Hardware-abstraction middleware
ROS 2 / CAN bus abstraction
Compatible with leading high-precision drive chassis, sensors and specialty work arms. Different brands become standardized, plug-and-play compute and execution units.
Powering the Autonomous Physical Economy.Built on Circular Infrastructure.
Circunar engineers the hardware-neutral intelligence, sovereign data systems, and closed-loop asset lifecycles required to deploy and sustain robotic workforces at institutional scale.
- SOC 2 Type II Audited
- NDAA / TAA Architecture
- AWS GovCloud & US Infrastructure
- Closed-Loop Stewardship
The problem
Robots are ready. The economics around them are not.
Autonomous machines can already mow, sweep and inspect. What keeps them from institutional scale is everything around the machine: fragmented hardware, data that regulated sites will not accept, capital with no resale market, and batteries nobody wants to own at end of life.
Fragmented hardware, locked fleets
Every OEM ships its own control stack. Operators are tied to one vendor, cannot mix fleets, and carry the risk of that vendor's roadmap.
FleetOS abstracts chassis, sensors and tools into one orchestration layer, so hardware becomes interchangeable supply and fleets can be mixed and upgraded.
Data that regulated sites reject
Airports, public agencies and listed landlords cannot accept machines that stream imagery or telemetry through unvetted foreign channels.
Sovereign gateways on US carrier APNs and edge-only vision mean images never leave the machine. Only structured task telemetry reaches US cloud.
Capital that cannot be priced
Robots depreciate fast and have no certified secondary market. Lenders cannot underwrite them, so operators must buy fleets outright and carry the full asset risk.
Telemetry-verified service histories and certified residual disposition give supply-chain finance partners an asset they can price, so fleets can be leased and paid for out of operating cash flow.
End-of-life liability
Degraded packs and retired machines turn into cost, safety and compliance exposure for whoever owns them last.
Packs cascade into mobile energy units, then to certified mineral recovery, giving owners a traceable, zero-landfill record.
Technology
Sovereign Orchestration for Physical AI.
FleetOS is the control layer between any qualified machine and the work it performs. It is designed so that a mixed fleet can be scheduled, audited and trusted on sensitive sites.
How the stack fits together
Each layer can be audited on its own. Applications change from site to site; the layers beneath them do not.
- A
Applications
Upclean Lawn, commercial cleaning, water-body care, solar O&M, municipal collection
- B
FleetOS orchestration
Task planning, fleet scheduling, asset ledger and lifecycle records
- C
Edge vision
On-device inference with zero image retention
- D
Sovereign gateway
US carrier APN, encrypted, egress blocked by default
- E
Hardware abstraction
ROS 2 / CAN bus across OEM chassis, sensors and tools
Air-gapped telemetry & sovereign gateways
US carrier APN, egress blocked by default
Every unit carries a Circunar gateway. OEM modems are removed, traffic runs on dedicated US carrier APNs, and unauthorized offshore egress is blocked at the OS level.
Edge-native zero-retention vision
On-device inference, nothing stored
Obstacle avoidance and scene understanding run in on-board NPU/GPU memory and are discarded immediately. The cloud receives only task heat maps and job telemetry.
Circular infrastructure
Extending Capital Life. Closing the Material Loop.
A robot fleet is a depreciating asset base. On behalf of its finance partners and operators, Circunar manages every unit through three working lives, so the capital deployed in year one keeps earning and the materials return to the supply chain instead of landfill.
- 01
Tier-1 primary deployment
New units, funded on lease by supply-chain finance partners, are deployed by operators to demanding sites: golf courses, commercial complexes and municipal public spaces.
Value captured: platform and service fees on every operating unit.
- 02
Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) re-engineering
At end of first service, units enter a regional re-engineering center for a 42-point mechanical and electrical upgrade, with sensors and wear assemblies rebuilt, then move to cost-sensitive secondary sites.
Value captured: residual value realized for finance partners; re-engineering and remarketing fees for Circunar.
- 03
Battery cascade & mineral recovery
Degraded cells are rebuilt into Mobile Energy Units for off-grid work. Spent cells go to compliant refining partners to recover lithium, cobalt and nickel, with zero landfill.
Value captured: energy-unit operation, recovered materials and auditable ESG records.
Business model
Asset-light by design. Maximum value from every unit.
Circunar does not own the hardware. Supply-chain finance partners fund fleets on lease, operators pay those leases from the cash flow their services generate, and Circunar runs the operating system, service network and residual-value disposition in between. We are the asset management and operating platform: our job is to maximize what every unit earns, and then what it is worth.
Three parties, one asset
Fund and hold title
Supply-chain finance partners
Fund fleets on lease and hold title to the hardware. In return they get telemetry-backed monitoring of every unit and a managed exit through certified re-engineering, remarketing and recovery.
