INDIANAPOLIS - StartGuides will exhibit at the 148th NGAUS General Conference & Exhibition, August 28-31, 2026, at Booth 1705, demonstrating MATrIX, the platform that gives National Guard units immediate access to a library of hundreds of validated, interactive equipment guides built across all branches of service.
Most of the equipment in a Guard formation was fielded first somewhere else - which means, in many cases, the guide already exists. With a MATrIX license, a unit doesn't buy one manual for one system. Every soldier gets the full StartGuides library: step-by-step Performance Support Apps (PSAs) covering setup, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance, each validated against source technical documentation and designed to deliver the right answer in three clicks or less.
For the Guard, that helps solve the drill-weekend challenge. A system gets fielded, new equipment training ends, and the operator may not touch it again for a month. By the next drill, the knowledge is gone. MATrIX puts current, validated answers in every soldier's hands at the point of need - browser-based or offline on Android and Windows, in the motor pool, the field, or the armory.
MATrIX also hosts workflow modules built to a unit's own processes. The certification module converts paper-based certification into digital, auto-aggregating workflows - giving commanders visibility into crew and operator certification status that today lives on spreadsheets and clipboards.
"For an active-duty program office, we build the guide," said Alex Panosian, CEO of StartGuides and a West Point graduate and Army veteran. "For the Guard, the math is different. The library already exists. One decision gives every soldier in the formation the answer to hundreds of systems - and we can build the certification and training workflows around it. That's readiness a commander can actually see."
Visit StartGuides at Booth 1705, or learn more at www.startguides.com
Media contact: James Zegarelli; james.zegarelli@startguides.com