Tide Breaker is where operators, innovators, and technology providers work together to fast-track AI solutions that transform subsea operations. It is the entry route into the Blue Digital Ecosystem, with a live, operating network where the intelligence to manage the world’s subsea infrastructure is being built.
Tide Braker is powering AI adoption within the subsea energy sector.
At the core of Tide Breaker is co-creating value. Built with guidance from Operators from the first definition of the challenge to the point of deployment, the solutions that emerge from the programme are field ready. Technology partners develop with clarity, knowing exactly what Operators need, where their tools will land, and how they’ll integrate. Tide Breaker creates field trusted, interoperable, and proven solutions built for subsea.
The first cohort is mid-development, with the route to commercialisation opening in summer 2026.
The second cohort opens in late 2026 welcoming established technology providers, AI developers, and research institutions alongside early-stage start-ups.
If your organisation has proven capability that maps to any of the five operator-defined themes, we would welcome a conversation at any stage.
You do not need to wait for the formal cohort opening. Register your interest and the team will be in touch.
The five Tide Breaker innovation themes were defined by Compass operators. They represent the challenges where the gap between current capability and what AI can deliver is greatest, and where a validated solution would generate the most significant operational return.
From AI breakthrough to deployment.
Technology providers of all sizes enter the ecosystem through Tide Breaker. From early-stage start-ups to established vendors and AI developers, the programme provides access to real operational data via the Trusted Research Environment, a governed sandbox environment, and continuous feedback from Compass operators who co-validate solutions throughout development.
The outcome?
Participants do not stall in pilots. They graduate into permanent ecosystem membership being discoverable in the marketplace, validated by Compass operators, and interoperable with everything else on the Elementz platform.
Compass is the operator layer of the Blue Digital Ecosystem. The Compass members co-define the innovation themes that Tide Breaker participants build against, co-validate solutions in representative field conditions, and shape the platform roadmap before those solutions reach the open market.
Operators who join Compass now help define what the ecosystem builds for their asset class next.
The data is already there. It’s time to see what it knows.
Accelerate the next wave of AI adoption in subsea energy.
Operators, innovators, and technology providers push forward together in a connected blue digital ecosystem. It consists of 3 layers:
01. The Platform
Elementz
The open, interoperable foundation. A full API suite connecting integrity data with enterprise systems, inspection hardware, digital twins, and analytical tools. Every participant builds on the same infrastructure.
02. The Operator Board
Compass
The demand-definition layer. Operators co-define real challenges, co-validate emerging solutions, and shape the product roadmap.
03. The Innovation Programme
Tide Breaker
Start-ups, mature technology partners, AI developers, research and academic institutions: co-creating solutions in a governed sandbox and graduating into permanent ecosystem membership.
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