Run the sites
Operators
Upclean.ai and third-party operators serve customer sites. Lease payments come out of the service cash flow, so fleets scale without upfront capex.
Manage and maximize
Circunar
Runs FleetOS, the service and maintenance network, and residual-value disposition, keeping each unit productive in service and recovering the most value at every stage after it.
How Circunar earns
FleetOS platform subscription
Paid by operatorsA per-unit monthly fee for orchestration, sovereign connectivity, fleet scheduling and job reporting.
Asset management & service fees
Paid by operatorsUptime-backed maintenance, parts and field service through the Circunar service network, priced per unit and carried within the operating budget.
Residual value disposition
Paid by finance partnersCertified re-engineering and remarketing of returned units, with fees and a share of the residual value Circunar recovers above the agreed baseline.
Asset data & risk services
Paid by finance partnersTelemetry-based monitoring, utilization and condition reports, and residual-value forecasts that finance partners use to price and manage leases.
Cascade & recovery
Stage 03Operation of Mobile Energy Units and a share of recovered-material value, with auditable ESG records for asset owners and clients.
Why the model compounds
Telemetry is the asset behind the asset. Every hour of verified work makes the next fleet cheaper to finance.
- 1Finance partners fund fleets on lease
- 2Operators pay leases from service cash flow
- 3FleetOS builds a verified record for every unit
- 4Verified records make residual value predictable
- 5Predictable residuals lower lease costs and expand deployment
Expansion path
Start with one lawn. Build a platform.
We enter through a single, high-frequency task, expand across the sites and customers we already serve, and then carry the same asset-management engine to every asset class that fits it.
- Phase 1: Wedge
Commercial turf with Upclean Lawn
Golf courses, corporate campuses, commercial parks and public grounds. We start here because labor is chronically short, the work recurs every week, outdoor sites carry low liability, and results are measured simply in acres. It builds dense service routes, repeatable unit economics and our first verified asset histories.
- Golf courses
- Corporate campuses
- Commercial real estate
- Public grounds
- Phase 2: Adjacent verticals
Same sites, new tasks
Commercial cleaning, water-body care, solar-farm vegetation and panel O&M, municipal litter collection and material sorting. Each new vertical adds tooling and software on FleetOS rather than a new company, and sells into customers we already serve.
- Commercial cleaning
- Water-body care
- Solar O&M
- Municipal litter
- Material sorting
- Phase 3: Platform
The asset management layer for robotic fleets
FleetOS and the circular asset network open to third-party operators, OEMs and finance partners. Circunar becomes the layer that monitors, services, redeploys and recovers robotic assets across the industry, with capital supplied by its finance partners.
- Third-party fleets
- OEM partners
- Finance partners
- Recovery network
- Phase 4: More Physical AI verticals
Every asset that earns its keep, on one operating and asset-management layer
The engine we build for robotic fleets carries to any asset class that passes the same test: finance partners fund it on lease, its operating cash flow pays for it, FleetOS verifies how it works, and Circunar recovers its value at end of service. These asset classes also share one recovery network, because battery packs, compute hardware and power electronics all move through the same re-engineering, cascade and recovery loop. The more asset classes run through one ledger, the more accurately each of them can be priced and financed.
Qualifying test
- Can be leased
- Earns operating cash flow
- Needs full-lifecycle circular management
- Logistics robots
- Industrial robots
- Data center assets
- Energy storage assets
Ventures & operations
Field-Proven Deployments.
Upclean.ai
Commercial automation platform
Upclean.ai is Circunar's first commercial operating platform. It runs autonomous management of commercial turf and campus landscapes at scale with Upclean Lawn, and on the same FleetOS architecture is extending into commercial cleaning, water-body care, solar O&M, municipal litter collection and material sorting.
Visit Upclean.ai platformUpclean.ai service lines
- Upclean Lawn: commercial turfIn operation
- Commercial cleaningRoadmap
- Water-body careRoadmap
- Solar farm O&MRoadmap
- Municipal litter collectionRoadmap
- Material sortingRoadmap
Trust & governance
Built for Regulated Environments.
What institutional owners and public agencies need to see before a robot goes on site.
Federal compliance
NDAA 889 & TAA
A certified compliant hardware catalog that meets access requirements for airports, public agencies and federal critical facilities.
Data governance
SOC 2 Type II
Zero-trust network architecture, end-to-end AES-256 encryption and customer-controlled keys.
Environmental stewardship
ESG standardized
Quantified emissions avoided through electrification, waste tonnage removed and battery chain-of-custody records.
Continuous third-party audit
US-based testing
Regular penetration testing by US-based security auditors, verifying that no traffic leaves the country.
Contact
Institutional Inquiries
For real estate portfolios, municipalities, institutional partners and media.