Ireland's own
drone factory.

A sovereign, indigenous manufacturing capability — built on Irish soil to protect our seas, serve our people, and capture the value at home. Made in Ireland, made for Europe.

"At the heart of this strategy is a new whole-of-government approach to protect … our maritime domain … in cooperation with … the private sector."

The Government says the private sector has "a responsibility to play its part, complementing that of the Government." We are that partner — the indigenous capability that lets the State deliver, not just plan.

Our cables are being stalked.

• Nov 2024 — the Russian vessel Yantar flew three drones over Irish-controlled waters, near subsea cables and a gas interconnector.
• Jan 2025 — shadow-fleet tanker Arne dragged its anchor off Co. Mayo, beside the AEC-1 Ireland–US cable; later intercepted missing that anchor.
• Since Oct 2023 — 11+ cables cut or damaged in the Baltic (Eagle S, Yi Peng 3, NewNew Polar Bear).

The world's data runs past our coast.

A sea the size of a country — almost no eyes on it.

Ireland's "seablindness" is real demand with no domestic supply. The drones to fix it are bought abroad.

Persistent drones, not scarce ships.

• NATO launched Operation Baltic Sentry (Jan 2025) with ~20 naval drones guarding undersea infrastructure.
• Uncrewed systems give far lower cost-per-patrol-hour than frigates over a vast EEZ.
• The mission — detecting slow, loitering, anchor-dragging vessels — is already demonstrated.

The capability exists. The question is who builds it — and where.

Own the line. Capture the margin. Build it in Ireland.

Indigenous, sovereign capability — headquartered and controlled here. We build the hard part (the motor) at home, so every unit sold funds the next line, not a foreign supplier. Growth and innovation; safe and secure.

One line. Five zones. 160 m².

• Sequential flow: raw stock → wound stators → balanced rotors → final assembly → full QC.
• 3–5 operators on the floor, scaling to 15 staff.
• ≥98% qualification rate · 4-minute cycle time. target line spec · modelled

Stamp the steel. Stack the core.

It starts with metal: a high-speed press punches 0.20 mm silicon-steel laminations and stacks them into the motor's stator core — thin layers, low energy loss, over 96% stacking factor.

• Machine: progressive stamping press + in-die stacker.
• Makes: the slotted stator core that every coil is wound onto.

• One coil per tooth — the dLRK scheme, 12 slots / 14 poles — a CNC needle/flyer machine lays enamelled copper at controlled tension.
• Magnets are bonded into the rotor bell, then magnetised in place — cleaner and repeatable; ~4-min winding cycle, ≥98% first-pass.
• Every motor is impregnated, cured, balanced and fully tested before it ships.

Set the magnets. Make the rotor.

Curved magnets are bonded into the spinning rotor bell, then magnetised in place — far cleaner and more repeatable than handling live magnets on the line.

• Machine: magnet-bonding jig + capacitor-discharge pulse magnetiser.
• Makes: the rotor that spins around the wound stator.

Press the shaft. Balance the spin.

The shaft and bearings are pressed in, then the rotating assembly is spun on a dynamic balancer — because at 5,000–30,000 rpm the tiniest imbalance ruins flight stability and bearing life.

• Machine: servo bearing-press + dynamic balancing machine.
• Makes: a smooth, vibration-free rotating assembly.

Test every motor.

Each finished motor goes on an end-of-line stand: Kv, no-load current, thrust and RPM, vibration and a dielectric safety test — pass or fail, logged to its serial number.

• Machine: thrust/dynamometer test bench + hi-pot tester.
• Nothing ships unverified — every unit is certified on-shore.

Build the drone.

Motors, propellers, speed controllers and a flight controller come together on the bench; the drone is calibrated and test-flown — and a finished Irish-made drone rolls off the line.

• Machine: assembly jigs + ESC/flight-controller bench + prop balancer + calibration rig.
• Makes: a complete, flight-ready drone — start to finish, in Ireland.

Free of China's magnet monopoly.

A motor's magnets are the one part the world buys from a single country. China processes ~90% of rare earths and makes ~93% of permanent magnets — and in April 2025 it put export controls on them, spiking EU prices up to 6×. The same magnets sit in Predator drones and F-35s.

