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Meet Alarivean, your Aquatic Prosperity service provider.

Alarivean, Inc. is a licensed service operator. We license the treatment systems from our parent, Sophia Delta, and run them in real water under permits granted in our own name, for clients who subscribe to an outcome instead of buying a boat.

What we are

A licensed service operator, running proven systems for an agreed result.

Alarivean (est. 2021) was founded by Michael Corridan to answer grave threats to our planet's lakes, rivers and oceans.

Within weeks of a service subscription, the systems we run begin bringing significant improvements in aquatic prosperity at meaningful scale.

Our work is narrower than the technology we license. We take a defined stretch of water, agree what that water has to be doing, and then run a service that gets it there and keeps it there — vessels, industrial gas, crew, instrumentation, analytics, and somebody independent reading the same numbers we read. It runs year round, year after year, because the loading does. What changes hands is the condition of the water. Not our fleet, or the equipment it runs.

Everything a client can inspect sits on our side of that line. Hulls and the treatment stage bolted to them. Crew and their certification. The gas supply agreement. The environmental permit, applied for by name in the client's own jurisdiction. The insurance, the indemnities and the invoice. Fleet presence in the service zone as agreed.

What sits on the other side is the design of the systems and the names they carry, and those belong to Sophia Delta.

Where a program is written

Characterized first, contracted second.

A service zone is a characterized body of water, not a region on a map. Before a program is written against one, the water is baselined against its own oceanography: what it does through the year, what already lives in it, which months carry the exposure, and what a service there would have to hold.

A zone earns a given duty on that evidence. It does not inherit one because the bay next door has it, and it does not get one because two coastlines look alike from an airplane.

Which is why the characterizations worth most are the ones done on unfamiliar water. A cool-temperate inverse estuary in South Australia shares almost none of the Gulf's physics. Reading water like that is what a site read does.

For the file

The entity, the license and the records.

Basic facts about Alarivean, Inc.
Legal entity Alarivean, Inc.
Established July 2021
Founder and chief executive Michael Corridan
Where the team sits Distributed across several countries and time zones
What a client contracts for A subscription to an ongoing service program, run year round and delivered by a licensed service operator. It is canceled on two grounds: performance outside the agreed spec, or a client who is not satisfied once the minimum subscription period has been served
How a zone is set Each stretch of water is characterized and baselined against its own oceanography before a program is written against it
What we deploy Systems include: SeaBreather, HABslayer, ChemSlayer, ReefHealer, Fluid Nano, NanoponiX and SoilScrubber. Which of these or other systems we deploy depends on each Aquatic Prosperity Program (APP) service scope
Licensed from Sophia Delta, the parent company, which owns most of the systems we use and licenses them against terms it can enforce
Environmental permit on record Florida DEP permit FLOA00062, September 2024, documented independently by the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and START

Each row above names the body that stands behind it, and the documents behind a program sets out what each of these records does establish. Questions about the wider intellectual property go to the licensor during diligence.

The split, from this side of it

Why the systems sit with the parent and the liability sits here.

Prospective clients usually meet this arrangement as a diagram on the parent's site. What it costs and gives the operator is the half that reaches a contract.

When one company owns the invention and also carries the loss, both judgments are made in the same room. Separating them puts the liability with the party that can be sued for it, and that party is this one.

What we give up is control of the underlying design and the right to change it on a whim. What we get is a system that stays available on a coastline even if this company has a bad year, and a structure a sovereign joint venture can be built on, because the license can sit inside the vehicle while the intellectual property stays outside it.

For you, the practical consequence is short. Read the technology arguments on the system sites and Sophia Delta's own account of the structure. Then negotiate with us, because we are the ones who have to be in the water on the day.

Independent oversight

Local scientists read the same live data as the crew.

The institutions that already answer for a water body are engaged from the site read onward, with access to the live feeds our crews steer by and freedom to bring their own instruments and their own data sources. Which institution, and the date its access begins, is named in the program schedule.

The arrangement is written into the program rather than offered at the opening meeting. What oversight has access to is set out alongside the rest of the record.

What the contract binds us to

  • We will not quote you a performance figure for your bay before a site read. Anything specific arrives in writing afterward, with its assumptions attached.
  • We will not be the only party holding the data. That is a condition of the work, not a concession in the negotiation.
  • We will not sell a program into water it does not suit. The site read is where that gets decided, and it costs both of us far less than a subscription nobody should have signed.
  • We will not hold you to a subscription that is not working for you. It ends on two grounds. Performance outside the spec we agreed is one. The other is you, once the minimum period has been served, deciding you are not satisfied — any reason, or none offered.
  • We will not claim to have fixed your catchment. Cutting what leaves the land is land-use policy, it takes twenty years, and it should be started. What a firewall at the runoff hotspots does is stop the loading dynamic spreading outward in the meantime.

How the company is arranged

Staffed in the time zones the programs run in.

There is no head office a question has to be routed through. Three strands of work, each staffed where its counterparties actually are.

Programs

Desalination intakes, ports, aquaculture and the ministries that answer for all three. The Gulf and the Red Sea are the leading examples of that work; Australia, Polynesia, the Americas, Europe and the wider MENA region are in the same conversation. Staffed close enough to a coast to be alongside on the day.

Structuring

Counterparties, joint ventures and the long conversations that precede a sovereign program. European institutional work runs from here.

Engineering and the record

Vessel work, and the North American record — the Florida field-trial permit and the research relationships behind it.

The people who run the programs

Asked in the first meeting

Four questions, answered flatly

Do you own the technology?

No. The systems are the intellectual property of our parent company, Sophia Delta, and Alarivean holds a license to deploy them. Systems include SeaBreather, HABslayer, ChemSlayer, ReefHealer, Fluid Nano, NanoponiX and SoilScrubber. A few core systems carry most of the service capability, and they keep improving as new proprietary capability comes through development.

Everything the deployment involves is ours: the vessels, the crew, the gas contracts, the instruments, the permit, the insurance and the promise about the date.

Which entity would we actually be contracting with?

This one. The permit application goes in under the name Alarivean, Inc., in your regulator's jurisdiction and under that jurisdiction's law, which is the correct place for it.

A tidy group diagram is not a parent guarantee. If you need one, negotiate it, and have your counsel confirm which entity signed.

Will you tell us if this is the wrong instrument for our water?

Yes. The site read is built to reach that answer early rather than to work around it, and it comes back in writing before any commercial conversation starts.

Where the answer is no, you get our read on which trade the problem belongs to instead — a catchment program, a dredging contractor, a plant engineer. That answer arrives in week one rather than from your own review in year two.

Where do you expect to be working?

The Gulf and the Red Sea are the leading examples. They are examples, not a footprint — Australia, Polynesia, the Americas, Europe and the wider MENA region are all live prospects, and nothing in the license confines us to any of them. What settles it is whether a stretch of water can be characterized and then served safely, and whether an agreement worth standing behind can be reached.

The method has been taken through a cool-temperate inverse estuary in South Australia, where no hull works yet, precisely to test it on water that behaves nothing like a warm sea.

Aerial view of a remote arid coastline where sand meets turquoise water

Ten minutes, no data pack

Put a water body in front of us.

Which water, what goes wrong in it, in which weeks, and what those weeks cost you. Back comes a read on that water and the zone it would sit in, with a named program lead — before any commercial conversation starts.