Send the water, the season and the cost.
Four things get a useful answer: the water body, what goes wrong in it, the weeks it goes wrong, and what those weeks cost. A written read of that water comes back before anybody discusses money.
Before you write
What a good situation report looks like.
Two paragraphs from someone who knows the water beat a formal brief: the read that comes back is written against how that water stratifies, when it turns, and what already lives in it.
A site read is written toward a subscription held year round to figures you and your consenting authority sign in advance: a licensed service operator working your zone in the quiet months as well as the ugly ones, because a load never allowed to build never has to be broken. Timing matters. Arrive while the water is still behaving and the service is already running when your worst weeks come. Arrive with an event formed and the same capability is assembled at emergency prices — vessels, gas and accredited crew found at short notice, consent chased while a beach sits closed. Assembly runs in weeks. A bloom runs in days.
The form takes no attachments, and there is no address for one before anybody has answered you. Name what you hold in the last box — depth profiles, lab sheets, a season of readings — and send it all to the person who replies.
The situation report
The exchange
What comes back, and who it is written for.
A read settles whether this is the right instrument for that water. The desk it lands on decides what it answers first.
| If you are | What the read contains |
|---|---|
| A ministry or a national program | A staged assessment of that coast: exposed sectors, documented event history, the volumes actually treatable, where a calibration phase would sit, the verification and reporting arrangement, and the counterparty structure a program that size would use. A named program lead in writing before anything is contracted. |
| A port authority or a utility | Which of your duties one treatment stage can carry, and which belong to another trade. The limits for your receiving water and the reporting line to your regulator, settled before anything runs. The zone boundary in writing. And a standing subscription set against what you now spend absorbing the same problem after it arrives. |
| A desalination operator | Your approach water read as a service zone: its event history, what a calibration phase would measure and against which parameters, the gas plan and hull count the zone implies, and the lead time to be in position before October opens. No throughput figure for your intake until somebody has read that water. |
| A resort group or an aquaculture operator | Whether in-water work moves the number you care about, and how far it plausibly falls short. The trigger table to laminate before bloom season. What a subscription commits you to, what the minimum period does, and the two grounds on which you can end it. The closure decision stays with your health authority. |
| An investor or a development financier | The document register, with the issuing body against each item: Florida permit FLOA00062 and the two Florida organizations that documented it independently, the NCCOS validations and whose equipment they tested, the completed NOAA CRADA in our own account, and where the research went afterward: Arizona State University, MEDRC and more. Then the staging discipline, and who holds the second copy of the record. |
| An insurer or a reinsurer carrying the transferred risk | Where the liability sits and which lines we carry in our own name, with certificates, limits and retroactive dates produced at diligence. The measurement and oversight arrangement: which instruments read what, from which date, who keeps the second copy of the record, and who on your insured's side can halt a deployment. Then the exclusions, written before signature: catchment nutrient loading, the public-health closure decision, dissolved metals, PFAS and anything attached to the bed. And the shape of the file a renewal reads a year on — event by event, how long each stayed open, and the party who took each reading named against it. The loss-side argument is AquaProsper's, which is where it belongs. |
The documents behind a program: one public register for every row.
What follows
Four stages, and you hold the gate on each.
- The situation report Ten minutes, no data pack, no commitment.
- The site read What the available evidence says about that water, whether this platform suits it, and where the uncertainty sits. Sometimes the answer is that your problem belongs to a different trade.
- The calibration phase A bounded demonstration area on your own water, with viability parameters agreed in writing beforehand and countersigned by whoever consents the work. A claim becomes a measurement here, and a result that misses is a legitimate outcome.
- The subscription The agreed outcomes for your zone, delivered by a licensed service operator and held year round, gases and augments included, with local scientific oversight on the same live data the crew reads and stop authority written into the agreement. No end date. Two ways out, both yours: performance outside spec, or dissatisfaction of any kind once the minimum period has run. Walking away is the remedy the standing terms carry; service credits, liquidated damages or a bond on performance are negotiable in the service level agreement, drafted against the parameters they would attach to. Bring your counsel to that conversation. Neither the form nor the size of one is fixed before a site read.
First questions
Before you send it
What happens after I send this?
A person who has read water like yours replies. No autoresponder, no sales template.
If this is the wrong instrument for your problem, you are told so in week one.
What if I do not have the data yet?
Send it anyway. Depth profiles and water-quality history help, but the description matters more than the dataset.
A bay that goes bad in August while the hotels complain is a real starting point.
Are we signing up for one bad summer or for something ongoing?
Ongoing, all year, because the loading behind your bad summer keeps arriving in every other month. Two grounds end it, and only two: performance outside the agreed spec, or you, once the minimum period has been served, deciding you are not satisfied, with or without a reason.
Ending it is what the standing terms give you. A remedy that stops short of ending it — credits against the fee, liquidated damages, a bond on performance — is negotiable in the service level agreement and gets drafted against the same parameters. Ask for it during negotiation; no default sits in the standing terms waiting to be found.
The systems are licensed from our parent, Sophia Delta, and are neither sold nor rented. You subscribe to the condition of your water.
Who sees what I send?
The program team who will answer it. No marketing list, CRM sequence or third party. If a site read leads anywhere, the oversight arrangements are set out in writing before anything goes in the water.