Scope AI raises £14.9m to digitise inspections using live audio and video
This article covers Scope AI, an AI startup, which has raised £14.9m ($20m) in a growth funding round led by Index Ventures to accelerate adoption of its AI inspection platform and expand its London team. The funding aims to support the testing, inspection and certification sector and inspectors in safety-critical industries such as aerospace and energy by digitising inspection workflows and reducing reporting time.
Scope AI, an AI startup building inspection workflows for the testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry, has raised £14.9m ($20m) in a growth funding round led by Index Ventures to speed up adoption of its AI inspection platform and expand its London team. The deal matters because Scope targets a large, safety-critical sector where digital tooling and workforce shortages are prominent.
Why it matters
The TIC market is sizeable and fragmented, estimated at about £223.7bn ($300bn). Inspections in sectors such as aerospace and energy underpin safety and operational continuity, but many processes remain manual. Scope says inspectors still often rely on pen-and-paper workflows and legacy reporting systems, producing hours of on-site work that then turn into days of administrative reporting. Those frictions make inspections costly and slow and compound workforce challenges: certified inspectors can take up to ten years to train, replacing lost roles can take on average 10 months, and around 40 percent of key technicians are expected to retire in the next five to ten years.
Inside the product
Scope’s platform captures inspections through live audio, video and notes, and surfaces relevant historical context in real time. The software automatically fills forms, organises inspection data and generates reports from field findings. The company reports that this workflow can reduce reporting time by 10x and lower error rates by 95 percent. Since launching in July last year, Scope has reported 9x ARR growth and a 100 percent pilot conversion rate. Inspectors at six of the world’s top 10 global inspection companies are already using the platform.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First and Syndicate 1. Notable angel backers include Mehdi Ghissassi, Cedric Pech, Naren Shaam and Andy Szybalski.
The funding will be used to expand Scope’s London-based team and accelerate adoption among global inspection companies. Index partner Stephane Kurgan highlighted the founder’s hands-on approach to product development.
In the announcement, Stephane Kurgan, Partner at Index Ventures, said:
Jonny knows the intricacies of the TIC industry inside out. He is spending an incredible amount of time in the field to understand inspection problems in a granular way, and feeds them back to the product team. It has allowed Scope to drive massive value to their AI inspection customers, and a 100% pilot conversion rate is a testament to this hard work.
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Founder perspective
Scope was co-founded by Jonathan Low (CEO) and Jakob Cassiman (CTO). Low previously worked at the AI Lab Conjecture. Cassiman was a machine learning engineer at enterprise AI company ML6 and studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
In the announcement, Jonathan Low, CEO at Scope, said:
The TIC industry doesn’t need AI that replaces people; it needs to empower experts to work faster and smarter. Scope gives inspectors the context, workflows and reporting support they need to spend more time in the field and less time chained to desks. Heavy industrial assets are too critical to manage reactively. Our vision is to make physical asset information as accessible and actionable as digital information, so every site knows which assets are at risk, why, and can automatically trigger the actions needed to prevent downtime.
The bigger picture
The raise underlines continued investor interest in applying AI to industrial operations and asset management. For the UK and Europe, the deal points to a pattern where AI startups are targeting operational bottlenecks in regulated industries rather than purely customer-facing problems. As infrastructure operators and inspection firms confront ageing workforces and increasingly stringent safety requirements, tools that convert field activity into structured, searchable intelligence could see wider uptake.
The immediate test for Scope will be scaling deployments across large, conservative customers and demonstrating consistent safety and compliance outcomes at scale. If it can do that, the company’s expansion in London may also attract further European customers and partnerships that bridge AI tooling with regulated infrastructure operations.
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