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Private companyNorth Dakota LLCFounder-led · bootstrappedRaising a $100,000 pre-seed round

One workspace. Any AI. Your data.

Prism Labs builds the multiplayer AI workspace for teams and their agents, and the engine that turns any field's data into answers that show their sources. Each product keeps a different kind of work inside the organisation that owns it.

Prism Desktop is the workspace where people and AI agents from any vendor work in the same room. The engine turns a field's raw records into answers with receipts, in seven steps. Prism Microclimate maps 961,439 field boundaries across North Dakota and is open to anyone in the browser. Prism Map Studio is a map workspace in the browser that keeps a visitor's files on their own computer. The programme-intelligence product tracks 51 real startup teams after their programme ended. Patent Intelligence is being rebuilt on a new patent database. Prism Water Risk, flood and water risk for insurers, lenders and counties, is in development. Prism X is the hardware division: the Prism Rover concept; Prism Sim, a simulator anyone can drive in the browser; and the Crop Lab, where a leaf, an apple or a corn blade is shaped in 3D, given a condition and turned into labelled images.

Together, they let any AI work on an organisation's data without the data ever leaving.

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Key metrics | 28 September 2026

Products live: 4open to anyone, plus Prism Desktop in early access
Active pilots: 151 startup teams tracked for an I-Corps programme
Release velocity: 22Prism Desktop releases in September
Coverage: 961,439North Dakota field boundaries
Unit cost: ~$34of AI per team, per full research run
Funding: Bootstrappedraising a $100,000 pre-seed round

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Product readiness | 28 September 2026

For each product: who it is for, where it stands, the next milestone and how it is meant to earn. Revenue lines are the plan; Prism Labs is bootstrapped and pre-seed.

Product	Who it is for	Stage today	Next milestone	Path to revenue
Prism Desktop	Teams already running AI agents	Linux, early access; 22 releases in September	Google and Microsoft verification; Windows and macOS	Workspace seats
Prism Microclimate	North Dakota growers and their advisers, lenders, insurers	Working product, open to anyone; not yet field-validated	Accuracy against the 2026 season; grower alerts; spring 2027 pilots	Per-farm subscription, per-adviser licence
Prism Map Studio	Agronomists, lenders, insurers, agencies	Live, open to anyone since 27 Sep 2026	Pilots with analysts on their own layers	To be set with pilots
Prism X	Row-crop and orchard operations	Rover concept; Prism Sim and the Crop Lab public; labelled training frames with six weed species	Labelled image sets; a first detection model; a first Rover in a pilot field	To be set with pilots
Programme intelligence	Universities, accelerators, funders	Free pilot: 51 teams, one I-Corps programme	The first paid contract	Build fee, then subscription
Patent Intelligence	Tech-transfer offices, inventors	Being rebuilt on a new patent database	The rebuilt search	Subscription
Prism Water Risk	Insurers, lenders, counties	In development	First pilots	To be set with pilots

Latest Update | October 2026

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Latest Events

OpenLive walkthrough of Prism Desktop and a pipelineBook a slot
None scheduledNo conferences or calls are scheduled.Investor updates go out by email once a month.
Jul 22, 2026Past: the Prism Labs story at Startup BrewFrom ocean drones to one engine for any field, with the region's startup community.See it

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Investor News

Company events, on the day they happened.

Sep 29, 2026
Prism Desktop opens on more Linux computersVersion 0.5.53 runs on Ubuntu 22.04 and newer, Debian 12 and newer and Fedora, checked on each before release, and finds the agent programs people install from a terminal.Read More
Sep 28, 2026
Prism X adds the Crop Lab, and Prism Sim looks closer to the real fieldThe Crop Lab, on the Prism X page, lets anyone bend, stretch and give a disease to a leaf, an apple or a corn blade in 3D, and make labelled images from it. Prism Sim's fields and orchards now look closer to real ones, and the rover shows its rear camera when it reverses.Read More
Sep 27, 2026
Prism Map Studio opens at studio.prismlabs.solutionsA map workspace that runs in the browser, with nothing to install and no account. Files a visitor adds stay on their own computer, and North Dakota's field boundaries from Prism Microclimate are a ready layer.Read More
Sep 27, 2026
Prism Labs opens requests for pilotsFree pilots of eight to twelve weeks across the products, on the customer's own machines, each ending with a written account of what worked and what did not.Read More
Sep 26, 2026
Prism Labs announces Prism X, its hardware division, and opens this investor sitePrism X brings robots, sensors and edge computers into the Prism workspace. Its first machine is Prism Rover, a small field robot for row crops and permanent crops, designed and driven in Prism Sim, the company's own simulator, which is public and runs in the browser.Read More
Sep 26, 2026
Prism Microclimate moves to its own addressThe North Dakota product now answers at microclimate.prismlabs.solutions, open to anyone in the browser.Read More
Sep 26, 2026
Prism Desktop adds a calendarDay, week, month and agenda views beside the mail client, in version 0.5.51.Read More
Sep 24, 2026
Prism Desktop adds Gmail sign-inVersion 0.5.45 is the first with Gmail sign-in; a three-pane mail client with automatic sync followed the next day.Read More
Sep 21, 2026
prismlabs.solutions launches with the full product lineThe workspace, the engine and the products built on it, with pages for eighteen industries, a security overview and the waitlist that gates early access.Read More
Aug 27, 2026
CleanSentinels is integrated into Prism LabsThe founder's environmental-intelligence platform, launched in Fargo in 2025 and a finalist in Innovate ND for Spring 2026, is folded into Prism Labs. Its work on reading satellite, drone and ground imagery for environmental change ultimately becomes Prism X.Read More
Aug 04, 2026
Prism Desktop ships its first public buildsThe workspace's first public builds for Linux, as a Debian package and an AppImage with signed automatic updates.Read More
Jul 2026
Prism Labs joins NVIDIA InceptionNVIDIA's programme for startups. Prism Sim is built with NVIDIA GPUs.Read More