• Magnet-free motors already ship: BMW & Renault (wound-field), Turntide (switched-reluctance), Tesla (induction) — proof the physics works at scale (automotive precedent — not drone-validated; no affiliation).
• Our hedge: dual-source ferrite & iron-nitride magnets (Niron, Proterial) now, and a magnet-free design path for non-flight motors.
• Honest: high-performance flight motors still use magnets today — so this is our supply-chain insurance and R&D roadmap, not a finished claim.

Everything you buy to begin.

And the materials that feed it:

Indicative equipment ranges from supplier research; RFQ-confirmed before the budget hardens.

Fast to first unit.

• The turnkey line's 120-day build is the critical path — siting, lease and hiring run in parallel.
• Moving into an Údarás advance factory removes the build-a-shell delay entirely.

Lead-time estimate — modelled; confirmed on final supplier & site contracts.

Made here. Repaired here. Owned here.

The goal: manufacture and repair the supply line itself on the island — spares, rewinding, test, calibration and training, all on-shore.

Don't build a factory. Move into one.

• Údarás na Gaeltachta leases ready advance factories in Donegal — e.g. a 1,000 m² industrial unit (+365 m² office) with three-phase power and broadband, to let now.
• It is renewing €4.55M of roads, water and power at Gaoth Dobhair Business Park (~728 employed) — utilities you inherit, not fund.
• Partner Ireland's existing skills: motor-rewind shops (since 1984), ÉireComposites & Versadrones airframes, Taoglas RF, TE Connectivity precision.
• Precedent: Abbott reused the closed Hospira plant in Donegal Town — €36M, 155 jobs. We do the same: lease and repurpose, not greenfield.

Built in the Donegal Gaeltacht.

• Enterprise Ireland & Údarás na Gaeltachta actively want international start-ups in the Gaeltacht — siting here unlocks the grant stack.
• Atlantic / Western Development region; Irish-language operations become a strategic asset, not just a nicety.

* Running-cost factors — figures being confirmed against live Údarás & energy quotes.

Fly the Donegal Gaeltacht.

• Gaoth Dobhair Business Park — Údarás's flagship enterprise park.
• Na Dúnaibh — a 1,000 m² advance unit, ready to let.
• Donegal Town — where Abbott reused a closed plant for €36M / 155 jobs.

Open the full interactive map → · OpenStreetMap basemap

A real building, ready to fit out.

• Gaoth Dobhair Business Park, Donegal Gaeltacht — Údarás's flagship enterprise park.
• Serviced units with three-phase power, water and broadband; ~728 already employed on site.
• €4.55M park-utilities upgrade under way (2025–27) — inherited, not funded by us.

Open the satellite view → · Esri World Imagery

A vetted tier-1 turnkey OEM partner. under NDA

• Scored 89.9 / 100 against six manufacturers on capability, longevity and compliance.
• ≥98% qualification rate · 120-day lead time · CE-certified, BV-audited.
• Hosts on-site client due-diligence; EU-compliance-ready, NDAA-clean sourcing path.

Scores & rates are supplier-reported, subject to our independent due-diligence audit. Identity held under NDA, disclosed only to signed parties.

We make the costliest part for half the price.

Every shipment funds the factory. Margin is captured here, in Ireland.

See the full financial model & funding plan →

* Modelled from in-house factory research; to be validated against final Irish site, energy & labour quotes.

One factory, the whole island's problems.

• Maritime & energy: subsea-cable watch · offshore-wind inspection · fisheries · coast-guard SAR.
• Agri & environment: precision farming · forestry · peatland & carbon · flood mapping.
• Infrastructure: grid & pipeline · data-centre · rail · bridges · ports.
• Public safety: mountain rescue · island medical delivery · counter-drone security.

We watch the cable, not the deep.

• Drones geolocate "dark" ships (AIS switched off) by their radio emissions using directional antennas — and flag loitering or anchor-dragging over a known cable route.
• In shallow water a drone-borne magnetometer already maps the cable itself — demonstrated on real export cables.
• Machine learning matches each signal to the specific cable segment and behaviour we have trained it to recognise.
• Honest limit: this detects surface and near-surface vessels of interest — not silent, deep submarines.

Eyes on the seabed.

