PODCAST: SIFT’s Austin Spiegel on Solving Data Fragmentation in Advanced Air Mobility

Our next pod­cast episode is live! This week, we were joined by Austin Spiegel, CTO and Co-Founder of SIFT, to explore how bet­ter data infra­struc­ture is accel­er­at­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty devel­op­ment.

Austin explains how SIFT’s hard­ware observ­abil­i­ty plat­form helps OEMs cap­ture, orga­nize and ana­lyze vast vol­umes of teleme­try gen­er­at­ed across the entire air­craft lifecycle—from sim­u­la­tion and hard­ware-in-the-loop test­ing to man­u­fac­tur­ing and flight oper­a­tions.

With cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­grammes plac­ing increas­ing pres­sure on trace­abil­i­ty and auditabil­i­ty, he high­lights how frag­ment­ed data sys­tems, siloed work­flows and man­u­al report­ing process­es can cre­ate cost­ly bot­tle­necks for eVTOL devel­op­ers.

The con­ver­sa­tion dives into how SIFT cre­ates a uni­fied, struc­tured “dig­i­tal thread” that links teleme­try to spe­cif­ic assets, sub-assem­blies and man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es, enabling clear, reg­u­la­tor-ready evi­dence paths.

Austin also dis­cuss­es real-time flight test mon­i­tor­ing, auto­mat­ed pass/fail report­ing, anom­aly detec­tion through ‘fam­i­ly’ data com­par­isons, and the grow­ing reg­u­la­to­ry shift toward dig­i­tal-ready, inter­ac­tive evi­dence rather than sta­t­ic PDFs.

With SIFT recent­ly announc­ing a $42 mil­lion Series B raise, Austin shares how the com­pa­ny is scal­ing its team and capa­bil­i­ties to sup­port the next phase of growth in avi­a­tion and beyond.

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