Value Creation: From Open Source to Deep Tech

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Value Creation From Open Source to Deep Tech

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Underground Radar

Subsurface Mapping GS8000 / GS9000

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

High-density stepped-frequency radar mapping underground utilities and deep subsurface anomalies in real-time 3D.

Centimeter-accurate spatial radar

Acoustic Tomography

Ultrasonic Testing Proceq Pundit PD8000

Ultrasonic Pulse Echo Tomography

Multi-channel acoustic wave sensors that see deep inside massive concrete structures to locate voids, cracks, and delaminations.

Non-destructive acoustic tomography

Cloud & AI Platform

Intelligent Inspection Screening Eagle INSPECT

3D Structural Digital Twins

Cloud platform connecting field sensor data into live 3D models with automated AI defect detection for bridges and critical assets.

AI-driven asset health monitoring

What You Have Been Building

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Open-Source/Volunteer Work

Open-Source Volunteer Work

Industry Day Job

VALUE CREATION

Two Lessons in Value Creation

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Value creation follows a strict process

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Fail fast, but fail forward

Turning Photos Into 3D Reality

Autodesk ReMake • Multi-Angle Photo Alignment

Real-Time 3D at Massive Scale

Autodesk ReMake • 118M Polygons Real-Time Rendering

Worldwide Interest from Museums

Smithsonian 3D Digitization • Museum Artifact Preservation

The Problem: Nobody could pay

Cool technology

Look for problems

No market

The Real Process: Problem First

❌ WRONG

Technology / Solution Problem / People

✅ RIGHT

Problem / People Technology / Solution

Lesson 1: A Strict Process

Value creation follows a strict process.

Observe Empathise Innovate

Step 1: Observe

1. OBSERVE

2. Empathise

3. Innovate

What is the pain others are feeling?

What are their unmet needs?

Step 2: Empathise

1. Observe

2. EMPATHISE

3. Innovate

Think like them

Live like them

Struggle like them

Step 3: Innovate

1. Observe

2. Empathise

3. INNOVATE

Know who you are solving for

Know what problem to solve for them

Lesson 2: Fail Fast, Fail Forward

Fail fast, but fail forward.

Try Fail Learn

When You Don't Know What You Don't Know

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Dreamlab Innovation

UNCERTAINTY & CONSTRAINT

Value is not proven yet

Try, Fail, and Learn

TRY

FAIL

LEARN

Concept referenced from The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Learning Turns Failure Into Progress

High Uncertainty

Try & Fail