Only company events appear here: products announced or shipped, customers, funding, people. Version-by-version release notes are on the blog; the steps before, from NDSU in March 2025, are in the company journey.

Monthly Updates

What shipped, the KPIs, the asks and what is next, once a month: each update is named for the month it goes out and covers the month before. Written by the founder. Get them by email.

October 2026 update · covers September

The product line goes public.

KPIs · September

Prism Desktop releases	22 (0.5.30 → 0.5.53)
Products open to anyone	4: Microclimate, Map Studio, Prism Sim, Crop Lab
Active pilots	1: 51 startup teams tracked for an I-Corps programme
North Dakota coverage	961,439 field boundaries
AI unit cost, programme pipeline	About $34 per team, per full research run
Narrated product films	42
Funding	Bootstrapped; raising a $100,000 pre-seed round

Asks

Introductions to university programme offices, accelerators and tech-transfer offices.
North Dakota growers, agronomists, lenders and insurers for Microclimate and Water Risk pilots.
Anyone who has taken an app through Google's OAuth verification.

Highlights

prismlabs.solutions launched with the full product line (21 Sep).
Prism Desktop: Gmail sign-in (0.5.45, 24 Sep), a three-pane mail client (0.5.47 to 0.5.49) and a calendar (0.5.51, 26 Sep).
Prism X announced: Prism Rover, Prism Sim and, on 28 Sep, the Crop Lab.
Prism Microclimate moved to its own address; Prism Map Studio opened (27 Sep).
Pilots opened for every product (27 Sep).
42 narrated films on the new media page; the company journey; @prismlabs_ on X.

Lowlights

Google and Microsoft app verification is still to come, so mail sign-in is not yet open to everyone.
Prism Desktop runs on Linux only; Windows and macOS builds are in development.
The first paid contract is still ahead: the programme pipeline remains a free pilot.

Next month

Turn the free pilot into the first paid contract.
Google app verification for Gmail sign-in.
Keep building Prism Water Risk toward its first pilots.
Close the $100,000 pre-seed round.

Team

Aditya Goyal, founder, who this month built and shipped the website, the films and these investor materials.

Events & Presentations

Seven slides, one message each; films of each product; and where Prism Labs has been. The full nineteen-slide deck and a live walkthrough of the app are available on request.

01 · The product

One workspace for people and AI agents. One engine for any field's data.

The workspace is how products reach people. The engine is how new products get made. Every product brings more people into the workspace. On the engine today: Prism Microclimate and Prism Map Studio, open to anyone; a programme pipeline, running as a free pilot; Patent Intelligence, being rebuilt on a new patent database; and Prism Water Risk, in development. Beside them, Prism X: Prism Sim and the Crop Lab, public in the browser.

02 · The products

Everything on the engine, and a hardware division.

Four are open to anyone today: Prism Microclimate, Prism Map Studio, Prism Sim and the Crop Lab. Prism Desktop is in early access by waitlist. Beside them: the programme pipeline, a free pilot; Patent Intelligence, being rebuilt on a new patent database; and Prism Water Risk, in development. Films of each.

Prism Desktop: a channel where people and AI agents work together — **Prism Desktop**People and agents in one room

Prism Microclimate: North Dakota county by county — **Prism Microclimate**961,439 North Dakota fields

Prism Map Studio open in a browser — **Prism Map Studio**A map workspace in the browser

The Prism Rover concept, rendered — **Prism X · Rover**Scouts every row, under the canopy

Prism Sim: an orchard seen from above — **Prism Sim**Drive it in the browser

Crop Lab: a rendered apple with bitter rot — **Crop Lab**Give a plant a disease, in 3D

03 · The problem

AI can do the work. Organisations still cannot hand it over.

