Reflexes stay on the aircraft
Stabilization, obstacle braking, RTH and failsafe run on the flight controller. They keep working if every link dies mid-mission.
ÆTHER / Technology
From sensor to customer — one closed loop.
The reusable value is not a single drone. It is the orchestration layer connecting autonomy, media and operations — and it lives on the ground, where we can give it real compute.
The pipeline
Six stages. Zero handoffs.
Video and telemetry come down; detection, prediction and shot selection happen on the ground; validated commands go back up. Between them sits a safety layer that cannot be overridden by the director.
Drone / cameraVideo + telemetry downlink, 4K/30, RTK positioning.
Ground AIDetect + track + predict on GPU compute at the venue.
DirectorShot selection from the validated profile library.
SafetyMapped constraints filter every command before uplink.
Media AIEdit + package: cuts, branding, music, formats.
DeliveryCustomer link / QR, venue archive, analytics.
Architecture
The intelligence sits on the ground.
Everything that makes a flight useful — vision, positioning, route logic, safety — runs on our ground station. A thin adapter is the only part that knows which aircraft is in the air.
That is deliberate. Airframes get discontinued, restricted and repriced. When one does, we change an adapter instead of rebuilding a product. Basic stabilization and safe mission termination always remain onboard — the aircraft never depends on remote compute to stay in the air.
ReuseFlight control, video link, obstacle sensing
BuyCommodity GPU compute, network, storage
BuildVision, route engine, direction, safety, delivery
Ground station
computer vision · subject & crop tracking
sensor fusion · positioning
route engine · learned trajectories
scene engine · what matters in frame
safety engine · corridors, geofence, failsafe
delivery · edit, report, send
hardware control adapter
Control loop
Latency is a design input, not a surprise.
Camera → encoder → radio → decoder → inference → decision → uplink → flight controller. We measure that chain, and we split responsibilities around it instead of pretending it is zero.
Direction tolerates delay
Framing and shot selection work on predicted positions — GNSS + course + speed — so hundreds of milliseconds of link latency never threaten the subject or the shot.
Media has no deadline
Editing, packaging and delivery run after landing. The only clock that matters there is the customer still being at the venue.
The aircraft
Enterprise-class. And replaceable.
The reference platform is an enterprise multirotor with RTK positioning, six-directional obstacle sensing, a 3-axis 4K gimbal and around 50 minutes of rated flight — operated from a weatherproof dock that launches, lands and recharges it automatically.
Charging from 20% to 90% takes about 32 minutes, so continuous coverage is planned as episodes or served by two docks. All of it sits behind the adapter layer — the platform outlives any single airframe.
PositionRTK + GNSS, centimetre-grade where the shot needs it
SenseSix-directional obstacle detection with known blind zones
CycleDock-based launch, landing, offload and recharge
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The venue node
What we install on site.
A venue node is infrastructure, not a gadget bag: an automatic dock, ground compute, redundant links and the beacons — commissioned once, then operated remotely.
Node 01
Ground station & compute
A GPU box at the venue runs vision, tracking and the director in real time. Wired internet with 4G backup, UPS, grounding and lightning protection make it site infrastructure — installed once, monitored remotely.
EDGE COMPUTE · VENUE NODEVISION + DIRECTOR
Node 02
Operator console
A remote supervisor sees state, journal, alarms and service actions for every node. Manual override exists for commissioning, test flights and emergency takeover — not for daily operation.
SUPERVISOR · REMOTE OPSOVERRIDE READY
Node 03
Identity marker & beacon
The subject carries an active GNSS/4G beacon; vehicles can add a fiducial roof marker for visual confirmation at close range. Together they give the system a unique, unambiguous target — no biometrics involved.
TAG AE-77 · FIDUCIAL CONFIRMID LOCK
Data flywheel
One core → many venues → more data → better AI.
Trajectories, framing decisions, purchased edits and ratings feed back into the models. Intelligence learned on buggy trails transfers to sport, agriculture and B2B — that is the compounding asset.
Venue templateScan → map → safety → install → validate → go live.
Fleet managerDrones, batteries, compute, storage and mission orchestration.
Media pipelineAutomatic ingest, edit, branding and delivery.
Cross-vertical AIIntelligence reused across buggy, sport, agriculture and B2B.
Deep dive
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