Developers & Operators
Faster approvals, clearer public positioning, and reduced communication overhead on every project.
Reduce weeks of manual communication work to minutes. Launch with confidence, not controversy.
Introducing Ora · TerraSyn's AI Agent
The operating system
of community
engagement.
Ora transforms complex infrastructure and development projects into clear, compelling narratives — tailored for every stakeholder, generated in minutes.
AI-native
Architecture
2026
Founded & building
O
Ora
AI Communication Agent · v1.0
Active
Project Ingested
Downtown Transit Hub — Phase 2 Plans uploaded
Analyzing Stakeholders
Identifying residents, city council, and press audiences
Generating Narratives
Audience-specific explanations + FAQ set created
Portal Ready
Engagement portal published. Sentiment tracking active.
Ora · Resident Summary
What this means for you: The new transit hub will reduce your average commute by 12 minutes and add 3 new bus routes to the east side.
Who It's For
One platform.
Every stakeholder.
TerraSyn aligns communication across all key participants in the project lifecycle — from the developer's boardroom to the community hall.
Cities & Government
Transparent engagement tools and accessible project context that meets policy and planning goals.
Strengthen public trust, streamline approvals, and demonstrate commitment to community engagement.
Communities & Residents
Clear, jargon-free explanations of how a project will genuinely impact their neighborhood and daily life.
Real participation through clear information, open dialogue, and a voice that gets heard and tracked.
The AI Agent
Meet Ora.
Ora is TerraSyn's core intelligence — an AI agent that reads your project data and automatically generates stakeholder-ready communications, visual explainers, and community FAQs. No manual writing. No communication delays.
Audience-Specific Narratives
Ora tailors every message for its audience — plain language for residents, policy-aligned framing for government, ROI focus for developers. One project input, three clear outputs.
Instant FAQ Generation
Ora predicts the questions your stakeholders will ask and writes the answers before they're asked. Proactive communication beats reactive damage control every time.
Visual Story Layer
Transform timelines, impact data, and project milestones into visual explainers and infographic-ready content — automatically generated for each communication channel.
🚊 Live Demo · Austin, TX
Ask Ora anything.
Get a real answer.
This isn't a mockup. Ora is live, running on Austin's Project Connect light rail data — try it right now.
Hi — I'm Ora, your AI guide to Austin's Project Connect light rail. Ask me anything about construction timelines, station locations, funding, or how this affects your neighborhood.
Powered byTerraSyn · Ora
The Problem
The bottleneck isn't ambition.
It's communication.
Large projects stall because stakeholders receive fragmented updates, technical jargon, and late-stage explanations. The result is resistance, delay, and budget pressure.
The old way is slow, manual, and costly
- ✕Community pushback slows approvals by months
- ✕Teams spend weeks manually writing stakeholder reports
- ✕Technical jargon alienates the people who matter most
- ✕Reactive communication arrives too late to prevent opposition
- ✕No single source of truth for project status
Proactive clarity, built into every project
- ✓AI-generated narratives ready in minutes, not weeks
- ✓Plain language for residents, policy language for cities
- ✓FAQs written before objections are raised
- ✓Continuous portal keeps every stakeholder aligned
- ✓Sentiment tracking surfaces concerns early
The Roadmap
Built for speed now,
depth later.
TerraSyn is an AI-native platform with progressive capability layers — from core communication automation to immersive 3D project experiences.
1
Phase 1 · Now
Core Agent Platform
Ora generates tailored project narratives, multilingual content, visual explainers, and stakeholder FAQs from a single project input. The full communication layer, automated.
In Development2
Phase 2 · Year 2
Interactive Visualization
Introduce timeline mapping, impact layers, and interactive AI Q&A. Give stakeholders a visual, explorable window into your project's outcomes and progress.
Coming Soon3
Phase 3 · Year 3+
Immersive 3D & VR
AI-generated 3D walkthroughs and scenario simulations for deeper public engagement. Experience a project before it's built — removing fear with familiarity.
On the HorizonTraction Targets
Built to grow fast.
TerraSyn's business plan is built around early traction, pilot validation, and measurable impact in municipal and development environments.
0
Year 1 customer target
$250K
ARR objective, Year 1
$500K
Current funding raise
AI
Native architecture
from day one
from day one
The Founders
Built at UT Austin.
Validated by the NSF.
A uniquely suited team at the intersection of environmental engineering, AI, and community communication.
Research Origin
University of Texas
at Austin
at Austin
Program Alumni
NSF Innovation Corps
Southwest Hub
Southwest Hub
Research Fellowship
ARPA-E Researcher
U.S. Dept. of Energy
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Research Experience
NASA Robotics
Research
Research
Lucas Ruda
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Environmental Engineering + Mass Communications · UT Austin
ARPA-E Researcher · U.S. Dept. of Energy
Community Organizer · City of Austin
3rd Place · Inaugural CAEE Hackathon
Background
TerraSyn began as Lucas's research into systemic delays in sustainable infrastructure adoption at UT Austin. After placing 3rd in the inaugural CAEE Hackathon, he partnered with Puranjay to enter the NSF I-Corps Southwest Hub — conducting extensive customer discovery that confirmed community pushback as the universal bottleneck. His rare combination of technical and communications expertise drives TerraSyn's product and go-to-market strategy.
Infrastructure Policy
Mass Communications
Community Engagement
Fundraising
Puranjay Prashanth
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
NASA Robotics Research
Nuclear Reactor Embedded Systems
Full-Stack Development & AI/ML Architecture
NSF I-Corps Southwest Hub · Customer Discovery
Background
Puranjay's background spans NASA robotics research, nuclear reactor embedded systems, and full-stack development — bringing deep systems engineering rigor to a human-centered problem. Through NSF I-Corps, he co-led the customer discovery process that shaped TerraSyn's architecture. He now leads development of Ora's reinforcement learning algorithms, designed to model stakeholder psychology and deliver real-time project communication at scale.
Reinforcement Learning
Systems Engineering
Full-Stack Dev
AI Architecture
Make your next project impossible to misunderstand.
TerraSyn is opening pilot conversations with developers, municipalities, and strategic partners ready to modernize how projects communicate with the world.