Maker's videoGatik · 27 July 2026
Ep. 4: Between Contract and Driverless | The Business of Autonomous Freight
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Gatik, from Gatik AI, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Cleared where approval applies, or widely sold. The latest milestone on its record is from 26 Aug 2026: Gatik raised $200 million, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.
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A signed contract is not a driverless operation. The distance between the two is the business, and it is the part almost no one talks about. Gatik Chief Commercial Officer Paul DiLaura on what integration actually takes. Going into the customer's facility, learning the timing windows and the specific conditions of the operation, and formalizing all of it into a standard operating procedure. Once that procedure is set, driverless operations begin. Gatik now runs that path from contract to driverless often enough that it is repeatable, with demand moving the process from one customer to the next. None of it exists in a simulation. You get it by running it. The Business of Autonomous Freight is a series on what it takes to run driverless freight as a commercial operation inside Fortune 50 supply chains. About Gatik Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight, operating driverless truc…
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