Last week, Overwatch AI announced they’d successfully raised $1.5 million in funding, with contributors including the venture arms of United Airlines and Pegasus. Back in March, we spoke to CPTO Nikita Kaeshko at our sister event Aviation Festival Asia, fresh off the company’s win at our Startup Pitch Competition, to hear more about their innovative product.
We are trying to help make decisions for the aircraft crews – cockpit, cabin and OCC staff.
Overwatch have build a decision support system fusing a variety of sources together: company guidelines, aircraft manuals, and live APIs such as flight and runway data. The goal is to create an accessible AI platform that staff can search in plain language. Kaeshko notes that many disruptions are caused by airlines’ internal efficiencies. By making it more intuitive to find critical information, Overwatch are breaking down siloes and improving crew awareness.
We’ve seen some pretty promising indicators with our first deployments. Airlines can make decisions faster: what previously took them half an hour to check they can now get in less than two minutes.
To ensure that every output is verifiable, the AI platform provides sources for any information given. Alongside contributing to the recent investment round, Pegasus have been among the first airlines to test Overwatch’s technology, with some success. Encouraging results across 30,000 flights from Overwatch partners include a 4.6-times increase in compliant decision-making and a 6.6% increase in crew productivity.
Looking ahead, Kaeshko and his business partner, CEO Leo Kotil, hope to scale the solution and improve industry awareness.
Everyone wants to deploy AI solutions, but everyone is scrambling for the data points that they need to evaluate these systems. Our big goal is to build a good foundation and use case portfolio to educate the industry.
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Questions asked include:
- Which industry challenges do Overwatch AI hope to address?
- What success have you seen with early deployments?
- How are you looking to grow next?
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