Coming soon

Copilots for the physical world.

We build alongside the people who keep infrastructure, sites, and field surveys running — where the environment was never arranged to be easy.

01 · Mission

A three-tier architecture, built for the field.

The most capable AI today runs inside environments built to be worked in: deterministic software, documented records, controlled factories. The real physical world is none of those. It changes by the hour and fails in undocumented ways, and the last ten percent — edge cases, recovery, safe operation around people — is what decides whether a system can be deployed at all. We structure that work across three tiers, each with a clear role and device.

MC Web · Mission Control

Mission Control

Plan & monitor

For managers: plan the mission, assign resources, and monitor progress in real time.

RM Mobile · Remote

Remote

Dispatch & control

For technicians: dispatch tasks, validate findings, and adjust the plan on-site.

FD Wearable · Field

Field

Execute & capture

For workers: execute the task and capture evidence hands-free.

02 · Preview

First copilot: an agentic workflow for topographic surveying, end to end.

It extracts coordinates from historical documents, plans the fieldwork, checks risks, scopes the task, and generates reports and invoices. We're building it on operations our team already runs.

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03 · Team

Three angles that meet on every decision.

Small team: one AI lens, one field-geology lens, one software lens.

Portrait of Braulio Otavalo, AI Engineer and co-founder of Grand Pawn

Braulio Otavalo

AI Engineer · Co-founder

12 years across applied AI and research, with computer vision in industrial environments and ML and GenAI solutions on cloud infrastructure. Founded OA7 and Fractal Synergy.

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Portrait of Benjamin Otavalo, Geologist and co-founder of Grand Pawn

Benjamin Otavalo

Geologist · Co-founder

Geologist in mineral exploration in Ecuador for 9 years and a Field Land Surveyor in the US since 2018 — NJ, NY, and Pennsylvania — with Fractal Synergy.

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Portrait of Leonel Otavalo, Software Engineer and co-founder of Grand Pawn

Leonel Otavalo

Software Engineer · Co-founder

Software Engineer: deploys RAG and agentic AI on cloud architectures.

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04 · Origin

Where we come from.

Indigenous and Latin American founders. We name our constraints out loud — limited compute, distance from the frontier labs — and what we bring: field experience, community knowledge, and a working familiarity with physical labour in difficult conditions. The frontier we care about isn't won on compute alone; it's won by the people who already know how to act when no one knows what to do.

05 · Contact

Let's talk.

We're looking for industrial operators with real problems, technicians willing to test copilots in the field, and investors who understand the thesis. Drop us a line.