Take a plain question a programme office asks every week: which teams should we call? The answer exists. Getting to it breaks in three places.

The work is scattered.Five tools, five logins, no memory shared between the people and the agents.
The data cannot leave.The records that matter most are the ones nobody may upload to a vendor.
The answer cannot be defended.Without a route back to the source, nobody puts their name under it, so nobody acts.

04 · Proof

Run for real, in unrelated fields.

The same seven steps in each. How each pipeline works stays private: that is the product. All of it built bootstrapped.

51startup teams tracked for an I-Corps programmeUniversity programmes · free pilot, private pipeline

961kfield boundaries across North DakotaPrism Microclimate · our own product

9.8MUS patent documents, 1976 to 2026Patent Intelligence · being rebuilt on a new patent database

05 · Business model

Land with a pipeline. Stay as the workspace.

Each pipeline leaves behind parts the next one reuses. Individuals are how Prism spreads; organisations are how it will earn. This is the plan, from a bootstrapped start.

1 · LandBuild feeA paid custom pipeline solves one organisation's data problem.
2 · ProductiseSubscriptionThe pipeline becomes a product for every organisation like it.
3 · ExpandWorkspace seatsThe product lives in Prism Desktop, so seats spread across the organisation.

06 · Go to market

Start where people already use it.

Four products are open to anyone today, one I-Corps programme uses a free pilot, and Prism Desktop is in early access. Bootstrapped so far, the plan is to turn what people already use into the first paid contracts.

Today · free

Prism MicroclimateEvery North Dakota field, open to anyone.

Map Studio · Prism Sim · Crop LabOpen to anyone in the browser.

Programme intelligenceA free pilot with one I-Corps programme.

Next · first revenue

The pilot, paidThe programme pipeline's first paid contract.

Agriculture and riskMicroclimate with field sensors, and Prism Water Risk, for growers, lenders and insurers.

PatentsPatent Intelligence, being rebuilt, for tech-transfer offices and inventors.

Later

Prism X hardwareRobots and sensors that report into the same room. Prism Sim and the Crop Lab are public today.

Workspace seatsPrism Desktop spreading through the teams that use the products.

07 · The round

Raising $100,000 for nine months.

Bootstrapped to date. This pre-seed round turns a working free pilot into the first paid contract, and earns the seed round.

The round at a glance
Raising	$100,000
Runway	9 months
Funding to date	Bootstrapped
Milestone 1	The first paying customer
Milestone 2	The desktop app in public hands, with Gmail and Outlook sign-in
Milestone 3	Ready for a seed round
Largest line	51% people

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Watch

Short narrated films of each product; all forty-two are on the media page. Screens from Prism Desktop are the real app with staged data; field scenes are rendered in Prism Sim.

Prism Labs · 0:37

Prism in half a minute

Prism Desktop · 0:28

One room for your team and its AI

Prism Microclimate · 0:30

Weather for your field, not the nearest town

Prism X · 0:30

Scout every row

Events

UpcomingNone scheduledAsk for a live walkthrough of Prism Desktop and a pipeline instead; it takes thirty minutes.

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Past events and programmes

Jul 22, 2026The Prism Labs story at Startup BrewFrom ocean drones to one engine for any field, with the region's startup community.
Jul 2026NVIDIA InceptionPrism Labs joined NVIDIA's programme for startups.
May 2026gener8tor North Dakota finalistCleanSentinels, mid-transition into Prism Labs.
Apr 2026Harvard Business School FoundryNominated by the NDSU Research Foundation; the bootcamp that turned the work into one engine for any field.
Spring 2026Innovate ND finalistCleanSentinels.
Fall – Dec 2025gBETA FargoWith EcoGrow.
Fall 2025NSF I-Corps, Great Plains regionalWeSentinels went in and came out as CleanSentinels.
Jun 2025ILT AcademyOceanSentinel became WeSentinels.
May 2025gener8tor North Dakota finalistEcoGrow.
Mar 2025NDSU Possibility FellowshipWhere it began, as OceanSentinel.

The whole journey

On stage

Full deck

Nineteen slides, sent by the founder: the workspace, custody, the engine, the pipelines built on it and the journey that led here.

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Financials

A bottom-up plan for nine months: the founder, a part-time contract engineer, and the legal and compliance work needed to sell. Figures are the plan, rounded to the hundred. Prism Labs is bootstrapped: founder-funded to date, with its products free to use and its programme pipeline in a free pilot.

