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The night shift that always shows up

A robot works your site overnight so nobody has to. Patrol, inspection, counts. We own it, we keep it running, you pay monthly for the shift.

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Every night, no calloutsNo shift to fill, no turnover to cover
We own the robotMonthly rate. Rent or buy if you'd rather
Design partnersFirst cohort forming now
The product

The shift nobody wants

You don't buy a robot. You buy the shift. Routine work in an empty building: walking the site, checking what needs checking, counting what is there. Patrol and inspection run first because they are the fastest to make reliable. The shift is the product; the job list grows.

  1. 22:00Starts the shift

    Clocks in on its own. Nobody to roster, nobody to call when they don't turn up.

  2. ALL NIGHTWorks the round

    Walks the route, checks what you told it to check, records what changed since last night.

  3. ON EVENTWakes a human

    An alert with the clip and the location, to whoever is actually on call.

    This is the part that matters
  4. 06:00Leaves a report

    What it saw, what it flagged, what it couldn't reach. Two minutes to read with coffee.

More jobs as the library grows

Patrol and inspection are first because they need no arms and run in an empty building, which makes them the fastest to make genuinely reliable. Inventory counts, gauge and leak checks, cleaning and stocking follow, each on whatever machine that job actually needs. We add a job when a robot can run it all night with nobody watching, not when we can demo it.

If you have a night job that isn't patrol, tell us anyway. It shapes what we build second.

Rent it, lease it, or buy it

Same robot, same software, same people. What changes is who carries the asset. Most customers lease, because the robot stops being a purchase decision and becomes a line item next to payroll. Try it for a week, lease it when it works, buy it if you want it on your books. You can move between them at any point.

Rent By the week

A trial, a seasonal peak, a one-off project. We deliver it, run it, and collect it when you're done.

Nothing on your books
Lease Monthly

We own the robot and keep it working. Maintenance, wear parts, monitoring and software updates are in the rate.

Thirty days' notice after the initial term
Buy Own it outright

The machine goes on your books. Paid 40% at signed quote, 40% at passed testing, 20% after a 30-day pilot. Already leasing? A share of what you've paid credits toward the price, whenever you decide.

Control layer stays monthly

It learns your building

The first week is mapping: the route, the doors, what normal looks like at 3am, which corner throws a false alarm. That profile belongs to your site, not to one machine. Swap the robot for service and the replacement arrives already knowing your floor.

We pick the machine, and we can change it

Because we own the robot, the platform is our decision, not a line on your invoice. If a cheaper machine does your route just as well, we swap it and you never notice. Only developer-grade units we're allowed to program. If nothing on the market pencils for your site, we say so instead of selling you one anyway.

The hybrid layer goes on in stages

Conventional control does the driving from day one. The neuromorphic reflex loop arrives as it earns its place, first as an always-on safety and monitoring layer, then deeper into the motion loop. Every build states exactly which parts are early, and nothing unproven ever sits between you and a moving machine.

How we work with the founding cohort

We'd rather be straight with you than oversell. You'll know exactly what's proven and what's early before you sign anything, the spec says what your build includes, and nothing goes on your floor until it does the job on a mock-up of your station first. Founding customers get design-partner terms, a direct line to the people writing the software, and a say in what we build next.

R&D

The layer we're building

Touch something hot and your hand moves before your brain knows about it. That is a reflex arc, and it is why an animal can stay alert all night on a bowl of food. Robots have no reflexes. They think about everything, constantly, and it costs them the whole battery. We are building the missing half.

  1. 01 We buy the robot

    Any maker, off the shelf. You never source, ship or import anything.

    Anyone can do this
  2. 02 We fit it to the job

    Grippers, payload hardware, sensors, safety integration for your floor.

    Anyone can do this
  3. 03 We run our control layer

    Conventional compute for planning, event-driven neuromorphic silicon for the reflex loop.

    This part is ours

Robots burn their battery thinking

A conventional stack runs the whole vision pipeline every frame, whether anything changed or not. That is a large share of why a humanoid works about two hours before somebody swaps its packs.

Where the charge actually goes
Perception running every frame The job

Nothing changed. I checked. Thirty times a second. For six hours.

So we split the job in two

Heavy models decide what to do. Event-driven silicon decides when to stop, and only fires when something actually changes.

Two brains, different jobs
Conventional compute Decides what to do

Task planning, object recognition, the heavy models.

100–200 ms
Event-driven / neuromorphic Decides when to stop

Contact, slip, a person stepping into the path.

microseconds

Give me 200 milliseconds, I'm thinking about it.

Already stopped.

Why it matters on your floor

The chip is the small prize. The actuators drain the pack, and a loop that reacts in microseconds stops them fighting themselves.

Tighter loop, less wasted work
WHERE THE PACK GOES Actuators Compute LOOP RESPONSE TARGET ms loop · overshoots, then burns torque correcting µs loop · settles, nothing to correct RUNTIME BETWEEN SWAPS today what the reflex layer is for

How we ship it In development

Conventional control drives from day one. The reflex layer goes in as it earns its place, and every quote states exactly which parts are early. The chips are buyable today; the toolchains are young, and we would rather say so.

Founding pilot slots. First customers can opt in as design partners: the hybrid layer on your build at a reduced rate, proven conventional control as the fallback throughout.

Waitlist

Get on the list

Every build starts the same way: you tell us the job, we tell you whether a robot can actually do it and what it would take. We're forming our founding cohort now, so the first customers get design-partner terms, a direct line to the people building it, and a say in what we build next. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

  • 1Tell us the job. You get a private page with a direct line to us. Describe the task, send photos, ask whatever you want.
  • 2We tell you straight. Whether a robot makes sense for that job, which machine would do it, and roughly what it would cost. If it doesn't pencil, we say so.
  • 3You go first. Build slots open in list order. No spam, one message when yours is close.

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