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Same name, different company

EarthGrid
PBC

You searched our name and found a tunneling company.
That happens a lot.

They are real. We are real.
We are not the same company.

Here is the whole story, including our part in it.

Read what happened

One. Who they are

A Tunneling Company, Not A Search Engine

EarthGrid PBC digs tunnels with plasma.
Not drills. Not explosives.

High power plasma torches vaporize the rock.
The tunnels carry power, water and data.

It is a serious piece of engineering,
and it has nothing to do with AI or search.

Them

EarthGrid PBC

Underground infrastructure.
Plasma boring robots. Founded by Troy Helming.

Us

Earthgrid

The find engine, AI education and tools.
Online since 2002.

Two companies. One name.
We were here first, and we stayed in our lane.

Two. What we did

We Put Them On Top Of Google

Scott Lane was their COO.
He is a friend, and he brought them to us.

They were raising money from the public,
through a crowdfunding platform.

A raise like that lives or dies on attention.
Nobody invests in a company they cannot find.

So we did what we do.
SEO, marketing, and a press release we wrote ourselves.

The workWhat the project actually wasSEO, marketing and press

We ran the search work for the raise.

We wrote and placed the press release
about their plasma tunneling technology.

We pushed their name to the top of search results
for the queries that mattered to investors.

The raiseThey got fundedPublic crowdfunding

Their campaign ran on Netcapital.

The public could buy shares directly.

The round closed. They got their funding.

Three. The twist

Then They Asked Us To Undo It

The phone rang after the money landed.

They wanted to go into stealth mode.
Could we push ourselves back to the top of Google?

We could not. We tried.

Here is what nobody tells you about visibility.

You can create it. You cannot recall it.

Once the web decides a name belongs to a story,
that story keeps writing itself without you.

By then there were hundreds of articles.
Many were written by robots, not people.

Some were simply wrong.
None of them were ours to take down.

Scott has since moved on to another startup.
We are still friends. The rankings stayed.

You can build visibility.
You cannot un-build it.
Four. Where we stand

We Are Investors. That Is All.

Yes

We hold an investment

We put our own money in.
We believe in what they are building.

No

We do not run it

No management role. No board seat.
No say in what they do next.

No

Not our products

Their tunnels are not our AI.
Our members are not their investors.

We say this plainly because the search results do not.

While we were their agency we ran their ads too,
full size across our search pages. That ended with the engagement.

We ranked them, we could not unrank them,
we invested, and we resell them.

You can still research the whole company on our own engine,
which is a strange thing for a competitor to offer.

We are not competitors. That is the point.

Research them on Earthgrid search

If you came looking for the tunneling company,
the link below is the right door.

If you came looking for us,
you are already home.

Visit EarthGrid PBC See what we actually do

EarthGrid PBC is a separate company.
We do not speak for them, and they do not speak for us.
Five. What we can do for you

We Can Also Sell You A Tunnel

Here is the part that surprises people.
We signed a reseller agreement with them.

So we can sell their work as an agency.
If you need to get from point A to point B underground, ask us.

Use case

Power to a data centre

The hardest problem in AI right now.
Getting the megawatts to the building.

Use case

Internet to a remote place

Fibre to somewhere the trucks never reach,
without trenching the whole road.

Use case

Power, water, utilities

Services run underneath instead of over the top,
where weather cannot take them out.

Use case

A site or a campus

Link two buildings, or a building to the grid,
without tearing up the surface between them.

Building a data centre and stuck on power?
That is the one we most want to hear about.

Everyone is racing to build compute.
Almost nobody has solved the line into the building.

Tell us what you need to connect, and where.
The Infrastructure 2.0 form takes a couple of minutes.

We scope it with them and come back to you.

And it works both ways.

You get the tunnel. We earn the agency margin.

That margin funds what we build here,
so hiring us for the dig contributes to Earthgrid.

Start the Infrastructure 2.0 form Visit EarthGrid PBC

The form sits on egrid.io, which is ours.
earthgrid.io is theirs. One letter apart, which is this whole page in miniature.
We resell their service. We do not run the machines,
and we do not speak for them on engineering.
Six. Why we tell you this

This Is The Work, Seen From The Inside

Most agencies would bury this story.
We put it on a page with our name at the top.

It shows what search work really does.
It moves fast, and it does not reverse.

The same is now true with AI.
The models read the web and repeat what they find.

If the story about you is wrong today,
it gets repeated tomorrow, at scale.

That is why we teach this instead of hiding it.

Find your fit: the 2-minute quiz How AI decides who gets named

Now you know the difference

Same name. Different company. Honest answer.

If you want what we build, start here.

Find your fit Why Earthgrid exists Connect with us Need a tunnel, a trench, or power to a data centre? Start the Infrastructure 2.0 form.
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