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About us

Born in the sky. Chosen for the water.

Suntiq is an AI systems and product company with roots in Vancouver, BC and Austin, TX. Born of aviation decision-support R&D, we build intelligence for operations where a missed signal has a real cost.

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Aviation

We came from cockpits, where ambiguity is unacceptable.

Our earliest work was in aviation · real-time decision support for people flying under pressure. That work shaped how we think about safety-critical interfaces: clarity saves lives, alerts must be trustworthy, and the human is always in command.

Aviation also taught us what a good alert costs. Every unnecessary warning spends trust you can't buy back · so you engineer for the one that matters, and you make it impossible to miss. We carried that discipline into everything we've built since.

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The problem

We understand the problem.

Years around helms, docks, and service bays taught us the gap firsthand. The boat could tell you what was happening · it rarely told you what mattered, what changed, or what to do next. It was the same gap we'd spent careers closing in the sky.

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The background

Research and development. Then we chose marine.

We spent a year serving clients across connected, mission-critical operations and running R&D on what an operational intelligence layer should be. The pattern held everywhere: modern equipment produces data; operators still fly blind.

We chose the water first because it's where the stakes, the pull, and our own lives converged · and because it's the hardest proving ground we know. Salt, motion, distance from help, and no tolerance for a system that cries wolf. Earn trust here and you've earned it anywhere.

How we build

“Our aviation work shaped how we think about safety-critical interfaces.

Reliable, repeatable guidance · with you in command. Real-time decision support under pressure. Public-service grounding: safety and credibility before spectacle.

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Our values

The helm deserves the same respect as the cockpit.

A boat is the only vehicle where a family routinely operates alone, at night, hours from help. We think the standard of care owed to that helm is aviation's · not consumer electronics'.

Value 01
The captain is the system. Everything else assists.
Value 02
Awareness is a right of ownership, not a luxury option.
Value 03
Trust is earned one honest alert at a time · and spent the same way.

Decision support under pressure

Built for the moments when attention is scarce and the cost of a miss is real.

You stay in command

Guidance you can trust because it's repeatable · and because it never takes the wheel.

Safety before spectacle

Public-service grounding. Instrument panel, not billboard · credibility is the product.

Confidential by default

Quiet on purpose. We share specifics with the people we're working with, under agreement.

The company

One team. One product.

An AI systems and product company. We're building Suntiq the way we'd want it built for ourselves, on our own boats.

Roots
Vancouver, BC · Austin, TX
Heritage
Aviation-grade engineering discipline, adapted to marine.
Today
On-water testing with a growing pilot network of dealers and clubs.
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Suntiq field testing on the water.
Field notes · on the water

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