We got tired of sending people up towers.
KVANT was founded in 2017 by two wind-farm engineers and a compulsive drone builder, in a Hamburg workshop that smelled of epoxy and ambition. The mission has not moved a millimetre since: no human should hang from a structure just to look at it.
HQ · HAMBURG WORKS
Safety is the product
Everything else — the airframes, the algorithms, the reports — is packaging around one deliverable: nobody on ropes, nobody in tanks, nobody under water who doesn’t want to be.
Publish the numbers
Detection rates, false positives, missed classes: our quarterly report prints them all. A vendor who won’t show you a confusion matrix is selling you confidence, not inspection.
Boring is a feature
Exciting flights are failed plans. We engineer the adrenaline out of the machines so your engineers can spend it arguing about findings instead.
Version history.
Three people, one workshop
Kessler and Voss quit the wind operator; Lindgren brings the airframes. First contract: photographing a broken anemometer nobody wanted to climb for.
The first tower reader ships
Endurance 31 minutes, wind limit embarrassing, results undeniable: a full blade set imaged before the rope team had finished their toolbox talk.
The pixels learn to file reports
Detection model v1 ships with 12 defect classes and a public confusion matrix — a habit the sales team fought and the clients funded.
Steel joins the fleet
The magnetic crawler survives its fifth prototype and its first tank farm. ATEX certification follows; the scaffolding industry does not send a card.
Rotterdam & Aberdeen bases open
Marine ops and offshore wind get resident crews. BVLOS corridor authorisations reach nine countries; the ops manual grows its own gravity.
Below the waterline, above the record
The M-1 submersible enters service, and Mission 047 retires the phrase “inspection season” for one North Sea operator. Current headcount: 63. Current ropes: 0.
The people behind the machines.
“I spent eight years signing rope-access permits and hoping. I’d rather sign flight plans and know.”