[06 / Invest]
The ask CHF2,839,023est. for the twelve-month program, a planning estimate
- CHF 0.77Mby the end of M3, 2027-01-31
- CHF 1.53Mby the end of M6, 2027-04-30
- CHF 2.14Mby the end of M9, 2027-07-31
- CHF 2.84Mby the end of M12, 2027-10-31
For the twelve-month program, M1 to M12 est.
About USD 3.12M at the planning rate of 1 CHF = 1.10 USD
Twelve months buy a commissioned laboratory, a 24/7 agent-run simulation fleet, four prototype generations, two patent filings and a measured device dataset, published either way.
[06.1 · Where the money goes]
Half pays people.
The rest runs two machines.
Six budget lines, grouped by the loop they feed: the team, the villa laboratory, and the agent engine (servers plus LLM tokens), with a 10 percent contingency on the operating lines. Grouping is simple addition of the plan's lines. Open any line for where its number comes from.
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SalariesTeam CHF 1,487,000 52.4%
[Where the number comes from]
Salaries: section 7 ramp at fully loaded Swiss planning costs, CHF 1,487,000 (estimate).
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 134,000 · year CHF 1,487,000
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Lab capitalLab CHF 546,843 19.3%
[Where the number comes from]
CHF 546,843 = USD 601,527 at 1 CHF = 1.10 USD est.
Laboratory capital: the LAB-BOM grand total, USD 601,527 (estimate): equipment USD 546,843 (estimate) plus the 10 percent equipment contingency of USD 54,684 (estimate), which is CHF 546,843 (estimate) at the planning rate. Phased across M1 to M6 following the BOM lead-time tiers: 25 percent in M1, 20 percent in M2, 20 percent in M3, 15 percent in M4, 10 percent in M5, 10 percent in M6 (estimate).
Why the CHF figure matches the bill of materials' USD equipment subtotal: the grand total is equipment plus a 10 percent contingency, and the planning rate is 1.10, so USD equipment × 1.10 ÷ 1.10 = CHF equipment.
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 136,700 · year CHF 546,843
[Laboratory bill of materials, USD est.]
- A. Test cells and cell hardware79,560
- B. Calorimetry28,800
- C. Radiation and particle diagnostics155,500
- D. Gas handling81,720
- E. Power drive52,934
- F. Data acquisition21,429
- G. Safety and facility fit-out126,900
- Equipment total546,843
- Contingency, 10 percent54,684
- Grand total, capital601,527
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LLM tokensEngine CHF 384,000 13.5%
[Where the number comes from]
LLM tokens: section 4 assumption, CHF 384,000 (estimate).
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 51,200 · year CHF 384,000
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ContingencyContingency CHF 208,380 7.3%
[Where the number comes from]
Contingency: 10 percent accrual on the operating lines (consumables, compute, tokens, salaries), since the laboratory capital already carries its own 10 percent inside the BOM grand total; CHF 208,380 (estimate). Patent counsel for the two filings, about CHF 40,000 (estimate), is drawn against this line.
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 21,100 · year CHF 208,380
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ComputeEngine CHF 180,000 6.3%
[Where the number comes from]
Compute: section 4 schedule, CHF 180,000 (estimate).
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 24,000 · year CHF 180,000
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ConsumablesLab CHF 32,800 1.2%
[Where the number comes from]
Consumables: from the materials first-campaign view: powders and carriers about USD 6,000 to 10,000, gases and plumbing about USD 2,000 to 4,000 (estimate), plus recurring isotope packs, CR-39 foils, bubble-detector refills, etchants and replacement powders of about USD 2,000 per month in run months (estimate). The materials file's excitation-electronics band (USD 20,000 to 35,000) and thermal-and-vessels band (USD 8,000 to 15,000) overlap LAB-BOM sections E and A and are therefore not added twice.
[Month by month, CHF est.]
123456789101112M1 to M12 · peak month CHF 6,500 · year CHF 32,800
[Outside this plan] villa ownership costs (utilities, insurance, property tax), about CHF 2,000 to 3,000 per month (estimate), are carried by Vantasner AG facilities, not by the program budget.
[06.2 · Month by month]
Build early.
Then run around the clock.
- M1 to M6 carry the laboratory capital, CHF 546,843 est., phased by equipment lead time.
- From M9 the fleet doubles to 16 servers: compute plus tokens go from CHF 37,600 to CHF 75,200 a month est..
- Peak month CHF 286,720 est.; salaries reach their steady CHF 134,000 a month from M4.
