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Our story · the founders behind Epic

You’re not buying from a company. You’re buying from us.

Most of the companies you’ll get a window film quote from are a logo and a phone tree. Epic is Dr. Kelly Eder and Chris Eder — a Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice and mother of three who owns and runs the company, and the inventor who built the first attachment system for blast film thirty years ago — and the certified crews who carry their name onto your glass. Here is who we are and why that matters when the glass gets hit.

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  • Founded by parents in 2018
  • Inventor of the first blast-film attachment
  • A 3M award every year since 2018
  • Largest 3M dealer in the nation
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The people

Two founders. One standard. Real names, not a phone tree.

We named the company Epic because that is what we expect of the work, not of ourselves. But buyers deserve to know whose judgment they are trusting, so we’ll be plain about it.

Dr. Kelly Eder, DNAP, CRNA — President and Owner of Epic

Dr. Kelly Eder, DNAP, CRNA President & Owner · Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice

Dr. Eder holds a Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice and has spent more than twenty years as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist — a profession where the standard is not “mostly right,” and the person responsible stays in the room until it’s done. She earned her doctorate while practicing full time and running Epic. She is Epic’s 100% owner, the reason Epic is woman-owned, and a mother of three Texas students — which is why, in that school vestibule in 2018, she saw a child’s safety, not a sale. Her standard for precision is the company’s standard.

  1. 11 yearsof university and clinical training to become a CRNA
  2. 20+ yearsof anesthesia practice in the operating room
  3. 2018sees the failed vestibule install; founds Epic as its sole owner — 100% woman-owned from day one
  4. Doctorateearns her Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice while practicing full time and running Epic
  5. TodayPresident and 100% owner of the largest 3M window film dealer in the nation
Chris Eder — Chief Visionary Officer of Epic

Chris Eder Chief Visionary Officer · Inventor

Chris has spent his career inventing the way window film gets installed. He created the first security film attachment system for bomb-blast mitigation — the insight that film only works as a system when it’s anchored to the frame — and with it a series of tools and window solutions the industry still uses. That work went onto the White House, the Department of State, complete U.S. embassies and ambassadors’ residences on three continents — Rome, Malta, Luxembourg, the Vatican, Kazakhstan — every EPA facility in the nation including the entire Federal Triangle, the Smithsonian museums, the Inter-American Development Bank and federal buildings throughout Washington. The company he was with helped the GSA write the security film standards still in effect today. In 2005 he stepped away from window film and went on to invent and build products in another industry — twelve years as a professional designer, builder and manufacturer in the custom motorcycle world, with patented parts distributed to builders worldwide and appearances on the Discovery, History and Travel channels. When he and Kelly founded Epic in 2018, he came back inventing: new installation tools, the Epic Method and its patent-pending process, the Epic Precision cutting software that runs it, and the estimating software Epic uses to price every job. The Epic Method is that same idea, sharpened over decades.

  1. Mid-1990sinvents the first blast-film attachment system; the White House, embassies on three continents, 400-year-old windows at the embassy in Rome
  2. 1990s–2005the State Department, EPA Federal Triangle, the Smithsonian, IDB, embassies in Rome and Malta, Air Force bases; helps the GSA write the security film standards still in use
  3. 2005–2017designer, builder and manufacturer in the custom motorcycle world — patented parts sold worldwide, national television
  4. 2018sells Epic Moto Co and co-founds Epic with Kelly — the name he liked too much to leave behind
  5. 2019 →new installation tools, the patent-pending Epic Method, the Epic Precision cutting software, Epic’s estimating software

Chris’s pre-Epic federal and White House work was performed as an owner of a prior company; it is presented as founder history that carries into Epic’s standard, not as an Epic project.

Founder credentials

Not just anybody gets selected to work on the White House — or an embassy in Kazakhstan.

Before Epic, Chris Eder’s company was the one the federal government and the State Department called when the glass had to hold: the White House and the Smithsonian, every EPA facility across the nation including the entire Federal Triangle, agency headquarters throughout Washington, and complete U.S. embassies and ambassadors’ residences on three continents — Rome, Malta, Luxembourg, the Vatican, Kazakhstan. The buildings named below are a sample, not the list. It is why a school district or a building owner can trust the same hands and the same standard today.

The White House, Washington, D.C. — founder project at a prior companyThe White HouseWashington, D.C.Virtually clear RF/IR-attenuating film with UV protection, chosen to protect historic artwork without changing the historic look of the building — and the bomb-blast mitigation install process developed for it.
U.S. Embassy & Villa Taverna, Rome, Italy — founder project at a prior companyU.S. Embassy & Villa TavernaRome, ItalyBlast-mitigation security film on some of the oldest windows Chris has ever worked on — 400-year-old window systems at the embassy in Rome, and the 15th-century Villa Taverna, the Ambassador’s residence. Delicate work, no room for a shortcut.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nationwide · Federal Triangle, D.C. — founder project at a prior companyU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyNationwide · Federal Triangle, D.C.Every EPA facility across the nation, including the entire Federal Triangle headquarters complex — more than 4,000 historic windows in that complex alone — security film and attachment systems installed to mitigate blast damage while preserving the historic fabric.
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. — founder project at a prior companyInter-American Development BankWashington, D.C.Two multi-story buildings, security film and attachment systems throughout, to protect against bomb blasts.

