Founded by Ajay Mohan, Altnautica is built on a deep technical conviction: the drone industry's next breakthrough isn't aerodynamics or batteries — it's compute. The same insight that let DJI dominate globally with a single custom chip.

We're assembling a team of engineers, strategists, and domain experts who share this conviction. With global partners and collaborators, we're building the open platform that the next generation of drone companies will build on. DJI locked it down. We're opening it up.

India has produced over 200 registered drone manufacturers since the Drone Rules 2021 liberalized the market. The vast majority share a common architecture: buy an off-the-shelf flight controller, source imported components, wire everything together, flash autopilot firmware, and call it “Made in India.”

This is assembly, not engineering. These drones can spray crops and take photos. They cannot do obstacle avoidance, precision landing, computer vision, or any task that requires intelligence. When a government tender or enterprise customer requires intelligence — and increasingly they do — these startups cannot compete. DJI wins. Or the tender goes unfulfilled.

The failure is not in the frame. It is not in the motors. It is in the brain.

Altnautica exists to solve this. A single ADOS flight computer that puts a Linux-capable computer directly on the flight controller — giving any drone the intelligence to see, think, and decide. Open-source, affordable, and designed to be the platform an entire ecosystem builds on.