidance in 50+ languages with full ADA/ASL accessibility.
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Commercial Hospitality
24/7 AI concierge and front desk automation with PMS integration, keycard encoding, loyalty enrollment, and branded virtual agents — addressing 25-35% annual turnover in hotel front desk positions.
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Edge AI Architecture
Full offline operation capability with NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada GPU powering all on-device inference. No cloud dependency for mission-critical security operations. Six of seven processing layers run on NVIDIA technology.
PRODUCTS
Ambassador Series
A configurable AI kiosk platform with a common hardware and software foundation, deployed in two market-specific configurations. Ideas, Real Impact.
TECHNOLOGY
NVIDIA AI Platform — End to End
Every Ambassador unit is a full NVIDIA AI Enterprise edge deployment. Our architecture leverages the complete NVIDIA technology stack for production-grade performance.
NVIDIA Riva ASR/TTSSpeech recognition & synthesis, 30+ languages
NVIDIA DeepStreamMulti-camera video analytics at 30+ FPS
NVIDIA TAO ToolkitCustom model training & transfer learning
NVIDIA ACEAudio-driven facial animation & lip-sync
NVIDIA NIMOptimized inference microservices
RTX 5000 Ada24GB VRAM edge GPU, one per unit
AI EnterpriseFull production software license
Edge-first architecture
Six of seven processing layers — speech input, vision, spatial tracking, speech output, avatar rendering, and hardware inference — run entirely on NVIDIA technology at the edge.
Only the conversational AI engine uses a cloud service (via AWS GovCloud for FedRAMP compliance), with local LLM fallback for offline operation.
TSA CONCEPT CONFIGURATION
Passenger Guidance
Autonomous passenger guidance system for airport security checkpoints, addressing $2.6B in annual TSA staffing costs with 73% savings per position over seven years.
Simultaneous 6–8 person tracking via LiDAR
Real-time item detection (belts, shoes, laptops, liquids)
Photorealistic virtual agent with synchronized pointing
50+ languages via NVIDIA Riva ASR/TTS
Bidirectional ASL for deaf/hard-of-hearing passengers
Full edge AI operation — no internet required
HOSPITALITY CONCEPT CONFIGURATION
AI Front Desk & Concierge
Intelligent guest services platform for hotel lobbies, targeting a $5–6B+ U.S. addressable market across 55,000+ properties.
24/7 AI-powered check-in/check-out
PMS integration (Oracle Hospitality, Amadeus)
Brand-customizable virtual agent per hotel chain
Guest sentiment analytics via CV and NLP
Multilingual concierge and local recommendations
Loyalty enrollment and automated upselling
LEADERSHIP
Our Team
Years of combined experience across aerospace, automotive, defense, product design, manufacturing, and AI/ML, backed by engineering depth from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, and Georgetown.
James D. Maltbie
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
20+ years P&L leadership at Honeywell Aerospace and Leggett & Platt Automotive. BSIE and MBA from Arizona State University, Barrett Honors College, Magna Cum Laude. Deep expertise in manufacturing, automated production lines, supply chain optimization, and production scaling.
JDMaltbie@MaltbieGlobal.com
Benjamin A. Maltbie
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
MS EECS and MBA from MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO). BS Computer Science and BA Economics from Georgetown University. Baker Scholar, SERC Scholar. Former Amazon Software Engineer (4 years). Expertise in AI/ML, computer vision, and reinforcement learning.
BAMaltbie@MaltbieGlobal.com
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Patent-Protected Innovation
Two provisional patent applications filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, encompassing 40 claims across our core technology.
Provisional Patent Application 63/925,500
Autonomous Holographic Airport Passenger Assistance Robot System
Filed November 2025. Covers integrated kiosk architecture, multi-sensor fusion, edge AI processing, and autonomous passenger guidance systems.
Provisional Patent Application 63/975,750
AI-Powered Interactive Kiosk System with Integrated Computer Vision, Multilingual Support, and Accessibility Features for Security Checkpoint Passenger Guidance
Filed February 2026. Covers multi-kiosk deployment coordination, ASL communication systems, and advanced virtual agent interaction methods.
Government Engagement
SAM.gov registered UEI: QX46RZ7JWM45 CAGE: 188C71
Unsolicited Proposal submitted to TSA under FAR 15.6 under review for product development and sole-source production consideration in February 2026.
Active small business status.
Contact Us
Let's Build the Future Together
We're seeking strategic partners, technology collaborators, and investors to accelerate the Ambassador Series from prototype to production deployment.
jdmaltbie@maltbieglobal.com
PHONE
+1 602-882-7396
LOCATION
Phoenix, Arizona