New Field Brief Compares Traditional Guard Firms, Technology Point Solutions, and the Autonomous Security Force, and Settles Who Actually Answers for the Outcome

Knightscope, Inc. (NASDAQ:KSCP), the security technology company building the nation’s first Autonomous Security Force, today published "Competitive Comparison," the second field brief in its series, ahead of the Force’s live debut at GSX 2026, the Global Security Exchange, Booth #3905, September 14-16, 2026, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The Field Brief makes the case that security sold in pieces is broken by design and shows what buyers actually get, and who actually answers, before the contract is signed.

Physical security is usually sold in pieces: guards from one vendor, cameras from another, monitoring from a third, and each vendor has someone else to point to when something goes wrong. Traditional guard contracts buy headcount, a warm body on a schedule billed by the hour, from an industry whose turnover regularly exceeds 100% annually and whose controlling shareholders often sit abroad. Technology point solutions sell a piece of the puzzle, cameras, sensors, and apps, with verified human response left to a separate plan. In both models, accountability splits across whoever is on shift and whichever vendor answers the phone.

The Field Brief runs the comparison line by line: what the buyer is purchasing, ownership and data jurisdiction, accountability, coverage model, escalation and verification, workforce and retention, executive protection, pricing structure, and track record. The Autonomous Security Force column reads differently on every line. One managed operation, machines, AI-driven software, and licensed armed and unarmed agents, under a single contract. American-owned and controlled, publicly traded, with U.S.-only operations and no foreign parent. One accountable entity, one escalation path, one audit trail under the ASF-7 model, end-to-end. Agents who hold equity in Knightscope with full benefits and paid training from day one. Executive protection included under the same escalation model. And a contract scoped to outcomes, not billed by the hour or the SKU.

"Ask two questions before signing anything: what am I actually getting, and who actually answers when something goes wrong," said William Santana Li, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Knightscope. "Against a staffing firm or a stack of point solutions, there is only one honest answer to the second question. That is the entire point of the Force: stop managing vendors, start commanding a Force."

The stakes, as the Field Brief frames them, are the difference between keeping the patchwork, a gap nobody owned, an incident nobody saw coming, a report with no clean answer and the client’s name on it, and commanding a Force: machines, software, and licensed people under one contract, one escalation model, and one accountable team.

Knightscope serves 434 clients across 42 states, and to date the Company’s machines have logged more than 4.4 million autonomous hours in the field.

Security leaders can download the "Competitive Comparison," bring their current vendor stack to a briefing to map it against the Force, and are invited to reserve time in advance with the Knightscope team to discuss their needs in the Signals VIP Lounge at Booth #3905.

About Knightscope

Knightscope is a security technology company building the nation's first Autonomous Security Force. As a managed service provider, the Company delivers autonomous machines, AI-driven software, and licensed security agents as one accountable operation, under one contract, to help protect people, property, and critical infrastructure. Knightscope’s long-term mission is to make the United States of America the safest country in the world. Learn more at www.knightscope.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the Company’s goals, growth, prospects, product roadmap, and outlook, including expectations regarding the launch of the Autonomous Security Force, the ASF field brief series, and future financial performance. Actual results may differ materially due to the risks and uncertainties described under "Risk Factors" in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as updated by its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update them except as required by law.

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