CTO's Isolation Breakthrough

Will O'Brien shares a story about how his CTO created a breakthrough design for their underwater drone company.

"We thought initially that we were going to be maybe using someone else's platform and repurposing it, but we looked at all of the subsea drones on the market and they were crap. One of the ones we were looking at, which actually had the specs that would have meant what we wanted to do, cost like $500,000. That's like a quarter of our pre-seed to do what we want.

Then my CTO Jamie just went into a cave for a few days and came back with a design for a new type of autonomous water vehicle. We tested it and we're like, 'Oh shit, this works! Oh shit, it's like ten, twenty times cheaper than anything we could have bought!' Sometimes you just need a new idea and an artist to go into a cave and then you can change things."