your-name: Lakshya pratap
your-email: hello@versatilerobotx.com
message: Hi Professor McDonald-Maier / Dr Mohan,
I came across Versatile RobotX following the recent £1M+ funding and your stated transition from field trials toward commercial deployment and a Robotics-as-a-Service model.
What caught my attention wasn't the robotics itself, but the infrastructure that sits around commercial deployment.
Once multiple robots are operating across farms, there is a fairly important chain that needs to become reliable:
robot telemetry → events → utilisation → field/customer records → reporting → billing
Hours operated, hectares covered, robot availability, faults and deployment history can eventually become the operational source of truth for the RaaS model.
That's an area I work on — event-driven systems, operational data, APIs, field operations and the financial/reconciliation layer that turns those events into reliable commercial records.
A few relevant examples of how I approach this:
https://www.lakshyapratap.com/services/architecture
https://www.lakshyapratap.com/products/field-operations
https://www.lakshyapratap.com/services/fintech
https://www.lakshyapratap.com/work/ledger-rebuild
I'm not approaching you as a generic software development vendor. I'm specifically interested in the commercialisation layer around the robotics stack — fleet telemetry, utilisation metering, deployment operations, customer visibility and eventually usage-based billing.
If this is already being designed internally, no problem. If it's an area where external product engineering could help, I'd be happy to have a short conversation and sketch out how I'd approach the architecture.
Best,
Lakshya Pratap
lakshyapratap.com
