Terra Labs · Biogeochemical Control Systems

The operating
system for
closed ecosystems.

One inference engine for every closed loop. We measure, model, and stabilize the mass and energy budget of a living system in real time, from a recirculating fish farm to a field of contaminated soil to a life-support core off-world.

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01 — The Platform

A single engine that closes the budget.

Living systems are noisy, partly observed, and never at steady state. Terra holds a probability distribution over a system's true state, closes its mass and energy budget continuously, and forecasts where it is heading, with calibrated uncertainty. It runs on the edge, next to the loop, with no cloud required.

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State Estimation

A live posterior over the true state of a partly-observed loop, not a wall of raw gauges.

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Budget Closure

Mass and energy tracked to zero. When the budget stops closing, that is the first sign of failure.

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Edge Inference

Sensing, inference, and control on-device. The system decides and acts even fully offline.

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Calibrated Forecast

Every estimate ships with how far ahead, and how much to trust it.

Terra // Control Edge node · live

RAS Loop · Grow-out T04

Tracking
Diss. O₂
7.9mg/L
CO₂
9.1mg/L
NH₃–N ▲
0.41mg/L
NO₂–N
0.12mg/L
pH
7.34
Temp
14.8°C
Nitrogen Budget · 24h Forecast Δ budget +0.06 mg·L⁻¹·h⁻¹
CONTROL LIMIT DIVERGENCE · +3.5H
02 — Hardware

Cheap, open sensor kits.

We are a software company. The hardware is built at cost with open instrumentation partners, ships with full raw-stream access, and never locks your data. One node form factor, tuned per domain. Bring your own sensors and the engine rides on those instead.

TLK-AQUA

Aqua

Recirculating aquaculture and aquaponics. Watches the nitrogen loop where a failure kills stock in hours.
ChannelsNH₃ · NO₂ · NO₃ · DO · pH · ORP · Temp · Flow
LoopRAS · Aquaponic
DataRaw · Open
from $390 / node
TLK-SOIL

Soil

Agriculture and controlled-environment growing. Tracks the carbon and nitrogen budget of the root zone.
ChannelsMoisture · N · Redox · CO₂ flux · EC · Temp
LoopField · CEA
DataRaw · Open
from $340 / node
TLK-FLOW

Flow

Water, wastewater, and field remediation. Verifies that a living cleanup is actually closing.
ChannelsORP · DO · Turbidity · pH · Metal-proxy · Temp
LoopWetland · Bioreactor
DataRaw · Open
from $420 / node
TLK-CORE

Core

Research and closed-habitat programs. Full gas and liquid suite for budget closure against ground truth.
ChannelsFull gas + liquid · 1,024 logged
LoopHabitat · BLSS
DataRaw · Open
research · partner
◇  Your system. Your data. Our inference. No vendor lock-in, ever.
03 — Applications

One framework. Every closed loop.

The same engine retargets across domains. We start where a loop fails fastest and someone already pays to keep it alive, then climb.

A / 01

Aquaculture

Hold the nitrogen cycle in band and forecast tank loss hours before it happens. The beachhead market.

Revenue now
A / 02

Controlled-Env Agriculture

Close the root-zone carbon and nitrogen budget for indoor and vertical growers fighting on unit economics.

Expansion
A / 03

Soil & Land

Continuous biogeochemical state for working farmland and degraded ground, not a quarterly lab report.

Expansion
A / 04

Water & Wastewater

Live budget closure on bioreactors and treatment loops where drift means a permit breach.

Expansion
A / 05

Bioremediation

Prove a living cleanup is working in the field, with the uncertainty attached. See below.

Field
A / 06

Closed Habitats & BLSS

The hardest version of the problem, and the reason the engine exists. Off-world life support.

Endgame
04 — Remediation

Verify the cleanup, not just the plan.

Living systems that clean ground, watched in real time.

Bioremediation works when microbes and plants metabolize contaminants faster than they spread. The hard part has never been deploying the biology. It is proving, continuously and defensibly, that the system is actually drawing the contaminant down rather than stalling. Terra closes the redox and mass budget of the treatment zone and reports progress with calibrated uncertainty, turning a slow, sampling-driven guess into a live control loop.

  • Redox and electron-donor budgets tracked to closure
  • Contaminant drawdown estimated between lab samples, not just at them
  • Stall and rebound detected early, before a site falls out of compliance
  • Regulator-ready record with uncertainty stated, not hidden
CONTAMINANT DRAWDOWN · MODELLED BETWEEN SAMPLES
05 — Life Support

The same engine,
keeping a crew alive.

A bioregenerative life-support system is a closed loop where atmosphere, plants, water, and microbes regenerate each other. There is no margin and no resupply. It is the most unforgiving version of the exact problem we solve on Earth every day. We harden the framework on a fish farm, in a field, and in a research habitat, then run it where the budget has to stay closed or people do not come home.

06 — Why Now

A control problem the size of every loop.

Closed and semi-closed living systems are scaling across food, water, and land, and every one of them needs the budget held closed. The tooling today is manual checks and threshold alarms. We replace it with inference.

~$5B
Recirculating aquaculture market · 2025
~10%
Annual growth, the entry wedge
Hours
From budget drift to total stock loss
1 engine
From the fish farm to the Moon
Seed round open

Back the layer
under the loop.

We are raising to take the engine from validated systems to a deployable product on open kits, starting in aquaculture. If you build instrumentation, run closed systems, or invest in the infrastructure of living systems, talk to us.