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
Alarivean (est. 2021) was founded by Michael Corridan to answer grave threats to our planet's lakes, rivers and oceans.
Alarivean is paid to hold a condition on a stretch of water, and to keep holding it. How long a water body takes to reach that condition is settled by measurement during the calibration phase, on that water, against parameters written down before it starts.
Our work is narrower than the technology we license. We take a defined stretch of water, agree with you and your regulator in writing 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
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. The numbers it will be held to are written down first and signed twice: once by the client, once by the body granting consent. Neighboring water does not inherit them, and two coastlines that look alike from an airplane can want quite different programs.
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
| 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
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 program can be built on in whatever form it needs — a joint venture among them — 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
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.
Those scientists can halt an active deployment on a suspected breach, which is what makes the access worth having. What oversight has access to is set out alongside the rest of the record.
What the contract binds us to
How the company is arranged
There is no head office a question has to be routed through. Three strands of work, each staffed where its counterparties actually are.
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.
Counterparties, joint ventures and the long conversations that precede a sovereign program. European institutional work runs from here.
Vessel work, and the North American record — the Florida field-trial permit and the research relationships behind it.
Asked in the first meeting
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.
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.
Yes. The site read is built to reach that answer early, 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. It arrives in week one, with the reasoning attached so your own people can check it.
The Gulf and the Red Sea are the leading examples of where this work fits. 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.
Ten minutes, no data pack
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.
