EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. is a company engaged principally in improving its unique sensor technology, expanding its suite of products, developing new sensor applications, obtaining financing and seeking long-term sustainable manufacturing contracts, licensing agreements and royalty agreements. Our operations have not yet commenced to a commercially sustainable level and include designing, engineering, manufacturing, licensing and selling sensor technology and products featuring our Bend Sensor® technology and equipment.

Finalizing long-term, constant revenue generating production contracts with our existing and other customers remains our greatest challenge because our on-going business is dependent on the types of revenues and cash flows generated by such contracts. Cash flow and cash requirement risks are closely tied to and are dependent upon our ability to attract significant long-term production contracts. We must continue to obtain funding to operate and expand our operations so that we can deliver our unique Bend Sensor® and Bend Sensor® related technologies and products to the market. Management believes that even though we are making positive strides forward with our business plan we will need to raise additional operating capital.

Worldwide automakers are faced with the challenge of providing a safer, more energy efficient, longer lasting product that consumers can afford. This has required automakers to search new and innovative ways to lower the overall weight of the vehicle and to improve its fuel efficiencies, while lowering the cost. We continue to experience an increased interest regarding automotive and other potential applications for our sensor technology because they meet this criterion. With its versatility, light weight, single layer construction and the fact that it is currently being used in various safety devices the Bend Sensor® is positioned well to meet the challenges that the automobile industry is facing.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

The challenges posed by the Pandemic in the United States and global economies increased significantly as the first quarter progressed. Since the onset of the Pandemic, our top priority has been the health and safety of our employees. During this difficult time, we have worked to ensure that our customers continue to receive quality, personalized service.

The Pandemic negatively impacted our revenue during the first six months of 2022. At this time, it is impossible to accurately predict when this will end. Many of our clients, to protect their employees, have sharply curtailed operations and have most employees working from home. The long-term impact of the Pandemic is difficult to assess at this point, as it will be dependent on how rapidly our clients can resume their business operations and place orders with us for the needed sensors incorporated into their products.

Currently our revenue is primarily from product licensing, development, manufacturing and recurring sales with additional contributions to income from design contract, testing and limited production services for prototypes and samples, and is currently at a level to support our operations. Depending upon the world returning to some form of normalcy following the end of the Pandemic, we believe, based upon current orders and projected orders over the



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next twelve months, that we could be producing sensors under long-term contracts in the future that will help support our existing operations and potential future growth. Management recognizes such contracts usually go through a long negotiation process and there can be no guarantee that we will be successful in our negotiations or that such contracts will be sufficient to support our current operations in the near future.

In 2022, we relied on the proceeds of convertible loans from existing shareholders, which funds are accounted for as demand notes. The balances of the non-related party convertible notes have a combined total of $180,000 as of June 30, 2022. The notes have an annual interest rate of 8% to 10% and default rates of 10% to 15%, have various maturity dates, and are secured by the Company's business assets. The on-demand notes have a principal balance of $525,000 at June 30, 2022 and no terms have yet been established for these funds.

Management believes that our current cash burn rate is approximately $60,000 per month and expectations are that it will continue at this rate for the foreseeable future. If the Pandemic ends and business returns to pre-Pandemic levels, with proceeds from additional convertible notes and estimated revenues for manufacturing, production, engineering design and prototype products should be sufficient to fund the next twelve months of operations. Our auditors have expressed doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern and that we may not realize significant revenue or become profitable within the next twelve months. We will require additional financing to fund our short-term cash needs. We will have to rely on additional debt financing, loans from existing shareholders and private placements of common stock for additional funding. Based upon our anticipated purchase orders over the next twelve months the revenue generated will not be sufficient to cover our operating expenses, based on our current burn rate. However, we cannot assure that we will be able to obtain short-term financing, or that sources of such financing, if any, will continue to be available, and if available, that they will be on terms favorable to us. Nor is there any guarantee that the projected volume of purchase orders will meet the volumes that we anticipate.

As we enter into new agreements, we must ensure that those agreements provide adequate funding for any pre-production research and development and manufacturing costs. If we are successful in establishing agreements with adequate initial funding, management believes that our operations for the long term will be funded by revenues, licensing fees and/or royalties related to these agreements. However, we have formalized only a few agreements during the past four years and there can be no assurance that the agreements will generate sufficient revenues or be profitable in the future or that a desired technological application will be successful enough to produce the volumes and profits necessary to fund our operations.

FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

Our principal commitments at June 30, 2022 consisted of our operating lease of $6,787 per month, and total liabilities of $3,482,340, which includes $398,513 of convertible notes payable. Accrued liabilities at June 30, 2022, were $2,265,604 and were related to payroll, payroll tax liabilities, accrued professional expenses, accrued insurance expense, accrued interest expense on notes and accrued paid time off.

In August 2020 the Company received $50,000 from John Kelley, a large shareholder, to meet operating expenses. Mr. Kelly indicated that he would want the $50,000 repaid when the Company was in a position to do so. Mr. Kelly subsequently provided an additional $5,000, for a total loan of $55,000. This funding has not formally been documented by a note at the time of this filing, and there is no term or interest on the note. In 2021 payment of $20,000 was made to reduce the balance. During the six-month period ended June 30, 2022, no payments were made to reduce this obligation, leaving a remaining balance of $35,000.

The Company has received $490,000 in funding from holders of our convertible notes. These fundings have not yet been memorialized into convertible notes. The only term agreed upon to date is that all funds advanced will bear interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the date of deposit.

The Company has a few major customers who represent a significant portion of revenue and accounts receivable. During the six months ended June 30, 2022, three customers represented 78% of sales and twocustomers represented 95% of accounts receivable. The Company has a strong ongoing relationship with these customers with scheduled product deliveries extending through the year from one of the customers with an account receivable and does not believe this concentration poses a significant risk, as their products are based entirely on the Company's technologies.





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OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

We have not entered into any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources and would be considered material to investors.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC")The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Estimates of particular significance in our financial statements include goodwill and the annual tests for impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets and valuing stock option compensation.

ASC 350-20 "Intangibles - Goodwill and Other: The Company follows the guidance provided by ASC 350-20. The Company's goodwill represents the excess of its reorganization value over the fair value of the net assets upon emergence from bankruptcy. Goodwill is not amortized; therefore, we test our goodwill for impairment annually or when a triggering event occur using a fair value approach. A fair value-based test is applied at the overall Company level. The test compares the fair value of the Company to the carrying value of its net assets. The test requires various judgments and estimates. During 2021 and for the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company recorded no impairment charge to reduce the carrying value of the goodwill to its estimated fair value. As part of the impairment testing performed at December 31, 2021, the Company considered factors such as the global market volatility, variables in the economy, and the overall uncertainty in the markets that has resulted in a decline in the market price of the Company's stock price and market capitalization for a sustained period, as indicators for potential goodwill impairment.

ASC 820 Fair Value Measurement: We test long-lived assets for impairment annually or when a triggering event occurs. Impairment is indicated if undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying value of the assets. The amount of impairment is measured using a discounted-cash-flows model considering future revenues, operating costs and risk-adjusted discount rate and other factors. The analysis compares the present value of projected net cash flows for the remaining current year and next two years against the carrying value of the long-lived assets. If the carrying values of the long-lived assets exceed the present value of the discounted projected revenues an impairment expense would be recognized in the period and the carrying value of the assets would be adjusted accordingly. Impairment tests are conducted on an annual basis and, should they indicate a carrying value in excess of fair value, a charge may be required.

ASC 718 "Compensation - Stock Compensation: Financial accounting standards require that recognition of the cost of employee services received in exchange for stock options and awards of equity instruments be based on the grant-date fair value of such options and awards and is recognized as an expense in operations over the period they vest. The fair value of the options we have granted is estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes American option-pricing model. Option pricing models require the input of highly sensitive assumptions, including expected stock volatility. In addition, our stock options have characteristics significantly different from those of traded options, and changes in the subjective input assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate. Management believes the best input assumptions available were used to value the options and that the resulting option values are reasonable. For the six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, we recognized $0 and $0, respectively, of stock-based compensation expense for our stock options and there is no additional unrecognized compensation cost related to employee stock options at the current time.





RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The Company continues to concentrate its marketing resources on a limited number of customers that have the greatest potential to generate the most short-term revenue while still building relationships with our larger customers. Management believes this approach has the highest potential to bring long-term commercially viable products to market and will provide sustainable cash flow to fund the Company's operations in the future. Currently, overall revenues are not sufficient to sustain our operations. The Pandemic has had a dramatic effect on our business as well as the business of our customers. The wide-ranging effects on the world-wide business market has led to a general reluctance for businesses to move forward with entering into major commitments until their future markets have been clarified. Because of this, we have experienced a significant slowdown in the size and number of



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orders received and, while we cannot predict when the influence of the Pandemic will end, we expect that orders will return to their former levels and increase throughout the remainder of 2022 following a return to normal business operations. Following a return to normal business operations in the world, management anticipates that revenues will increase as we continue to execute our long-term business plan and cultivate larger customer bases with our existing product offering. However, until the Pandemic ends and a long-term production contract is in place there is no guarantee that our current customer base will order in sufficient volumes to sustain our operations. Therefore, management continues to work with larger companies and industries and is hopeful that in the near future we will sign a long-term licensing or manufacturing contract.

