The world is building faster than it can be powered.

Alpha-Otto is developing a new approach to electricity generation: compact, factory-built power systems designed to produce electricity directly where it is needed. Instead of relying entirely on large, centralized infrastructure, our modular approach allows customers to add generating capacity as demand grows.

At the core is our patented REVforce engine, which converts fuel into mechanical power. Paired with a high-speed, high-efficiency axial-flux generator, it forms a REVflux PowerCell. Multiple PowerCells combine into a PowerBank, creating a scalable power generation system that grows with demand.

The World Is Facing a Power Crisis

The next generation of technology is arriving faster than our ability to power it.

Artificial intelligence, data centers, advanced manufacturing, automation, electric transportation, and the electrification of entire industries are driving an unprecedented surge in electricity demand. The International Energy Agency projects that the world will add 50% more electricity demand each year through 2030 than it did annually over the previous decade.

Source: IEA, Electricity 2026. IEA forecast: 28,200 TWh in 2025; 33,600 TWh in 2030. Intermediate bars are calculated estimates using a constant compounded growth rate, not individually published IEA figures.

The problem is that our electrical infrastructure cannot expand at the same pace everywhere.

Building new power plants, expanding transmission networks, and upgrading aging grids can take years, sometimes decades. Meanwhile, businesses are investing billions in facilities that may be completed long before sufficient electricity is available to operate them.

Power availability is becoming a barrier to economic growth. Projects face delays, investments sit idle, and companies are increasingly being forced to adopt a "Bring Your Own Power" model, securing their own electricity generation rather than waiting for the grid.

Traditional power generation, renewables, transmission infrastructure, and energy storage are all essential. But expanding these systems alone will not solve the immediate challenge of delivering reliable power where and when it is needed.

Our opportunity: Develop factory-built, distributed power generation that can be deployed where electricity is needed and expanded in practical increments as demand grows.

The technologies shaping our future all have one thing in common: They cannot operate without electricity. And without new ways to generate it, their growth will be constrained by the power available to run them.

Power Generation That Stacks.

Our REVflux power system is designed to change how electricity is generated, delivered, and scaled.

At its core is our patented REVforce engine technology, designed to deliver an exceptional combination of power density, compact size, low weight, fuel flexibility, and cost-effective manufacturing. We believe these advantages can enable a new approach to power generation: standardized, factory-built generators that can be combined and manufactured at scale.

The concept is simple: Our engine drives a high-speed, high-efficiency electrical generator to produce electricity. Multiple engine-generator modules combine into larger power systems, allowing customers to add generating capacity as their needs grow.

Here's how it works.

REVforce™ Engine: The Technology That Makes It Possible

Our patented combustion engine is designed to convert more of the energy contained in fuel into useful mechanical power, while reducing size, weight, and manufacturing complexity.

Its innovative architecture targets higher efficiency, greater power density, and broad fuel flexibility, with the potential to reduce fuel consumption and support cleaner, potentially carbon-neutral fuels.

We've already developed three generations of functioning engines and demonstrated operation on six different fuels.

REVflux™ PowerCell: Turning Engine Power Into Electricity

We pair our REVforce engine with a high-speed, high-efficiency axial-flux generator, cooling, power electronics, and intelligent controls.

The result is a compact, factory-built generator called a PowerCell, designed to deliver 60 kW of continuous net electrical power. This is our initial development target, with an integrated demonstration planned for 2027.

REVflux™ PowerBank: Power That Stacks

Multiple PowerCells combine into a PowerBank, a coordinated system that supplies electricity directly to a facility.

As electricity demand grows, customers can add more PowerCells rather than replace their entire generation system.

At their targeted output, five PowerCells would deliver 300 kW, while twenty would deliver 1.2 MW. PowerBanks can also incorporate battery storage to manage changing electrical demand.

One innovative engine. One standardized generator. Scalable power generation built one cell at a time.

From military installations to AI data centers, organizations are looking for new ways to generate reliable electricity where and when they need it. Alpha-Otto is already engaging with prospective users facing these challenges.

Military Installations: Energy Resilience

Military bases depend on reliable electricity to maintain critical operations. Grid disruptions, increasing electrical loads, and aging infrastructure are driving interest in generation systems that can operate independently of the grid and expand as needs change.

Through a competitively awarded U.S. Air Force AFWERX Phase I program with Michigan Technological University, Alpha-Otto investigated modular power generation for military installations and microgrids.

That work has led to continued engagement with Air Force energy leadership, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC), Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and Morris Air National Guard Base to explore operational requirements and potential future demonstrations.

