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Search the physical world.
Wayland — the way of the land. We track the path of everything that moves across a living map of any real area, rebuilt by every flight.
How you operate it · perceive, decide, remember
Three layers, one persistent ground.
Perceive
Each source lands in one coordinate frame and aligns to the same ground. Every flight refines the model.
Decide
Detection, change, and priority layers ride a persistent 3DGS twin. Operators see what changed, where, and what warrants attention.
Remember
Every state is recallable. Replay any past flight, export to any GIS, hand the same ground to robots and vehicles.
Team
Real people behind the model.
Operators and engineers with deep domain expertise — from aviation and mining to mapping, rendering, and autonomy.
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Shai De Toledo Co-Founder & CEOEntrepreneur and operator who built and scaled one of Asia's largest mine-to-market supply chains, and pioneered its blockchain-based traceability on Microsoft Azure — recognized in Fortune's 'Change the World' Top-15. Leads Wayland's overall strategy and operations.
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Eatay Ben Shechter Co-Founder & Chief Technology OfficerPioneer of visual and thermal-inertial photogrammetry, digital-twin systems, and GPS-denied mapping. Led the Deep Horizon disaster-mapping operation in the Gulf of Mexico and designs Wayland's high-throughput mapping payloads.
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Motti Shechter Co-Founder & Head of StrategyThree-decade aerospace and defense veteran with multiple exits — co-founded Beamhit (acquired by L3Harris) and was the first investor in BlueBird Aero Systems (acquired by Israel Aerospace Industries), where he helped bring its VTOL ISR platforms to operational deployment. Sets product and market strategy for Wayland.
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James Summerville Co-Founder & Head of Operations & IntegrationMilitary aviation veteran and former C-130 Hercules navigator, with deep operational experience in aerial imaging, photogrammetry, and payload integration. Sits on Wayland's board and leads operations, payload integration, and field testing.
- Jim Kain Strategic Advisor
More than 45 years designing and operating advanced flight systems, with deep expertise in sensor-driven autonomy and navigation in GPS-denied environments. Leads autonomous-systems architecture at Wayland.
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Richard Shaver VP, Hardware & ManufacturingOver 30 years building and testing high-reliability aerial-imaging hardware and rapid prototypes. Responsible for prototype build, ruggedization, and hardware integration at Wayland.
- Aviation
- Mining & survey
- Mapping & GIS
- 3D rendering
- Photogrammetry
- Machine learning
- Sensors & optics
- Edge systems
Provenance
Made in USA
Designed, built, and assembled in the United States.
Contact
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