Scope, a workflow software startup for the testing, inspection and certification industry, has raised £15 million in funding led by Index Ventures, with participation from Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and Syndicate 1. Angel investors including Mehdi Ghissassi, Cedric Pech, Naren Shaam, and Andy Szybalski also participated in the round.
The Scope platform is designed to modernise industrial inspections across industries such as aerospace and energy, where inspections are used for safety, maintenance, and operational continuity. Inspectors still commonly rely on pen-and-paper workflows and legacy reporting systems, with a four-hour on-site inspection often resulting in up to ten days of reporting and administrative work.
Using live audio, video, and notes captured in the field, the platform surfaces relevant historical context in real time while automatically filling forms, organising inspection data, and generating reports based on findings gathered during inspections. Scope said the software reduces reporting time by 10x and lowers error rates by 95%.
Since launching in July last year, Scope said it has recorded 9x ARR growth and a 100% pilot conversion rate. Inspectors at six of the world’s top 10 global inspection companies are already using the platform. The platform is designed to address workforce challenges across the $300 billion TIC industry. Certified inspection professionals can take up to ten years to train, while replacing lost roles can take an average of 10 months. Around 40% of key technicians are expected to retire within the next five to ten years.
Jonathan Low co-founded Scope alongside CTO Jakob Cassiman. Before starting Scope, Low worked at AI Lab Conjecture, while Cassiman was a machine learning engineer at ML6 after studying as a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.
The new funding will be used to expand Scope’s London-based team and accelerate adoption among global inspection companies. Scope said its long-term vision is to turn inspections into a continuously updated intelligence layer for physical infrastructure that helps operators predict asset health issues and identify failure risks earlier.
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.
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.
