XTI Aerospace is an early-stage drone solutions company whose only current revenue comes from Drone Nerds, a Florida-based enterprise drone distributor acquired in late 2025. Drone Nerds operates as an OEM-agnostic distributor, carrying hardware and accessories from multiple manufacturers and selling to enterprise, government, and public safety customers across verticals like agriculture, construction, infrastructure inspection, and energy. Drone Nerds sells through three channels: wholesale to resellers, direct to enterprise and government customers, and retail through a South Florida showroom and e-commerce platform. Alongside hardware distribution, Drone Nerds offers services including training and certification, repair and maintenance, fleet sustainment, and compliance support — areas XTI is emphasizing to improve margins and deepen customer relationships beyond one-time hardware transactions. Beyond Drone Nerds, XTI operates two pre-revenue divisions: Autonomous Defense Systems (ADS), which is developing unmanned platforms targeting U.S. defense programs across agencies including the Marine Corps, Army, SOCOM, and DARPA; and Advanced Technology and Manufacturing (ATM), which aims to build U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for NDAA-compliant drone platforms. XTI's growth strategy combines organic expansion of Drone Nerds' service offering, acquisitions in the fragmented UAS distribution market, and positioning to capture demand from government customers increasingly restricted from purchasing foreign-made drones.