About RunPilot

Infrastructure routeing and network planning software for teams delivering major energy and linear infrastructure.

RunPilot helps teams compare route, connection, network and phasing options 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.

Our timeline

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

2023

Research foundations
Research into infrastructure networks and decision making established the technical basis for RunPilot’s modelling approach.

2024

Proven modelling
The team published and tested modelling work that proved the foundations of the approach.

2024

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

2025

Long term network planning
The research expanded into multi decade network planning, exploring how infrastructure choices evolve under uncertainty.

Feb 26

Formal Launch
RunPilot launched publicly as AENI’s 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 data, assumptions and evidence into one structured planning workflow.
Visibility
We help teams see risks before decisions become expensive to change.
Discovery
We surface route options, hidden constraints and new planning choices earlier in the process.
Collaboration
We give planners, engineers and stakeholders a shared evidence base for comparing options.
Systems thinking
We help teams plan across routes, corridors, networks and long-term infrastructure dependencies.

Meet the team

RunPilot brings together infrastructure modelling, energy systems expertise, platform engineering and commercial experience. The team is focused on turning research into practical planning software for consultancies, network operators and developers.
Joseph Hammond
Co-founder
Joe is RunPilot's product lead, building industry-pioneering functionality for the networks of tomorrow .  
Thomas Cowley
Co-founder
Tom 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.
Jamie Wright
Full Stack Developer
Jamie brings a front and backend expertise in software engineering to ensure any development is flexible, secure, and has end usability..

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