Less about resolutions, more about momentum…

I’ve never really been a big New Year’s resolutions person.

I’ve always found it a bit strange to park things that need fixing until January.

If something’s broken, I’d rather deal with it there and then instead of banking it for a fresh start.

As if self-improvement only works if the calendar gives you permission…

That said, if I had to put a couple of loose intentions out there for the year ahead, they’d be pretty simple: cycle more than I did this year; run more than I did this year… Nothing revolutionary. Just keep moving in the right direction and build on what’s already there.

What I do find interesting about this time of year is how differently people approach January.

For a lot of organisations, the first couple of weeks are all about planning sessions, goal-setting workshops, and easing back into things after the break. For us, it’s almost the opposite.

The planning has already happened before and during that strange festive no-man’s-land between Christmas and New Year. January is all about doing.

This week’s been a good example of that. We’ve just completed our first installation where our customer will replace current security provisions elsewhere to utilise this drone as their first responder for any identified threats or incidents, and that feels like a real milestone, because this one is being used operationally from an O&M perspective.

Remote engineers are already using it to assess how solar panels are performing, pulling localised visuals and thermal data without needing to travel to site. From an ESG perspective, that’s a big deal. It means fewer journeys, faster insights, and better use of people’s time all enabled by tech that’s actually doing a job rather than just looking impressive on paper. Why have an inspection engineer travel to site when he can load up his pilot application and take to the skies?

That installation brings us up to three docked drones now, but this one stands out because it shows exactly where things are heading. Security, operations, and sustainability are all starting to overlap in a way that makes sense.

Alongside that, we’ve been quietly preparing a few new hero products for our distribution, logistics, and manufacturing customers. I can’t say too much yet, but we’ve got version three of one product and version one of another landing in the UK ready for deployment in the first week of January.

That’s the kind of thing that makes the end of the year feel exciting rather than slow and means the New Year is starting with lots of small pieces lining up with the potential to become something much bigger.

So while some people are still easing themselves back into work mode, we’re going straight in. January isn’t a reset button for us. It’s the continuation of the momentum we’ve already built.

Less talk about resolutions, more focus on progress. And honestly, that feels like a pretty good way to start the year.