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EXO

STASIS

Designed for the beyond

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Every threat, designed for

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Engineered to last

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A 75-year design life, set conservatively.

The capsule is built in three protective zones, each shielding the next:

 

Outer zone, sacrificial: a 2mm PVD stainless skin with a hard ceramic finish. It is designed to take the dents, scratches and weather , and the owner replaces a panel in minutes with a single ExoStasis tool.

 

Middle zone, the cage and void: a floating I-beam exoskeleton absorbs impact before it reaches the core. The steelwork sits inside a sealed void, out of sunlight and weather, with a polymer-graphene coating.

Inner zone, the primary vessel: a 12mm S355 structural steel tube, the same class of steel trusted in bridges and ships, with a hoop-stress safety factor of about 11–18×.

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Because the core never sees UV or direct weather, its coatings aren't racing the elements.  Seventy-five years is a planned path with defined maintenance steps, not a hopeful number.

 

Not a product you replace. An asset you can maintain and pass on.

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Land-based. Marine-born.

Phase 1 prototype interior was built at Portland Marina from marine-grade steel and fittings, and it thinks like a vessel: sealed hull, buoyancy margin, anchor and chain, EPIRB. On land it is planted. In a

flood it becomes a functioning life raft.

 

The dry-land anchor

A marine idea, adapted and brought ashore.

Boats don't fight the sea. They anchor , swing and return. The capsule applies the same thinking on land.

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A 1.2–1.4m helical ground screw , hand-installed by one person with no power tools, connects to the capsule by marine-grade stainless chain. It isn't needed to hold the capsule up. It is there for the extreme event:

Impact or tornado: the capsule tilts and returns, like a keel, instead of meeting force rigidly. Chain length sets exactly how far it can move.

 

Rising water: the steel legs and design ensure grounded stabiloty in flash floods to 80cm, for more severe floods the chain becomes a flood tether, holding position as the capsule lifts.

Chain lengths for the setting: 1.4m standard, 3m for high flood zones, with up to 25m for extreme flood/tsumani or full release for free-floating mode.  Fully buoyant with life systems intact from flash flood to open water.

 

When the ground becomes water, the capsule becomes a vessel.

The sealed steel primary vessel is designed with positive buoyancy even with its void fully flooded. As water rises past the tether, the AI releases 75% of the water reserve, shedding around 700kg and lifting the capsule higher . It keeps about 230 litres to drink, topped up by rain.  Top hatch above the waterline. Solar and AI still running.

EPIRB beacon active and a sky beam for signalling.

Flash floods, river surges and storm tides are designed for. It is even designed to stay afloat and functioning in open water at sea.

When it floats, it doesn't just survive. It functions.

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Designed for every climate

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The Thermal Flywheel

930 litres of water wrapped around 

Insulation slows heat escaping.  Water stores it. The capsule does both.

Fifty millimetres of PIR stops heat flow . Behind it, up to 930 litres of water wraps the living space in 16 isolated bays, storing roughly 1kWh for every degree of temperature change.

The inner ring fills first, so the flywheel is fully active before the system is half full.  Daytime heat is absorbed before it reaches you, and night-time cold is held back by the stored warmth. The interior lags hours behind the weather outside, not minutes.

 

Why it only works at this scale

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For a house or living pod to match the capsule's water-to-living-space ratio, it would need tens of tonnes of water , held by a structure that can carry it. The capsule wraps its water directly

in the path of heat, inside a steel shell built to bear the load. Small scale, steel hoop strength and water mass together make it work.

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Climate by Climate

Optimum energy efficiency

Arctic and alpine:

envelope heat loss at −15°C is around 150W . Battery waste heat and wind generation rise as the temperature falls.

 

Temperate and maritime:

power and water run in surplus year-round.

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Desert and hot climates:

no glazing and a reflective ceramic skin; f an-only cooling to around 38°C, with dual independent cooling units above that.

 

Tropical and monsoon:

rain harvest refills the reserve faster than you use it.

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The conditions that defeat most systems are the conditions in which this one performs best.

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Explore

The return

Go out and explore. Come back to comfort.  You're half a mile out, cold and wet from the trail. EVA picks up your wristband, checks the

temperature and starts warming your seat.  You climb in and the hatch closes above you. The rapid drying fans start straight away , and EVA

briefs you: reserves healthy , rain overnight, your recovery routine has begun.

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Everything is within arm's length. The wide seat reclines into a bed. The shower and vacuum WC are concealed beneath it. Food, water , controls and the screen showing the world outside are all where your hand expects them.

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The cockpit

Everything within reach. Everything accounted for.  Display: an immersive 40-inch curved screen shows the world outside, live from six cameras

including thermal. Voice: you speak and the realistic capsule assistant answers.  Armrests: they slide open to reveal the switchgear .  Seat: a 70cm quilted seat reclines flat into a bed.  Either side:  Storage within reach

Above you: the hatch opens to the sky .

Power , water , heat, provisions, weather and perimeter are all on one screen, all managed by EVA.

