Same name, different company
EarthGrid PBC
Our name is shared with a tunneling company.
They are real. We are real. We are not the same company.
Here is how the two companies relate, including our part.
Read what happened
One. Who they are
A Tunneling Company, Not A Search Engine
Our part in their raise. Click a step.
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 an engineering company, 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.
Two companies. One name. Each runs its own business.
Two. What we did
Our Part In Their Raise
Their former COO is a friend of ours. He brought them to us.
They were raising money from the public, through a crowdfunding platform.
A raise like that needs people to find it. So we did what we do.
We did search work, marketing, and a press release we wrote ourselves.
The work What the project wasSEO, marketing and press
We ran the search work for the raise.
We wrote and placed the press release about their plasma tunneling technology.
The raise Their fundingPublic crowdfunding
Their campaign ran on Netcapital.
The public could buy shares directly.
The round closed.
Three. The twist
Later They Asked For Less Attention
After the raise, they wanted to go into stealth mode. They asked if we could undo our work.
We could not. We tried.
What is published on the web is hard to take back.
You can publish it. You cannot recall it.
Once a story is out, others write about it too.
Articles followed. Some were written by software, not people.
Some were simply wrong. None of them were ours to take down.
Their former COO has since moved to another startup. We are still friends.
What you publish is hard to un-publish. Publish with care.
Four. Where we stand
We Hold An Investment. Nothing More.
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 shareholders.
We say this plainly so the two are not confused.
While we were their agency, we ran their ads on our search pages. That ended with the engagement.
You can research their company on our search engine.
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 Arrange A Tunnel
We signed a reseller agreement with them. So we can arrange their work as an agency.
If you need to run a line underground, ask us.
Use case
Power to a data centre
Compute needs megawatts at the building. A tunnel can carry the line in.
Use case
Internet to a remote place
Fibre to a place trucks rarely reach, without trenching the whole road.
Use case
Power, water, utilities
Services run underneath instead of overhead.
Use case
A site or a campus
Link two buildings, or a building to the grid, without tearing up the surface between them.
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.
How we are paid.
You get the tunnel. We earn an agency margin.
That margin helps fund what we build here.
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.
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
Why We Publish This Page
We put this on a page with our name at the top. Readers should know who is who.
What is published on the web tends to stay. It is hard to take back.
AI models read the web and repeat what they find. If something about you is wrong, it can be repeated.
That is why we explain it openly.
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