- Lab capital
- Consumables
- Compute
- LLM tokens
- Contingency
- Salaries
- 238k M1Nov
- 241k M2Dec
- 287k M3Jan
- 273k M4Feb
- 245k M5Mar
- 245k M6Apr
- 191k M7May
- 191k M8Jun
- 232k M9Jul
- 232k M10Aug
- 232k M11Sep
- 232k M12Oct
Show the budget table
| Month | Lab capital | Consumables | Compute | Tokens | Salaries | Contingency accrual | Month total |
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| M1 | 136,700 | 6,500 | 6,000 | 12,800 | 67,000 | 9,230 | 238,230 |
| M2 | 109,400 | 6,500 | 6,000 | 12,800 | 94,000 | 11,930 | 240,630 |
| M3 | 109,400 | 3,600 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 120,000 | 16,120 | 286,720 |
| M4 | 82,000 | 1,800 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 134,000 | 17,340 | 272,740 |
| M5 | 54,700 | 1,800 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 134,000 | 17,340 | 245,440 |
| M6 | 54,643 | 1,800 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 134,000 | 17,340 | 245,383 |
| M7 | 0 | 1,800 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 134,000 | 17,340 | 190,740 |
| M8 | 0 | 1,800 | 12,000 | 25,600 | 134,000 | 17,340 | 190,740 |
| M9 | 0 | 1,800 | 24,000 | 51,200 | 134,000 | 21,100 | 232,100 |
| M10 | 0 | 1,800 | 24,000 | 51,200 | 134,000 | 21,100 | 232,100 |
| M11 | 0 | 1,800 | 24,000 | 51,200 | 134,000 | 21,100 | 232,100 |
| M12 | 0 | 1,800 | 24,000 | 51,200 | 134,000 | 21,100 | 232,100 |
| Total | 546,843 | 32,800 | 180,000 | 384,000 | 1,487,000 | 208,380 | 2,839,023 |
All rows CHF (estimate). Planning currency is the Swiss franc. United States dollar figures from the wave 1 documents convert at a planning rate of 1 CHF = 1.10 USD (estimate, October 2026). Every value in every table of this section is an (estimate); wave 1 source figures are reused as stated and tagged for planning prudence.
[06.3 · Scale options]
Compute is a dial,
billed by the month.
The simulation fleet rents bare-metal servers at a fixed CHF 1,500 per server-month, 16 agent slots each. A full year at one scale costs CHF 72,000, 144,000 or 288,000. The plan steps between them with the program's phase, and can step up one scale on one month's notice.
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Scale A
CHF 72ka year est.
4 servers · 64 slots · CHF 6000/month · 768 slot-months
Foundations: DFT, kernels, MD, 2D phase field, horn acoustics; 3D phase field quarterly; one MLIP generation
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Scale B
CHF 144ka year est.
8 servers · 128 slots · CHF 12,000/month · 1,536 slot-months
Standard plan as scheduled below: weekly 3D phase field, full-cell FEM, four MLIP generations, full matrix sweeps
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Scale C
CHF 288ka year est.
16 servers · 256 slots · CHF 24,000/month · 3,072 slot-months
Everything in B plus replicate ensembles, 20 to 1000 kHz frequency sweeps, and live assimilation of lab data with weekly re-planning
[The plan's path through the year]
2 × CHF 6,000 + 6 × CHF 12,000 + 4 × CHF 24,000 = CHF 180,000 est.
1,920 slot-months purchased, 160 slot-years of round-the-clock agent work.
[LLM tokens for the agents]
1,920 slot-months × CHF 200 = CHF 384,000 est.
Planning band CHF 100 to 350 per slot-month est.: CHF 192,000 to CHF 672,000 over the year (arithmetic on the plan's figures).
[06.4 · What twelve months buy]
At month 12, the program owns:
- 01 A commissioned laboratory with two calibrated calorimeters and an artifact-resistant five-channel diagnostics panel.
- 02 A 24x7 agent-run simulation fleet with a results database that carries provenance for every parameter that reached the bench.
- 03 Four prototype generations with the design decisions of each written down and measured.
- 04 Two patent filings and a guarded formulation estate.
- 05 A measured dataset from the integrated device prototype campaign, published with its uncertainty budget either way, that sets the month-13 parameter set and the scale-up direction.
[06.5 · Investor checkpoints]
Twelve dated checkpoints.
Each one measurable.
Each milestone is a dated statement of what exists or what an instrument reads. The ask is one number, the 12-month plan total of CHF 2,839,023 est.; beside each checkpoint is how much of it the plan has drawn by then.
