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Pleia 40 at a mountain lake at blue hour
PLEIONEPre-seed · November 2026

Water that runs itself.

Autonomous water units for the places that can't staff a treatment plant. Sold by the verified cubic metre.

Pleione Water Inc.Design rendering · Confidential
01  The problemPLEIONE
1 in 4

handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa is out of service at any given time.

The technology works. The upkeep doesn't: no certified operator, spares that take months, no proof the water was safe. So sites truck water in at up to US$55 a cubic metre, or boil it.

Cracked dry earth
Foster et al. 2019 · Polar Knowledge Canada, Cambridge Bay, 201902
02  Why nowPLEIONE

Three shifts make a unit that runs itself buildable and billable.

Operators are hard to keep

First Nations water operators earn ~30% less

Communities struggle to keep them. 39 long-term drinking-water advisories remain in 37 communities.

Rules now demand proof

Water reporting is becoming law

Alberta now requires actual-use reports. Canada's June 2026 bill sets enforceable First Nations standards.

The parts got cheap

Solar, sensors, edge compute, 3D printing

Together they make a self-running unit affordable to build.

Auditor General of Canada 2021 · ISC, Oct 2026 · Alberta Water Amendment Act 2026 · Law360, June 202603
03  The solutionPLEIONE

Meet Pleia 40. Any water in, clean water out.

Pleia 40 design rendering
250,000 L
a day · design target
12 months
between visits · target
2 lines
drinking + non-potable, at once
0 operators
on site
Design rendering. Pleia 40 is in design, not yet built.04
04  How it worksPLEIONE

Proven treatment. A new brain.

Every barrier inside Pleia has decades of regulator acceptance. What's new is Pleia OS, which runs them without a person on site.

Inside Pleia 40: ten sand filter columns on two lines
01 Reads

Fingerprints the source

River, well, brackish, seawater, mine water. Spots storms and salt intrusion.

02 Chooses

Runs only what's needed

Drinking, irrigation or cooling, on pre-validated paths only.

03 Proves

Signs every litre

Unsafe water is held and diverted. Records verify with no network.

04 Plans

Calls its next visit

One number, the Autonomy Horizon, says when a person is needed.

AI assists operation. Deterministic safety limits decide what is safe.05
05  Business modelPLEIONE

We sell the water, not the machine. At a fraction of today's price.

What remote sites pay per m³ today, US$
Cambridge Bay, Nunavutunsubsidized, 2019
55
Nairobi water vendors2026
19–39
Iqaluit, truckedplus call-outs
15
Saba, Caribbeantrucked, after subsidy, 2025
11
Pleia, delivered and verifiedblended target
6
Polar Knowledge Canada · The Star · Eye on the Arctic · Public Entity Saba
$0 upfront

We own the unit. The site pays for water.

$5–10 / m³

Fresh, brackish, seawater. 3,000 m³ monthly minimum.

3–5 years

Contracts, with credits if we miss quality or uptime.

Target pricing, not contracted revenue.06
06  Unit economicsPLEIONE

Each unit earns $219K a year at a 65% gross margin.

At the 100 m³/day minimum. Pleia 40 is designed for 250 m³/day, so every cubic metre above it is upside.

Unit 1 · 2027
$250K

installed. The R&D unit, built to learn.

Fleet · 2028
$90K

installed. Pays back in about 8 months.

At volume · from 2029
$47K

installed. Pays back in about 4 months.

Printed body, shared software, factory-direct solar. Estimates. Detail in appendix A1.07
07  MarketPLEIONE

Wherever water is remote, it's expensive. We go where it costs most.

01 · Remote communities
2.1B

people lack safely managed drinking water. Governments are already paying to fix it: Brazil ~US$160B by 2033, Canada C$9.4B since 2016, Australia A$700M.

02 · Mines and work camps
$7.8B

mining water treatment by 2033, up from $4.8B. Remote camps truck water in or run plants they can't staff, from Australia and Latin America to Africa and Canada.

03 · Everything else
$48B

decentralized water by 2033, up from $19.5B. Industry, agriculture, disaster response and data centres, on the same water-as-a-service model.

Canada alone: 283 off-grid communities and ~200 remote mines, about US$105M a year at minimum volume (our estimate, NRCan).

WHO/UNICEF JMP 2025 · ApexBrasil · ISC · WSAA · Grand View Research · Straits Research. US$ unless noted.08
08  CompetitionPLEIONE

Everyone else sells a machine and leaves the site to staff it.

Incumbents are buying their way into remote water. None of them remove the operator.

Grundfos bought newterra2025
H2O Innovation taken private, C$395M2023
Xylem bought Evoqua, ~US$7.5B2023
Full comparison in appendix A3.09
09  Why we winPLEIONE

The hardware can be copied. The record can't.

Regulatory

Operator of record

We become the licensed operator for each site. The slowest thing for a rival to earn.

Trust

A record funders pay on

Signed at the unit, checkable offline. It turns water into a contract.

Data

Every unit trains the fleet

Each site's hours sharpen the Autonomy Horizon for the next one.

Cost

Printed, not fabricated

About a fifth of unit 1's cost by 2029. Steel-box incumbents are built the other way.

And a discipline no one can fake: Pleia refuses to certify what it cannot measure.

Provisional patent filing planned on the autonomy control and the signed record.10
10  ProgressPLEIONE

Risk retired on founder money. Pilots lining up.

