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Mine sites are drowning in tasks that are repetitive, risky, and time-heavy, yet the real value sits on the other side of the work: clean data that helps people make faster calls. We chat with Chris Clark, Managing Director and CEO of RocketDNA Limited, about how AI-driven autonomous drones are taking on aerial surveying, security and surveillance, and asset inspection for Tier 1 mining customers across Australia and Africa and what that means when the output is trusted enough to drive day-to-day decisions.

We break down RocketDNA’s latest momentum, including revenue growth and the milestone of first positive operating cash flow, and why management keeps coming back to recurring revenue as the foundation for a scalable ASX microcap business. Chris explains how the xBot® solution brings together autonomous drone hardware, remote operations, and two key software layers: the SiteTube visualisation platform and Skylink®, RocketDNA’s proprietary operating system for managing autonomous drone fleets at enterprise level.

Skylink® is where the conversation gets practical: access control, scheduling, demand planning, maintenance oversight, and the jump from running a handful of drones to operating fleets across multiple sites. We also dig into the leading indicators that show whether a platform is becoming “sticky” including flight mission growth and active software users and why land-and-expand economics can beat constant greenfield chasing when customers keep ordering more units to meet demand.

If you care about autonomous drone technology, mining digitisation, and the shift from hardware projects to software-backed recurring revenue, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a mate in resources or tech, and leave us a review, then tell us: where do you think autonomous drones deliver the biggest productivity win first?