INDUSTRY NEWS
Tide Breaker Announces First Two Start-Ups Set To Build Bridges With Global Operators
Sankesh Sundareshwar, Jason Brown and Richard McGowan
A digital initiative designed to champion the power of collaboration in fast-tracking the development of AI in subsea operations has announced its first successful applicants.
Spearheaded by Aberdeen-based subsea asset integrity management soſtware company Elementz, Tide Breaker was launched in late 2025 to nurture start-ups seeking to develop and test new methods by giving access to datasets to help them refine development of their solutions to better suit subsea operators’ needs.
Following a rigorous selection process, two North east businesses have now been selected to enter the programme and are about to embark on development and testing, followed by evaluation, commercial integration and the dataset access that will allow their solutions to be refined to better suit industry requirements.
One of the successful applicants in the first cohort is Fathom who will develop a physics-based AI empowered, structural analysis digital twin for offshore assets that turns data into qualified life, performance and risk thus providing a cost-saving, standards-aligned, engineering- grade subsea digital twin. Fusing multiple streams,
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Fathom will be providing fast, auditable results that enable complete assessment that is both portfolio-ready and scalable.
The other successful applicant is Voltquant, which will deploy its digital engineer platform to standardise and speed up compliance checks across engineering projects. The system automatically reviews drawings, datasheets, and reports against internal standards, returning traceable findings that help teams detect issues earlier, reduce rework, and maintain a strong audit trail. It supports human approval workflows so decisions remain accountable and consistent. Voltquant will also deploy its AI Risk Intelligence platform for subsea integrity management, turning inspection results into structured, evidence linked insights that improve barrier health visibility, enable consistent risk ranking, and drive faster action planning. The result is faster movement from inspection outputs to evidence linked decisions and risk reducing interventions.
Commenting on the first successful cohort, Elementz CEO Jason Brown said: “The exceptional calibre of our first round of applicants and pair of winners reinforces why Tide Breaker was set up, and the need to accelerate their exposure to major operators, remove opaqueness and get solutions into the hands of users.
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