The round

Raising	$100,000	Runway	9 months
Funding to date	Bootstrapped	Stage	Pre-seed
Planned burn	About $11,100 a month	Active pilots	1 (51 teams tracked)
Milestone 1	The first paying customer	Milestone 2	The desktop app in public hands, with Gmail and Outlook sign-in
Milestone 3	Ready for a seed round	Largest line	51% people

Use of proceeds

Planned spend by month US dollars

$100,000

51%PeopleThe founder and a part-time contract engineer for packaging, releases and onboarding the first paying customer.
24%Legal and complianceCompany setup, customer contracts and IP assignment; Google and Microsoft app verification; code signing and developer accounts.
12%InfrastructureAn off-site backup and a standby machine, and AI usage for pilot and customer pipelines.
7%Going to marketTravel and pilots with the next universities.
6%OperationsSoftware, accounting and insurance, and a small buffer.

Unit cost, recorded

About $34 of AI usage per startup team for a full research run of the programme pipeline: $1,724.82 across 51 teams, priced at API rates.

Assumed

Salaries, quotes and pace. The founder's stipend, the contract engineer's rate and the legal quotes are estimates to be replaced by the founder before any close. Ask for the working budget.

Milestones, in order

TodayBuilt and running
The desktop app, Prism Microclimate, Prism Map Studio, Prism Sim and the Crop Lab, a programme pipeline running as a free pilot, and the servers they run on. All bootstrapped.
Milestone 1The first paying customer
The programme-intelligence product, today a free pilot tracking 51 teams for one I-Corps programme, on a signed, paid contract.
Milestone 2The desktop app in public hands
Released with Gmail and Outlook sign-in, verified by Google and Microsoft. Gmail sign-in shipped in September 2026; the verification by Google and Microsoft is still to come.
Milestone 3Ready for a seed round
Company, contracts and IP in order, with first revenue to show.

Resources

Documents, and the questions investors ask.

Investor presentationSeven slides on this site.View
Full deck, nineteen slidesSent by the founder.Request
One-page summarySent by the founder.Request
Working budgetThe bottom-up plan behind the use of funds.Request
Release notesWhat changed in each Prism Desktop release, with its ship date.Blog
Security overviewWhat leaves the computer, and what never does.Security
Prism XThe hardware division: Prism Rover, Prism Sim and the Crop Lab, live in the browser.Prism X
MediaForty-two narrated films: what Prism does for people, every feature, industries and comparisons; stills and a press kit.Watch
Company journeyFrom NDSU in March 2025 to today, and what each step left behind.Read
Prism MicroclimateEvery field in North Dakota on one map, open to anyone.View
Prism Map StudioA map workspace in the browser, open to anyone.View
Founder's op-eds at Human Progress"From Blind Spots to Bright Spots" (May 2026) and "From Waste to Wealth" (November 2025).Read

Investor FAQs

What does Prism Labs sell?

Three things, to the same customer in order: a paid custom pipeline that solves one organisation's data problem; a subscription once that pipeline becomes a product for every organisation like it; and workspace seats, because the product lives in Prism Desktop and seats spread across the organisation.

Who will pay first?

The first paid contract is planned with the I-Corps programme that already uses the free pilot, which tracks 51 real startup teams; that is the round's first milestone. Until then Prism Labs is bootstrapped. Next come programmes like it, and growers, lenders and insurers through Prism Microclimate and Prism Water Risk.

Where does the data go?

Records and keys stay inside the organisation, on its own machines. Only the prompt goes to the AI provider the organisation chose, under its own account. Prism never holds that login.

What is built, and what is planned?

Built: Prism Desktop on Linux, with early access for people invited from the waitlist; Prism Microclimate and Prism Map Studio, open to anyone in the browser; and a programme pipeline tracking 51 teams as a free pilot. All of it built bootstrapped. Being rebuilt: Patent Intelligence, on a new patent database. In development: Prism Water Risk, Windows and macOS builds, and an Android companion. Prism X, the hardware division, is a concept rover today, with Prism Sim and the Crop Lab public in the browser.

Why are the customer pipelines described as a closed box?

How each customer pipeline gathers and links its records is the product, and it is private to that customer. The seven generic steps are public; the sources and methods behind a customer's pipeline are not.

Who has built this?

The founder, solo so far: the desktop app, the products on its engine and the servers they run on. The first hire in the plan is a part-time contract engineer for packaging, releases and onboarding the second customer.

What is the raise, and what does it buy?

$100,000 for nine months. It buys the first paying customer, the desktop app in public hands with Gmail and Outlook sign-in, and a company with its contracts and IP in order, ready for a seed round. The plan is under Financials.

Is there a board or outside investors today?

Not recorded on this site. Prism Labs is a founder-led North Dakota LLC; ask the founder for the current cap table.

How do I get the deck or a demo?

Write to [email protected]. Every message reaches the founder, who sends the deck and books a thirty-minute walkthrough.