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Capital on the line

We are building the index for industrial automation.

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Approach

Others write loans. We underwrite the deployment of physical AI.

The gap between a signed order and a running line has never been priced. No instrument reaches it. The integrator pays for terms because terms win deals they would otherwise lose. That is the yield.

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Data

The dataset the category never had.

Six schema, held on every counterparty and every project - the records the category never kept.

Deployment capability

who can build and fix what.

Contract

the terms actually signed.

Quote line items

what each line really costs.

Assets

every machine, valued weekly.

Financial

their accounts, ten years back.

Telemetry

coming soon.

Assets

1,500

Sources tracked

5,000

OEMs

80+

Types of robot

50+

Others just fund the machine because it's the only value they can see. The rest of the deployment is engineering, software, integration and commissioning. We back all of it.

Technology

The engine physical AI never had.

  1. 01

    Pagliacci

    Reads the project. Their components, their system, their line and floor, their objectives - technically, commercially, contractually and temporally.

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  2. 02

    Maestro

    Prices the full frontier, simulating tailored deal structures for every deployment.

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  3. 03

    Opera

    Shapes the one that gets signed.

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Origination

Priced before it is ever a deal.

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Cenotian residual value and liquidity index

The first depreciation curve for physical AI.

Residual value as a percentage of new against age in years. The curve falls from 100% at age zero to about 18% at eight years, steeply over the first two years and shallowly after four.

100%

50%

0

4

8 years

Residual, % of new

real transactions, written back weekly

one anonymized OEM family, timestamped to last read

Per OEM and SKU.

Residual percent of new, over age, first derivative tracked weekly. A rolling-over residual moves quarters before new pricing does.

Disambiguated by price.

Rising listings with falling prices signal a glut. With stable prices, a healthy fleet refresh.

Calibrated against money that changed hands.

As deals season, realized recoveries write back into the curve. Transactions, not scrapes.

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Underwriting

Book performance

Our book is marked against the curve. Flow moves ahead of filings.

  1. 01

    Signed orders only.

    Nothing advanced against a forecast.

  2. 02

    Escrowed milestones.

    Money releases against tests set before the start.

  3. 03

    Acceptance in the contract.

    After the test passes, payment is unconditional.

  4. 04

    Bankruptcy-remote vehicle.

    The book stands apart from any counterparty.

  5. 05

    Documented step-in.

    A stalled build gets finished, not recovered.

Sizing

Granular by design.

Tickets start at $100K and graduate to $10M+. Concentration limits by jurisdiction, industry and OEM are written into the mandate.

$100-500K

$500-1M

$1M-10M

$10M+

Support

Institutional support

Arthur Cox
CMS
Waystone
KPMG