Tech for Plastic-Free Oceans

Turning the tide for more balanced oceans.

We’re building AI-powered systems to track, predict, and clean plastic pollution—starting with Retide Maps, our global intelligence platform.

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Tech for Plastic-Free Oceans

Turning the tide for more balanced oceans.

We’re building AI-powered systems to track, predict, and clean plastic pollution—starting with Retide Maps, our global intelligence platform.

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the first intelligence layer for Ocean Plastic

We combine satellite imagery, environmental data, and AI to map, track, and forecast ocean plastic pollution.

Through strategic partnerships and open data systems, we’re building the foundation for smarter cleanup strategies and long-term change.

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Our mission is to make plastic pollution visible, actionable, and ultimatelysolvable.

The Technology: Start with Intelligence

Before we can clean it, we have to understand it.

We’re currently in Phase 1 of our roadmap—building the intelligence system that will guide autonomous cleanup efforts in the future. That starts with  Retide Maps: our AI-powered ocean plastic detection platform.

This tool allows us to:

one
Detect pollution
hotspots
Two
Predict plastic drift and accumulation
Three
Support governments, NGOs, and researchers
with real-time insight
launching this fall

What is Retide Maps?

Retide Maps is an AI-powered mapping and prediction tool that detects and models plastic pollution in the ocean. It integrates:

  • 01

    Satellite imagery & environmental datasets

  • 02

    AI models trained to detect plastic patterns

  • 03

    In-situ data from partners and collaborators

  • 04

    Predictive modeling to forecast plastic movement and accumulation

Together, this intelligence system helps us identify plastic hotspots, detect emerging risk zones, and guide targeted response efforts.
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Whether you're a government responding to marine debris, an NGO planning a cleanup, or a researcher modeling ocean health—Retide Maps is designed to power your decisions.

Collaboration is Core

We don’t believe in reinventing the wheel—we believe in empowering the people already pushing it forward.

NGOs to support on-the-ground cleanups informed by data

Governments to inform policy, planning, and emergency response

Researchers and marine biologists to validate our models and understand plastic’s ecological impact

Universities to co-develop methods and expand our datasets

Data providers to enrich Retide Maps with satellite and in-situ observations

Tech partners to expand collection infrastructure and explore future robotics applications

NGOs to support on-the-ground cleanups informed by data

Tech partners to expand collection infrastructure and explore futurer
obotics applications

Governments to inform policy, planning, and emergency response

Data providers to enrich Retide Maps with satellite and in-situ observations

Universities to co-develop
methods and expand our datasets

Researchers and marine biologists to validate our models and understand plastic’s ecological impact

Our technology is part of a long-term strategy to make ocean cleanup scalable, precise, and data-driven.

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Our Vision

Our technology is part of a long-term strategy to make ocean cleanup scalable, precise , and data-driven.

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Phase 1

Intelligence & Insight

We’re building the Retide Maps platform to detect, model, and predict plastic pollution globally. This forms the intelligence of our systems and acts as the foundation for all future action.
Phase 2

Validation & Collaboration

We partner with field researchers, governments, and NGOs to validate predictions, close data gaps, and better understand the impact of plastic on marine ecosystems.
Phase 2

Validation & Collaboration

We partner with field researchers, governments, and NGOs to validate predictions, collect data, close data gaps, and better understand the impact of plastic on marine ecosystems.
Phase 3

Robotic Cleanup Deployment

Once our intelligence is proven, we’ll be designing and deploying autonomous cleanup systems, powered by Retide Maps as the intelligence and navigation system—targeting high-impact zones that local efforts cannot easily reach.

Everything we’re building today powers the ocean
cleanup systems of tomorrow.

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who we are

We’re an ocean tech startup built by engineers, environmentalists, and changemakers who believe intelligence is the first step toward solving the plastic crisis.

Our team brings expertise in AI, robotics, data science, and environmental storytelling to make ocean plastic pollution visible, predictable, and actionable.

Our work is guided by values that
shape everything we build

No Ocean, No Life

Protecting the ocean is protecting ourselves.

Intelligence Before Intervention

We map the problem before we act

Radical Collaboration

Solutions only succeed when built together.

Integrity Over Optics

Transparency and real impact over greenwashing.

We’re here to create technology that empowers communities, drives smarter cleanups, and safeguards the future of life on Earth.

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Whether you’re a scientist, policymaker, data provider, or someone who simply cares deeply about the future of our oceans — there’s a role for you here.
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Scientists found that 98.7% of all marine litter items were plastic.
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Lake Victoria
Along its shores, over 1,000 plastic fragments can be found in a single kilo of sand, and about 1 in 5 fish contain plastic.
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Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic sea ice traps 10 times more microplastics than the surrounding water, which are released as the ice melts.
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This swirling plastic soup covers an area twice the size of Texas, holding about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic
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Indonesia
Indonesia leaks about 350,000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean every year, making it one of the world’s top polluters.
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Tyrrhenian Sea
Scientists found 1.9 million microplastic fragments in just one square meter of seabed – the highest level ever recorded
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Strait of Georgia, Canada
In 2018, Vancouver’s treatment plants released around 30 billion microplastic particles into nearby waters, even after filtering out 99%
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