PLAN-12-MONTH §8 Milestones- 2026-11-30 target M1 Seven long-lead purchase orders signed; Marbell Scale A queue running; the results database holds accepted DFT rows with the palladium lattice constant within 1 percent of 3.89 angstrom and the beta-PdD expansion inside the 3 to 4 percent reported band CHF 0.24M drawn est.
- 2026-12-31 target M2 Screening kernel v1 reproduces the consolidated metallic enhancement curves of Huke 2008 within a factor of 2 across the 0.1 to 10 keV grid (tolerance is a program target); loading temperature windows fixed for all three hydrides CHF 0.48M drawn est.
- 2027-01-31 target M3 Gas Room passes leak-back at or below the 1e-7 mbar x L/s class; first in-house TiD2 batch measured at D/Ti of at least 1.7 by gravimetric mass uptake; particle size window fixed at 1 to 10 micrometers CHF 0.77M drawn est.
- 2027-02-28 target M4 Two-week detector background campaign complete with per-channel baselines recorded at run geometry; all four piezoelectric lots poled with per-lot Berlincourt d33 on file; charge response of sheared piezo-hydride suspensions measured above the electronic floor CHF 1.04M drawn est.
- 2027-03-31 target M5 Seebeck envelope Joule-calibrated at six setpoints from 0.1 to 20 W with heat recovery at or above 99 percent (program target) and noise floor at or below 50 mW after 1000 s; pickup census at or below twice the quiet-room baseline; hydrogen-analog suspension cycle runs end-to-end through every channel CHF 1.28M drawn est.
- 2027-04-30 target M6 First deuterated Gen 1 run logged end-to-end with its randomized control bracket in the same run file; loading monitor reads D/Pd 0.70 plus or minus 0.05 on the reference powder; carrier decision documented with the gap-field budget per carrier CHF 1.53M drawn est.
- 2027-05-31 target M7 Duty cycle chosen from calorimeter-balanced drive-on and drive-off data; resonance-tracking band versus temperature documented from impedance sweeps CHF 1.72M drawn est.
- 2027-06-30 target M8 Drive frequency locked with the 20 versus 40 kHz comparison on file, VSWR below 1.5 on the working network, and the power ceiling set below the optically observed cavitation onset CHF 1.91M drawn est.
- 2027-07-31 target M9 First Gen 2 dry-bed reactor logging heat balance with zirconia-bead blanks fixing the recovery rate at 23 plus or minus 0.1 C ambient; as-built resonance inside the Elmer prediction band; burst channels proven on a captured perturbation cycle CHF 2.14M drawn est.
- 2027-08-31 target M10 Matched D2 and H2 pairs complete for at least two bed compositions with documented saturation-first stages; detector exposure plan with minimum detectable yield targets filed from the signal-class kernels CHF 2.37M drawn est.
- 2027-09-30 target M11 Parameter brief v1.0 with the sensitivity-ranked margin list over the 12 design parameters published from the results database; Gen 3 design frozen; second patent filing lodged CHF 2.61M drawn est.
- 2027-10-31 target M12 Gen 3 integrated device prototype completes a continuous campaign of at least 300 hours with wall-plug heat balance at 1 Hz and the full detector panel live against its matched control; program report issued with results, uncertainty budgets and the month-13 parameter set CHF 2.84M drawn est.
[06.6 · Commercial path]
Filings, products,
partners.
The program builds an IP position from month 6, products that do not depend on the device result, and the partner network to validate and scale whatever it measures. Price bands are planning estimates.
Filing 1, M6 to M7
provisional patent application on the drive scheme: force-chain excitation of metal hydride suspensions by combined ultrasound and pulsed discharge, including the duty-cycle and resonance-tracking control loop and the programmable perturbation-cycle program. Cost about CHF 15,000 to 25,000 with counsel (estimate).
Filing 2, M11
patent application on cell geometries: the dry-bed powder cartridge with clamp-mounted piezo stack and headspace sampling, and the suspension cell with sonotrode dip tube integrated into the calorimeter envelope; Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) route within 12 months of the provisional. Cost about CHF 15,000 to 25,000 (estimate).
Trade secrets ongoing
the suspension formulations stay internal and unpublished: shear-thickening base recipes, hydride and piezoelectric volume fractions, particle size ratios, surface coatings, poling programs and the re-oxidation refresh recipes. Lab-notebook discipline, need-to-know access and lot records make the secrets defensible; employees assign inventions to Vantasner AG.