• Small ESP32-P4 sensor pods sit at a cable's weak points — landing stations, shallow crossings — watching for disturbance.
• An autonomous underwater drone visits them, reads them by acoustic/optical link and relays up through a surface buoy (radio can't travel underwater).
• They complement DAS — the fibre-as-sensor system cable operators already run — adding local, high-resolution spot-checks exactly where it matters.

See it coming. Cue the response.

• The threat is real: unauthorised drones over airports, ports, energy sites and critical infrastructure are a live European problem.
• Our role is detection, early warning and cueing — a distributed LoRa sensor-net (long range, low power, low bandwidth) that spots intrusions and hands a precise cue to the responder.
• Interception is a proven field handled by dedicated systems — external reference: Anduril Roadrunner-M and Ukraine's interceptor drones (~250–340 km/h) down slow attack drones. We integrate with such effectors; we do not build weapons.
• Honest limit: nothing here intercepts a hypersonic missile (Mach 5+, ~6,000 km/h). Against fast threats we detect, track and cue national defences — never claiming the kill.

Drones that fly — and dive.

Semi-submersible VTOL drones that cross from air into water to inspect a cable up close, then fly home.

• Grounded in real research: Nezha (dives to ~50 m), Naviator (air↔water in under a second), AquaMAV, CRACUNS.
• Our amphibious variant is a development programme building on these — honest: no off-the-shelf amphibious quad exists yet.
• The hard parts are real engineering: waterproofing, buoyancy, two-fluid propellers, and comms underwater where radio can't reach.

One line. A whole family of drones.

Keep the swarm working, far from shore.

The hardest part of working at sea is staying connected and autonomous when radio fades and the deep blocks signals.

• Fail-safe autonomy: each drone completes its task and returns home even if the link drops.
• Resilient over-the-horizon comms — a complementary Hyperlog concept, satsoft.ch, explores stratospheric relays to keep an offshore swarm online. concept
• Gentle on people and nature: dropping medicine to an island, or quietly watching an oyster farm in a sheltered bay.

One operator. A swarm at her command.

From a phone in a Donegal field, one operator directs a fleet of drones — fire-and-forget. They fly their loops, sow truffle spores and tend the crop, then return to base to reload — again and again, like a printer head laying down a page, until the job is done.

• Real jobs, real skill: accessible, well-paid drone-operations work in the Gaeltacht — open to everyone.
• Agritech that travels: precision farming and truffle cultivation, run from Ireland for fields worldwide.
• Swarm autonomy: the direction of the technology — one human, many drones, every loop precise and repeatable.

Watching over the oysters.

Ireland farms ~130 oyster sites — over €44M a year, with Donegal and Waterford about 60% of it.

• A survey drone maps every trestle and bag, spotting biofouling, growth and early mortality from the air.
• It tells the farmer when and where to turn, grade and harvest — taking the hardest guesswork out of the work.
• Honest: the heavy lifting stays human; the drone is the eyes and the analytics, not the muscle.

Powered by the sun and the swell.

• Solar: ultra-thin perovskite panels recharge the onboard battery on the surface — real drones already fly charge-then-fly cycles (44 W/g, JKU Linz).
• Wave & wind: the proven route to months — even a year — at sea (Saildrone, Wave Glider).
• Metal–seawater fuel cells (magnesium / aluminium) carry energy as metal for long one-way missions; the anode is renewed on land.
• Straight talk: the battery is charged by sunlight and harvested energy — never by the seawater itself. No free lunch, only good engineering.

A swarm for Ireland's biggest exports.

Ireland exported a record €223.7bn in goods in 2024 — pharma alone €99.9bn (45%); the US takes 39%.

The motor is where the money is.

We don't claim a $37 drone. We make the costliest part — the motor — for roughly half to two-thirds of import cost: about $37 per small/mid unit at our cost, and a drone needs four to eight of them. That subsystem is where local production wins.

DJI / XAG retail · MAD / T-MOTOR motor prices · in-house model. *Motor manufacturing cost — motor-to-motor, not motor-to-drone; the $14–22k is a finished imported drone, the ~$37 is one of its 4–8 motors.

Irish hands. Irish drones.

Real jobs in the Gaeltacht — neighbours building world-class drones at home, taking pride in tools made by their own community for their own coast, their own fields, their own people.

• Skilled, well-paid manufacturing work where it is needed most.
• Every drone sold keeps skills, margin and confidence in Ireland.

The model already works in the EU.

