Heuristech

Heuristech is a French industrial technology company focused on remote detection and localization of corrosion defects and coating damage on buried pipelines. Its core technology, Differential Reflectometry Mapping (DRM), uses electric signals to identify and characterize coating defects and delamination, including in conditions described as difficult for other methods: dense urban areas, river and rail crossings, infrastructure deeper than three metres, and pipe sections in concrete casing.

The service is delivered as a combination of field measurement and centralized analysis. Customer maintenance teams are trained to carry out DRM measurements themselves using a plug-and-play toolkit, including on hard-to-access sections. The recorded data is then analyzed by Heuristech engineers and corrosion specialists supported by in-house AI models, and returned to the customer as a prioritized coating defect map intended to support maintenance optimization, asset integrity and regulatory compliance.

The company addresses pipeline infrastructure managers across multiple industrial sectors, including structural assets, water, electric utilities, district heating, chemicals, natural gas and oil, with the stated goal of enabling preventive maintenance scheduling before leaks occur.

Business model

Heuristech sells pipeline inspection as a service combining a plug-and-play measurement toolkit used by the customer's own trained maintenance teams with expert- and AI-assisted analysis performed by Heuristech, delivered back as a prioritized coating defect map. Engagements are initiated through a quote request process.

Traction

The company reports more than 1,000 successfully detected defects and publishes customer case studies and references.