Freedom to operate ongoing
the program monitors third-party filings in ultrasonic processing and hydride storage; the research phase infringes nothing by relying on standard commercial instruments and open-source simulation codes.
[Product forms]
Five ways the work earns.
Two are hardware the lab builds anyway; the measurement service can start after M6, once commissioning targets are met.
PLAN-12-MONTH §9.3-
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Research calorimeter module
CHF 60k to 120k per unit est.
the Gen 1-class package (Seebeck envelope, flow calorimeter, Joule calibration kit, DAQ, run-card software) sold to laboratories that need trustworthy small-sample heat balance. Price band about CHF 60,000 to 120,000 per unit (estimate); natural first customers are the universities and national labs in section 9.2.
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Drive module
CHF 20k to 50k per unit est.
the perturbation-capable ultrasonic plus pulsed-discharge driver with logged run cards, sold or licensed to ultrasonic-processing and materials customers. Price band about CHF 20,000 to 50,000 per unit (estimate).
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03
Licensing
the drive-scheme and cell-geometry filings licensed to energy and industrial-ultrasonics companies once the Gen 3 campaign delivers its measured dataset.
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04
Co-development
formulation and scale-up partnerships with the ultrasonic OEMs and materials vendors, trading our suspension recipes and lot discipline against their manufacturing capacity.
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Measurement services
fee-for-service heat-balance and nuclear-products screening for third-party materials on the villa rig, starting after M6 once commissioning targets are met.
- 01Isoperibolic cellsSeebeck envelope, Joule-calibrated weekly
- 02Independent-tester flow calorimetryCoriolis flow calorimeter as second instrument
- 03Total wall-plug accountingInput and output integrated from power-on to cool-down, wired in M11
Isotope and gas suppliers
Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (deuterium packs, deuterated carriers), Linde (HiQ deuterium cylinders), Sigma-Aldrich (lecture bottles, heavy water). Confirmed in the materials supplier log of 2026-10-21.
Ultrasonic and drive OEMs
Hielscher Ultrasonics, Sonics and Materials, Branson (Emerson) for processors; Electronics and Innovation for amplifiers; Advanced Energy (Trek) for piezo drivers; Behlke for fast high-voltage switching. Co-development targets for industrial-scale horns and drive modules.
Materials vendors
American Elements, Thermo Scientific Chemicals (Alfa Aesar), Goodfellow, Strem Chemicals, Novamet, Blank Slate Innovation (reactive metal deuterides), APC International, Evonik (AEROSIL).
National laboratories and universities
Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland) for neutron reference fields and detector calibration.
the Tohoku University Clean Planet division and the Kobe University Technova line as the closest open experimental partners for sample exchange and method comparison.
SRI International as an independent calorimetric test house with a track record of independent reactor testing.
the academic groups behind the 2025 Nature and 2026 Nature Communications sub-keV screening papers as natural collaboration partners for cross-checking our nuclear-products channels.
Authorities
the local radiation protection authority (area registration from day one, per LAB-BUILD 8.3) and the licensed waste-disposal contractor for etch solutions and powder residues.
[06.7 · Either way]
Two possible results.
Both are ground we own.
40 years of published papers and results (1986 to 2026) establish every component the program builds on; the combination itself is untested in the public record. Either outcome is new knowledge Vantasner owns.
[Result A]
A working device.
A Gen 3 prototype campaign of at least 300 hours target with wall-plug heat balance against a matched control and pre-registered five-sigma thresholds, then third-party validation on the six-organization replication template.
Publishable · patentable
[Result B]
A carefully bounded negative.
The platform and diagnostics proven: two calibrated calorimeters, a five-channel diagnostics panel and a simulation fleet whose every parameter carries provenance, with every result published with its full uncertainty budget.
Publishable · patentable
Publishable, patentable ground either way.
Filing 1 in M6 to M7 on the drive scheme, filing 2 in M11 on the cell geometries, a guarded formulation estate, and a commissioned lab, diagnostics panel and agent fleet with its results database.
the hydride plus piezoelectric combination is untested in the public record (concept brief, searches of 2026-10-21); a working device, or a carefully bounded negative with the platform and diagnostics proven, is publishable, patentable ground either way.
Pitch outline, slide 32
[06.8 · Next step]
Fund the year.
Investors and partners: talk to Vantasner AG through the contact form at the bottom of vantasner.io.
Terms and data room on request.
[06.9 · Go deeper]
Every number,
in its source.
The budget, team, milestones and commercial path in the 12-month plan, the pitch outline in full, and the documents the cost lines are built from.
[12-month plan, by section]