When Richesin Engineering opened its doors in Madras in October 2022, co-owner and CTO Josh Richesin described a simple mission: empower communities with reliable connectivity where it matters most. Three years later, that mission has taken the company across three states — from the floors of tribal operations centers in Central Oregon, to the shores of Maui, Hawaii, serving Hawaiian Homelands communities, to the rooftops of remote Alaska villages — and now to one of the most significant internet exchange points in the Pacific Northwest.
In 2025, Richesin Engineering launched its own internet network division operating out of the Westin Building in Seattle — a facility that serves as a critical hub for Pacific Rim internet traffic. Through a co-location agreement there, the company deployed enterprise-grade server infrastructure, secured its own ARIN-allocated IP address space, and established an active port on the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX), putting it in direct peering relationships with some of the largest networks on the planet — including SpaceX.
But what sets the company apart from a typical internet carrier is what it is doing with that network position: deploying NVIDIA GPU servers directly at Internet Exchange points to deliver artificial intelligence inference at the edge of the network. The concept addresses a fundamental problem with cloud-based AI — every AI request from a Starlink subscriber, a rural broadband user, or a remote tribal facility must travel hundreds or thousands of miles to reach a data center in a major city, adding 200 to 400 milliseconds of delay to every interaction. By placing GPU compute directly where network traffic physically interconnects, Richesin Engineering can serve AI responses in under five milliseconds — fast enough for real-time voice AI, interactive applications, and the kind of instant responsiveness that makes AI genuinely useful in the field.
The company is expanding this infrastructure to seven Internet Exchange locations across the country — from Seattle to Honolulu, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Ashburn, and Miami — creating a coast-to-coast edge AI network built specifically for satellite and rural broadband users. Services offered on this infrastructure include AI inference APIs, VPS hosting on dedicated hardware with native IP space, CDN and edge caching with GPU-powered dynamic content, and IP transit optimized for satellite and rural last-mile networks.
“Cloud AI was built for cities,” said Richesin. “A rancher in Jefferson County on Starlink, a fishing crew off the Alaska coast, a family on a Hawaiian Homelands lot — they all deserve the same AI performance as someone sitting in a downtown Seattle office. That is what we are building.”
Solving Starlink’s Last Problem
One of the company’s most visible products is StarlinkBonding.com, a managed service platform that addresses a fundamental limitation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet: reliability. While Starlink has revolutionized connectivity for rural and remote customers, a single dish can be disrupted by weather, obstructions, or satellite handoff gaps. Richesin Engineering’s bonding platform uses MPTCP — multipath networking technology — to combine multiple Starlink terminals into a single high-throughput connection with automatic failover, with traffic aggregated and terminated directly at Internet Exchange points where the company maintains peering with SpaceX’s own network.
The service runs on purpose-built hardware managed remotely by Richesin Engineering’s team, making it well-suited for ranches, remote worksites, tribal facilities, vessels, and enterprises in areas where fiber and fixed wireless simply do not reach. Customers receive hardware that the company configures, monitors, and supports — no technical expertise required on the customer’s end.
Tribal Broadband: From Warm Springs to the Alaskan Bush
Richesin Engineering’s largest ongoing partnership is with a major tribal telecommunications provider in Central Oregon, where the company serves as the primary technical partner supporting broadband infrastructure for one of the region’s largest tribal nations. That relationship spans network engineering, voice over IP, enterprise switching, and edge security — essentially the full technology stack that keeps the operation connected and running.
The company has extended that tribal broadband expertise north to Alaska, where it serves as a technical and management partner for Alaska Tribal Tel (ATTI), a broadband provider serving more than 30 remote tribal villages across some of the most logistically challenging terrain in the country. The partnership exemplifies what Richesin Engineering means by its operating philosophy: “We work remotely everywhere. We work on-site where others will not go.”
The firm is also actively pursuing federal BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program funding partnerships in Alaska, working alongside native organizations to bring high-speed internet to communities that have been on the wrong side of the digital divide for decades.
AI-Enabled Voice & Managed IT
One of the most compelling applications of the company’s edge AI infrastructure is Voice AI Agents — AI-powered phone systems that answer calls, handle customer service, schedule appointments, and manage intake around the clock, with response times fast enough that callers cannot distinguish the AI from a live person. Because the AI inference runs on Richesin Engineering’s own hardware at Internet Exchange points rather than in a distant cloud data center, the voice interactions have the natural, real-time flow that cloud-based systems cannot achieve over satellite or rural broadband connections.
The service works with any existing phone system — no PBX migration, no new hardware, no disruption. For small businesses, tribal organizations, and rural enterprises that cannot staff a phone line around the clock, it delivers a professional front line that never takes a day off. The combination of the company’s carrier-grade telecom infrastructure and its own AI compute is one that neither a typical AI software vendor nor a typical phone company can replicate on their own.
The company’s managed IT and security practice has also grown significantly, serving clients across Central Oregon and beyond with cybersecurity monitoring, surveillance systems, access control, and Microsoft 365 administration. In early 2026, the firm exhibited at the ITA Showcase in Hillsboro, Oregon — the largest telecommunications trade show in the Pacific Northwest — where Sales Engineer Logan Webb delivered a seminar on satellite bonding technology, placing Richesin Engineering alongside the region’s leading carriers, equipment manufacturers, and network operators.
Still Rooted in Madras
Despite the company’s growing footprint across three states — Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska — and a network presence in Seattle, its headquarters remains at 574 SW Fourth Street in Madras, and its team remains committed to being a resource for Jefferson County businesses. Oregon CCB License #246006.
“Madras is our home base and always will be,” said Richesin. “The work we do in remote Alaska or on tribal lands in Oregon is possible because of the infrastructure and team we have built right here in Jefferson County. We are proud of where we come from, and we think the rest of the region is starting to see what we have known for a while — there is a lot more going on in this community than people realize.”
With a team of field technicians and engineers experienced in everything from fiber splicing and tower climbing to enterprise routing and AI-integrated operations platforms, Richesin Engineering continues to expand what’s possible for the clients and communities it serves.
