Our Mission
Unlocking the Potential of Stone
Our mission is to unlock the full potential of natural stone as a primary architectural construction material by making its extraction and use precise, efficient and scalable through automation.
Replace extractive inefficiency with precision automation, making stone economically viable at scale
Reduce embodied carbon in the built environment by enabling local, low-energy, on-site stone processing
Enable a return to durable, place-specific construction, without sacrificing modern productivity or output
Champion stone as a long-term construction material, valued for durability, repairability and graceful ageing
Current Priorities
How Automation & Stone Can Help
Our technology addresses critical challenges in housing, sustainability, and human wellbeing.
Housing
- Dramatically increase local supply of affordable building materials by producing usable masonry and blocks on-site
- Shorten supply chains to reduce costs and delivery times for housing projects
- Make traditional, low-maintenance materials accessible to modern builders and developers
- Support high-density, low-energy housing models built from durable, repairable stone
Support global house building and restoration by making materials significantly more available
Sustainability & Efficiency
- Cut transport emissions and embodied carbon by sourcing and processing stone locally
- Reduce waste through precision cutting, reuse of offcuts and on-site material optimisation
- Use low-energy machinery and closed-loop water systems to minimise environmental impact
Reduce carbon, waste and energy use by enabling precise, local, low-impact stone processing at scale
Architecture & Wellbeing
- Support architecture that benefits physical and mental health through natural materials, permanence and beauty
- Promote design grounded in neuroarchitectural science: daylighting, material tactility, human scale and restorative spaces
- Reconnect buildings to their local landscape and craft traditions to strengthen sense of place
- Back conservation and adaptive reuse of historic landscapes and structures, marrying heritage with modern performance
Support healthier, more humane buildings through durable natural materials, beauty and evidence-based design
Statement
The Value of Stone
Stone, like people, is inherently unique. It weathers gracefully, can be repaired or replaced without loss of integrity, and endures for centuries, standing in contrast to many modern building materials that degrade quickly and require continual replacement.
Despite being naturally abundant, beautiful and exceptionally low in embodied carbon, stone has historically been difficult, costly and labour-intensive to extract and process at scale. This has limited its use in contemporary construction.
Our in-situ robotic quarrying systems remove these constraints. Initially, by enabling high-precision, on-site conversion of quarry stone into standard-dimension bricks, we make stone viable again for widespread, everyday architecture.
In doing so, we aim to support the creation of buildings that are durable, repairable and humane—contributing positively to environmental outcomes, architectural quality and human wellbeing through materials that are proven to last.
Join Our Mission
We're looking for talented engineers to help build the future of sustainable construction.