Diplomatic & executive

  • The White House
  • U.S. Department of State
  • U.S. Embassy, Rome
  • U.S. Embassy, Malta
  • U.S. Embassy & residences, Kazakhstan
  • American Consulate, Florence
  • Ambassador’s Residence, Vatican City
  • Ambassador’s Residence, Luxembourg
  • Villa Taverna, Rome
  • Amerika Haus, Frankfurt

Federal Washington, D.C.

  • EPA — every facility nationwide, incl. the Federal Triangle
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of the Interior
  • Housing and Urban Development
  • Office of Personnel Management
  • E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse
  • Walter Reed Army Hospital
  • Watergate Complex
  • Metro Building
  • Inter-American Development Bank

Smithsonian & cultural

  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • Hirshhorn Museum
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
  • National Museum of African Art

Military & commercial

  • Sheppard Air Force Base
  • Tyndall Air Force Base
  • Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey
  • Fountain Place, Dallas

Pre-Epic federal, diplomatic, cultural and military work was performed by Chris Eder as an owner of a prior company. It is presented as founder history that carries into Epic’s installation standard, not as Epic project experience.

Nearly three decades, one idea

How Epic got such a fast start.

Epic was founded in 2018, but the standard behind it was not. The company started with a thirty-year head start on the question that matters most: how do you make film stay in the frame when the glass is gone?

“I was dumbfounded. After going home unable to let the issue go and pondering over the safety of our children, I told Chris we are getting back into the window film industry with a focus on school safety.”Kelly Eder, President & Owner
Mid-1990sThe first attachment system for blast film

Chris Eder invents the first security film attachment system for bomb-blast mitigation — the idea that film is only a system when it is structurally anchored to the frame. It is used on state residences, government buildings and embassies worldwide.

After 9/11The federal standard

Attached security film becomes the standard on most U.S. federal buildings. The company Chris was with helps the GSA write the security film standards still in use today. His project history includes U.S. embassies worldwide and the White House.

1990s–2005Tools and solutions for the trade

Alongside the attachment system, Chris invents tools and window solutions for the window film business — the habit of fixing what the trade tolerates that still runs Epic’s shop today.

2005–2017A different industry, the same habit

Chris leaves window film for the custom motorcycle world: award-winning builds, patented parts manufactured and distributed to builders worldwide, builds for touring musicians, a feature film and national brands, and appearances on the Discovery, History and Travel channels. His last venture there is Epic Moto Co. Kelly, meanwhile, is in the operating room — more than twenty years as a CRNA, later earning her doctorate.

2018A school vestibule in Texas

Kelly and Chris visit their children’s elementary school and find security film in the vestibule that was installed wrong — film that would have failed under impact. Kelly: “I was dumbfounded. I told Chris we are getting back into the window film industry with a focus on school safety.”

2018Welcomed back by 3M. Epic is founded.

After meeting with 3M, the Eders re-enter the industry with one commitment — do it right, every time — and one owner: Kelly, a Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice who now runs a window film company to the operating room’s standard. Epic is 100% woman-owned from day one. Chris had just sold his motorcycle business; he and Kelly started over under a name that said what they expected of the work: Epic.

2019–2024The Epic Method, Epic Precision, the estimator

Chris turns nearly three decades of attachment experience into the patent-pending Epic Method: a written, five-stage structural-silicone installation standard every Epic crew is certified to. He follows it with Epic Precision — the in-house cutting software and tools that pattern, label and kit every job before the crew leaves the shop — and the building-specific energy estimator Epic advisors run in front of the customer.

2023The largest school security film project in U.S. history

A Colorado district serving 53,000+ students field-tests competing films and installation methods against each other. 3M S2400 attached with the Epic Method outperforms them all, and the district awards Epic the full project.

2018 → todayAn award from 3M every single year

Epic has earned an award from 3M in every year it has been in business — eight for eight since 2018. On top of that, Epic has been 3M Dealer of the Year multiple years running, 2023 and 2024 among them, the latter as National Dealer of the Year. Epic is the largest 3M window film dealer in the nation, a Platinum Elite National Dealer with certified, in-house crews nationwide.

TodayStill two parents. Still the same standard.

More than 3,080 school campuses safeguarded. More than 1.25 million students and staff behind glass Epic installed. More than 1.88 million windows secured, 3.9 million square feet of 3M film — and counting. And the same question at every job that Kelly asked in that vestibule: would this hold if it had to?

What it means for you

Why the people matter when you’re buying film.

The owner has stood in your vestibule.

Kelly and Chris did not come to school safety from a sales plan. They came to it as parents who saw it done wrong. That is why Epic will put in writing what film does not do, and why our Solutions Advisors are measured on the right scope, not the biggest one.

The inventor is on staff.

The man who created the first attachment system for blast film wrote Epic’s installation standard and still walks jobs. When a frame, a gasket or a glazing detail is unusual, the answer comes from thirty years of them — not a call center.

The crews are ours.

Every Certified Installation Specialist is an Epic employee trained to the Epic Method. No subcontractors, no brokers, no “our partner in your area.” The people on your ladder answer to the people on this page.

Leadership, credentials & valuesThe Epic MethodThe Colorado project
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