You're making hundreds of decisions every day with limited information. The difference between the right call and the wrong one often comes down to experienced perspective and situational judgment — the kind that goes beyond what any LLM or LinkedIn post can surface. That's what 12o2 brings.

See how we turn capabilities into commercial products.

Beyond advising, 12o2 invests in early stage companies turning bleeding edge AI and hardware capabilities into commercial space and defense products — backing founders who value partners who have executed and shipped in this world, not just funded it.

Adam Barton spent over a decade building product at some of the most demanding consumer and enterprise tech companies in Silicon Valley, developing deep expertise in AI/ML systems, user research, and design.

At Astra Space he led product and design across the full software stack — including the launch automation systems that reduced mission control operators from forty to two while keeping humans meaningfully in the loop. At Slingshot Aerospace he served on the management committee and led product, design, and user research — a player/coach who built the teams and directly led development of AI agents for space operations and tracking systems monitoring objects from LEO to cislunar space.

The promise of defense AI isn't capability — it's giving every operator superhuman reach while keeping human judgment where it matters most. In a world where operators are expected to make faster decisions with more information than any human was designed to handle, that requires someone who understands the mission, the operator, and precisely where the human belongs in the loop.

He was part of the founding team at Google negotiating technology deals across cloud, data centers, and Android — understanding that the best products and the best partnerships are built the same way. His work spans commercial and sensitive government programs. He's a graduate student at the Colorado School of Mines focusing on the intersection of space resources and national security.

12o2 ("twelve-oh-two") is named for the situational judgment and decisiveness of the Apollo 11 mission team when faced with the uncertainty of the "1202" alarm that almost ended the first moon landing. Read more.