The FCC listed foreign-produced inverters and robotics on July 28, 2026. As of today, the Conditional Approvals register holds zero grants in either category — for anyone. Every consultancy, every law firm, every applicant starts this queue from the same line. What separates them is what they knew before the gun went off. Here is what we know, and how we know it.
Thirty-four Conditional Approvals exist across the drone and router waves — seventeen UAS platforms granted between March 17 and July 24, 2026, and seventeen router grantees across twenty grant actions. We maintain a standing reading of all of them: applicant structures, scope patterns, condition language, and the sixteen grant-announcement notices whose dates establish the agencies' one-to-two-week batch cadence.
That reading is public on this site — the Register, read by Gatewell — because we would rather demonstrate the work than describe it.
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; first grants April 14 — three weeks, into an already-warm process. If the drone precedent holds for the July 28 categories, the first inverter and robotics grants publish this autumn, and the applicants on that first notice will spend every month afterward as the only approved names their buyers can see.
The read-through is simple: the queue is forming now. An application begun today files inside the first wave. One begun after the first grants publish files behind it — into a backlog, without the first-mover shelf.
Gatewell's founder, Ilya Tsimerinov, has spent fifteen years building and operating regulated, cross-border businesses in Los Angeles — healthcare, consumer lending, retail. Different industries; identical discipline: get the corporate structure right, get the filing right, stage the money against milestones, and never let a client be surprised by a regulator.
That is an operator's résumé, not a lawyer's — deliberately. The Conditional Approval record the agencies now reward is not a legal brief; it is an operating plan: who owns you, who supplies you, and whether your US manufacturing commitment is an intention or a contract. Filings are prepared with supervising counsel. The plan behind them is built by people who have run the kind of businesses the plan describes.
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 you will never be asked to fund work you cannot see.
And a screening policy we will not bend: we decline PRC-nexus structures as a matter of firm policy, and we put our go/no-go judgment in writing at the diagnostic stage — because the only filing record worth building is one made of cases we would bet on.
Two weeks, a fixed fee, and a written judgment on your pathway — before the first wave files.
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