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Partnerships measured in shipped products.

From the cabins of HondaJet and Textron aircraft to a compliance platform taking tens of millions of transactions a day.

Engagements delivered
7
Sectors, aviation to finance
4
Cabin programmes in service
2
Transactions a day, at peak
10M+

With Heads Up Technologies

Cabin software flying on HondaJet and Textron aircraft.

A multi-year partnership across two aircraft programmes: cabin control and PED apps on the HondaJet HA-480, and the DIS210, CDM and PED apps on Textron aircraft.

The aviation practice
HondaJet PED app dashboard with shade, fan, lighting and temperature controlsLight jetsHondaJet cabin controlA cross-platform PED app that turns a passenger's own device into the control surface for cabin lighting, media and climate, offline, over the aircraft's own network.Read the study
DIS210 cabin display welcome screen with eight function tiles and a quick-access rowBusiness and general aviationTextron DIS210 displayThe application behind a built-in cabin display shipped as a line-replaceable unit: deterministic, boot-to-ready software on fixed aviation hardware.Read the study

Every engagement, at a glance.

Aviation · Light Jets · 2025–2026

HondaJet

A cross-platform PED app that turns a passenger's own device into a control surface for cabin lighting, media, and climate. Offline-first, over the aircraft's own network.

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Aviation · Business & General · January 2026

Textron Aviation

The application behind a built-in cabin display, shipped as a line-replaceable unit: deterministic, boot-to-ready software on fixed aviation hardware.

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AI Governance

Hardening a compliance platform

How we re-engineered a leading AI governance platform's ingestion engine and AWS architecture to sustain 10M+ daily transactions while scaling down the cloud bill.

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Aviation · Ongoing

Heads Up Technologies

Backend platforms, mobile applications and connected services across HUT's cabin product line: the multi-year partnership behind the HondaJet and Textron work above.

PartnershipAviation practice
Aviation · December 2025

Business jet OEM

Connected-services backend work for a business jet OEM's cabin products: telemetry and content services designed for links that are metered, intermittent and shared with the cabin.

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Finance

Overlay Analytics

ETL pipelines and a custom orchestration platform for complex financial datasets: idempotent loads, full lineage, and reconciliation as a first-class step, because the data's correctness is the product.

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Mobility

Drive Sally

A fleet-management product with integrated payments: real-time vehicle state, transactional payment flows, and a data model built to scale with the platform rather than be replaced by it.

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