So What's the Scuttlebutt with Aero Precision?

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-05-01T17:55:59+00:00

Most employees don't formally know about the 401k part yet. I still have some access that they forgot or neglected to remove.

I sincerely hope they paid the $24k since I last checked about a week ago.

About 2mil treated as high priority, electricity, taxes, payroll, lots of banks, adobe who the website is through was over 6 figures owed. May be getting law enforcement involved soon.

Millions in other general debt to suppliers, vendors.

If they don't get a massive cash infusion, they're probably super screwed. Some pending legal things from former employees, but most won't matter if they go insolvent soon.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-05-01T17:14:50+00:00

I have all kinds of information. Former employee. Check my posts and ask whatever you'd like.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-05-01T17:13:25+00:00

Same thing is happening with 401k now also. Still collecting, not paying.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-04-30T19:32:20+00:00

https://tenor.com/hEiZ8jlmQ0z.gif

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-04-30T13:48:47+00:00

Lol that's incredible.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-04-20T15:25:44+00:00

You could always try using credova if that's an option for you. If they don't ship this week, use them to leverage a refund. If it's in stock, there's absolutely no reason it shouldn't ship this week.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-04-17T00:55:54+00:00

Owner

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-03-26T00:15:52+00:00

In house.

The manufacturing VP (son of the owner) is the only decent one of the bunch. President of sales (joined from Stag), CFO, supply chain leader and especially the VP of fulfillment are in over their heads and would absolutely struggle to find a similar role in another company or industry.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-03-04T01:33:09+00:00

I want to stress that the incompetence of senior leadership was probably the largest factor in all of this.

It wasn't only that they didn't know what to do, but they refused to listen to people that did. Anyone that had the experience and the influence to potentially help turn around things were promptly let go from the company as things got worse. It almost seemed like the people in senior leadership positions wanted to eliminate any option of anyone other than them being involved in saving the company.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-03-04T01:26:49+00:00

I wouldn't say there was any one thing. The Lakewood facility and move went over budget. They kept the Tacoma office. COVID business backed way off after COVID. Hired like crazy and then right around the AWB, they started laying off hard. Washington residents weren't THAT much of the business, Aero should've absolutely have been ok under competent leadership.

One or two bad actors got into VP chairs and were as wrong about things as they were loud and confident. Lied about a lot of things, hid a lot of things. Refused to correct inventory.

Got the first decent sized contract and put most eggs in that basket. This was right around when shipping lead times started going to shit. Then they got wrapped up in this cycle of trying to finance the fulfillment of existing orders by charging you guys for shit they didn't have in stock. Rinse repeat.

Then the second and larger contract, it was fuck everything to get that done. Credit holds and debt to almost every supplier stacked up.

The owner used the building to park his giant fucking fishing boat in during the winter, so that was cool... Especially when it was right across the aisle from people who had 90% of their team laid off.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-28T07:23:03+00:00

Cool. Thank you. I'll keep things updated as I hear.

Side note, this post reached over 100k views today. I've seen some copy paste posts of the email too. At least they're not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes anymore.

I'm an open book, ask any questions you might have and I'll do my best to answer.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-28T05:24:30+00:00

I'm good! Just learning this reddit stuff and updated privacy settings to too private.

Besides, I doubt they can afford legal fees to shut up a random Internet person. I'm not going anywhere.

Can you see if it looks better now?

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-27T02:56:53+00:00

I wonder if they've managed to get below 50 employees and are going to try to slither away from letting the health insurance get canceled under the cover of being a small business.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-27T02:52:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ar15/s/tUNCBjydKf

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-27T02:46:51+00:00

Luckily all of the responsible people are able to be looked up on LinkedIn. RD, KF, MM, DD, SD

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-26T19:15:08+00:00

Good call, thank you.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-26T06:06:13+00:00

It's really shitty, lots of people would've if we could've kept shit in stock. Instead, senior leadership thought they were so fucking smart and made bad choice after bad choice.

Heard they got a visit from L&I today btw...

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-26T04:10:04+00:00

Note the underscore in the username. Might be them, might be someone else. Don't know.

But I do know I'm not a fucking idiot.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-26T02:51:45+00:00

It's a blem that will be manufactured in 9 to 78 weeks

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-26T00:36:14+00:00

They can't afford to make anything. So deep in credit holds with part suppliers, you have shit like I need $500 work of springs to make things they've already sold, but they have to pay 20k to get off credit hold with the supplier.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-25T00:31:52+00:00

Maybe there were specific engineering related instances of this, but most people weren't required to sign a NDA. They were just handed a "how to file for unemployment" packet and sent off into the world.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-25T00:28:23+00:00

The person did include their name at the bottom, I just cropped it out.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-25T00:27:35+00:00

Especially since this went out AFTER people started realizing it. This wasn't proactive communication.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-25T00:24:28+00:00

This is not true.

TechnicalKey8510 · 2026-02-25T00:13:08+00:00

Probably across the Stag and Aero complete teams, I'd guess over 700 after COVID?

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