Hanneke Weitering is a writer and editor with AIN covering advanced air mobility and new flight technologies. She became an aviation journalist and joined the AIN team in the summer of 2022 after reporting on spaceflight and astronomy for six years at Space.com. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she moved to New York City to pursue a master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting at New York University&#039;s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is now based in Seattle near Boeing Field and spends her free time exploring nature in the Pacific Northwest.

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Hamilton AI has named Matthew Schwegler as head of product and launched three new tools for private aviation operators—all within his first quarter on the job.
The three products, Hamilton Banking, Hamilton Dispatch, and Hamilton for Brokers, are available now and in use with operators including Baker, Craft, and Jetvia. These platforms extend Hamilton’s existing Sales module and are designed to feed each other.
“Hamilton Sales collapses quoting from tens of minutes down to seconds, which means operators are suddenly able to quote dramatically more flights,” Schwegler told AIN. “Hamilton Dispatch picks those quoted flights up and runs them through the operational workflow—crew, aircraft, scheduling, coordination—and feeds real-time aircraft availability back into Sales, so the next quote going out reflects what the fleet can actually do. Each product takes the output of the others as its input.”
Hamilton Banking delivers the financial tools introduced last month when the company formed a <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2026-03-31/hamilton-ai-teams-bank-grow-charter-platform">partnership with Column</a>, the nationally chartered bank also behind Brex, Mercury, and Ramp. The module handles payment settlement within the same platform where trips are sold and flown, eliminating the float and reconciliation delays common in legacy charter payment systems.
Hamilton Dispatch gives operations staff a single view of crew currency, duty-time limits, and aircraft status. The tool can also flag scheduling gaps and conflicts and identify opportunities to reduce empty repositioning legs, with authorized personnel making the final call on each. “Hamilton Dispatch works under the operator’s operations manual, not around it,” Schwegler said, emphasizing that federal regulations require operational control to remain with the certificate holder.
Rounding out the trio, Hamilton for Brokers connects operators to broker demand, converting additional quoting capacity into booked revenue. It is designed to give brokers visibility into operator availability in a market where sourcing has traditionally relied on phone calls and email chains.
Schwegler’s background spans regulated airspace software and advanced air mobility. At Joby Aviation, he built <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/futureflight/2024-06-20/joby-debuts-elevateos-software-air-taxi-operations">ElevateOS</a>, the FAA-authorized software suite that will power the company’s eVTOL air taxi operations. At AirMap, he led development of LAANC, the FAA’s nationwide real-time airspace authorization system for drone operators. At Uber, he launched Uber Copter under the Uber Elevate cloud services platform. He began his career as an air traffic controller in the U.S. Air Force.
“Private aviation manages some of the highest-stakes transactions in any industry on legacy systems that were not built for the speed and efficiency that’s expected in the age of AI,” Schwegler said.
Hamilton AI was founded in 2024 and has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by TTV Capital, including the Column banking partnership.

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