Accessible instruments / Heritage intelligence / Seed
A $32.50 field station that turns broken history into a searchable global network.
Metric impact
4,600x
lower scan-station cost
sub-millimeter 3D matching
Founders
Shiv Mandlik / Aarush Khilosia
Stage
Seed
Replaces
$150,000 laboratory-grade 3D metrology scanner
Investment memorandum / 02
Tessalt converts uncatalogued cultural fragments into standardized 3D passports, then discovers joins across institutions by geometry and negative space.
Technical insight
Museums and excavations hold millions of uncatalogued fragments across isolated storerooms. Traditional fracture matching depends on industrial CT or structured-light metrology systems that are expensive, immobile, and operator intensive.
Tessalt combines a calibrated direct-drive turntable with pose-conditioned multi-view depth inference. It captures 48 indexed viewpoints across two orientation passes, then feeds measured camera poses and fiducial scale markers into Depth Anything 3 on on-demand cloud GPUs.
Each fragment becomes a searchable Fragment Passport. Fast 3D surface retrieval narrows the candidates; geometric seam verification, graph optimization, and negative-space search then identify possible joins across global collections without moving fragile objects.
Commodity hardware base
Measured deployment
12
field locations
14,200+
fragment passports
48 sec
capture per piece
38
confirmed joins
Capability per deployed dollar
Tessalt has generated searchable 3D records in museum storerooms and active excavation sites, including offline capture in field conditions and cross-institution discovery without transporting the artifacts.
Legacy architecture
$150,000 local metrology cell, operated by a specialist
Tensor architecture
$32.50 distributed capture station, linked to global shape search
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