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Turn robot data into a repeatable engineering workflow.
A useful answer is only the start. Your team still has to find the right robot data, share the evidence, and check the next mission. Alloy brings that recurring work together, so each investigation leaves your team better prepared for the next.
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DroneForgeFrom flight data to a better productAlloy helps robotics teams find what went wrong, compare it with other missions, and keep checking as new data arrives. Teammates can explore the findings in shared reports and continue the investigation in Alloy or Slack.
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Choose Alloy when robot investigation is recurring team work, from field support to validation.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose AI assistant for research, writing, coding, and data analysis. It can run calculations, create charts and files, use connected apps, and support shared projects and scheduled tasks.
Best for
Choose ChatGPT when you want a flexible assistant across many kinds of work, including analysis of data you upload or connect.
Spend less time preparing the investigation. Give more of your team the evidence to finish it.
At DroneForge, a customer complaint used to send the CEO searching tens of thousands of S3 files, then downloading and replaying the relevant flight. Alloy brings that search and analysis together, so the team can get from the complaint to the flight that explains it.
The work starts at the robot. Alloy Edge uploads recordings automatically from your recorder. With Mesh Storage, analysis runs against the cloud data, so you can inspect a signal and dig deeper without moving a large log between your laptop and a chat session.
Find missions with this failure. Compare the affected robots and show the events leading up to it.
A failure you have already investigated should be easier to catch next time. Alloy Scenarios check past missions and future uploads for a defined pattern. At DroneForge, incoming flights are analyzed before a customer asks for help, and engineering changes inform what Alloy examines next.
The investigation can also start when support needs it. Configured Slack support triggers run Alloy on assignments or escalations, bringing the evidence into the conversation without someone starting a separate analysis.
Look for this pattern in previous missions and check new uploads for the same behavior.
Share an investigation your teammate can continue. Alloy reports include interactive plots, maps, and links to the supporting missions. A colleague can inspect the evidence and ask a follow-up in Alloy or Slack, without asking you to export charts or rebuild the analysis.
What the team learns stays useful. Alloy remembers reusable engineering context across conversations, building a shared knowledge base alongside your reports. Teammates can inspect and correct that context, then use it in the next investigation.
Compare the two releases and create a report with the supporting missions for each finding.
Connect ChatGPT to Alloy through a supported MCP setup to keep your preferred assistant while giving it access to Alloy's robotics data layer.
DroneForge
With four employees and more than 300 deployed drones, DroneForge uses Alloy alongside Codex. Alloy modeled remaining flight time from historical battery data; Codex helped implement the model in the application. Recurring reports then compared its estimates with later flights, carrying the investigation through to product improvement.
Read the DroneForge storyAdvanced Navigation
With Alloy, Advanced Navigation reduced field-test analysis and reporting from about a full day to about ten minutes. Weekly validation capacity increased from roughly two tests to ten. Data-supported customer responses moved from one or two days to the same day.
Read the Advanced Navigation storyYes. ChatGPT can analyze supported uploaded files and connected information, run Python calculations, and create charts. Alloy is useful when the job also requires finding recordings across your fleet and turning investigations into recurring mission analysis.
Yes. Apps can let ChatGPT search connected information and perform supported actions. Availability depends on the app, plan, workspace, and permissions. Alloy brings connections and analysis together specifically around robot data and engineering workflows.
Yes. Projects can retain relevant chats, files, and instructions, and shared Projects support collaboration. Choose Alloy for the mission history, recurring Scenarios, and investigation reports that your robotics team needs to maintain.
No. Alloy connects to sources including S3 and ClickHouse. Alloy Edge uploads your recorder’s output into Mesh Storage, with upload status and recorder configuration available to your team. The Python SDK lets internal tools query processed data or retrieve recordings for training and evaluation.
Alloy manages routing across supported models and providers, including provider failover. Effort levels let you balance analysis depth and cost. Alloy evaluates model upgrades and maintains the tools around them, so your team can benefit from better models without maintaining its own analysis system.
Compare the time and cost of the whole investigation: finding the data, checking the explanation, sharing it, and repeating the work. Include ongoing engineering maintenance. Ask Alloy for pricing against a representative workflow, and measure what each approach leaves for your team.
Bring a recent field issue and the report your team needed. See Alloy find the relevant missions, produce an explanation colleagues can explore, and set up the check for next time.