Vision
Every agency. One picture. One plan.
Emergencies cross every jurisdiction. The agencies that answer them still plan in separate rooms, on separate systems, by phone. Fenrax exists to connect them and to clear away what stands between a good plan and a mission done well.
Why it matters
The hardest part of a response is rarely the flying.
Crews train for years to fly the mission. The friction comes before and around it: finding out who is up, agreeing on a plan, and keeping every unit on the same page once things change. That friction costs minutes. In a rescue, minutes are the mission.
The obstacles
Six things slow every joint response.
01A fragmented picture
TodayEach agency tracks only its own aircraft, crews and plans. No one sees the whole region.
With FenraxOne live picture of every partner's assets, published and owned by each agency.
02Coordination by phone
TodayFinding a capable asset takes calls, emails and personal contacts. Answers are stale by the time they arrive.
With FenraxStatus, capability and availability are posted, not asked for.
03Plans that don't travel
TodayPlans are built in slides, PDFs and whiteboards, then sent around. Partners plan in parallel, not together.
With FenraxOne live plan that every invited unit builds in at the same time.
04No common language
TodayEvery agency has its own formats, terms, frequencies and procedures.
With FenraxOne shared format for assets, areas, times and comms that every agency reads the same way.
05Plan and execution drift apart
TodayOnce the mission starts, changes travel by radio and memory. The plan on paper goes stale.
With FenraxThe plan stays live. Tracks run against planned windows and every change reaches every unit.
06Lessons get lost
TodayWhat worked lives in people's heads and scattered after-action reports. The next operation starts from zero.
With FenraxPlan, tracks and decisions are kept together, ready for the debrief and the next plan.
How we build
Connect agencies without taking anything from them.
Share the picture, keep command
Each agency owns its data, its aircraft and its decisions. Fenrax shows the picture. The agencies make the calls.
Meet units where they are
Existing schedules and procedures come in as they are. Joining Fenrax should cost a unit minutes, not a new workflow.
Open picture, invited plans
Asset status is visible to every partner so coordinators can act. Plans are shared by invitation, and only the owning unit commits its aircraft.
Built by operators
Designed by an aviator for the people who plan and fly the mission, in the ops center and the cockpit alike.
Where it leads
From a shared picture to a shared mission.
Shared awareness
Every public response aircraft, live and planned, on one map.
Shared planning
Agencies build joint operations together and hand every crew one brief.
Shared execution
The plan runs live. Tracks run against planned windows, retasking reaches every crew and conflicts surface in flight.
Crewed and autonomous
Drones and autonomous systems take tasking from the same plan and report into the same picture.
Beyond aviation
Every responder. Every asset.
Fenrax starts in the air because aircraft are the scarcest, fastest and hardest assets to coordinate. The same picture extends to every unit and resource a response draws on, public and private, crewed and autonomous. Drones are arriving faster than the tools to coordinate them. On Fenrax they take tasking from the same plan as everyone else.
What it looks like
One rescue, start to finish.
An illustrative scenario of the full Fenrax picture.
A hiker is reported injured on a ridge in the backcountry east of San Diego. Sunset is in 20 minutes.
The county coordinator opens Fenrax. Every hoist-capable aircraft in reach is on the map: a sheriff helicopter on alert, a Navy crew 15 minutes out on a training sortie, a CAL FIRE helicopter returning to base.
She starts a plan, draws the search area and requests the Navy crew. The squadron accepts. A sheriff drone launches to find the hiker first.
Every crew has the same brief: search area, altitude blocks, frequencies and who else is up.
The drone marks the hiker. The helicopter's route updates and every unit sees it.
Hoist complete. The plan, tracks and decisions are already saved for the debrief.
No phone tree. No competing plans. One picture.
Build it with us.
We are working with agencies, operators and investors who want to change how public missions are planned and run.