# Alloy

> Alloy is the AI Robotics Engineer: agents that investigate every issue across your fleet, built on a robotics data platform that captures, stores and queries every mission. The fleet can grow without the team growing with it. At SwarmFarm and Andromeda, investigations that took engineers up to a week now take support under an hour. Advanced Navigation cut validation analysis from a full day to 10 minutes.

## What Alloy does

Robotics moves as fast as its teams can learn from their robots. Alloy does that investigation work across your whole fleet, so every mission makes your robots better.

- **Investigates every issue:** ask what went wrong in plain English. Alloy searches telemetry, logs and recordings across every mission and answers with the evidence.
- **Works where your team works:** the Alloy app, Slack, Jira, and any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT).
- **Always on:** Alloy's agents run in the cloud, 24/7. Hand off an investigation at 6pm and wake up to answers.
- **Gets better on your team:** every investigation, fix and correction your team makes becomes knowledge Alloy uses on the next one. It remembers your fleet and past investigations between sessions.
- **Catches repeats:** define a failure pattern once as a Scenario. Alloy checks every past mission and every new upload for it.
- **Writes the report:** mission reports with key events, graphs, maps and analysis, each linked to the raw data.

## Customer Stories

Published case studies, with quotes from each customer's team.

- [Andromeda Robotics](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/andromeda): How Andromeda uses Alloy to automate L1 and L2 robot support. Andromeda uses Alloy to automate L1 and L2 support for its Abi robots, answering field issues in Slack in about 4 minutes with evidence from Grafana and Jira.
- [SwarmFarm Robotics](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/swarmfarm): How SwarmFarm is scaling its robot fleet without hiring more support engineers. See how SwarmFarm uses Alloy to triage support tickets, investigate robot data and keep pace with a growing fleet of close to 300 autonomous farm robots.
- [DroneForge](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/droneforge): How 300+ deployed drones continuously improve DroneForge’s autonomy stack. See how DroneForge uses Alloy and Codex to analyze flights across 300+ deployed drones, investigate customer issues and turn fleet insights into product code.
- [Puralink](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/puralink): How Puralink got robot data off the base station and into the hands of the whole team. Puralink replaced 6-8 hours a week of manual data handling with Alloy auto-upload, putting robot data in the hands of all 8 team members.
- [Advanced Navigation](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/advanced-navigation): How Advanced Navigation cut validation analysis from a full day to ten minutes with Alloy. Advanced Navigation's validation team cut analysis from a full day to ten minutes with Alloy, with 5x testing capacity and same-day customer responses.

## Who it's for

- Robotics companies with robots deployed in the field, whose engineers spend their time investigating issues instead of building
- Support and customer success teams answering field questions about robot behavior
- Validation, controls and robotics engineers who analyze test and mission data

## Data and integrations

- **Your storage or ours:** connect your own S3, ClickHouse or Grafana, or land data in managed Mesh Storage. Alloy works with the storage you already have.
- **Formats:** any MCAP file, whatever produced it. ROS is optional; the Docker edge agent supports ROS 2 (Humble and Jazzy), and a lightweight binary agent uploads MCAP from any folder.
- **Open lakehouse:** recordings are stored as Parquet in an open Iceberg catalog, readable directly by DuckDB, Spark, Trino and PyIceberg.
- **Tools:** Slack, Jira, GitHub, Grafana, ClickHouse, and MCP clients.
- **Scale:** petabyte-scale robot data. Queries run server-side across the whole fleet's history.

## Security and pricing

- SOC 2 Type II audited. Supports HIPAA requirements, with a BAA available.
- Mesh Storage is $0.02 per GB per month with no egress fees. Start free, no credit card.

## Open source

- [tabular2mcap](https://github.com/alloyrobotics/tabular2mcap): Convert CSV, Excel and Parquet files to MCAP.

## Product

- [Agent Platform](https://www.usealloy.ai/agent-platform): The agent harness built for robotics.
- [MCP](https://www.usealloy.ai/product/mcp): Connect Claude, Cursor, or Codex to your fleet in one command. Search every run, compare missions, and write reports in your editor.
- [Mesh Storage](https://www.usealloy.ai/product/mesh-storage): Upload an MCAP and immediately inspect, replay, query, or use via MCP. No ETL, no custom data lake, no waiting to start debugging.

## Use Cases

- [Agent for Field Support](https://www.usealloy.ai/use-case/agent-for-field-support): Grow your fleet without pulling engineers off the roadmap. Alloy helps support resolve more field tickets and engineers get to the root cause faster.
- [Controls Engineer](https://www.usealloy.ai/use-case/controls-engineer): Know what changed before the stop, whether it has happened before, and what fixed it last time. In minutes, not a shift.
- [Robotics Engineer](https://www.usealloy.ai/use-case/robotics-engineer): Upload field test data from distributed teams. Get automated reports before the sprint retro, and query your full test history in plain English.
- [Validation Engineer](https://www.usealloy.ai/use-case/validation-engineer): Upload field test data in any format. Get automated reports, regression checks and root cause analysis in minutes, and query your test history in plain English.

## Comparisons

- [Alloy vs ChatGPT](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare/alloy-vs-chatgpt): Compare Alloy and ChatGPT. Alloy finds and compares robot missions and keeps checking new data; ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant for many kinds of work.
- [Alloy vs Codex](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare/alloy-vs-codex): Compare Alloy and Codex. Alloy is a maintained robot investigation system for engineering and support; Codex is a coding agent your team extends for robotics.
- [Alloy vs Cursor](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare/alloy-vs-cursor): Compare Alloy and Cursor for robotics teams. Alloy investigates robot behavior across missions, while Cursor helps engineers understand and change code.
- [Alloy vs Foxglove](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare/alloy-vs-foxglove): Compare Alloy and Foxglove. Alloy turns field questions into shared reports and recurring checks; Foxglove is built for visual debugging and data curation.
- [Alloy vs Roboto](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare/alloy-vs-roboto): Compare Alloy and Roboto. Alloy helps support, validation, and engineering answer field questions with shared, evidence-backed reports and recurring Scenarios.

## Articles

- [Every robot run should make the next one better](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/every-robot-run-should-make-the-next-one-better): Alloy has raised an additional A$11.5 million to help robotics teams turn every mission, test and support case into intelligence for the next.
- [Why DevOps & MLOps Isn’t Good Enough for Scaling Robotics](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/why-devops-mlops-isnt-good-enough-for-scaling-robotics): Why the web observability stack doesn't work for robots, and what comes next.
- [Alloy Robotics emerges from stealth with $4.5m pre-seed from Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital](https://www.usealloy.ai/post/alloy-emerges-from-stealth): Alloy Robotics emerges from stealth with $4.5m pre-seed from Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital.

## Company

- [Customer stories](https://www.usealloy.ai/customers): Every published Alloy case study.
- [Blog](https://www.usealloy.ai/blog): Case studies, comparisons, product updates and company news.
- [Compare](https://www.usealloy.ai/compare): Every Alloy comparison, including when each other tool is the better fit.
- [FAQ](https://www.usealloy.ai/faq): Robot data formats, ROS and MCAP support, scale, security, pricing, MCP and coding agents.
- [Contact](https://www.usealloy.ai/contact): Book a demo or talk to the team.
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.usealloy.ai/privacy-policy): How Alloy handles personal data.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.usealloy.ai/terms-of-service): Terms for using Alloy.
- Email: joe.harris@usealloy.ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/alloyrobotics