THE COMPANY / SMARTAUGER TECHNOLOGIES

Built in Ohio.
Deployed globally.
Focused underground.

01 WHO WE ARE

A field company.
Democratizing the subsurface
with AI.

01
From the field
Founded by trade professionals, subsurface operators, and combat engineers — not in a lab.
02
Operator-first
From construction journeymen to seasoned warfighters — complex data, made instantly understood.
03
One problem
Tunnel or water main — something buried, urgently needed seen.
02 LEADERSHIP

Linemen. Operators.
Combat engineers.
And planetary scientists.

CONSTRUCTION OPERATORS · BATTLEFIELDS · MARS
FILE 01
Tyler Dotson
ORIGINIBEW journeyman linemanKNOWN FORCrew leadership · solving hard problems with engineeringBUILDSGroundScope · FATHOM
Tyler Dotson
Founder & CTO

15+ years as an IBEW Journeyman Lineman — crew leadership across live-line and aviation work, and a knack for solving hard problems with innovation and engineering. Built GroundScope and the FATHOM engine to put serious geophysics in everyday crews' hands.

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FILE 02
Gary Didado
ORIGIN45+ years utility contractingKNOWN FORJ.W. Didado — 26+ major utilitiesNOWRewiring the industry he helped build
Gary Didado
Co-Founder & Advisor

45+ years in utility contracting. Former Owner and President of J.W. Didado, serving 26+ major utilities across the Northeast.

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Nathan Stein
ORIGINCaltech planetary science PhDKNOWN FORMars Perseverance mission teamNOWPointing spaceborne discipline underground
Nathan Stein
Lead Data Scientist

Caltech Planetary Science PhD. Hyperspectral remote sensing on NASA's Mars Perseverance mission team — now applying spaceborne sensing discipline underground.

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Chris Gurreri
ORIGINOperator of turnaroundsKNOWN FORVictory Innovations — 75x exitALSOHoover & Dirt Devil, back to profit
Chris Gurreri
Chairman & CFO

Co-founder and CEO of Victory Innovations, sold to the Carlyle Group at 75x. Former President and CEO of TTI Floorcare (Hoover, Dirt Devil).

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Wesley Bragg
ORIGINU.S. Army veteran · journeyman linemanKNOWN FORRoute clearance deployments · field leadershipNOWTarget-specific training data collection
Wesley Bragg
Head of Field Data Collection

A Journeyman Lineman with field leadership experience. Leads field data collection and collection innovation — the campaigns against specified targets that our models train on.

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03 HOW WE WORK

Principles, not slogans.

01
Safety is the product
Protecting people and infrastructure is the reason, not a feature.
02
Built for the field
Has to work in mud, cold, and daylight glare.
03
Purpose-built
Machine learning and DSP pipelines built for specific geophysical tasks — self-deployable.
04
Interoperable
Intelligence delivered in the formats you already run — GIS · TAK · OGC.
04 RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP

Sponsored research.
The ElectroScience Laboratory.

SmartAuger sponsors antenna research at The Ohio State University's ElectroScience Laboratory — one of the world's oldest and most decorated electromagnetics labs, advancing antenna and radar science since 1942.

Dr. Chi-Chih Chen and the ESL team assisted in the development of our fully polarimetric radar systems — and continue to support the antennas at the heart of every SmartAuger sensor.

Dr. Chi-Chih Chen
DR. CHI-CHIH CHEN — ELECTROSCIENCE LABORATORY · THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
05 CONTACT

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