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The Team Behind Ayther

Mission

Make every infrastructure asset fully visible - by going where humans shouldn't have to.

Why We Built Ayther

America's infrastructure is aging faster than we can inspect it. 617,000 bridges, millions of miles of pipeline, countless culverts - and the people responsible for maintaining them are stretched thin, working with incomplete data.

We founded Ayther because we saw a gap: inspection technology existed for individual domains, but no one was connecting the dots. A bridge isn't just its deck surface. It's the submerged piers, the scour patterns, the buried utilities running through it. Complete inspection requires complete coverage.

Our backgrounds span robotics, defense systems, factory automation, and aerospace engineering. We've built autonomous systems for the most demanding environments, from factory floors to asteroid mining missions. Now we're applying that expertise to the infrastructure problem here on Earth, not with incremental improvements, but with a fundamentally different approach.

Grant Zahorsky, CEO & CTO of Ayther

Grant Zahorsky

CEO & CTO

Canon USA (Factory Automation)

Adinkra (AI/Robotics, DoD)

simplySOLV (VP Strategy)

Cory Brolliar, Co-Founder, Lead Hardware Engineer of Ayther

Cory Brolliar

Co-Founder, Lead Hardware Engineer

Lockheed Martin

Honeybee Robotics

Karman+

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