About RunPilot

Infrastructure routeing and network planning software for teams delivering the energy transition.

RunPilot helps infrastructure teams generate options, compare constraints, and refine routes before decisions become expensive to change.

Fast

Route options generated in minutes, not days.
Our story
RunPilot was created to help infrastructure teams plan better routes, faster.

Major infrastructure projects are shaped by thousands of competing factors: land, cost, engineering constraints, environmental impact, planning risk, stakeholder objection, and future network demand.

Too often, those decisions are made across disconnected GIS files, spreadsheets, reports, and meetings.

RunPilot brings that work into one planning environment.

Teams can generate route options, compare trade-offs, test assumptions, and build a stronger evidence base before routes are fixed.

Early

Constraints screened before routes become fixed.

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Our timeline

Build internal software to triage tickets, track common issues, and manage engineering bottlenecks.

2023

Research foundations
Research into networks helped shape the technical foundations behind RunPilot’s approach to infrastructure modelling.

2024

Proven modelling
The team published research proving the founcations of the model.

2024

Policy
Further research explored how policy, commercial behaviour and stakeholder decisions influence infrastructure adoption.

2025

Multi-decade network planning
Exploring how stakeholder decisions affect district heating growth over decades.

Feb 26

Formal Launch
RunPilot launched publicly as AENi’s collaborative planning platform for net-zero infrastructure.

April 26

Incorporation
AENi incorporated as a UK limited company, moving from academic research into commercial delivery.

Our values

Reasoning
We compare routes, constraints and trade-offs so teams can make better planning decisions.
Organisation
We bring maps, data, assumptions and evidence into one clear planning workflow.
Visibility
We help teams see route options, constraints and risks before decisions become expensive to change.
Discovery
We surface better routes, hidden risks and new planning options earlier in the process.
Collaboration
We give planners, engineers and stakeholders a shared space to review options and move forward.
Systems thinking
We help teams plan across routes, corridors, networks and long-term infrastructure dependencies.

Quit content swiching

Build internal software to triage tickets, track common issues, and manage.
Joseph Hammond
Co-founder
Joe is RunPilot's product lead - building industry-pioneering functionality.  
Thomas Cowley
Co-fo
Thomas leads customer discovery, partnerships, proposals and product adoption.
Solomon Brown
Co-founder
Sol focusses on industry connection, strategy, partnerships and positioning in the wider landscape.
Peter Evans
Strategic Advisor
Peter brings experience creating and scaling technology businesses supporting some of the worlds largest businesses.
Steve Ross
Commercial Advisor
Steve brings a wealth of experience to support with commercial development, partnerships and practical market insight.

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