Position without a satellite.
We build navigation software and airframes for airspace where GPS is jammed, spoofed, or gone. Every fix comes from onboard sensing — nothing to deny, nothing to falsify.
Satellite signal denied. Our stack holds the route on onboard sensing alone; the GNSS-dependent platform accumulates unbounded error.
Animated illustration. Measured in our seeded simulation pipeline: 0.15 m closed-loop navigation error — 0.45% of the flown path — on live visual-inertial odometry. The next layer, a stack that knows when to stop trusting itself, does not exist anywhere yet. We are building it.
What we build.
Software first, airframe second. The stack ports to third-party platforms; we fly our own so it can be proven end to end.
Platforms designed around electronic-warfare resilience and a UK supply chain — attritable by intent, serviceable in the field, and built to be produced in volume rather than hand-finished.
The airframe exists to prove the software.
Specifications indicative; full data under NDA.
Second-time founder. First exit already done.
Apricot Studio is a second act. Its founder spent years shipping consumer apps — the last, ShortsPro, passed 500,000 users and generated more than 10 million videos before being acquired by a US firm.
What carries into defence is the useful part: shipping production software that survives real load, and no illusions about how long hard things take.
Built in Scotland. Structured to stay sovereign.
Scotland holds one of Europe's densest concentrations of robotics and autonomy research, alongside a serious aerospace manufacturing base. We are building where that talent already lives rather than importing it later.
UK-designed, UK-assembled, and set up so both the intellectual property and the supply chain stay onshore.
Book a briefing.
Forty-five minutes, under NDA where required. We cover the navigation approach, current development status, and how we would fit a specific requirement.
jonathan@apricotstudio.coAlso open to conversations with engineers.
Navigation, controls, embedded, airframe.