EU Motors (Kraków, Poland) runs an NDAA-aligned line at 100,000 motors / month, with a second plant in Florida. Sovereign drone manufacturing is deployable on European soil — Ireland is next.

A €75M programme, built in phases.

Phase 1 proves the line for ~€2.2M. The full €75M scales it to a national capability — multiple lines, magnet-free & amphibious R&D, and an export-ready fleet. Indigenous Irish grants form the non-dilutive base (Enterprise Ireland + Údarás na Gaeltachta — we qualify as a High Potential Start-Up); equity, EU and strategic capital scale it.

Phase 1 ~€2.2M (modelled) → €75M programme. Enterprise Ireland · Údarás na Gaeltachta · NWRA · WDC · EU/EDF, 2026. Full model →

Indigenous grants first (non-dilutive); equity, EU and strategic capital scale to €75M. Figures modelled — to be set with advisers.

Capital follows proof, not promises.

Each phase unlocks the next only once it has paid out: a costed pilot line, then multi-line scale, then the R&D and electronics frontier. Every euro below is traced to a machine, a building, a job or an order.

Phased programme · all figures modelled, to be validated against final quotes. Full model → /pitch/financials/

No black boxes. A line for each euro.

Modelled €75M allocation. Equipment supplied by a tier-1 turnkey OEM partner (under NDA). To be validated against final quotes.

One line, ~€800k of machines.

Equipment ≈ €800k. With fit-out of a leased Údarás unit (€250k), first inventory & working capital (€650k) and a certification/contingency share (€500k), an all-in line is ~€2.2M.

Market ranges (winders $6.5k–$80k ea; SMT line $200k–$800k). Supplier under NDA. Modelled, to be validated.

One machine. The whole plan.

A €37k machine winds 100–300 motors an hour. The entire Year-5 plan — ~€60M revenue, ~4,000 drones, ~28,000 motors — is roughly one machine's annual output. It pays for itself in under a thousand motors — a few days.

So the machine is never the constraint — demand, certification and execution are. That is why most of the €75M is market access, IP and working capital, not machines.

Throughput: industry data (100–300 small stators/hr). Margin & volumes modelled, to be validated.

One person, ~30 machines.

A near-lights-out line: 1.5 FTE runs ~30 automated machines at ~250,000 motors/yr, so labour is ≈ €0.33 a motor — the margin moat. We train, not staff: a few deeply-skilled Gaeltacht operators, the hardest thing to copy.

EU-Motors Poland precedent (100k motors/mo). *In-house motor cost, small/mid class — not a finished-drone price. Modelled.

Four engines, not one bet.

Diversified demand — funded State need, civil missions, exports and recurring service — so no single customer can stall the programme.

CSO exports 2024 · Defence Forces capital plan 2025 · 30-mission grid (this deck). Modelled.

Ireland is grown on grass.

Ireland exports €17bn of food & drink — led by €6.3bn of grass-fed dairy. Yet 56% of the land is grass and just ~12% is cropped. The drone job here is grassland & clover reseeding, tillage spot-work, forestry planting and high-value new crops — protecting the country’s biggest food export.

Bord Bia 2024 · CSO land use (grassland ~56%, tillage ~300,000 ha).

For Ireland — a daily drone over every field defends the €6.3bn dairy export that bad grass-weather keeps threatening.

It rides shotgun.

The drone doesn’t replace the tractor — it complements it. While the tractor does the heavy ground work, the drone flies the field every day, sends the farmer a live crop-health map, catches stress two weeks before it shows, and spot-treats or seeds what the tractor can’t reach — at a third of the cost and no soil compaction.

We lend a hand: finance it like a tractor, or sell it as a service — hardware plus a daily-visuals subscription. For the farmer, lower inputs and higher yield; for drones.irish, a sale and recurring monthly revenue per farm.

Drone $5–9/ac vs tractor ~$15/ac; capex ~$30–40k vs ~$500k; multispectral NDVI 2-week early warning. Industry data, modelled.

Commercially — every Irish farm becomes a hardware sale plus a recurring daily-monitoring subscription.

Don't sell motors. Sell drones.

Bare small motors are a commodity — rivals sell them for ~€3, so that is not our game. The value climbs from a €120 certified motor (~€60 margin) to a €15–20k finished precision drone — 6–8 of our motors plus integration. Owning the motor is the margin floor; selling the drone is the 20×+ multiplier. Tap a bar for the detail.

