A team built for
this mission.
Deep technology development, defense market commercialization, and global supply chain operations assembled to take embedded autonomy from research to mass-produced defense systems.
The people behind
Clausal.
Tatu Ylönen
Tatu invented the SSH protocol in 1995, the security standard protecting a large share of the world’s server infrastructure. He founded and took public SSH Communications Security, serving major banks, Fortune 500 corporations, and government organizations across three continents. SSH recently received a €25M strategic investment from Leonardo, one of Europe’s largest defense companies.
Named inventor on 58 US patents across AI, cybersecurity, and aerospace (Clausal holds approximately 15), Tatu leads Clausal’s technical direction hands-on, from model architecture and sensor fusion to the microcontroller-level inference constraints that define the product.
Toni Perämäki
Toni brings a track record of commercializing deep technology in markets that did not yet exist. As COO at Valohai, he built the commercial operation from scratch in an undefined MLOps category, closing enterprise customers including Safran Defence, Continental, and Boston Scientific. Earlier, he spent five years at Microsoft leading startup evaluation and go-to-market programs across European markets, assessing over 800 companies annually for technical maturity and commercial viability. Toni's career began with service in a NATO peacekeeping operation as a Duty Officer in a Battle Group HQ Tactical Operations Center - experience that grounds his understanding of the operational environment Clausal's products are designed to serve.
Mika Kosonen
Mika leads product hardware development and supply chain creation, ensuring Clausal's edge AI systems process from a prototype to massproduction-ready hardware. He brings deep operational expertise from working at Nokia and with its' suppliers, where he managed mobile-device development supply chain creation in Finland, Canada, and China. As CTO at Parking Energy, he led the development for the EV- charging systems . His background in R&D, global manufacturing operations, quality systems, and supply chain management at scale is directly relevant to Clausal's core promise: microcontroller-based AI products engineered for mass production.
Built to close the gap
between research and the field.
We do not publish our engineering team for operational security reasons. What we can share is the technical depth that sits behind the product.
Passive terrain and feature recognition optimised for constrained inference hardware.
Model deployment on microcontrollers with strict power, memory, and latency envelopes.
Multi-modal integration of inertial, optical, and barometric data for bounded position estimation.
Large-scale training on Clausal’s sovereign European GPU infrastructure; quantisation and pruning for edge deployment.
End-to-end delivery from prototype to production hardware under real operational constraints.
Clausal at
a glance.
From security infrastructure
to autonomous systems.
Clausal builds on decades of experience developing security-critical systems at global scale. As the European security environment shifted, it became clear that these capabilities directly address a defining challenge in modern defense: enabling autonomous platforms to operate reliably when external infrastructure cannot be trusted or assumed.
We are building toward infrastructure-independent autonomy across aerial, terrestrial, and maritime domains, beginning with the hardest problem: maintaining bounded position and perception in denied and degraded environments. The objective is straightforward. Platforms that navigate, perceive, and act without reliance on vulnerable external signals or continuous connectivity.