Industrial safety and human factors specialist Enhancing Excellence has announced a founding investment and strategic partnership with BrainFit Neurotech Inc., aimed at bringing real-time cognitive monitoring technology to high-risk industries.
The collaboration focuses on sectors where human factors, including fatigue, stress and workload, are responsible for the majority of operational incidents.
Real-Time Cognitive Monitoring
BrainFit’s technology uses functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), the same class of neuroimaging technology used in fMRI systems, miniaturised into standard industrial headwear including hard hats, bump caps and baseball caps.
Designed specifically for harsh industrial environments, the sensors monitor blood flow in the prefrontal cortex and remain reliable despite exposure to sweat, heat and heavy movement.
The system converts this information into a CoreScore, a simple and actionable measure of a worker’s cognitive readiness.
Unlike traditional monitoring methods, CoreScore compares an individual only against their own historical baseline rather than a generic population average, ensuring privacy is built into the system’s design.
Industry Support
Mat Norbury, Co-Founder and CEO of BrainFit said: “You’d never let an intoxicated worker onto a high-risk site, yet we routinely allow people to operate when they’re dangerously impaired by fatigue, heat, or extreme stress.
“Grant and the team at Enhancing Excellence bring the deep, practical industry credibility we need to get this technology into the rooms where safety decisions are actually made.
“Having them on board as both investors and hands-on partners is a massive milestone for us.”
Grant Wallace, Chairman of Enhancing Excellence said: “We are putting our capital and our reputation behind this because we’re convinced it will save lives.
“Safety critical industries have used predictive maintenance and active monitoring for machinery for decades, but the missing piece has always been the people operating that equipment.
“BrainFit’s fNIRS tech is the first wearable solution I’ve seen that genuinely works in a real-world environment.
“We are already seeing strong interest from customers in our oil and gas group, Salos Sunesis, and we expect the first field deployments to be on offshore rigs and in refineries.”
Future Deployments
The five-figure investment forms part of BrainFit’s founding funding round. The company is preparing paid field trials with leading oil and gas operators and service companies during the second half of 2026, with initial deployments expected on offshore rigs and in refineries.
