Pond Bolt deploys sovereign British AI that detects disease in sea creatures days before visible symptoms — slashing mortality, protecting stock, and powering the UK blue economy.
Pond Bolt is a UK deep-tech AI startup on a mission to revolutionise aquaculture through the power of intelligent monitoring. We build sovereign British AI systems designed specifically for the harsh, complex realities of marine farming environments.
Our flagship MVP is a real-time, multimodal AI monitoring platform that fuses computer vision, behavioural analysis, and multi-sensor data to detect parasitic infections, bacterial and viral disease in farmed sea creatures — often weeks before symptoms become visible or mass mortality begins.
We are a team of AI engineers and aquaculture specialists deeply committed to sustainable food production, animal welfare, and making the UK a global leader in AI-driven blue economy innovation.
We are pushing the frontier of applied AI in one of the world's most challenging environments — below the waterline, where disease moves silently and fast. Our technology stack is engineered to detect what humans simply cannot see in time.
Our core MVP uses advanced computer vision and multimodal sensing to identify sea lice, bacterial outbreaks, and viral infections in salmon and other farmed marine species — up to 14 days before visible symptoms appear.
Our models track fish movement patterns, swimming behaviour, and feeding activity at scale, flagging anomalies that correlate with early-stage illness — giving operators actionable insight before losses mount.
All models are trained and run on UK infrastructure. Pond Bolt's platform ensures full data sovereignty, keeping sensitive farm data onshore and compliant — a critical advantage for UK aquaculture operators and regulators.
We are building direct partnerships with UK salmon farming operators — particularly in Scotland — for real-world validation of our models, creating ground-truth labelled datasets that will power the next generation of marine health AI.
Our automated alert engine processes continuous streams of underwater visual and sensor data to deliver instant notifications when anomalous patterns are detected — empowering farm operators to intervene within hours, not weeks.
Deployed at the edge, our lightweight inference models run locally on-farm hardware, delivering real-time performance with minimal connectivity requirements — purpose-built for Scotland's remote coastal environments.
Whether you're a UK aquaculture operator, an investor in the blue economy, a research institution, or a potential partner — we want to hear from you. Pond Bolt is ready to collaborate, validate, and deploy.