Balaraju M
Co-founder and CEO
Builds the computational side of Prometheus: the engineering application, the optimization layer and the proprietary geometry solver.
Advanced propulsion technology, engineered by computation.
Prometheus combines propulsion physics, computational optimization and precision manufacturing to develop next-generation propulsion hardware.
Computationally designed. Physically manufactured.
Propulsion hardware is still developed in slow, expensive loops.
Design, analysis, optimization, CAM and machining usually live in separate tools, and often in separate companies. Every handoff re-models the part, loses information and adds weeks.
When a test result comes back, it rarely reaches the next design in a form anyone can use. The loop from requirement to validated hardware stays long, and every iteration is expensive.
We build propulsion hardware, and the pipeline that produces it.
The hardware
Rotating and thermal propulsion components: compressor and cold-section hardware, impellers and combustor assemblies, machined in-house from aerospace alloys.
- Inconel 718Nickel superalloy for hot-section and high-temperature parts
- Ti-6Al-4VTitanium alloy for high strength-to-weight rotating parts
- 6061-T6Aluminium alloy for structures, housings and development hardware
The pipeline
Our own software carries a part from propulsion requirement to physics model, optimized geometry, toolpath and G-code. Our own machines cut it, and our own inspection measures it.
Quantum-classical optimization is one layer inside that pipeline, applied where a design problem has the right combinatorial structure. It is a differentiator, not the product.
How the technology fits togetherFrom requirement to machined part, and back again.
Ten stages, one system. Select a stage to see what happens there and what it runs on.
Physical validation data returns to the start of the loop and informs the next design.
Stage 1 of 10, requirements layer
Propulsion requirements
The mission or component requirement defines the problem.
Every run starts from an engineering requirement: operating envelope, loads, temperatures, envelope constraints and the material the part will be made from.
Physical validation
60
days, raw billet to fully machined
We reverse-engineered a GE T700 cold-section module and rebuilt it through our own computational, geometry and manufacturing pipeline: end-to-end proof on real turbomachinery.
The validation program in detail
The photographs show the reference GE T700 hardware we reverse-engineered for this program.
Traction
Early, specific and stated plainly. Design partners are working with us on real hardware requirements.
| Count | Current |
|---|---|
| 3 | Active design partners Two defense and aerospace startups, and one university propulsion laboratory. |
| 2 | Signed MOUs and LOIs Including an LOI for a custom impeller and combustor assembly valued at approximately $18,000. |
| 1 | Physical validation completed GE T700 cold-section module, raw billet to fully machined in 60 days. |
LOIs and MOUs are statements of intent, not revenue. The first paid unit is expected after partner validation.
Next milestones
- 01First paid unit, delivered against the signed LOI
- 02Repeat production for design partners
- 03Larger propulsion programs across aerospace and defense
- 04Deeper access to the engineering platform for partners
The advantage is the integration.
Any one of these layers can be bought or hired. The hard part is running them as one system, where every manufactured component produces measured data that improves the next design and the next machining decision.
- Algorithms
- Optimization formulations built for propulsion problems, quantum and classical.
- Physics models
- Thermal and structural models that bound every design before geometry exists.
- Computational geometry
- Our own voxel-based geometry layer, extended for propulsion components.
- Manufacturing
- Custom CAM, G-code and 5-axis machining in-house, in aerospace alloys.
- Inspection
- Every part is measured against the geometry it was computed from.
- Validation data
- A growing record of computed versus manufactured results that improves each design.
Where the pipeline applies
We start with a focused propulsion wedge and expand where the same pipeline carries over. Status is marked as it stands today.
Turbomachinery
Compressor and cold-section hardware. Validated on the GE T700 cold-section module.
Demonstrated
Impeller and combustor assemblies
A custom impeller and combustor assembly is the subject of a signed LOI with a design partner.
Under LOI
UAV propulsion
Compact, high-performance rotating and thermal hardware for unmanned systems.
Target
Defense propulsion
Propulsion components for defense and aerospace programs, starting with our design partners.
Target
Rocket propulsion components
Turbomachinery and thermal components for rocket propulsion systems.
Target
Software, propulsion engineering and manufacturing, in one founding team.
Prajwal B G
Co-founder, CTO and Head of Manufacturing
Owns the physical side of Prometheus: propulsion physics, CAM and toolpaths, machining and physical validation.
The founders have known each other for about six years and have worked together on high-temperature turbomachinery R&D.
Talk to the people who designed and machined it.
For investors, design partners and propulsion programs. We reply personally.