The engineering partner behind products that can't fail.

Platform rebuilds, optimization and connected products, held to the standard of the cabin software we ship on HondaJet and Textron aircraft.

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The HondaJet PED cabin-control app on a phone: window shade selector, fan speed dial, zone lighting dimmer, cabin temperature dial and a now-playing bar — HondaJet cabin control and PED apps, in serviceOwl View, our moving map

Owl View, our moving map, on a phone: the right window view on the approach into Aspen at golden hour, framed by a cabin window — HondaJet cabin control and PED apps, in serviceOwl View, our moving map

Cabin software in service with

Avionics & cabin systems
HA-480 cabin control and PED apps
DIS210, CDM and PED apps

Smart Owl built the passenger-facing software on two of our cabin programs. Requirements and test plans arrived before we asked for them, and the engineers who scoped the work are the ones who shipped it, and who still answer the phone.

Andrew BrunsonHeads Up Technologies · HondaJet HA-480 cabin control and PED apps · Textron DIS210, CDM and PED apps

Owl View

The moving map, rebuilt for the cabin.

Our own product: a 3D map of the flight that runs on the aircraft and opens on every passenger's phone and tablet, with no internet at all.

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Owl View on a tablet: the right-hand window view on the approach into Aspen at golden hour, Mount Sopris framed by the cabin window

Owl View on a phone: the follow view behind the jet, descending the Roaring Fork valley toward Aspen

We build the core of your product. Not the edges.

The revenue path and the core IP, from the device to the cloud, and we stay accountable for how they behave in production a year later.

How we work

Platform rebuilds and optimization
Taking over a system that has outgrown its architecture: throughput, cost and correctness, without a rewrite you have to stop the business for.
Connected products and embedded systems
Displays, control apps and device software on fixed hardware. Deterministic boot, bounded memory, the same behaviour on every unit.
Backend, cloud and telemetry
Fleet, telemetry and content backends for metered, intermittent links: store-and-forward at the edge, idempotent ingestion on the ground.
Architecture and technical leadership
Someone who can see your system whole and make the calls with the next three years in mind.
Data and AI platforms
Intelligence with an operational use, built audit-ready for the regulated places your product lives in.

Cabin software flying on HondaJet and Textron aircraft. Built with Heads Up Technologies.

We carried two cabin programmes from architecture to flight: cabin control and PED apps on the HondaJet HA-480, and the DIS210, CDM and PED apps on Textron aircraft.

Textron DIS210 cabin display home screen: eight cabin function tiles for flight, audio, video, preferences, temperature, shades, lights and tank levels beside a welcome message — The DIS210 built-in cabin display, shipped as a line-replaceable unit.

Cabin programmes in service, on HondaJet and Textron aircraft: 2
React Native codebase for the iOS and Android cabin app: 1
Internet needed: everything runs over the aircraft's own network: 0

HondaJet cabin control Textron DIS210 display

Most of what we build never leaves the ground. The habits come with us.

Requirements first, reproducible builds, tested interfaces and no unrecorded problems make any software cheaper to own. We bring them to platforms where an audit is the judge.

AI governance

A compliance platform hardened to 10M+ transactions a day

We re-engineered a US AI-governance platform's ingestion engine and AWS footprint to sustain more than ten million transactions a day with zero data loss, on a smaller cloud bill.

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