The world is heavy — and getting heavier.

Everything modern life relies on must be lifted, placed, installed, repaired, or replaced — usually in places where trucks, cranes, or roads don't reach.

Transformers, towers, turbines, batteries, bridges, drilling rigs, pipelines, shelters.

These are not "nice to have" objects.

They are the skeleton and blood vessels of civilization.

Human progress is constrained by a single bottleneck:

We cannot move heavy things to hard places fast enough.

For more than 50 years, the only tool we've had for this job has been the helicopter.

It is the backbone of heavy aerial logistics:

• Setting power poles on mountain ridges.
• Flying generators into remote substations.
• Moving telecom towers into swamps, deserts, and tundra.
• Delivering heavy equipment where roads wash out or don't exist.
• Longlining 3,000-20,000 lb loads into terrain humans cannot safely enter.

This is high skill, high risk, low supply work.

Helicopters are miracles of the 20th century — but the miracles are aging.

• Skilled longline pilots are vanishing.
• Weather kills half of the usable lift windows.
• Mobilization takes weeks.
• Most of Earth is unreachable without roads, helipads, or staging areas.

So outages linger.

Projects stall.

Critical work waits for machines that may not show up.

We asked a simple question:

If you started from zero, with today's technology, what is the best way to move heavy cargo from point A to point B?

Not a better helicopter.

Not a bigger drone.

A utility.

A system that moves heavy matter as easily as the internet moves information.

That is Dynamo.

Build a planetary, on demand, autonomous pick and place system that moves civilization's heaviest loads.

Click → lift capability appears.

Anywhere on Earth.

Anytime.

No pilots to schedule.

No terrain constraints.

No road requirements.

No heroic logistics.

This is not aviation.

This is not robotics.

This is infrastructure.

The limits aren't operational — they are architectural.

1. Helicopters waste power.

Single main rotors burn ~10-12% of power just fighting torque with a tail rotor.

Zero lift for that energy.

Physics — unfixable.

2. Pilots are the bottleneck.

Only a few hundred people in the U.S. are qualified for heavy external load work.

Average age: 50+.

There is no scalable pipeline.

3. Weather kills timelines.

Crosswinds, icing, low visibility.

30-50% of annual lift windows vanish.

4. Mobilization is a tax.

A heavy lift helicopter job often requires:

• disassembly
• trucking
• reassembly
• test flights

Days or weeks lost — before the job even starts.

5. Demand has exploded.

America alone faces $2T+ in grid, telecom, energy, and industrial buildout.

The world needs far more lift than helicopters can supply.

These limits are not solved by "a new helicopter."

They are solved by a new architecture for the mission.

Start from first principles.

Ignore legacy constraints.

Design the ideal heavy lift system.

It would be:

Economically sane — passes the idiot index.

If it isn't cheaper than helicopters, it never scales.

Large rotor area + ultra low disc loading.

Physics advantage → massive lift for minimal power.

No tail rotor.

Quadrotors eliminate torque entirely.

Every watt goes into lift.

Hybrid powertrain.

Jet Fuel energy density + electric precision and reliability.

Autonomous by default.

No pilot shortages.

No crew duty cycles.

24/7 availability.

Rapidly deployable.

A global fleet that can appear anywhere within days.

Precision control.

Centimeter level placement in wind, altitude, and complex terrain.

Delivered as a service.

Customers book lift; they do not buy machines.

This is not a drone.

This is a utility for moving matter.

Dynamo AS-10A — 10,000 lb Class Autonomous Skycrane

The largest quadcopter in history.

The rotor disk area of an NBA basketball court.

A turbine electric machine built for one purpose:

Lift 10,000 pounds into the hardest places on Earth with precision and reliability.

Anchor Facts

• 10,000 lb external payload
• Four 10.0 m variable pitch rotors (314 m² total disc area)
• Twin GE T700-701D turboshafts driving high efficiency PM generators
• 80-90 minute hover endurance
• Containerized deployment in two 40-ft ISO containers
• Designed to integrate into existing aviation frameworks

Everything about AS-10A serves one outcome:

Maximum uptime. Maximum reliability. Maximum lift.

AS-10A is the starting point for a planetary pick and place system.

Phase 1 — Demonstrate

Build it.

Fly it.

Lift with it.

Prove precision, reliability, and economics.

Phase 2 — Operate

Deploy regional fleets: grid, telecom, energy, remote industry.

Every mission becomes training data.

Every flight improves reliability.

Costs drop with density.

Phase 3 — The Utility Model

A persistent, prepositioned fleet.

Guaranteed response times.

Lift purchased like cloud compute.

Phase 4 — Scale the Platform

The architecture expands:

• Smaller 1-3 ton systems
• 10,000 lb systems (AS-10A)
• Larger 8-15 ton superheavy variants

Phase 5 — The Sky Grid

A planetary network of autonomous lift.

Hard places become reachable.

Infrastructure moves at the speed of demand.

Civilization compounds again.

Five years ago, this was impossible.

The door has only just opened.

1. Electric powertrains crossed the threshold.

Axial flux motors, permanent magnet generators, SiC inverters — once exotic — are now mass produced and reliable.

2. Autonomy matured.

Certification frameworks exist.

Operational precedents exist.

Remote and autonomous flight are proven.

3. Infrastructure demand has exploded.

Grid failures, renewable energy, telecom buildouts, disasters — all require rapid heavy lift into terrain helicopters cannot reliably serve.

4. Helicopter supply is flat.

Aging fleets.

Rising costs.

Pilot scarcity.

Zero new heavy helo designs.

The bottleneck is structural.

The opportunity is enormous.

The moment is now.

We build from physics.

We operate from first principles.

We solve real problems, not nostalgic ones.

We build fast, test early, break things, learn, and iterate rapidly.

Aviation has spent decades trapped in slow cycles, incrementalism, and fear of iteration.

That is not us.

Our team is comprised of alums from SpaceX, Shield AI, Relativity, Boeing Phantom Works, and other hard tech startups.

We believe:

• Real progress comes from hardware-in-the-loop learning, not PowerPoints.
• Exploding a prototype teaches more than a year of analysis.
• The fastest path to safety is rapid iteration, massive testing volume, and real data.
• The fastest path to reliability is shipping, breaking, improving, shipping again.

When heavy lift becomes abundant, cheap, autonomous, and on demand:

• Grids heal in hours, not weeks.
• Towers rise where roads end.
• Disaster response becomes proactive, not reactive.
• Remote industry gains just-in-time heavy logistics.
• Cities rebuild at the speed of physics.
• Entire new classes of infrastructure become possible.

This isn't a tool.

It's a lever for civilization.

A decade from now:

• Heavy lift arrives when summoned.
• Outages end before they cascade.
• Remote sites operate without roads.
• Infrastructure expands as fast as we choose to build.
• The world's heaviest work becomes light.

Dynamo is the Robotic Utility for Moving Heavy Matter.

And this is only the beginning.

If this resonates with you — reach out.

Let's talk.

Let's build.