Chief Executive Officer
20 years from the maritime and offshore industry. Formerly CTO of Marine Cybernetics (acquired by DNV).
Our story
From an NTNU lab to a full inspection platform on five continents.
ScoutDI was founded in November 2017 as a spin-off from NTNU’s Department of Engineering Cybernetics and the AMOS centre of excellence in Trondheim, Norway. The founders had spent years researching autonomous navigation for drones in GPS-denied environments, and saw the work could go beyond academia into the most dangerous places in industry.
The thesis: replace scaffolding, rope access and human entry into confined industrial spaces with a drone that navigates inside the asset using onboard 3D LiDAR. No external positioning. No line of sight.
The first Scout 137 was a tethered drone built for marine cargo tanks, refinery columns and power plant penstocks. As more fleets entered service, we built Scout Portal — the cloud platform that turns every flight into reviewable, shareable inspection data.
Today the offering is a complete inspection ecosystem: the Scout 137 Gen 3 drone, payloads for visual, ultrasonic and LiDAR capture, Scout Portal, Scout Operator and Companion on the inspection tablets, and Scout Services. It flies inside assets on five continents, delivered through our global partner network and supported from Trondheim.
Vision, mission and purpose
Vision
We envision a world where industrial inspections are autonomous, intelligent, and safe.
Mission
Make industrial inspections safer, more cost effective, and data driven using autonomous drones and AI.
Purpose
Help safeguard people and assets, by providing high quality inspection data without sending people into confined spaces.
By the numbers
Scout 137 by the numbers
- 7000+
- Recorded inspection
flights - 3h 38m
- Longest recorded
single flight - 1200+
- Points of interest
in one flight - 25+
- Countries Scout 137
is delivered to
Leadership
Meet the leadership team.
Chief Financial Officer
International finance leader. Background in planning, operations and strategy — driving performance and supporting growth across borders.
Chief Commercial Officer
Commercial leader with 20+ years across the technology and industrial sectors.
Chief Scientific Officer
More than 20 years in machine vision and robotics from SINTEF Digital and as co-founder of Zivid (3D camera company).
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Cofounder
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Whether it’s a partnership, a tough inspection problem, a research collaboration with a university or an investor conversation — we’d like to know what brought you here.