“With Foxglove, we’ve saved over $200,000 in engineering time annually and freed up three engineers to focus on core autonomy development.” Ross Walker, Head of Product, AIM

AIM is on a mission to revolutionize the mining, construction, and defense industries by delivering the next generation of autonomous systems for heavy equipment. While industries like logistics and manufacturing have seen sweeping gains from automation, earthmoving remains dominated by manual operation—despite being among the most hazardous and inefficient work environments. AIM is changing that paradigm with an autonomous platform capable of retrofitting any make, model, or age of machinery. The result is non-stop, high-performance operations with radically improved safety and efficiency. From mining critical minerals to enabling planetary-scale infrastructure projects, AIM is unlocking capabilities that were previously unimaginable.

The challenges of scaling without Foxglove.

Building comprehensive tooling for production robotics data is no small feat—so why reinvent the wheel? Without a centralized source of truth for multimodal log data (telemetry, camera, point cloud, etc.), progress slows, collaboration becomes fragmented, and teams lose focus chasing scattered insights instead of advancing the mission.

Simple questions like “What happened during this autonomous dig?” required manual alignment of timestamps and file types. Debugging bottlenecks became a real threat to AIM’s pace of innovation. As one engineer put it, “Life before Foxglove was like trying to read The Matrix through code. Now everything is too easy—it makes you think you’re in a simulation.”

“Our engineers are now more productive than before. With Foxglove, they’re focused on autonomy, not tooling.” Ross Walker, Head of Product, AIM

Adopting Foxglove to scale autonomy with reliability.

The tipping point came when the complexity of AIM’s autonomy stack outgrew its initial workflows. The company needed a purpose-built, centralized platform that could unify data analysis, accelerate debugging, and support asynchronous collaboration at scale. Enter Foxglove.

The transition was swift. AIM standardized its autonomy logs to MCAP, seamlessly adopted Foxglove for visualizing the data, and implemented Foxglove’s data management capabilities to centralize and streamline collaboration. A custom ingestion pipeline now streams logs from the field to the cloud in real-time, enabling immediate review and triage. Engineers built a user-facing note tagging system that links operational observations directly to Foxglove sessions, integrating smoothly with the company’s issue tracking stack.

The switch also included decommissioning dozens of brittle internal tools and sharing standardized layouts across the org. All technical teams were fully trained within four weeks—ushering in a new era of consistency, clarity, and speed.

“Foxglove didn’t just speed up our workflows—it rewired the way our teams collaborate and think about debugging at scale.” Ross Walker, Head of Product, AIM

How Foxglove became a force multiplier for AIM.

Post-Foxglove, AIM’s development velocity surged. Debugging that once took days now takes hours. Sessions are logged in MCAP, streamed to the cloud, and automatically ingested into Foxglove. Engineers dive into synchronized timelines of lidar, camera feeds, and vehicle telemetry, annotate issues, and collaborate across teams effortlessly.

The unified visualization and advanced debugging slashed root cause analysis times by more than 40%, freeing up engineering capacity and dramatically accelerating autonomy milestones. More than $200,000 of engineering time is saved annually—not to mention the reduced risk and improved safety outcomes from faster resolution of field issues. Perhaps most critically, three engineers previously focused on maintaining internal tooling are now fully dedicated to core autonomy development.

By transforming AIM’s ability to analyze and act on data, Foxglove has become a strategic force multiplier. It didn’t just eliminate friction—it unlocked new capabilities. Whether triaging production bugs, sharing discoveries across teams, or onboarding new hires, AIM now operates with a level of clarity and cohesion that directly powers its mission to unlock our civilization’s capabilities to build planetary-scale infrastructure.