Expeditionary Operations: Portable, Fuel-Flexible Power

Military operations also require electricity in remote locations where the electrical grid may be unavailable.

Generators must be transportable, reliable, and capable of operating on available fuels, while minimizing the logistical burden of transporting equipment and fuel.

Alpha-Otto received a second competitive AFWERX Phase I award focused on compact generation for expeditionary applications. This research provided direct insight into military requirements for portable power, fuel flexibility, equipment size, and weight.

Commercial Microgrids: Power for AI and Industrial Infrastructure

Commercial developers face a different challenge: building facilities faster than the electrical grid can supply them.

AI data centers, manufacturing facilities, and other power-intensive operations increasingly need alternatives to waiting years for additional grid capacity.

An AI data center microgrid developer has signed a letter of support expressing interest in evaluating a future REVflux PowerBank.

The proposed application reflects the potential for standardized PowerCells to provide scalable, on-site generation that can grow alongside a facility's electricity needs.

Turning Market Interest Into Product Requirements

Across these applications, the underlying need is remarkably similar: reliable electricity, flexible capacity, and generation systems that can be deployed and maintained efficiently.

Our engagement with prospective users is helping shape REVflux around real operating requirements, including fuel selection, reliability, modularity, installation, and maintenance.

These relationships build on earlier National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I and II support for our engine technology and provide a foundation for pursuing integrated system demonstrations and future customer pilots.

Different applications. A common challenge. A growing opportunity for modular power generation.

For investors who want to understand the technical foundation, REVforce is not simply an engine repackaged inside a generator enclosure. It is a patented, two-cycle reciprocating architecture designed to combine high power density, combustion control and fuel adaptability.

A power event every crankshaft revolution

A conventional four-stroke engine completes one power event every two revolutions. REVforce produces a power event every revolution. That creates a route to more power from compact engine hardware, but does not automatically double usable output: cylinder filling, combustion, friction, cooling and durability determine what the engine can sustain.

Externally charged air, an isolated crankcase and a controlled exhaust valve

REVforce supplies intake air externally instead of using the crankcase as a pumping chamber. Its crankcase is isolated from the combustion-air path and pressure-lubricated. Our patented Rotary Exhaust Valve controls when the exhaust port closes independently of piston position, creating another degree of freedom over trapped charge, effective compression and the timing of the combustion process.

With electronically controlled injection and ignition, these features allow the calibration team to manage airflow, residual exhaust gas, mixture preparation and combustion timing. The architecture is being developed around controlled compression-ignition and spark-assisted combustion strategies suited to different fuels and load conditions.

Scavenging: getting fresh air in and exhaust gas out

Because the engine completes a cycle every revolution, there is a short window to exchange cylinder gases. We redesigned the loop-scavenging ports using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to guide fresh air through the cylinder and displace exhaust gas. Our earlier geometry achieved roughly 50% exchange in the modeled case. Revised models approached near-complete exchange when enough time was available. The engineering objective is roughly 90% exchange in the real, shorter port-open window across the intended operating range.

We turned those simulations into physical evidence: 3D-printed development components, a dedicated airflow bench, and revised parts tested on the running engine. The distinction matters. CFD describes modeled flow; the bench and engine reveal whether that design holds up under physical conditions.

Pressure traces tell us how combustion actually behaves

We expanded our in-cylinder pressure instrumentation so we can calculate apparent heat-release rate, combustion phasing and pressure-rise rate rather than judge every change only by torque or sound. In development testing, we measured peak pressure-rise rates above 10 bar per crank-angle degree. Fast pressure development is not, on its own, a fuel-efficiency claim: the job is to place and control the burn at the right crank angle, repeatedly and within mechanical limits.

That measurement capability gives the team a more rigorous tuning loop: change a component or calibration, measure the combustion event, compare stability and pressure development, and use the data to choose the next experiment.

Air charging, injection and fuel adaptability

We have investigated centrifugal, screw-type and internally developed Roots-type supercharging approaches to understand the air pressure and flow needed as speed rises. Our fuel systems include liquid port injection, gaseous port injection and liquid direct injection; gaseous direct injection remains a development option. These systems allow us to explore charge preparation and fuel-dependent combustion behavior.

Research engines have operated on six fuels: gasoline, ethanol, hydrogen, kerosene, natural gas and propane. Operation on a fuel demonstrates adaptability, but does not mean every fuel has been efficiency-mapped, emissions-certified, durability-qualified or validated in the future generator. Natural gas is the initial fixed-site priority, with propane backup planned; heavy-fuel applications such as diesel and JP-8 require additional compression-ignition development and qualification.

