Phoenix operates in the most opaque corner of tech: neutron imaging for aerospace and defense. With 42 employees generating $7.9M in revenue ($188K per head), they're either hyper-efficient or charging premium rates. Their complete absence from web analytics suggests they're selling to a handful of massive defense contractors via relationships, not inbound marketing. This is classic deep-tech: building something technically impossible for competitors to replicate, then selling to customers who have no choice but to buy.

Neutron imaging is non-destructive testing that sees inside materials X-rays can't. For aerospace and defense, this means finding microscopic defects in turbine blades, composite structures, and munitions before they fail catastrophically. Phoenix's $28.7M funding likely came from strategic investors—Lockheed, Northrop, or specialized VC firms. Their tech stack (jQuery, Tailwind, Bootstrap) is dated, suggesting their engineering focus is on the imaging hardware, not the website. The VP of Business Development, Steve Burger, probably spends his days in classified facilities, not pitching on LinkedIn.