About us

We’re longtime friends, builders, and outdoor lovers who set out to rethink how people sleep and travel on the road.

What began as a personal frustration became a clear mission:
🛠️ Design a foldable, lightweight platform that makes rooftop camping simple, fast, and flexible.

After months of sketching, testing, and refining, we’ve built a fully functional model — and we’re now getting ready to launch.

Whether you travel on weekends or live full-time on the road, we believe freedom should never feel complicated.
Plat4tent is our way of making that freedom real.

🚐 How it all began

I was driving the scenic road between Inverness and Edinburgh when a sudden crosswind ripped my rooftop tent right off the car.

I couldn’t save it — it was too damaged.
That tent had been with me for over 15 years, faithfully serving me through countless trips and adventures. Losing it felt like losing a companion.

For the rest of the journey, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Every car I passed seemed to be carrying a rooftop tent, like a quiet reminder of what I’d lost.

🌪️ Maybe it was a blessing in disguise

At first, I considered buying a new one. But little by little, something shifted.

I started reflecting on the downsides of my old setup:

🚫 Parking nightmares in cities with low ceilings
🚫 Awkward weight and wind resistance
🚫 The fuel I’d been wasting for years
🚫 The constant drag on flexibility and speed

Without the tent, my car felt agile again — light, fast, and free.
That’s when the idea sparked:
What if I could keep the freedom of rooftop camping — without the burden?

💡 A new kind of platform

What I envisioned was simple:

A lightweight, foldable platform — something you could throw in the trunk and forget until you needed it.
A system that transforms any car into a capable, comfortable camper without turning it into a tank.

I picked up the phone and called my two longtime travel buddies, David and Arnaud.
We’ve shared dozens of trips together, and I knew they’d get it.

When I told them about the concept — a compact platform that works with any pop-up tent — they were instantly on board.

That’s when the Plat4tent adventure began.

✏️ From sketches to testing

We started drawing. Prototyping. Debating every detail.

-Can it be stored easily?
-Can two people carry it?
-Can it be set up in under 5 minutes, with no tools?
-Will it support two people and all their gear?

Every decision was grounded in real travel experience

and the frustrations that only seasoned campers truly understand.

🌍 Plat4tent isn’t just a product — it’s a mindset

What began as a personal workaround turned into a mission:
To design a smarter, lighter, more flexible way to travel, sleep, and roam freely.

We didn’t reinvent the tent.
We reimagined the way we move through the world.

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Meet The Team

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Arnaud W. Besnard

— From Product to Purpose

🌍 Nature as a Playground
From alpine peaks to open seas, I’ve always felt most alive surrounded by raw, untamed landscapes.

⛷️ Skiing brings me adrenaline, clarity, and a deep sense of freedom — from high-speed descents to the stillness found above the tree line.
⛵ Sailing teaches patience, anticipation, and how to move in rhythm with the elements. To glide forward, silently, powered by the wind — it's freedom in its purest form.

🚀 Turning ideas into impact
At Plat4tent, I’m in charge of transforming a concept into a real-world product — and that product into a business.
My goal? Make the freedom of travel easier, smarter, and more accessible to those who crave it.

🗺️ Unforgettable moments in the wild
🐋 Swimming with whales in Bora Bora — just meters from a mother and her calf. Suspended in the blue, I felt the deep calm of giants.
🏕️ Camping in the Canadian Rockies — after an 8-hour hike, we reached an alpine lake and slept alone under the stars. Crisp air, total silence, and food hanging in trees to keep the bears at bay.

These are the moments that shape us — and the reason Plat4tent exists. ✨

Pierre J. Diet

— The Creative Behind Vision

🌄 Adventurer at heart. Creative by instinct.
I grew up between East Africa and Europe, shaped by wild landscapes and off-the-grid experiences.

🐒 In Kenya, I had a gazelle and a monkey as childhood companions — that connection with nature never left me.
🛻 My father passed on his love for travel early: in 1975, we were already crossing Africa with a rooftop tent — long before it became a trend.

⛰️ A life in motion
As a passionate paraglider and paramotor pilot, I’m always chasing altitude — and perspective.
Each year, I take my two kids deep into the mountains for wild camping adventures.
Those escapes aren’t a luxury. They’re how I stay grounded, focused, and connected to what truly matters.

💡 Creativity that breathes
At Plat4tent, I shape ideas, stories, and design into something that moves.
I believe good design is honest, useful, and rooted in real-life experience — a blend of strategy and intuition.

🎯 Between high-altitude bivouacs and product brainstorms, I’ve found my rhythm — a lifestyle where creativity isn’t just an output, but a way of moving through the world.

David Zussy

— The Engineer Who Flies

🛠️ Built to fly. Wired to create.
I’ve spent more time in the air than most people spend behind a desk.
Paramotor, paraglider, wingsuit, RC helicopters, drone racing, skydiving — I’ve flown them all.
From alpine ridges to quiet sunrises above the fields, my compass has always pointed upward.
Flight isn’t just my passion — it’s how I understand the world. 🪂

🧠 Engineering from instinct
I don’t just fly machines — I build them. Modify them. Perfect them.
From a homemade CNC laser cutter to 3D-printed parts, custom electronics and embedded code — I build what I can’t find.
If I can think it, I can make it. And if I break it — I’ll improve it. 🔧

💡 I learned by doing, testing, failing, tweaking — until things work. Not just on paper, but out in the field, under real-world pressure.

⚙️ At Plat4tent, I keep things real
When we design, I ask the tough questions:
🛻 Will this hold up to 1000 km of bad roads?
🌬️ Can you set it up in the dark, cold, or wind?
🎒 Will it fit in the trunk with two helmets and a paramotor?
My role is to ensure every solution is practical, reliable, and satisfying to use. ✅

🏕️ Freedom is the standard
I don’t romanticize adventure. I believe in gear that works, freedom that feels earned, and products that make sense — even when conditions don’t.
Plat4tent wasn’t born in a boardroom.
It was born between the sky and the road — where I feel most at home. 🛫

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