FPV motor ~$2.9 (bulk) · certified/heavy motor ASP ~€120 · ag/inspection drone €15–20k (DJI Agras-class). Modelled.

Margin compounds with scale.

Drivers: own-the-motor margin × 1-operator:30-machines × multi-line scale × export pull. Conservative on price, aggressive on efficiency.

Every number modelled, to be validated against final quotes — not a forecast or a guarantee.

The State funds it once — and earns it back.

Grants are returned through tax and jobs within a few years — and whatever margin remains is reinvested into Irish jobs, so the country compounds the benefit.

Irish CT 12.5% · employer PRSI ~11.05% · CSO/Revenue bases. 5-yr cumulative, modelled.

Is it smart?

An honest plan beats a loud one. The economics work because we climb the value chain — and we've costed the risk in, not out.

Every penny, accounted for.

Our AI expense-audit engine (pingwage / OverCaml) monitors every euro of programme spend — especially State and grant money — categorising it, reconciling it to orders, and flagging anomalies, aligned with EU public-funds transparency. No penny goes unnoticed.

Governance commitment — engine in deployment. Aligned with EU transparency norms for publicly-supported programmes.

A moat others must license.

Five Irish patent applications protect the inventive steps behind the line — filed first, in Ireland. We name the areas, not the claims: the detail stays confidential until granted, so novelty is preserved.

5 short-term Irish patents (IPOI) · areas only · full specifications held in the confidential data room.

Narrowed to a novel core.

5 attorney-review filing candidates: each claim was narrowed against Irish and worldwide prior art across multiple design-around waves, until a skeptical adversarial examiner panel found no single anticipating reference. Hover any patent to read its claim, what distinguishes it, and the residual risk an attorney must still assess.

Inventors: Nathaniel Timmis · Michael Gerard Lynch

OverCaml ran a multi-signal review (PatentSBERTa + nomic-embed similarity + adversarial examiner panels) over retrieved Irish/EP/WO/US prior art across several narrowing waves. These pass the reasoning-based examiner after narrowing; the conservative similarity bar still rates them at-risk, so they are filing candidates for professional patent-attorney review (Cruickshank / FRKelly), not granted patents and not a legal opinion.

Motors today. A frontier next.

The electronics line we build for our own flight controllers becomes the seed of something bigger: a sovereign advanced-manufacturing cluster in the Donegal Gaeltacht. Drones fund the motor line; the motor line funds the PCB line; the PCB line opens the door to the next frontier — Irish-made compute.

Roadmap / vision — sequenced after the core programme proves out. Not a current capability.

Deep-dive annex: the world · Ireland's history · the 2030–40 ocean future →

One country owns the magnets.

Every conventional drone motor needs neodymium magnets — and the supply, and the price, are set in Beijing. The same magnets sit inside Predator UAVs and F-35s. That is the single point of failure we design out.

USGS / industry rare-earth share · 2025 EU export-control price data. Modelled context.

The return — we delete a single-country supply risk that already spiked rival costs 6×.

Iron and copper. Nothing rare.

A switched-reluctance motor makes torque from shaped steel and copper alone — zero neodymium, zero China dependency. Rugged, simple, and impossible to embargo. The physics already runs at scale: Turntide (switched-reluctance), BMW & Renault (wound-field). (Automotive precedent — not drone-validated; no affiliation.)

For the Exchequer — a fully EU-sourceable motor is a cost-and-supply moat no importer can match.

Silent. Radio-clean. Self-cooled.

• Acoustically quiet — shaped commutation cancels the radial-force whine reluctance motors are infamous for.
• Radio-clean — low broadband EMI, so the drone's own telemetry and radio stay clear.
• Self-circulating oil cooling — sealed, pump-less, holds thrust in desert heat. Less to break.

Covered by Irish patent pending IE-B (areas only). Modelled performance.

Commercially — quiet, radio-clean, self-cooled motors command a defence/maritime premium — €120 ASP on ~€60 cost.

A hybrid path to zero-magnet.

We do not bet the company on one physics. Permanent-magnet motors ship today; in parallel we dual-source ferrite & iron-nitride (no rare earth) and mature the fully magnet-free reluctance motor as the endgame. Three hedges, one roadmap.

