Covered-List work rewards command of the record. We hold the guidance documents, the grant language, the condition precedent and the agencies' cadence in working memory, current to the latest public notice. Here is what that command looks like in practice.
Sixty-three Conditional Approvals exist across the drone, router, robotics and inverter waves: twenty-one UAS grantees approved between March 17 and October 30, 2026, twenty-three router grantees across twenty-nine grant actions, thirteen advanced-robotics grantees and six power-inverter grantees. We maintain a standing reading of all of them: applicant structures, scope patterns, condition language, and the twenty-six grant-announcement dates, as of October 30, 2026, which had set a one-to-two-week batch cadence through August.
That reading is public on this site as the Register, read by Gatewell.
Drones were listed December 22, 2025; the first grants published March 17, 2026, about twelve weeks from listing to first names. Routers were listed March 23 into an already-warm process, and the first grants came April 14, three weeks later. Advanced robotic devices were listed July 28; the first grant published September 9, 2026, six weeks later, to a Swedish applicant. Power inverters were listed the same day. Their first grant published October 9, 2026, ten weeks later. The applicants on a first notice spend every month afterward as the only approved names their buyers can see.
We are building filings now for the first wave as it forms. An application begun today files inside that wave. One begun after the first grants publish files behind it, into a backlog, without the first-mover shelf. Our clients will not be in the second group.
Gatewell's founder, Ilya Tsimerinov, has spent fifteen years building and operating regulated, cross-border businesses in Los Angeles: healthcare, consumer lending, retail. In all three the discipline was the same: get the corporate structure right, get the filing right, stage the money against milestones, and never let a client be surprised by a regulator.
A winning Conditional Approval record is an operating plan. It answers three questions: who owns you, who supplies you, and whether your US manufacturing commitment is an intention or a contract. So the practice is built from the three disciplines that plan demands. Equipment-authorization review: the reviewer's-eye reading of what survives scrutiny at the certification layer. National-security diligence: evidentiary records built to answer the questions interagency reviewers actually ask. Manufacturing operations: site, partner, and capex planning by the standards of people who stand up real assembly lines. Filings are prepared with supervising counsel. The plan underneath is built by the operating disciplines the plan describes.
The comments we have filed in those proceedings are on this site under Filings, each linked to the Commission's own copy so you can check it.
Fixed fees, staged against engagement, filing, and grant. A conventional deposit structure that mirrors standard T/T practice. Gross-up provisions where treaty relief is unavailable, US residency certification furnished annually, and export-voucher compatibility for qualifying Korean SMEs. You will know the total before we begin and fund only the work you can see.
And a screening policy we will not bend. We decline PRC-nexus structures as a matter of firm policy, and we put a documented risk-factor assessment in writing at the diagnostic stage, because we build filing records only from cases we would bet on.
Two weeks, a fixed fee, and a written judgment on your pathway from the people who read this register for a living.
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