Aerolith: an autopilot for New York's airspace

At rush hour, New York barely moves, but a trauma bay waiting on blood can't wait. Aerolith is an aerial dispatch network that runs commercial drone work and emergency medical deliveries through one autopilot, built and shipped on @Base44.

What the automation does, with no dispatcher involved: • Prices every request instantly from distance, job type and urgency • Checks live weather at the pickup and calls GO or NO-GO against each aircraft's limits • Finds the nearest aircraft with the right range, battery, payload and cold box, plus a medically cleared pilot • Gives emergency deliveries priority: a booked commercial job yields, is re-slotted, and its client is told why • Moves flights to the next clear window when a storm rolls in, or pages a duty officer for emergencies • Sends live tracking to the client or hospital and logs every decision for audit • Grounds aircraft automatically when they hit their service hours

The result: about 90 minutes of phone-and-spreadsheet dispatch work, done in about 3 seconds.

Design: I wanted it to feel like flying, not like a dashboard. The homepage is a scroll-driven 3D flight over a night-time New York, built in three.js, that follows a Lifeline drone on an emergency run. The rest of the site uses a blue-hour palette, wide type like the lettering painted on an aircraft, and a red lane reserved for emergencies. It's fully responsive on mobile.

The walkthrough film was made from the site's own 3D scene, with a voiceover and score cut to the narration.

Try it: aerolith-e0aa51d9.base44.app Open the Ops console and press "Incoming emergency" to watch the autopilot work live.

A concept demo: the fleet, pilots and facilities are simulated, and the weather is real.