In plain terms — revenue now, moat later — PM ships today while magnet-free de-risks tomorrow.

A motor no one can switch off.

A magnet-free, NDAA-clean, EU-made motor is buyable by Western governments where Chinese product is not — and immune to the next export shock. That sovereignty is a price premium and a moat, protected by Irish IP.

The bottom line — an NDAA-clean sovereign motor is buyable where China isn't — a premium protected by Irish IP.

The Kalashnikov of drones.

Like the AK-47: five parts or fewer, brutally simple, field-strippable, almost nothing to go wrong. A high-lift workhorse a farmer can fix on a kitchen table with one tool — modular, repairable, reusable. Fewer parts means lower cost, higher reliability and a longer life.

Low-component, high-reliability design — modelled around repairability and lift-per-euro.

What it’s worth — ≤5 parts means lower cost, higher reliability and field repair — simplicity compounds into margin.

One part, two jobs.

A thick, rigid nylon/glass-impregnated PCB cut as the X-frame itself — the airframe and the electronics in a single ultra-stiff part. Proven material (FR4/glass is structurally excellent; the real challenge is vibration, which we damp). Rated for 300 km/h flight.

Net effect — one part doing two jobs strips cost, weight and failure points from every drone.

Waterproof, yet repairable.

• Clean: acetone then isopropyl-alcohol soak strips every flux residue and oil.
• Repel: a hydrophobic pass (Rain-X-type fluoro-silane) makes water bead and run off the board.
• Seal: a silicone conformal coat — water can never permeate, yet it peels back locally for a field repair.

The result: a board that survives months at depth for subsea-cable work — and is still repairable, not disposable.

Conformal-coating + fluoro-silane practice; durability to be validated to IP68 + immersion spec.

Why it pays — months-at-depth durability unlocks subsea-cable contracts inside the €1.7bn defence plan.

Air above. Water below.

Our own propeller line makes blades tuned for both media. On water entry the motor windings switch star → delta — trading speed for the torque needed to drive the same props through dense water. No gearbox, no moving transmission. One aircraft, two domains.

For Ireland — air-and-water on one airframe is a category with no off-the-shelf rival — pricing power by definition.

Dive, work, fly home.

Vacuum-formed, gasket-sealed shells take the airframe to IP68 — fully submersible. It flies to a cable corridor, dives to inspect, and lifts off again. The same platform plants truffles on land and checks subsea cables at sea, on an industrial scale.

On the numbers — one platform serving land and sea doubles the missions per unit of capex.

Irish cells. Self-reliant.

A local 18650 line makes high-capacity cylindrical cells we use, field-swap and export. Standard 18650 means a farmer repairs a pack with cells from a shelf — and Ireland gains a second exportable product. Full self-reliance on every drone component.

The case — our own 18650s remove a key import and add a second exportable product.

Full vertical integration — in €75M.

Motor · structural-PCB frame · propeller · battery · the whole drone — funded inside the €75M by reallocation. Tap a bar. Modelled.

Value captured — owning every part captures the whole margin stack — funded inside the €75M.

An acre of truffles, an acre of gold.

Ireland's Summer Black Truffle programme (ITFC, ~3,000 ha) — a demand anchor drones.irish serves (monitor · plant · protect · carbon-MRV), not our own farm P&L. Tap a bar. Modelled.

The return — ~€42k/ha/yr at maturity is a demand magnet that keeps our drones flying and paid.

A swarm that farms itself.

Autonomous drones plant saplings, map the canopy, verify the carbon and guard the harvest from theft — the 30× chain-reaction of agriculture at scale. Each drone covers serious ground, so a handful service a whole programme.

For the Exchequer — autonomous coverage means recurring DaaS revenue across thousands of hectares from a handful of aircraft.

The money goes to the land.

This is built so the farmer wins: at maturity a single hectare can gross ~€42k/yr in truffles plus carbon income, against ~€8–15k to establish. Drones.irish supplies the tools and the data on a low monthly service fee — most of the upside stays with the grower, and a new rural industry grows with it.

Farmer-economics modelled from truffle yield/price + EU CRCF; to be validated per site.

Commercially — when farmers profit, they buy and renew — a durable, expanding customer base.

The funnel, low-hanging fruit first.