From measured shaft power to 60 kW net electricity

Our twin-cylinder development engine has produced approximately 30 kW of mechanical shaft power at 3,000 RPM. The first PowerCell targets 60 kW of continuous net electrical output, with higher-speed operation around 6,000 RPM as a development planning point. Because generator conversion, electronics, cooling and other auxiliaries consume power, the engine must sustain more than 60 kW at the shaft to deliver 60 kW net to a customer.

The next demonstration must establish electrical output, combustion stability, thermal control, transient response, fuel use, emissions and endurance together. Looking beyond that milestone, GEN 4 targets 80 kW continuous / 100 kW peak electrical output and more than 40% net fuel-to-electric efficiency. These are engineering goals, not demonstrated electrical performance.

Our 2025 community round helped advance the engine and the capabilities needed to test it properly. Since then, the biggest steps have been better combustion measurement, redesigned gas exchange, physical airflow validation, charging and injection development, and a clearer generator product definition.

In 2027, the primary goal is a complete generator demonstration with measured continuous net output and documented operation. In 2028, we plan initial partner-site pilots to study real operating conditions, service demands and integration into a larger power system. Future GEN 4 development focuses on durability, higher output, emissions and manufacturing readiness.

Our first intended customers are operators and integrators of resilient on-site generation: military installations, critical facilities, industrial sites and microgrids. As the platform matures, data centers and larger behind-the-meter projects are significant prospective markets.

Customers can already buy natural-gas reciprocating generators, turbine systems, battery storage and emerging distributed-generation technologies. We will compete with established equipment and newer modular approaches, including technologies being developed by companies such as Mainspring Energy and Hyliion. Our potential differentiation is the combination of a high-power-density fuel-flexible engine, repeatable generator modules, configurable multi-module systems and automotive-informed manufacturing.

The economic proof still has to be earned

Customers ultimately buy delivered electricity, not engine novelty. The decisive metrics will be installed cost per kilowatt, net efficiency, availability, fuel cost, emissions, maintenance intervals and total cost of ownership. We are building cost models and test plans to measure these factors. Until full-system validation and production sourcing, lower-cost or higher-efficiency claims remain targets rather than established customer savings.

We intend to sell PowerCells and integrated PowerBanks through equipment buyers, infrastructure developers and system integrators. Customer relationships could later include monitoring, scheduled service, replacement modules and technical support. The initial business model is equipment sales, not a promise of recurring software revenue.

Our manufacturing strategy borrows from automotive production: design repeatable components, use established industrial suppliers, validate quality, and reduce unit cost as volumes increase. Rather than engineer a unique generator for every installation, we plan to manufacture the same qualified cells repeatedly and configure the number of modules at the site.

Bringing automotive manufacturing methods to power generation, with economies of scale as a product-design objective.

Our near-term plan emphasizes focused assembly and supplier partnerships, not building a new factory before the product and customer demand are validated. Actual pricing, margins and service intervals will depend on performance tests, design maturation and production quotes.

John Krzeminski, Founder and CEO, developed REVforce and brings more than 20 years of advanced powertrain engineering experience, including propulsion programs from design through production for automotive OEMs and FEV. Ross Cortino, Ph.D., leads controls and systems development. Alpha-Otto is a focused Michigan engineering team supported by research and industrial partners.

Capital tied to measurable milestones

Higher-output engine development Expand sustained speed and power while advancing charging, combustion control, cooling and durability.

Integrated PowerCell Combine engine, generator, power electronics and controls; prove net electrical output.

Performance validation Measure fuel use, emissions, transient response, operating stability and endurance.

Pilot readiness and manufacturing Prepare partner-site requirements, suppliers, cost models and design-for-assembly.

This community raise is one part of a broader financing strategy that may also include strategic or institutional investors and non-dilutive research support. Additional capital, customer commitments and technical testing will be required before commercial sales. A future strategic partnership or acquisition could be a possible outcome, but there is no committed exit transaction or assured investor return.

THE NEXT PROOF POINT

A complete generator that measures and sustains its claimed net electrical output, followed by independent customer-site evaluation. These milestones, not a headline power number alone, are the bridge from working engine technology to a commercial product.

The world is asking for more electricity, faster. We have a patented engine that runs, a straightforward modular generator strategy, external research validation and a clear next engineering milestone. We are building toward factory-made power generation that can grow with a customer’s needs.

The engine is our breakthrough. The PowerCell makes electricity. The PowerBank scales it.

Review the investment terms and risks in the official Wefunder offering, follow our engineering milestones, and consider joining the next chapter of Alpha-Otto Technologies.

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