Soldier load carriagePhase 1
Follows a dismounted unit a few metres behind with ammunition, batteries, water and mission equipment. Less weight on each soldier, more capability forward.
Concept render
It follows you out.It carries you back.
OPPY is a low-cost, dual-use intelligent utility vehicle. It follows a person over rough ground and takes the load, and it still has a seat for the drive home.
- 300 kg
- payload
- 300 km
- range
- 150 km
- operating radius
Design targets for the full version.
Meet OPPY.
On the trail, in the field and at a forward position: one platform across its missions.
Moving supplies off-road still depends on people.
Soldiers, farmers, forestry crews and guides face the same problem: the last few kilometres are off-road, and someone has to carry the load.
OPPY
A production vehicle, made intelligent. Follows a person, takes the load.
Intelligent military vehicles
They follow and operate uncrewed, at defence-program prices.
Affordable utility vehicles
Cheap and everywhere. A person drives every one of them.
Affordable vehicles are not intelligent.
Intelligent vehicles are not affordable.
OPPY is both.
A utility vehicle that follows you and carries the load.
Useful intelligence first. Autonomy grows from there.
Phase 1
- Follow-Me
- Vision tracking, with a UWB tag as fallback in dust, snow or low light.
- Gesture commands
- Come, and go away.
- Operator override
- Take control any time. Safe stop on loss of link.
From day one
- Cargo and cab
- A working load bed and an enclosed cab, fully drivable.
- Modular platform
- One base vehicle, different mission payloads.
- Off-road
- Trails, gravel, slope and soft ground.
- Remote monitoring
- Telemetry and fleet status from the first vehicle.
The full version
- Autonomous navigation
- Off-road waypoint navigation, beyond a continuous control link. The autonomy hardware is installed from day one.
It follows you out. It carries you back.
Walk the trail, fish the river, work the block, then ride home when you have had enough. A follower with no seat cannot do this, and a vehicle with a seat cannot follow.
One platform, multiple missions.
The same vehicle, reconfigured. Not four different programs.
Autonomous resupplyPhase 1
A rear position loads OPPY and sends it forward on its own. No extra driver, and no extra person exposed on the route.
Casualty evacuationFull version
Moves wounded personnel from a forward position back toward an aid point without diverting a soldier to drive.
Modular mission platformFull version
The same base vehicle carries communications, surveillance or other mission payloads as requirements change.
Concept renderings.
Canada’s MINERVA Initiative names tactical cargo movement as a requirement. This is what that looks like.
Load carriage and resupply are Phase 1 capability. Casualty evacuation and modular payloads follow the full version.
The same vehicle, five working markets.
Civil volume carries the cost of the platform and the supply chain the defence version rides on.
Agriculture
Follows workers through fields with tools, feed and produce. Once loaded, it delivers to the barn on its own and returns empty for the next trip.
Mining
Carries tools, batteries, samples and supplies across large or rough sites, cutting repeated vehicle trips and the need for a dedicated driver.
Forestry
Moves tools, fuel, batteries and safety equipment with crews over trails, then shuttles loads between work areas and staging points.
Hunting
A quiet configuration follows hunters with equipment and carries supplies or game back out with minimal noise.
Resorts and recreation
Carries gear while people walk, and brings them home when they have had enough. Also moves luggage, food and supplies around large properties.
Walk out. Ride back.
For hiking, fishing and outdoor recreation, the hard part is often not getting there. It is getting back.
Concept renderings. This use case works with Phase 1 capability: Follow-Me, cargo capacity and a driver’s seat. Full autonomous navigation is not required.
Conventional UTV: drive only.
OPPY: walk out, ride back.
Especially useful for older outdoor users. The trail is open to anyone who does not want to commit to walking the full distance home.
Follow when people move. Shuttle when the load moves. Drive when needed.
Three operating modes, one vehicle. That is why the same platform serves a farm, a cut block and a forward position.