We recognized revenue from repeat orders from our existing customers, design contract, and development engineering. Revenue is recognized using the ASC 606 five step detailed in Note 1 to the financial statements. Revenue from the sale of a product is recorded at the time of shipment to the customer. Revenue from the license agreements was recognized in the period the agreement was concluded, as it is a right of use license and the Company has no further obligations to perform under the terms of the agreement. Revenue from research and development engineering contracts is recognized as the services are provided and accepted by the customer. Revenue from contracts to license technology to others is deferred until all conditions under the contract are met and then the sale is recognized as licensing royalty revenue over the remaining term of the contract.

The following discussions are based on the consolidated operations of Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. and should be read in conjunction with our unaudited financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, included in Part I, Item 1, above, and the audited financial statements included in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.

THREE MONTH PERIODS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 AND 2021





                          SUMMARY OF OPERATING RESULTS

                                                   Three-month period ended
                                                June 30, 2022       June 30, 2021
Manufacturing, design, licensing and
contract  revenue                                    $ 36,015            $ 79,554
Total operating costs and expenses                    213,520             213,485
Net other income (expense)                           (16,622)              37,613
Net loss                                            (194,127)            (96,318)

Basic and diluted loss per common share $ (0.00) $ (0.00)

For the three months ending June 30, 2022, revenue was $36,015, a decrease of $43,539 when compared to the revenue of $79,554 for the same period in 2021. The majority of the revenue variance for this period is attributable to ordering delays from customers who are beginning to manufacture products incorporating our products.

Of the $213,520 and $213,485 total operating costs and expense for the three months ending June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, $56,119 and $74,466 were for direct research and development cost, respectively. For the three months ended June 30, 2022, total operating expenses increased by $35 when compared to the same period in 2021, increases in payroll and professional fees comprising the largest part of the increased expense level, with reductions in building and rent and a number of other accounts resulting in the small net increase.

Other expense for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022 was $16,622, a $54,235 decrease resulting, primarily, from a reduction of interest expense resulting from the conversion of convertible notes into shares of restricted common stock, offset by a $59,000 gain on extinguishment of debt in 2021.

A net loss of $194,127 was realized for the three months ended June 30, 2022. A net loss of $96,318 was realized for the three-month period ended June 30, 2021.





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SIX MONTH PERIODS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 AND 2021





                          SUMMARY OF OPERATING RESULTS

                                                    Six-month period ended
                                                June 30, 2022       June 30, 2021
Manufacturing, design, licensing and
contract  revenue                                    $ 96,939            $ 99,844
Total operating costs and expenses                    463,665             421,349
Net other income (expense)                           (83,190)              13,720
Net loss                                            (449,905)           (307,785)
Basic and diluted loss per common share            $   (0.00)           $  (0.00)

For the six months ending June 30, 2022, revenue was $96,939, a decrease of $2,905 when compared to the same period in 2021. The majority of the revenue variance for these periods is attributable to orders from customers who are beginning to manufacture products incorporating our products.

Of the $463,665 and $421,349 total operating costs and expense for the six months ending June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, $116,212 and $149,682 were for direct research and development cost, respectively. The decrease in research and development expense in 2022 results primarily from the lower lease expenses at the facility moved into in September 2021. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, total operating expenses increased by $42,305 when compared to the same period in 2021, increases in payroll and professional fees comprising the largest part of the increased expense level.

Other expense for the six-month period ended June 30, 2022 was $83,190 while there was other income of $13,720 for the six-months ended June 30, 2021, a $96,910 difference resulting, primarily, from a $46,194 loss on note conversion in 2022 and a $59,500 gain on extinguishment of debt in 2021.

A net loss of $449,905 was realized for the six months ended June 30, 2022. A net loss of $307,785 was realized for the six-month period ended June 30, 2021.

The chart below represents a summary of our condensed consolidated balance sheets at June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021.

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