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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

1 Who they are A plasma tunneling company. 2 What we did Their crowdfunding marketing. 3 Later They asked for less attention. 4 Where we stand An investment, not ownership. 5 Need a tunnel? Power to a data centre, too.
One. Who they are

A Tunneling Company, Not A Search Engine

Their raiseTheir raise Search workSearch work Press releasePress release Round closedRound closed Their campaign The public
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 workWhat 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 raiseTheir fundingPublic crowdfunding

Their campaign ran on Netcapital.

The public could buy shares directly.

The round closed.

Our press release The plasma tunneling story we wrote and placed. Their raise on Netcapital The public record of the crowdfunding campaign.
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.

Find your fit: the 2-minute quiz How AI uses what it reads

Now you know the difference

Same name. Different company.

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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