We Build Autonomous Systems for the People Who Run Toward Danger
Why We Exist
Search and rescue teams around the world are flying drones manually. They draw flight paths from memory, stare at video feeds for hours, and hope they don't miss the person they're looking for. When every second counts, that approach costs lives.
Autonomy shouldn't require seven-figure budgets or defence procurement cycles. The Parrot ANAFI UKR already has onboard compute capable of running neural networks at the edge. Most teams don't even know it's there. We write the software that unlocks it.
A Drone Company was founded on a simple thesis: if you give SAR teams a tool that plans a grid search in 30 seconds, flies it autonomously, and detects humans without a ground-station video feed, you compress the critical first hour into minutes. That's not a feature. That's the difference between a rescue and a recovery.
What We Believe
Autonomy saves lives. Not pilot workload — lives.
Every minute a drone spends under manual control is a minute the search area isn't being covered systematically. Autonomy isn't a convenience — it's the mechanism that finds people.
The drone should detect. The operator should decide.
We don't believe in removing humans from the loop. We believe in giving them better information faster. The AI finds candidates. The operator confirms and acts.
If it can't handle GPS dropout, it can't handle SAR.
Real search and rescue happens in the worst terrain on earth. Coastal cliffs, dense forest, urban canyons. Any system that aborts when GPS degrades is a liability, not a tool.
The People Behind Overwatch
Graeme
AI SaaS Founder, turned defence tech founder. Building tools that compress the critical first hour.