The walls curve around you. The sky opens above you.  EVA, the AI companion. It doesn't just shelter you. It knows you. Briefs you on every new location: conditions, forecast, nearest services, water sources. Manages power and water predictively, hours ahead of the weather .Warms your seat as you walk back from the trail, via your expedition wristband. Watches a 100-metre perimeter through a seven-zone graduated deterrent. Silent when you want it to be. Only emergencies break through.  The AI thinks. The occupant lives.

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Deployment

No doors or windows by design

There is no conventional door or window , so there is no conventional point of attack or environmental vulnerability. Entry is from

above or below, by a ladder that only works with a hidden, magnet-released lock. The hatches locks from inside.

Long before anyone reaches it, the AI has detected them on thermal at 100 metres. It then escalates through lighting, strobe and siren, and finally a recorded verbal warning in the

local language.  The ladder is there. The lock is hidden. Without both, it goes nowhere.

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Provisioned for a year

Each capsule ships with 365 days of ExoStasis-branded, foil-sealed provisions, stored within arm's reach. Sensors track what's left, and the AI tells you exactly how long

it will last.

 

Deployment

Arrive. Lower. Live.

One person. About 15 minutes. No crane, no crew, no foundations.

Pods need a crane. The Stasis Capsule needs a 4×4, the stasis trailer that comes with the capsule, and fifteen minutes.

1. Tow in behind a standard 4×4.

2. Level the trailer .

3. Fit the four legs.

4. Level and lower the capsule onto its footpads.

5. Uncouple and drive away .

The capsule stands 70cm clear of the ground: out of surface water ,off frozen earth, and away from uneven terrain.

Planted, not vehicular.

 

Logistics

Towing: designed to tow within UK B+E entitlement, and more flexibly in many overseas jurisdictions - behind the Defenders, Land Cruisers and Rangers and other capable SUVs its owners already drive.

Travels light: it moves near-empty and fills on arrival from any nearby source.

Resupply: deploy with a 4×4, then resupply with whatever you drive.

International: three capsules to a 20ft container , six to a 40ft.

Ownership: no wheels once deployed, no drivetrain, no MOT , no road tax. It stores like a boat on its trailer but with a much smaller footprint.

Applications

Built for the hardest places

One platform. Every place 

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Explorers: a validated base camp anywhere a 4×4 can reach. It is warm, powered and secure when you return from the trail, and the AI has your seat heated before you arrive.  Also suited to GreenTourism remote adventure concepts.

 

NGOs and humanitarian response: place it virtually anywhere infrastructure has

f ailed. It brings its own power , water treatment and a year of food, and in flood zones it floats and keeps functioning.

 

Defence and security: individual forward capability with no fuel, water or logistics tail. PVD replacement with AR500 tested.  It is repairable in the field with modular steel, fittings and components by one person.

 

Research and remote science: a long-duration field station for one, in environments where people rarely stay .

 

I have a safe environment that goes wherever I am.

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Defence and dual-use

Individual capability without a support tail.

Forward deployment usually means a trade-off: bring a logistics tail for shelter , power, water and security , or go without. The Stasis Capsule removes that trade-off for one person. No fuel chain: 30kWh stored, plus wind and solar generation. No generator , no fuel resupply and no generator noise signature.

No water resupply: up to 930 litres, harvested and treated on site.

Autonomous security: thermal detection and a seven-zone graduated deterrent, without extra personnel.

Protection: a 12mm steel primary vessel behind a sacrificial skin and I-beam cage. AR500 within void.   Relocatable: one person redeploys it in minutes when the situation changes.  Field-repairable: standard S355 steel, BSP plumbing fittings and commercial electronics. Repairable anywhere with a welder and a toolkit. The same platform serves humanitarian and disaster response. It brings shelter , power and water for liaison, medical or coordination staff wherever infrastructure has collapsed,

including flood zones.

 

Backed by UK Government innovation funding

ExoStasis secured UK Government Phase 1 innovation funding 2026 within a month of incorporation. That funding has developed the Prototype 1 internal systems, exploring the platform's exploration, NGO and defence capabilities in parallel. ExoStasis is nowpreparing for UK defence innovation funding to take the full-scale prototype through validation.

ExoStasis tests to confirm, not to discover.

Every claim on this site is matched to a test, and every test is filmed.

Complete: 1:10 scale steel model, float test and shake-table test - sensors and reporting validation.

Complete: Prototype 1 internal systems, developed with UK Government innovation.

funding.

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Full-scale prototype programme:

University shake table, target magnitude 7–8 (1.0g).

Marina float test at Portland.

Projectile impact testing with heavy flying objects.

Controlled diagonal tree-fall onto the I-beam superstructure.

Full AI systems demonstration.

The tree fell. The cage bent, as designed. The primary vessel was unmarked. The AI confirmed all systems operational. The capsule was driven away.

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Work with us

Build the future of resilience with us.

Investors: a new category with a hand-built, low-tooling margin model and dual-use civilian and institutional markets. 

Partners: technology , distribution, eco-tourism operators and institutional pilots.

Partner with us

Engineers and makers: fabrication, systems integration and AI. Register your interest in joining the Portland build team. 

Founded by Andres Shoman and builder of the Boon Boat full-scale R&D prototype.

ExoStasis Ltd · Portland Marina, Dorset · andre@exostasis.com

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