Seventy-one percent of the planet is ocean. Almost every technology company that has gone near it went to lay something through it. Cable between continents, and a data centre sunk offshore to find out whether the water would cool it. Infrastructure run through the sea by people with no particular interest in what is down there.
Meanwhile the vehicles became autonomous, and there are more of them every year. Offshore wind and subsea cable are scaling. A browser can now render a whole mission without an install. Every one of those vehicles is a sensor platform, and a hull that used to need a crewed vessel runs a line on its own.
So the bottleneck moved. It was never how much of the seabed we could measure. It is how much of it anyone can look at afterwards. A dive still comes back as five or six files that one program can open, and people share screenshots, because a screenshot is the only thing that reliably opens on someone else’s computer.
We are building three things. Studio is the workspace: drop a file in and see the dive. Agent answers questions across the archive and cites where each answer came from. Autonomy hands the spatial understanding back to the vehicles.
The ocean isn’t unknowable. It’s unobserved. That’s a much smaller problem, and it’s a software one.