Ambassador Series — TSA Concept Configuration (Product Rendering)

Kante Designs

We provide our clients with custom turnkey AI-powered interactive software 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

The Ambassador Series Kiosk

Redefining Human-Machine Interaction

We build AI software 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.

Ambassador Series

A configurable AI kiosk platform with a common hardware and software foundation, deployed in two market-specific configurations.

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/TTS - Speech recognition & synthesis, 30+ languages

NVIDIA DeepStream - Multi-camera video analytics at 30+ FPS

NVIDIA TAO Toolkit - Custom model training & transfer learning

NVIDIA ACE - Audio-driven facial animation & lip-sync

NVIDIA NIM - Optimized inference microservices

RTX 5000 Ada - 24GB VRAM edge GPU, one per unit

AI Enterprise - Full 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 systems for

airport security checkpoints

  • 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 and convention venues

  • 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.

Jim Maltbie

CO-FOUNDER and 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

Ben Maltbie

CO-FOUNDER and 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 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

Active small business status.