STEPS
We build deeptech companies and the market intelligence behind them.
Parapet SecurityExternal attack-surface scanning. What an attacker can already see about your company, in a 48-hour report, with no system access↗AtomH2Spain telecom infrastructure. Now incubating↗Selene / HelianCycle-phase supplements matched to your hormonal pattern↗CanaryEnvironmental health testing built into the patient journey, through a licensed-inspector marketplace and paid from an HSA↗InspectAIInspection intelligence↗DoomscrollThe world's news live on a map, pulled from thousands of local outlets instead of one feed (with Andrew Otis)↗
The Boiler RoomNYC Local Law 97 building decarbonization↗Steam Letdown ScreenEvery NYC building with a steam pressure drop worth a turbine, and the ones that are not↗Treatment Plant Screen43,869 wastewater plants across North America and Europe, screened down to the 2,156 where a process retrofit has a business case, and the $75B of capital need behind them↗Wave Resource Screen99 coastlines against three years of wave data, down to the ten places a submerged device actually pays↗Algal Treatment Market ScreenUS and Quebec market screen for algae-based nutrient removal in wastewater. Access required↗PeakShiftHome-battery virtual power plant↗Carbon IntegrityIs carbon removal real? An integrity screen for the whole CDR stack↗
Desk179 hard-tech companies, each with the one thing standing between them and their next contract. Password required↗SpinoutUniversity tech-transfer intelligence↗Bio-AI ToolkitTools for bio research and diligence↗IndenceHealth-economics and outcomes-research decision framework for private-equity diligence. Access code required↗MainferretSBA small-business acquisition intelligence↗
Afghan Press Archive69,624 pages of Afghan books and periodicals, 1871 to the 1930s, machine-read and searchable for the first time. Scans by NYU Libraries↗Hyde BooksThe judicial notebooks of the Supreme Court at Fort William, Calcutta, 1774 to 1798. Roughly 22,400 pages transcribed and searchable (with Andrew Otis)↗Reading the ArchiveThe method behind the archives: turning page scans into searchable text, scored for confidence and honest about what the machine cannot read↗PlotThe history of any house or block. Who built it, who lived there, and the deed chain back to the 1800s↗
The Eel ProjectWhere do eels spawn? Data, physics and simulation↗Ocean CDRMarine carbon removal: alkalinity and equilibration modeling↗SorbentBaseSorbent-performance database↗Rebel ReefWhy a Honduran reef holds 68% coral through lethal heat↗Colorado RiverBasin 2.0, measured: fifty years of Reclamation accounting, storage loss from orbit, and what an acre-foot actually trades for↗Quantum MagnetoreceptionGemini as co-scientist for avian magnetoreception, run on a real quantum computer (Google Gemini Cookbook)↗