For issuers
Raise from people who can check what you told them
Two conditions, and they are not negotiable. An independent assessment sets your technology readiness level, and it decides what you may sell. Capital is released against milestones certified by somebody with no stake in the release. In exchange you get investors who will fund a first-of-a-kind at a stage where a term sheet would price it as a lottery ticket.
Registration is three steps, and the AI assistant can fill them in from a document you upload. The console then opens on the company you registered, with one project, no score and nothing it may sell, which is where every issuer starts. The invented issuers are still in the switcher if you would rather see a raise already in progress.
What you give up
The score is not yours
This is the trade, stated plainly. Every platform that lets an issuer describe its own maturity produces pages that all sound the same, and an investor cannot tell a validated component from a slide.
You submit evidence. Somebody else scores it.
You file the witnessed test report, the docket entry, the executed supply contract. A reviewer weighs each source, a model proposes a score with a confidence band, and a named engineer with a credential signs the result. The band is published as well as the number, so thin evidence shows up as a wide band rather than a quiet number.
What filing evidence looks likeYou do not get the raise at close.
Committed capital goes to an escrow agent and reaches you one tranche at a time, each against a milestone certified independently. It is slower and it is more work. It is also why an investor will write a check against a reactor that has not been built, because their exposure is bounded by what you have actually demonstrated.
What a release schedule looks likeThe ladder
What each TRL lets you sell
The rule an issuer most wants to argue with, so it is published rather than applied quietly. A fixed obligation on a technology that has never run in its operating environment is the specific failure this exists to prevent.
| Band | Stage | Instrument permitted | Release | Verified by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRL 1–3Tier I | Concept formulated; lab proof of principle | SAFE or Convertible note | 15% | Peer-reviewed publication; DOE award letter |
| TRL 4–5Tier I | Component validated in a relevant environment | Convertible note | 30% | Independent test report; national lab result |
| TRL 6Tier I | Prototype demonstrated in a relevant environment | Preferred equity | 50% | Third-party witness test; NRC pre-application docket |
| TRL 7Tier II | System prototype in an operational environment | Senior note | 70% | NRC construction permit; supplier contracts executed |
| TRL 8Tier II | System complete and qualified; first unit built | Fixed-rate note or Municipal mini-bond | 90% | ITAAC closure; operating license issued |
| TRL 9Tier II | Proven in commercial operation | Revenue share or Fixed-rate note or Municipal mini-bond | 100% | Commercial operation date certificate; metered output |
Rails
Which exemption fits the raise
Each is a different trade between how much you can raise, who is allowed to invest, and what you owe them for years afterwards. The last column is the part issuers underestimate.
Regulation Crowdfunding
- Ceiling
- $5M / 12 mo
- Who can buy
- All investors, subject to individual caps
- Resale
- Restricted 12 months
- Best fit
- Developer and supplier seed rounds
Regulation A+ Tier 2
- Ceiling
- $75M / 12 mo
- Who can buy
- All investors, 10% of income or net worth
- Resale
- Freely tradable
- Best fit
- Flagship project vehicles
Regulation D, Rule 506(c)
Accreditation verified- Ceiling
- Unlimited
- Who can buy
- Verified accredited investors only
- Resale
- Restricted
- Best fit
- Institutional co-investment tranche
Rule 147A intrastate
- Ceiling
- Set by state limits
- Who can buy
- Residents of a single state
- Resale
- Governed by state rules
- Best fit
- Host community tranche
Municipal securities, Section 3(a)(2)
- Ceiling
- Unlimited
- Who can buy
- All investors
- Resale
- Freely tradable
- Best fit
- Public power offtaker
The full comparison covers filing obligations, ongoing reporting and the intrastate residency test.
The console
Four things you do here
Three of them end in somebody else's queue. That is not friction for its own sake; it is the entire reason an investor treats a number on this platform differently from a number on a pitch deck.
Draft an offering
Pick the project, and the published score decides which instruments are on the table. Set the terms, see what each tranche is worth against your own raise, and file it to a reviewer.
Draft oneSubmit TRL evidence
A citation, a date, the passage that carries the claim, and the document itself if you have it. It goes to a reviewer, and the excerpt appears verbatim next to the weight it was given.
File evidenceRequest certification
Say a milestone is met and point the certifier at the artifacts. They sign or they decline; the escrow agent acts on the signature and not on your say-so.
See the schedulePost an update
The one thing here nobody reviews first, and a condition of the exemption under Reg CF and Reg A rather than a courtesy to your cap table.
Write one
What is not built on the issuer side
There is no diligence workflow, no fee schedule and nothing that checks a company is real, and the reviewer who reads what you file is you, in the other console, in the same browser. An offering you get qualified does open in the public catalog, marked as yours and carrying only what you filed. What the console shows is the shape of each request and whose desk it lands on, which is the part that determines whether any of this is worth an investor’s trust.