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Patent Pending  ·  4 Provisional Applications  ·  69 Claims

For three thousand years,
humanity gazed into crystal spheres
seeking hidden knowledge.

Now, for the first time, the knowledge is actually there.

8.8 PB
Per Quartz Sphere
13.8B yr
Data Retention
5D
Encoding Depth
The Vision

The ancients were not wrong.
They were early.

The Druids used polished beryl. The Han Dynasty consulted quartz. John Dee kept a crystal sphere in the court of Elizabeth I. Across every culture and century, the same conviction persisted: knowledge could be locked inside a crystal sphere and retrieved by one who knew how to look.

The Myth
A sphere of polished quartz crystal containing knowledge hidden within, invisible to the eye, revealed only by gazing with focused intent.
The Machine
A sphere of optical-grade fused quartz containing data encoded as nanoscale structures, invisible without instruments, revealed by polarized light and AI.
The Myth
Only a trained seer could read the crystal. The knowledge was said to endure forever. Crystals survived when libraries burned.
The Machine
Only a trained neural network can decode the voxel patterns. Data endures 13.8 billion years — verified. Survives 1,000°C, water, radiation, and EMP.
Technology

Five-dimensional encoding
in solid crystal

The Crystal Sphere Memory Recorder writes data inside solid spheres of optical-grade crystal using femtosecond laser pulses — each shorter than a trillionth of a second. Every pulse creates a permanent nanoscale structure deep within the interior, encoding information across five dimensions.

8.8 PB
Quartz · 10cm sphere
40 PB
Diamond · 10cm sphere
70.5 PB
Diamond · 12cm sphere
13.8B yr
Verified retention life
1,000 °C
Thermal survival
5 nm
Surface roughness
Encode
Digital data is mapped to five-dimensional voxel coordinates in spherical address space — three spatial dimensions plus birefringence orientation and retardance magnitude.
Write
Femtosecond laser pulses create permanent nanograting structures inside the crystal. A three-roller differential drive rotates the sphere while synchronized translation stages position the focal point.
Read
Polarized light passes through encoded regions. A CMOS sensor captures polarimetric images at multiple angles, measuring the birefringence signature of each voxel.
Decode
A trained convolutional neural network classifies each voxel's five-dimensional state, outputting probability distributions that feed soft-decision error correction for bit-perfect recovery.
Competitive Edge

Capacity that changes the conversation

The nearest comparable technology stores data in flat quartz discs. Our spherical geometry delivers 24 to 196 times more usable volume per medium, with full 4π steradian optical access.

Metric
Flat Disc (Prior Art)
CSMR Sphere
Geometry
Flat disc / platter
Full 3D sphere
Capacity (10cm)
Up to 360 TB per disc
8.8 PB per sphere (24×)
Maximum format
~360 TB (single disc)
70.5 PB (12cm diamond)
Optical access
Top/bottom only
Full 4π steradian
Coordinate system
Cartesian (flat layers)
Spherical (volumetric)
Medium materials
Quartz glass only
Quartz, sapphire, diamond, YAG, CaF₂, and more
Market Opportunity

$34 billion addressable market
across six segments

Every organization that must preserve data beyond the 5–30 year lifespan of conventional media is a potential customer. Global data migration costs alone exceed $16 billion annually.

Segment 01
Government Archives
Library of Congress, NARA, NSA. Mandated long-term preservation of national records, intelligence, and cultural heritage.
Segment 02
Enterprise Cold Storage
Epic Systems, JPMorgan. Regulatory compliance requires decades of retention for financial, medical, and legal records.
Segment 03
Scientific Data Preservation
Broad Institute, CERN, NASA. Genomic, particle physics, and space observation datasets that can never be recreated.
Segment 04
Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian, Vatican Archives. Digitized manuscripts, artifacts, and art collections requiring permanent preservation.
Segment 05
Space & Defense
SpaceX, Lockheed Martin. Radiation-hardened, zero-maintenance storage for deep space missions and classified archives.
Segment 06
Personal Legacy
Family offices, estates, and individuals seeking multi-generational preservation of digital legacies and private collections.
Financial Projections

Path to $143M revenue
by Year 5

Four revenue streams — recording systems, storage media, software, and services — with 71% blended gross margins and EBITDA margins expanding from 8% in Year 1 to 64% in Year 5 as operating leverage scales.

$277M
5-Yr Cumulative Revenue
$165M
5-Yr Cumulative EBITDA
64%
Year 5 EBITDA Margin
$5M
Seed Round Target
$4.8M
Year 1
$14.5M
Year 2
$38.4M
Year 3
$76.6M
Year 4
$143.3M
Year 5
Intellectual Property

A defensible moat
built on geometry

Four provisional patent applications cover the complete technology stack — hardware system, broadened apparatus design, storage medium, and software — with 69 claims establishing deep protection across materials, methods, laser types, and architectures.

4
Provisional Patents
Hardware recording system with roller drive, laser-agnostic broadened apparatus, optical storage medium manufactured to volumetric specifications, and AI-assisted encoding/decoding software.
69
Total Claims
Broad independent claims covering any laser source type, any optically transparent material, any multi-dimensional encoding scheme, and any machine learning architecture.
7+
Material Families
Quartz, sapphire, diamond, YAG, calcium fluoride, borosilicate, and chalcogenide glasses — all covered by material-agnostic claim language.
Contact

The crystal sphere is no longer a metaphor.
It's an engineering specification.

We are raising a $5M seed round to complete the prototype, establish manufacturing partnerships, and deploy pilot systems with our first government and enterprise customers.

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