Overwatch AI

Overwatch AI is an aviation technology company that develops an AI-based operational intelligence and decision-support platform for airlines. Its product, Wingman, ingests and unifies airline data sources — including operating manuals, maintenance and aircraft records, flight data and external feeds such as weather and NOTAMs — and makes them queryable in natural language so that pilots, cabin crew, ground and ramp staff and operations control centre teams can retrieve information relevant to technical issues, airport and airline requirements, and weather assessments. Answers are grounded in official documentation or data and sourced, and the platform includes continuous automated evaluations intended to detect hallucinations and non-compliance.

The platform is distributed across mobile, tablet and desktop, including for low-bandwidth environments, and provides managers with analytics on knowledge gaps, compliance and return on investment. The company positions the product around reducing the time frontline aviation workers spend searching across fragmented legacy systems, which it describes as more than 30 minutes per shift on average. It is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and reports live use across multiple airlines.

Founding story

Co-founders Leo Kotil, a commercial airline pilot who moved into aviation software innovation, and Nikita Kaeshko, a technology entrepreneur who worked on self-driving products in the United States, met through the Y Combinator community in 2023. Kotil's experience navigating over 12,000 pages of flight manuals and checklists, and Kaeshko's observation of frontline workers in enterprise self-driving deployments struggling with procedural documentation, led them to identify a shared problem. After more than 70 customer conversations they concluded frontline professionals needed an AI copilot that works offline, is tailored to their industry and keeps sensitive data on-premises or on-device, and founded the company in 2025 to build it.

Business model

Overwatch AI sells its Wingman platform to airlines as enterprise software, deploying it to frontline operational teams and airline management, with security-oriented deployment that leaves customers in control of proprietary data. Company materials also reference on-premises or on-device handling of sensitive company data.

Traction

The platform is in live use across multiple airlines, supporting more than 30,000 flights per month. Reported outcomes include 6.6% crew productivity increase, a 4.6x increase in compliant decision-making, roughly 150 hours saved per team member per year and up to $4M in annual savings per airline on average, as well as a stated 10x annual ROI and 53% higher accuracy than generic AI. Pegasus Airlines has begun using the platform in its operations.

Latest developments

In May 2026 Overwatch AI closed a $1.5M pre-seed round from United Airlines Ventures, Baobab Ventures, Pegasus Innovation Lab and Masia, plus angel investors David Bennett and Alex Brooker, to be used to grow the team, expand platform capabilities and roll out to additional airline customers. In the same month Pegasus Airlines announced its collaboration with the company and that it had begun using the platform operationally.