Key Takeaways
- • Tranquility AI, Inc., a Jackson, Wyoming-based startup building AI tools for criminal justice investigations, emerged from stealth with venture backing from Quiet Capital, MaC Venture Capital and Champion Hill Ventures.
- • Its flagship product, TimePilot, consolidates video surveillance, social media, cell phone downloads and jail phone calls across 120 languages into investigative timelines and connection maps for law enforcement and prosecutors.
- • The company's first customer was Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, whose office used TimePilot-generated timelines in a case against Dijon Dixon, who subsequently accepted a plea deal.
- • Co-founders include former NSA Technical Director for Counterterrorism Jim Penrose (CEO), and David Harvilicz (Board Chairman), a former Acting Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy.
- • The Chester County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina is an early adopter and plans to integrate TimePilot with its records management system.
Summary
Tranquility AI, Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence technology for criminal justice investigations, announced its emergence from stealth mode with venture backing from Quiet Capital, MaC Venture Capital and Champion Hill Ventures, according to a Business Wire release dated February 26, 2025. The company's flagship product, TimePilot, is designed for both public and private sector customers and is positioned to speed investigative workflows. The platform ingests video surveillance, social media, cell phone downloads and jail phone calls in 120 languages, building detailed timelines and surfacing connections across the evidence.
The company was founded by veterans of cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence. Co-founder and CEO Jim Penrose served as Technical Director for Counterterrorism during a 17-year tenure at the National Security Agency. Co-founder and Board Chairman David Harvilicz is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and former Acting Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy. Penrose framed the product in terms of capacity constraints, citing rising violent crime, growing cybercrime complexity and slowing law enforcement hiring. Michael Bloch, Partner at Quiet Capital, said the firm views the team as positioned to reshape the market.
The release highlights Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams as the company's first customer. According to the release, fewer than half of violent criminals in New Orleans were being brought to justice, and TimePilot allowed his team to obtain a concise summary of evidence in minutes. In the prosecution of Dijon Dixon, accused of killing Cornelius Smith in 2019, prosecutors presented the defense with a timeline that included social media posts, one of which partially showed the serial numbers of a gun Dixon was holding. The release states this evidence led Dixon to accept a plea deal, and notes the case was featured in a Wall Street Journal article in September 2023.
The Chester County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina is another early adopter, using the software on high-stakes cases and planning to integrate it with its records management system to query and compare incident reports countywide. Sheriff Max Dorsey described TimePilot as having located a "needle in a haystack" during a complex investigation. The company describes its CJIS-compliant solutions as serving investigators across agency sizes. The release is company-issued and the customer outcomes cited are the company's own characterization.
The company was founded by veterans of cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence. Co-founder and CEO Jim Penrose served as Technical Director for Counterterrorism during a 17-year tenure at the National Security Agency. Co-founder and Board Chairman David Harvilicz is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and former Acting Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy. Penrose framed the product in terms of capacity constraints, citing rising violent crime, growing cybercrime complexity and slowing law enforcement hiring. Michael Bloch, Partner at Quiet Capital, said the firm views the team as positioned to reshape the market.
The release highlights Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams as the company's first customer. According to the release, fewer than half of violent criminals in New Orleans were being brought to justice, and TimePilot allowed his team to obtain a concise summary of evidence in minutes. In the prosecution of Dijon Dixon, accused of killing Cornelius Smith in 2019, prosecutors presented the defense with a timeline that included social media posts, one of which partially showed the serial numbers of a gun Dixon was holding. The release states this evidence led Dixon to accept a plea deal, and notes the case was featured in a Wall Street Journal article in September 2023.
The Chester County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina is another early adopter, using the software on high-stakes cases and planning to integrate it with its records management system to query and compare incident reports countywide. Sheriff Max Dorsey described TimePilot as having located a "needle in a haystack" during a complex investigation. The company describes its CJIS-compliant solutions as serving investigators across agency sizes. The release is company-issued and the customer outcomes cited are the company's own characterization.
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