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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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 & 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.
11 yearsof university and clinical training to become a CRNA
20+ yearsof anesthesia practice in the operating room
2018sees the failed vestibule install; founds Epic as its sole owner — 100% woman-owned from day one
Doctorateearns her Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice while practicing full time and running Epic
TodayPresident and 100% owner of the largest 3M window film dealer in the nation
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 attachment work went onto 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 PaneCast, the estimating software Epic built to measure and price every job. The Epic Method is that same idea, sharpened over decades.
Mid-1990sinvents the first blast-film attachment system; federal and embassy work on three continents, including Rome
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
2005–2017designer, builder and manufacturer in the custom motorcycle world — patented parts sold worldwide, national television
2018sells Epic Moto Co and co-founds Epic with Kelly — the name he liked too much to leave behind
2019 →new installation tools, the patent-pending Epic Method, the Epic Precision cutting software, Epic’s estimating software
Chris’s pre-Epic federal 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
Before Epic, Chris Eder’s prior company worked on the White House, federal buildings, embassies and the Smithsonian.
Before Epic, Chris Eder’s company was the one the federal government and the State Department called when the glass had to hold — and when it had to stay invisible: every EPA facility across the nation including the entire Federal Triangle, agency headquarters throughout Washington, the Smithsonian, complete U.S. embassies and ambassadors’ residences on three continents — Rome, Malta, Luxembourg, the Vatican, Kazakhstan — all for blast mitigation, and at the White House an electronic-eavesdropping-blocking film with blast-mitigation capabilities. 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.
U.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 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 BankWashington, D.C.Two multi-story buildings, security film and attachment systems throughout, to mitigate blast damage.
Diplomatic & executive
The White House — electronic-eavesdropping-blocking film with blast-mitigation capabilities
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.
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The longer story.
Security, solar, printed graphics and wall coverings; Certified Installation Specialists trained and certified in-house; Epic Precision cutting; what the districts say. A minute and a half.
The name is the standard
Expertise. Precision. Innovation. Credibility.
E
Expertise
Inventor-led · 100% in-house certified crews
P
Precision
Epic Precision cutting · the Epic Method
I
Innovation
Patent-pending method · proprietary software
C
Credibility
3M Dealer of the Year, multiple years running · references on file
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 with that system includes U.S. embassies worldwide and federal buildings across the country.
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 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.
2025The largest project in 3M’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.
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