# Vatn Systems

> Vatn Systems is a Bristol, Rhode Island defense technology company founded in 2023 that designs and
> manufactures low-cost, modular autonomous underwater vehicles (UUVs/AUVs) plus the autonomy,
> navigation and acoustic-processing software that runs on them. It publishes no public API, no
> developer portal, and no machine-readable contract of any kind.

Provenance: generated 2026-09-02 by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline from apis.yml and the
artifacts in this repository, after probing vatn.com. This file is written BY API Evangelist about
Vatn Systems; it is not published by Vatn Systems. Vatn's own /llms.txt returned HTTP 404 on
2026-09-02.

## What Vatn Systems sells

Vehicles (UUVs)
- Skelmir S6 — 6-inch diameter, man-portable, modular, swarm-capable compact AUV: https://www.vatn.com/skelmir-s6-small-auv-drone
- Skelmir S12 — medium-class 12.75-inch platform with extended range and payload capacity: https://www.vatn.com/skelmir-s12-medium-auv-drone

Sensors (hydrophone arrays)
- Eyra 5.1 — rigid-mount hydrophone array optimized for unmanned platforms: https://www.vatn.com/eyra-5-1-multi-hydrophone-array
- Eyra 8.0 — custom-geometry hydrophone array for mission-specific sensing: https://www.vatn.com/eyra-8-0-hydropone-array

Software systems
- INStinct — maritime inertial navigation for GPS-denied operation; MEMS-to-FOG modular sensor architecture, DVL integration, fuses customer-provided aiding sources: https://www.vatn.com/auv-inertial-navigation-system
- PARse — embedded acoustic signal processing (filtering, beamforming, normalization, detection, angle estimation) running on 32/64-bit ARM (proven on Zynq MicroZed and Jetson Nano); included with Eyra arrays and separately licensable for third-party platforms: https://www.vatn.com/parse-acoustic-signal-processing
- FUSE — multi-sensor multi-target tracking engine distributed as a Docker image for x86-64; outputs target state in relative or UTM coordinates: https://www.vatn.com/fuse-data-fusion
- AEsir — TAK-native sensor fusion and common operating picture; ingests heterogeneous detections and tracks: https://www.vatn.com/aesir-maritime-sensor-fusion
- SIGURD: https://www.vatn.com/sigurd
- Mission planning — ATAK plugin (CivTAK, MilTAK, WinTAK) and Fathom, a browser-based mission planner and vehicle configurator: https://www.vatn.com/uuv-mission-planning

## Integration surfaces (all private; none has a published contract)

- TAK / Cursor-on-Target: AEsir is described as TAK-native and Vatn ships an ATAK plugin. No CoT
  message schema or plugin manifest is published.
- FUSE topside protocol: the FUSE page states "Open source protocol for pushing results into custom
  topside applications." No specification, schema or repository for that protocol could be found.
- PARse "configurable ingest": accepts a customer element data format. The format is not documented
  publicly.
- INStinct aiding-source interface: "provides a straightforward interface to integrate other sensors."
  No interface control document is published publicly.
- Fathom: a browser-based configurator that connects to the vehicle. No HTTP API is documented and no
  host for it resolves publicly.

## What does NOT exist (probed 2026-09-02, every path returned 404)

- No OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI, Protobuf or WSDL.
- No developer portal, API reference, or docs host. api./docs./developer./developers./app./portal./
  status./mcp.vatn.com all fail to resolve (NXDOMAIN).
- No /.well-known/ documents: security.txt, openid-configuration, oauth-authorization-server,
  oauth-protected-resource, api-catalog, ai-plugin.json, agent-card.json and agent.json all 404.
- No MCP server, no A2A agent card, no llms.txt.
- No SDKs or client libraries on npm, PyPI, or any other registry.
- No public repositories: github.com/Vatn-Systems exists (created 2023-10-02) but is empty.
- No pricing or plans page; no sign-up. Sales is a demo request or a supplier form.
- No status page, changelog, deprecation policy, or vulnerability-disclosure program.
- The footer's Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions and Accessibility Statement links are href="#"
  placeholders, not documents.

## Company

- Website: https://www.vatn.com/ (vatnsystems.com redirects here)
- About: https://www.vatn.com/about
- News: https://www.vatn.com/news
- Careers: https://www.vatn.com/careers
- Contact: https://www.vatn.com/contact
- Become a Supplier: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBzL8z1SItEYcmy-FSdYKFE7Bk5E-6jS-8bDTRwHnGWJvI-Q/viewform
- GitHub: https://github.com/Vatn-Systems (0 public repositories)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vatnsystems/
- X: https://x.com/vatnsystems

Founded 2023 by Nelson Mills (CEO), Freddie Mills, Geoff Manchester (CTO) and Dan Hendrix. Based at
500 Wood St., Bristol, RI 02809. Raised a $13M seed (Nov 2024) and a $60M Series A (Dec 2025), total
funding $76.5M. Acquired Crewless Marine. Production facility in Bristol rated to roughly 2,000 units
per year.

## How to reach Vatn Systems as a machine

You cannot. There is no programmatic surface. Every path to Vatn's technology runs through a human:
"request capability brief", "Request a Demo", "Contact Sales", or the Become a Supplier form.