We go first, not instead
There is no version of this where a drone carries someone out of a building. The aircraft's job is to arrive ahead of the crew and hand them what is on the other side of the smoke.
About Caligo Dynamics
Nobody should walk into smoketo find out what is inside.
We build FireFly so the machine goes in first, sees through the smoke, and hands the picture to the people who decide.
Our mission
Close the gap between the alarm and the first useful action.
Firefighters lose the first minutes of every fire to smoke and distance. FireFly is an autonomous drone swarm designed to arrive first, see through the smoke with thermal AI, locate people and the fire's core, and keep directed suppression going without pause.
Autonomy is equipment on the truck, not a decision-maker on the fireground. A firefighter confirms every engagement, and the physical controller outranks the software at every instant.
The founder
An AI engineer who builds drones.
Years of building
Mechanics by hand
Autonomous aircraft, autopilots and payload mechanisms, learned by building, breaking and flying them.
Today
Drone mechanics meets AI
MS in Artificial Intelligence Engineering, BAU Washington, D.C., with a 4.0 GPA. He built and flies the FireFly demonstrator himself.
The team
Small, and it shows in the right places.
Furkan Serhatlıoğlu
Founder & CEO
Drone mechanics and AI. Built and flies the demonstrator: flight-control integration, ground station, perception, data pipeline and the beyond-line-of-sight link. Özyeğin University (Entrepreneurship), İTÜ (MSc Innovation Management), BAU Washington, D.C. (MS AI Engineering).
Siva Abishikth (Abhi) Mylavarapu
Founding CTO
Systems and autonomy, focused on the swarm control problem: adaptive thrust as payload mass drops, and the insertion logic that lets a replacement aircraft take a vacated slot without breaking the formation. BAU Washington, D.C. (MS AI Engineering).
The crew holds command
A person confirms every engagement. The physical transmitter outranks the software, and a lost link returns the aircraft rather than leaving it over your head.
We ask before we tell
If a design does not survive an hour with a station officer who has actually made entry, it has no business on a truck. Your objections now are worth more than your approval later.
Intellectual propertyPatent Pending
AWS 10,000 AIdeasInnovation Award 2026Recognised in Amazon Web Services' global programme.
Delaware C-CorpCaligo Dynamics Inc.Investable on standard instruments.
Who we want to work with
FireFly will not be built by one company.
These are the partnerships we are actively looking for. If you are one of them, write to us.
Pilot partners
Municipal fire services and forestry teams willing to run a controlled field pilot and tell us the truth about it.
Manufacturing & agents
Airframe manufacturers who can build at quality and scale, and suppressant specialists to formulate the pods.
Aviation & safety bodies
The authorities who decide where autonomous aircraft may fly. We intend to earn permission with a safety case, not ask for forgiveness.
Careers
Build something that goes in first.
We are looking for people in robotics, AI, sensor fusion and aerospace engineering who want their work to matter on the worst day of someone's life. No open roles are listed yet; write to us anyway.