Aonghus Stevens
CEO at Asseti
Aonghus Stevens is founder and chief executive of Asseti, a Sydney AI asset-management platform that combines drone imagery, satellite data and machine learning to give property, infrastructure and utility owners real-time condition and defect data. He built his first drone business as a teenager and was later named to a Forbes 30 Under 30 list, before founding Asseti in 2020 after running Measure Australia. Asseti has raised roughly $2.5 million in funding, including from Tidal, and serves clients across transportation, real estate, utilities and government. He discussed the opportunity on In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy.
In their own words
From The Billion-Dollar AI Opportunity No One’s Talking About - With Asseti’s Aonghus Stevens · In The Blink Of AIIf you can control who gets the coffee from A to B, but you are not the person who gets it from A to B, you win in the industry.
Key moments
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- 2:19 Aonghus’ Origin Story: From Teen Drone Dealer to Founder
- 5:03 Drones 101: Fixed Wing, Multirotor, and Enterprise Use Cases
- 8:13 AI Hack of the Week: SQL Without Writing a Line of Code
- 11:29 Why Drones Are Just the Beginning at Asseti
- 14:16 Turning PDF Reports Into Live Asset Intelligence
- 16:20 How AI, Imagery Photogrammetry Power Asseti
- 18:41 Startup Trade-Offs: When to Spend vs. Let It Burn
- 22:56 The Broken Workflows in Asset Management
- 25:31 Ideal Clients for Asseti The Scale Problem in Inspections
- 30:14 Lame or Lucrative: Drone Coffees, Google Wing, Flying Cars
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