Done
✓Process design independently reviewed
✓Pleia OS verifies offline; tamper and honesty tests passed
✓Pleia 40 drawing set and costed parts list
✓Lambton College NDA signed for testing
✓Saudi GPIW prize, 3 entries · Spring Activator
Pilot talks
GhanaUS NGO in West Africa asked to trial a unit; in contract talks
BrazilQuintessa asked us to pilot in Brazil
QuebecCTEAU water technology centre: pilot testing talks
VietnamVWSA reviewing Pleia for pilot sites
MiningUnearthed: mining camp pilot track
USAWaterStart, Nevada: pilot program review
Status November 2026. Conversations, not contracts, unless stated.11
11  VisionPLEIONE

The operator of record for the water no one else can run.

1 unit
2027
250 units
2031
a grid
units that work as one system
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12  TeamPLEIONE

The disciplines a water unit needs. The round adds the rest.

Founder · CEO

Mohamed Yousuf

Auditable AI in regulated and critical settings. Built Pleia OS.

Process

Hamide Elaribe

Chemical engineer, water and wastewater.

Hardware

Sasa Jefic

Ex-manufacturing manager, Linamar.

Thermal

Mahir A

Municipal HVAC engineer.

Senior advisor

Abdulrahman M

40 years oil and gas electrical and instrumentation.

Hiring · month 3

Head of Engineering

10+ years shipping packaged treatment systems.

Hiring · month 6

Controls & Software Lead

PLC and edge controls, safety-rated systems.

Hiring · month 9

Field Operations Lead

Certified operator; becomes our operator of record.

Pleione Water Inc., federal corporation 1834459-1. Founder-funded, $0 raised to date.13
13  PlanPLEIONE

1 unit in 2027, 250 in 2031. EBITDA positive in 2030.

Revenue, US$
20271 unit
202810 units
202935 units
2030100 units
2031250 units
48¢

of each eligible R&D dollar returns as cash (Alberta grant + SR&ED).

60–75%

of fleet units asset-financed from 2029.

2 rounds

This pre-seed, then a US$8M seed in 2028.

Management estimates, pre-revenue. Full model in appendix A1.14
14  The raisePLEIONE
US$2M

to put the first Pleia 40 on real water, and measure it.

Post-money SAFE · US$10M cap · US$1.5M first close
45%
Engineering
30%
First unit
15%
Pilot
10%
IP, legal
Four gates to seed
Month 3

Patent filed

Autonomy control and the signed water record.

Month 9

Pleia 40 built and tested

Independent lab confirms drinking-water limits.

Month 12

First field pilot

Producing on site, the record open to the client.

Month 18

First measured Autonomy Horizon

Months between visits, on the record.

Months from close. Targets.15
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Every litre proven.

Mohamed Yousuf · Founder & CEO
moe@pleionewater.com
Phone
+1 587 887 5325
Confidential. Pre-revenue; the first unit is not yet built. Figures are management estimates and design targets.
AppendixPLEIONE

The detail.

A1Unit economics and five-year model
A2Engineering: Pleia 40 general arrangement
A3Competitor comparison
A4Pleia OS verification test
A1  Unit economics and modelPLEIONE
Per unit, per yearMinimum volume
Water billed · 100 m³/day36,500 m³
Revenue at US$6/m³$219K
Consumables, energy · $1.00/m³−$37K
Supervision, visit, insurance, logistics−$40K
Gross profit$142K · 65%
YearUnitsRevenueGross profitEBITDAEquityCash, YE
20271$0$0−$1.2M$2.0M$928K
202810$1.2M$784K−$1.4M$8.0M$7.2M
202935$4.9M$3.2M−$869K$0$6.5M
2030100$14.8M$9.6M$2.2M$0$8.7M
2031250$38.3M$24.9M$12.4M$0$20.7M

Installed cost: unit 1 $250K · 2028 $90K · from 2029 $47K; unit 1 sits inside our cost study's first-build range, later costs to be confirmed with quotes and build data. Team grows 8 → 75. Revenue counts units in the field for part of each year. R&D tax credits ≈ 48% of eligible R&D. Asset finance covers 60–75% of fleet units from 2029. Fleet capex 2027–31: $0.25M, $0.81M, $1.18M, $3.06M, $7.05M.

Management estimates.A1
A2  EngineeringPLEIONE
Pleia 40 general arrangement drawing PL40-GA-101

Gravity layout. Water lifted once, then falls through treatment.

~2.5 t lighter. Light frame, printed recycled skin.

Ships in a 40 ft box. Roof rises 650 mm on site.

Serviced from outside. No confined space.

PL40-GA-101 Rev D1. Concept, not for construction.A2
A3  Competitor comparisonPLEIONE
CompanyCustomer pays forOperatorGap Pleia fills
newterra (Grundfos), Ovivo / FilterBoxxBuy or rent a camp plantYesNo operator, no capex
Veolia, Xylem / EvoquaMobile plant rentalYesBuilt for staffed industrial sites
H2O Innovation, BI Pure WaterPlant plus O&M contractYesCommunity must staff it
Desolenator, Elemental Water MakersWater contract, seawater onlyLocalOne source, no proof record
Hach Claros, PaniSoftware subscriptionYesWatches a plant, doesn't run it
Chinese RO containersUS$66–105K unitYesNo autonomy, no verified record
PleioneUS$6/m³ of verified waterNoAny source, no operator, every litre proven
A3
A4  Pleia OS, working todayPLEIONE

It will not certify what it cannot measure.

✓Statement verified with database and network off
✓One digit changed: verification fails, names the file
✓25% coverage returns INCOMPLETE, not a pass
$ pleia-os verify audit-pack/ · db: off · net: off
✓ Manifest · files · hashes · pack hash
✓ Evidence root · statement hash
✓ Ledger chain · 4 entries
✓ Signatures · 4 valid
· Reproduction · coverage 25.1%
RESULT · INCOMPLETE
Demonstrated on simulated site data.A4