01
First step
$0
Two bench measurements, one week, on your own bench. No computer purchased and nothing signed.
Derived from the cost you don't incur
In none of the four fleet profiles does this add more than 1.2% to the price of the aircraft.
Carrying the layer yourself works out at about $1,617 per platform per year; our share of that is 15% — the $242 licence component — and $281.04 is the all-in rate with the layer fee on top. That is roughly 2.8% a year of a $10,000 aircraft, and the share falls as the fleet grows.
02 / 05Pricing
02
Pilot, all included
$33,831
Up to 10 platforms, eleven weeks: integration at $21,042 and the annual subscription at $12,789, which carries on afterwards.
03
After the pilot
$281.04
Per platform per year, one flat rate to 500 platforms, fixed for 36 months on a written order within 60 days of the pilot report.
03 / 05Fleet-profile comparison
Four fleet profiles, three years.
| Comparison | Disposable strike$5,000/aircraft | Front-line ISR$25,000/aircraft | Peacetime defence$40,000/aircraft | Industrial$30,000/aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active platforms — what you pay for | 50 | 2,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
| Building it yourself, 3 years | $5,214,032 | $6,137,250 | $9,924,810 | $14,659,260 |
| Asterioniq, 3 years | $94,369 | $1,391,090 | $5,858,642 | $10,973,513 |
| Added to the price of the aircraft | +0.03% | +0.14% | +0.73% | +1.14% |
| Times cheaper than building it | 55.3× | 4.4× | 1.7× | 1.3× |
04 / 05Per-platform logic
Counted per platform, so the economics do not depend on how long an aircraft survives: if one platform launches a single-use drone every day, 54,800 aircraft pass through 50 slots over three years — $1.72 per aircraft actually flown — and you still pay for 50. Lose an airframe and you register the replacement into the same slot. Above 500 platforms the rate falls with volume, to $163.60 at 100,000. Hardware is outside the licence — $1,109–1,214 per aircraft at July 2026 prices, bought by you, because we do not resell computers.
05 / 05How to start
Two bench measurements that need no procurement, then eleven weeks.
Before any purchase there are two measurements — the attitude bias, and the time offset between a frame and the attitude solution that goes with it. One week, on your bench. They are what show whether paying for frame rate is worth it at all. The pilot is not a demonstration and not an audit: we fit the node, bring your models up on board and take it to a working state in your conditions.
- 01Week 1
NDA and technical teams
You send interface documentation, optics and gimbal type, telemetry format, the source of the target coordinate, your model, and how to open access to your command system.
- 02Weeks 1–2
Two measurements and a protocol
Bench measurements, aircraft type, node composition, sensors, interfaces, detection classes, number of sorties and threshold values — agreed in writing before anything starts.
- 03Week 2
Pilot agreement
Signature. In parallel you buy the hardware yourself against the agreed specification.
- 04Weeks 3–10
Integration and field
Node fitted, models loaded, one connector built; three measurement stages — bench, field on a group, and field with no comms channel and no satellite navigation.
- 05Week 11+
Report and decision
A written report of what was measured, taken by your engineers on your equipment, and the decision on series production and the next version.
The two longest items do not depend on how fast integration goes — module lead time and access to your command system. Both are worth starting in week one.