Land a €50-150k county pilot (the low-hanging fruit) → State & civil contracts → recurring DaaS + carbon + export. Tap a tier. Modelled.

In plain terms — €50–150k county pilots convert to State and recurring revenue — a clear path up.

Proven overseas. Untapped here.

Japan: Yamaha >40% of rice area · S.Korea: 30% of spraying · Switzerland: first EU approver (vineyards). Ireland ~0% — the open goal. Sources: Yamaha, Grand View, Agrarforschung Schweiz.

The bottom line — 30–42% abroad vs ~0% here is the clearest greenfield in European agri-drones.

Sell drones. Licence the edge.

Two revenue engines: export the drones into the €31.6B EU market (Germany > France > UK lead), and licence the patented inventions — winding, magnet-free motor, transmedium propulsion — to bolster Ireland's wider exports. Hardware margin plus royalty margin.

What it’s worth — hardware margin plus patent royalties is two revenue engines from one R&D spend.

Built to be broken & fixed.

• Resilient: ≤5 parts, sealed electronics, salt-fog-rated — tried and tested in Atlantic weather.
• Repairable: field-swap on standard 18650 cells and snap-in modules — no return-to-base.
• Wanted: from the farmer chasing sheep with a "we need drones" banner to the county council — the demand is real, and a little bit fun.

Net effect — cheap-to-repair, hard-to-kill drones have the lowest whole-life cost — in a market that wants them.

Thirty ways to get paid.

Every one of the 30 use-cases carries a revenue line — see the financial badge on each at /use-cases/.

Diversified demand — no single-customer risk. Figures modelled, to be validated.

Why it pays — 30 revenue lines mean no single-customer risk and many shots on goal.

Patent after patent.

Our own engine (patentfactory.ch) drafts and prior-art-checks inventions on demand — turning R&D into a growing wall of Irish IP and funding new research centres. Every filing is an asset that compounds.

For Ireland — each patent is a 20-year toll-gate on a market — and we own the factory that prints them.

Thirty reasons. One conclusion.

Value captured — thirty independent reasons converge on one conclusion — sovereign infrastructure, priced like a start-up.

A High Potential Start-Up, by definition.

• Innovative, internationally-traded IP — 10+ jobs and €1M sales within three years, headquartered and controlled in Ireland.
• Fits Enterprise Ireland HPSU, Údarás na Gaeltachta, LEO and New Frontiers — applied for transparently, on real merit.
• "Competitive advantage founded on sustainability, innovation and productivity."

Real contracts. Real demand.

The Irish State is re-arming and re-tooling — and publishing the spend. A real sample, largest first:

Live on eTenders → · EU TED → · value-ranked via data.gov.ie open data. (Both portals block embedding, so we link out rather than show a blank frame.)

Irish public tenders, value-ranked.

Source: EU TED API & data.gov.ie eTenders open data — the portals block embedding, so we host the data and link out: eTenders → · TED →

Not just built here. Run here.

drones.irish is more than a factory. We make Ireland's drones — and operate them as a trusted national capability: indigenous manufacturing, an Irish operator network, and a compliance-and-data layer built for public services.

• Make: sovereign Irish manufacturing — the motor, the drone.
• Operate: trained Irish pilots flying compliant, privacy-first missions.
• Platform: the compliance, data and reporting layer the State can trust.

Compliant by design.

• IAA / EASA operator authorisation, drone registration, pilot competence, full insurance & third-party liability.
• A formal safety case: risk assessments, pre-flight checklists, emergency procedures, audit logs, incident reporting.
• BVLOS roadmap: Phase 1 visual-line-of-sight → Phase 2 extended ops → Phase 3 BVLOS, after authorisation & safety case.
• Airspace integration: geofencing, restricted-zone checks, flight logging, U-space readiness.

Your data stays yours — and Irish.

• Cyber by design: encrypted telemetry, role-based access, firmware control, device authentication, incident procedures.
• GDPR by design: privacy masking, restricted-recording zones, purpose limitation, automatic deletion.
• EU / Ireland data hosting — sensitive public-sector data never leaves the jurisdiction.
• Supply-chain due diligence: approved vendors, firmware review, non-compliant hardware excluded.

What it's worth to Ireland.

We speak in procurement terms — social value, green procurement, SME participation, Irish employment, measurable impact. One drone inspection can replace multiple van trips, scaffolding visits or a helicopter flight.

