Axiform deploys AI-powered analysis on drone imagery and sensor data to detect micro-cracks, corrosion, and deformation in bridges, pipelines, dams, and power lines — before they become catastrophic failures.
The world's critical infrastructure — bridges, pipelines, dams, transmission towers — was built for a 50-year lifespan. Most of it is well past that window.
City governments face a paradox: manual inspection at scale is prohibitively expensive, requires shutdowns, and exposes workers to dangerous environments. Yet scheduled inspections happen so infrequently that failures occur between cycles.
The American Society of Civil Engineers grades US infrastructure a C−. Over 7,500 bridges are structurally deficient. Pipeline incidents cause billions in economic damage annually. Aging power grid failures are accelerating.
The status quo is not sustainable. A new inspection paradigm isn't a luxury — it's an emergency.
We transform raw drone imagery and multi-sensor telemetry into a continuous, AI-graded structural health profile for every asset in a city's portfolio. From data acquisition to risk-ranked maintenance orders — fully automated.
Autonomous UAV fleets fly pre-programmed inspection routes at programmable intervals — weekly, monthly, or triggered by seismic/weather events. LiDAR, RGB, thermal, and ultrasonic sensors capture multi-modal data simultaneously.
Our convolutional neural networks, trained on 2M+ annotated structural defect images, classify and geolocate micro-cracks, spalling, corrosion, deformation, and joint displacement with sub-millimeter precision.
Time-series defect data feeds physics-informed ML models that project deterioration trajectories and predict time-to-failure windows. Every asset gets a dynamic structural health score.
Asset managers receive risk-ranked maintenance queues, cost-optimized intervention schedules, and regulatory compliance reports — all in a single operations center, accessible to city engineers and infrastructure teams.
Full-span visual survey covering deck surfaces, girders, bearings, piers, abutments, and cable systems. Detects fatigue cracks, section loss, and bearing displacement invisible to ground-level inspectors.
Above-ground and aerial thermal imaging identifies heat anomalies indicating internal corrosion, joint leaks, and coating failure across natural gas, water, and oil transmission infrastructure.
Multi-pass photogrammetric mapping generates centimeter-accurate 3D surface models. Differencing between survey epochs reveals seepage paths, surface cracking, and embankment settlement.
Autonomous corridor flights inspect transmission towers, conductor sag, insulator condition, and vegetation encroachment across hundreds of kilometers of transmission right-of-way in a single day.
High-rise inspection without scaffolding. Thermal and visual sensors identify cladding detachment, water ingress, spalling concrete, and structural joint failure on commercial and civic buildings.
Axiform's deterioration models integrate defect geometry, material properties, traffic load data, and environmental exposure to calculate remaining service life and optimal intervention windows.
Every municipality, port authority, water utility, and transmission grid operator is sitting on infrastructure built decades ago — with no scalable way to monitor it continuously.
Axiform's SaaS model — priced per-asset per-year — plugs directly into city procurement budgets as a capital avoidance tool. Every dollar spent on Axiform prevents tens of dollars in emergency repair costs.
The beachhead is municipal bridge networks. The expansion is every linear asset that deteriorates, corrodes, or fatigues — which is everything that holds modern civilization together.
Sarthak Karandikar founded Axiform at the intersection of two realities: the engineering truth that infrastructure degrades predictably, and the operational reality that most cities have no idea it's happening until something breaks.
With deep roots in structural engineering and a conviction that AI-native systems — not legacy NDT tools — are the answer to the inspection crisis, Sarthak is building Axiform as the intelligence layer that sits between drone hardware and the city engineer's desk.
The insight that drives Axiform is simple: structural degradation follows physics, and physics is learnable. The challenge isn't detection — cameras and sensors can see everything. The challenge is turning terabytes of aerial imagery into a ranked maintenance priority list that a city engineer can act on with confidence.
If you manage city infrastructure, operate critical assets, or are investing in the future of structural intelligence — we want to talk.