A steerable full-face bit on your own core barrel, run by your own crew. Navilo is developing a directional tool for the diamond core drilling industry — simple enough to run without a specialist on site.
Simple to run. Hard to miss.
Redefining directional drilling
Directional drilling in mineral exploration today means a hard choice: primitive single-trip tools that limit what you can drill, or premium services that arrive with a specialist technician and a premium price tag.
Navilo is building the middle path — a reliable steerable tool your own crew operates. Simple by design: fewer parts, no specialist assembly, nothing a good crew can't learn.
Our story
Navilo AS was founded in 2026 in Trondheim, Norway, on eight years of hands-on experience with directional drilling tools for mineral exploration — running them in the field, supporting the crews that use them, and scaling their production.
That experience taught us one rule: remove failure modes, don't add features. The tool is deliberately simple — simple enough that a good crew can figure it out. The real work goes into reliability.
Meet the Founder