* Industry-typical targets — confirmed per pilot, never promised in advance.

One county. One mission. 90 days.

• Pick a beachhead: infrastructure inspection, emergency-response mapping, or flood monitoring.
• Fixed price €50k–150k, defined success metrics, and a final report the State can act on.
• Prove the value first — before any national commitment.

Every box, accounted for.

Honest status — green is in place/committed; amber is on the authorisation roadmap.

Red-teamed, then answered.

• "The mission is vague." → A trusted national UAS platform: we make and operate, compliantly.
• "Who's the first buyer?" → A 90-day county pilot — local authority / emergency services.
• "What about regulation?" → IAA/EASA + a phased BVLOS roadmap + a formal safety case.
• "Is it secure?" → Cyber + GDPR by design, with EU/Ireland data residency.
• "Where's the value?" → Quantified outcomes, written in procurement language.

drones.irish Academy.

• Train Irish operators: flight skills, IAA-aligned certification support, safety workshops, public-sector drone-readiness.
• A jobs pipeline in the Gaeltacht — converting local talent into certified pilots, technicians and mission planners.
• Commercial model — local-authority tiers: Starter (inspection & reporting) · County (drone-in-a-box + AI modules) · Regional (full operations + SLA). Pricing indicative.

Safe for people, land & wildlife.

• Environment: wildlife-sensitive flight planning, noise limits, livestock avoidance, weather-window limits, community notification.
• Built for Irish weather: published wind/rain operating limits, backup planning, clear abort criteria.
• Maintenance & traceability: battery cycle logs, service intervals, pre/post-flight checklists, component records.
• Incident protocols: lost link · crash · GPS-spoofing · cyber · weather abort · battery · airspace conflict — each with a procedure.
• Public trust: public notices, complaint handling, mission transparency, full audit trail.

Human-in-command. AI-assisted.

Named AI modules — not vague claims:

• Supervised autonomy: a human approves every mission, the drone executes, AI assists analysis, a human signs off the report.
• Integration APIs connect to GIS, emergency-command tools and asset databases.

Every claim, verified.

Pricing from public indices (LME copper · NdFeB price reports) + CSO & supplier RFQ — modelled with forecast ranges. No proprietary trade-desk data. The model survives commodity swings, so the State's budget does too.

How we kill the risk.

• Magnet supply → dual-source ferrite / iron-nitride, strategic stock, and magnet-free R&D.
• One supplier → a second source qualified; spares and tooling held on-shore.
• Capital → non-dilutive grants first; equity only to close the round.
• Regulation → built to IAA / EASA UAS rules from day one.
• Neutrality → lead civilian dual-use; defence only later, as an EU consortium partner.
• Demand → 30+ Irish missions plus an export-market swarm — never one customer.

Built by Irish hands.

Illustrative imagery. A skilled, renewable workforce — building, flying and repairing Irish drones in every community.

For the country — a job, a skill and a drone in every parish — made in Ireland.

Let's build it. Now.

Engineering-first, Ireland-resident operations. The threat is named, the demand is funded, the line is costed. We are ready to deliver the sovereign capability the State has called for.

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Now you know — end to end.

From a 0.20 mm steel lamination to a flight-ready Irish drone serving the coast, the fields and the State — one line, one island, one sovereign capability. That is the whole machine, on one screen.

Built here, with pride.

From a 0.20 mm steel lamination and a single strand of enamelled copper to a finished drone in her hands — this is high-skill engineering, in Donegal, through Irish, for the world.

"You are only as strong as your 0.20 mm laminations, your enamel-coated winding and your casings." — the craft at the heart of every motor.

In the spirit of Colm Cille.

Saint Colm Cille was born at Gartan, in this very corner of Donegal, fifteen centuries ago — and carried Irish learning out to the world. We build here in that same spirit: Irish hands, the Irish language, Irish ambition — protecting our seas, tending our land, and offering our skill to the world with warmth and openness.

Thank you — for reading this far.

This is a real plan, built on real numbers, for a real need. If it makes sense to you the way it makes sense to us, then the best day to start was yesterday — and the next best day is today. We would be honoured to build it together.

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Made in Ireland. For the world.

A sovereign capability, built by Irish hands — protecting our seas, tending our land, and lighting the way forward. Let's build it together.

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