Canada is moving from experiment to procurement.
“Affordable, high-impact uncrewed system technologies.”
From experiment to procurement
Uncrewed systems are a named sovereign capability priority. The Defence Drone Initiative launched in July 2026 as a standing marketplace.
Ground cargo is a named requirement
Ammunition, water and batteries still move forward on a soldier's back over the last kilometres. The Army's MINERVA Initiative runs an uncrewed ground cargo challenge, accepting solutions from TRL 5.
Affordability is stated policy
Domestic production and cost-effectiveness appear in the requirement language itself.
Speak & Act is already qualified to sell to Canadian defence.
Defence Drone Initiative
- Supply Arrangement CW2467114, Stream 5
- Issued September 2026, valid to July 2031
- Eligible for future solicitations
Canadian Army MINERVA Initiative
- Direct engagement, on the industry list
- An experimentation pathway, not procurement
- Published unmanned ground system challenges accept TRL 5 to 9
Stated plainly
Qualification is not a contract. What it is, is access: Speak & Act is already inside the two channels through which Canadian ground-autonomy work is placed. Canada defines the critical components of a domestically produced system as the radio, ground station, on-board computer and software. Those are the parts we build.
Twelve months, two vehicles, from TRL 2 to TRL 6.
Each phase ends in something you can watch working. The target is TRL 6, and the minimum milestone is TRL 5.
- Months 0–3Core team in place, both base platforms ordered.
- Months 3–5Drive-by-wire interface built.
- Months 5–6First computer-controlled drive.Gate
- Months 6–8Follow-Me running in open ground.
- Months 8–10Two gesture commands live.
- Months 10–12Second vehicle, test evidence.
The Phase 1 deliverable
Two vehicles, one engineering mule and one clean demonstrator, running Follow-Me, two gesture commands and operator override, with the autonomy hardware installed. A written test and evidence package, with pilot sites identified and prepared.
Phase 1, 12 months
- Two vehicles: one engineering mule, one clean demonstrator
- Follow-Me and two gesture commands
- Operator override and safe stop on loss of link
- Autonomy hardware installed, over-the-air capable
- TRL 2 to a target of TRL 6, minimum TRL 5
- A written test and evidence package
- Customer demonstrations and pilot preparation from month 9, external pilots from month 12
Phase 2, A further 12 months
- Production-grade Follow-Me and the full gesture set
- Autonomous off-road navigation with obstacle avoidance
- Four vehicles for parallel testing
- Reliability and endurance validation
- Production engineering, supply-chain lock, design freeze
- Outcome: mass-production ready
Phase 3, Defence-funded
- Extended autonomy training and operational validation, aimed at defence-funded programs
TRL is the technology readiness level scale. TRL 1 is a basic idea and TRL 9 is a system proven in operations. Speak & Act and OPPY are at TRL 2 today.
The people building OPPY.
Ivan Ting
Founder and CEO
25+ years taking mobility technology from R&D through to volume production.
Rishabh Goel
R&D Manager
Owns the OPPY bill of materials and production cost model.
Engineering and operations
- Aliyu
- Hardware, PCB
- Sagar
- Firmware
- Soubun Tang
- Firmware
- Vishal
- Application software
- Sanjay Ghosh
- Cloud and backend
- Bastien
- Operations
- Candy
- Finance and administration
- Balram Tilva
- Frontend
Speak & Act Inc. was incorporated in Canada in 2025 as a project company to develop and commercialize OPPY. It is Alberta incorporated, BC registered, with its head office in Vancouver.
OPPY’s software, integration and test data are developed in Canada and owned by Speak & Act.
Talk to us about OPPY.
A defence program, a working site that needs a load moved, or a partner who wants to sell it. Tell us what you need to move and where.
- Company
- Speak & Act Inc.
- Head office
- Vancouver, Canada
- Government
- DDI Stream 5 qualified supplier
- Stage
- TRL 2, Phase 1 planned as a 12-month program