Prescient Co. Inc. was a United States construction-technology and manufacturing company that sold an integrated design, engineering, manufacturing and assembly platform for multi-unit buildings — apartments, condominiums, student and military dormitories, hotels and senior-living communities. Its product was the patented Prescient Solution built on the Unified Truss Construction System (UTCS), a light-gauge steel structural framing system manufactured off-site in panelised components and assembled on-site, marketed as a faster, greener and lower-cost alternative to conventional cast-in-place and wood-frame structures at heights up to roughly twelve stories. The "technology" in the offering was internal design-automation software that linked architectural design, structural engineering, factory manufacturing and field assembly into one digital model; it was delivered as a design-build service to real-estate developers and general contractors, never as a product a third party could integrate with. Founded in 2012 (some sources list 2013) and headquartered in North Carolina — Charlotte, later Durham — with manufacturing in Mebane, North Carolina and Arvada, Colorado, the company raised a large private round stack including a $40M Series D and a Series E led by Eldridge Industries at a reported $650M valuation; publicly reported lifetime totals disagree, with EquityZen listing $103M and Crunchbase reporting roughly $375M through Series G. The company contracted sharply: the Mebane plant closed in 2022 with 83 jobs cut, 50 Arvada jobs were cut in April 2023, and a Colorado WARN notice filed on 31 August 2023 announced the permanent closure of the Arvada plant and a further 60 jobs, stating that upon conclusion of the shutdown activities the company would be closed. Prescient never operated a public developer program, API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable specification, and prescientco.com has since passed out of the company's control. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
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aid: prescient
name: Prescient
description: 'Prescient Co. Inc. was a United States construction-technology and manufacturing company that sold an integrated
design, engineering, manufacturing and assembly platform for multi-unit buildings — apartments, condominiums, student and
military dormitories, hotels and senior-living communities. Its product was the patented Prescient Solution built on the
Unified Truss Construction System (UTCS), a light-gauge steel structural framing system manufactured off-site in panelised
components and assembled on-site, marketed as a faster, greener and lower-cost alternative to conventional cast-in-place
and wood-frame structures at heights up to roughly twelve stories. The "technology" in the offering was internal design-automation
software that linked architectural design, structural engineering, factory manufacturing and field assembly into one digital
model; it was delivered as a design-build service to real-estate developers and general contractors, never as a product
a third party could integrate with. Founded in 2012 (some sources list 2013) and headquartered in North Carolina — Charlotte,
later Durham — with manufacturing in Mebane, North Carolina and Arvada, Colorado, the company raised a large private round
stack including a $40M Series D and a Series E led by Eldridge Industries at a reported $650M valuation; publicly reported
lifetime totals disagree, with EquityZen listing $103M and Crunchbase reporting roughly $375M through Series G. The company
contracted sharply: the Mebane plant closed in 2022 with 83 jobs cut, 50 Arvada jobs were cut in April 2023, and a Colorado
WARN notice filed on 31 August 2023 announced the permanent closure of the Arvada plant and a further 60 jobs, stating that
upon conclusion of the shutdown activities the company would be closed. Prescient never operated a public developer program,
API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable specification, and prescientco.com has since passed out of the company''s
control. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/prescient/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2012'
x-headquarters: Durham, North Carolina, United States
x-shutdown-date: '2023-08-31'
x-shutdown-note: Colorado WARN notice filed 31 August 2023 for the Arvada, CO plant at 14401 W. 65th Way eliminated 60 jobs
and stated the action was permanent and that upon conclusion of the shutdown activities the company would be closed. It
followed 50 Arvada layoffs in April 2023 and the 2022 closure of the Mebane, NC plant (83 jobs). No successor entity, acquisition
or restart has been found.
x-domain-status: reassigned
x-domain-note: prescientco.com was the company's website while it operated and is no longer controlled by Prescient. The apex
now 301s to https://www.mellonaid.com/, an unrelated site, and the TLS certificate served on the host is issued to CN=mellonaid.com
(SANs mellonaid.com, www.mellonaid.com only), so HTTPS to prescientco.com fails hostname verification. Every other path
returns that site's ~40.5KB HTML 404, identical in shape for a control path that cannot exist. It is NOT the Prescient company
site and is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer. See well-known/prescient-well-known.yml for the full probe.
x-venue-listings:
- venue: Forge Global
url: https://forgeglobal.com/prescient_stock/
status: 403
note: 'Secondary-market share listing, live but behind a Cloudflare bot challenge for our crawler. Recorded here rather
than as a common[] Website pointer: a trading-venue listing page is a third party''s page about the company, not the company''s
own web presence, and wiring it as Website credits discoverability for a site that does not exist (roadmap#56).'
- venue: EquityZen
url: https://equityzen.com/company/prescient/
status: 200
note: Secondary-market share listing. Source of the harvest entry and of the company description cross-check; not a Prescient-controlled
property.
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Construction
- Construction Technology
- Building Technology
- Prefabrication
- Modular Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real-Estate
- Multifamily Housing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Construction
- Construction Technology
- Building Technology
- Prefabrication
- Modular Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real Estate
- Multifamily Housing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common: []
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Prescient Co. Inc. wound down after an August 2023 Colorado WARN filing that said the company would be closed once
the Arvada plant shutdown finished, and prescientco.com has since been reassigned — it 301s to the unrelated www.mellonaid.com,
serves that site's TLS certificate, and answers every /.well-known/, /openapi.json and /llms.txt path with that site's
404 — while 1,872 archived URLs spanning the domain's entire history contain no API, docs, portal, swagger or SDK path,
only a WordPress marketing site whose sole JSON route was WordPress core's own /wp-json/oembed.
evidence:
- url: https://prescientco.com/
status: 301
- url: https://prescientco.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://prescientco.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://prescientco.com/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=prescientco.com&matchType=domain
status: 200
- url: https://equityzen.com/company/prescient/
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-26'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-26'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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