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PHASE 1 · INSTITUTIONAL
Signature / Private AGO
Premium and customized water for hospitality, corporate, institutional and private-label customers.
Higher-value recurring B2B productionInvestor overview · Borderplex
An integrated beverage platform.
Built around water.
Agave & Orchard combines beverage processing, proprietary packaging, automated bottling, brand development and multiple routes to market within one operating platform.
PHASE 1
Purified and alkaline water
The investment thesis
Water is the entry point.
The platform is the asset.
Phase I focuses on customized institutional water, regional retail water and four automated water-and-ice locations. Its illustrative financial scenarios include ramp-up costs and protected working capital; performance depends on actual sales and execution. The same manufacturing, packaging and distribution base can support future beverage categories.
The Phase I financial case relies on water. Additional beverages and capacity follow validated demand.
The AUTARKY advantage
Margin through control of the production chain.
AGO is designed around operational self-sufficiency with capital discipline. Instead of purchasing finished bottles, closures and processed product through multiple intermediaries, AGO controls critical stages internally.
Water treatmentBeverage processingPreforms & closuresBottle blowingFilling & labelingPackaging & distribution
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PHASE 1 · REGIONAL RETAIL
WW WAVE WATER
A lightweight proprietary bottle platform designed for regional volume and competitive wholesale economics.
Local production and logistics advantage03
PHASE 1 · DIRECT TO CONSUMER
Daylight Water & Ice
Four remotely monitored 24/7 locations serving an essential need close to the communities they support.
Recurring consumer transactions04
PHASE 2 · PORTFOLIO EXPANSION
Beyond Water
A higher-capacity water line can serve established accounts while the existing line focuses on PURE85 fruit-pulp beverages and FRUTALIA aguas frescas, subject to validation.
Growth through shared infrastructureREGIONAL ADVANTAGE
PROXIMITY
Water is heavy and freight matters. AGO does not need to outscale national producers; it is designed to compete with the cost of serving the Borderplex.
Control more. Transport less.
Integrated beverage capability
Phase 1 limits the portfolio—not the plant.
AGO’s current integrated bottling line and MKF module are already configured for water, natural fruit pulps and infusions. Phase I sales projections rely on purified and alkaline water.
01Water treatment and controlled quality
02In-house preforms, closures and bottle blowing
03Integrated filling, labeling and palletizing
04Digital production and lot traceability
A purpose-built stainless-steel processing system developed for AGO by MKF, a manufacturer specializing in brewery equipment. It adapts proven liquid-processing principles to alkaline formulations, aguas frescas, natural fruit pulps and future specialty beverages.
One platform. Four routes to market.
Products that open accounts.
Categories that expand them.
Each channel has a different sales cycle, but all share the same manufacturing base. AGO does not depend on every revenue stream maturing at the same time.
PHASE 1 · CUSTOMIZED B2B
Signature Collection
Proprietary premium bottles and Brand Kit development for qualified hospitality, corporate and institutional customers.
PHASE 1 · REGIONAL RETAIL
WW WAVE WATER
High-frequency regional volume supported by lightweight packaging, local production and disciplined capacity expansion.
PHASE 1 · COMMUNITY RETAIL
Daylight
Four automated locations for purified water, ice and AGO bottled products, with advance customer purchases and public sales.
PHASE 2 · PROVEN CATEGORY EXPERIENCE
Mezcladita
An artisanal mezcal-based liqueur/RTD made in Mexico with certified Denomination of Origin mezcal, natural fruit pulp and botanical infusions.
PHASE 2 · BEVERAGES
PURE85
Beverages made with stabilized natural fruit pulps, planned for production on AGO’s existing integrated line after product validation.
PHASE 2 · NON-ALCOHOLIC
FRUTALIA
Aguas frescas presented across AGO’s two packaging platforms: Signature for restaurant and hospitality channels, and a lightweight WAVE format planned for K–12, subject to finished-product nutrition, labeling and food-safety validation.
PHASE 2 · CONCEPT IN DEVELOPMENT
OzO
An AGO brand concept planned for future registration, importation and U.S. market activation, subject to applicable approvals.Private AGO
Premium water by the pallet.
PRIVATE AGO bridges high-volume retail water and a fully customized Signature production run. Smaller hospitality and commercial customers gain a differentiated premium presentation without committing to a complete customized run.
PHASE 1 · DIRECT TO CONSUMER
DAYLIGHT
PROGRAM
High-volume water and ice retail with a community-access mission.
Four automated 24/7 Borderplex locations offering purified water, ice and AGO bottled products. Member activation brings cash into AGO before the product is consumed, helping fund the early launch period.
MEMBER WATER PRICE$20 for 100 gallons$0.20 per gallon
OPERATING MODEL
Customer payments arrive in advance; the cash-flow model reserves for the cost of fulfilling prepaid water use. Members can also buy AGO bottled water at prices close to wholesale. That added value gives them another reason to return and reload.
DAYLIGHT · ARTIST-DESIGNED LOCATIONS
Distinctive water kiosks, designed for their communities.
Each container can become a public-facing artwork. These concepts show two color directions for the regional rock-art theme.
Public access
Walk-up customers can purchase water, ice and bottled products.
Prepaid access and member value
The $20 member activation provides 100 gallons at $0.20 per gallon. Member pricing on AGO bottled water adds value and encourages repeat visits and future reloads.
“The more families Daylight serves, the stronger the business becomes.”
Execution discipline
Designed before the first production order.
The manager issues the manufacturing plan. Team check-in, CIP, equipment readiness, mold and format changes, laboratory release, warehouse identification and pallet handling are coordinated through a binary workflow and visible operating signals.
From customer request to coordinated production and confirmed delivery.
Conceptual representation of AGO’s planned operating model and projected infrastructure.
PLANNED OPERATING MODEL
Shared tablets, production alerts, cameras and lot histories keep every station prepared for the next changeover.
Plan ahead
Each technician prepares the next station; maintenance verifies the following day’s equipment.
Change efficiently
Pre-staged molds, labels, components and cobot instructions are designed to keep format changes under thirty minutes.
Document every lot
Checks, laboratory results, inputs and finished-product identification create a traceable production history.
External technical recognition
A proposed Mexico–U.S. line selected as a featured manufacturer project.
Brenu, the equipment manufacturer developing AGO’s proposed bottling-line configuration, selected the project as a featured Mexico–U.S. case on its corporate website.
The published case highlights a flexible production system designed for approximately 3,500–4,000 bottles per hour, multiple PET formats, purified water and future pulp-containing beverages, together with water treatment, CIP, integrated labeling, North American maintenance planning and operator training.
The featured bottling line is the starting point—not the limit of the factory. AGO’s complete platform is designed to extend beyond the initial equipment project through in-house packaging and label production, automation, customer-brand development, regional retail and Daylight.
AGO remains in development and financing. Final specifications, procurement, factory acceptance testing, installation and commissioning will follow funding and facility readiness. View Brenu’s project feature ↗Regulatory and market experience
A new U.S. facility—not a new operating group.
AGO’s facility-specific registrations and permits will begin after funding and site control. The founding group, however, has prior experience with certified mezcal production, FDA facility registration, applicable TTB processes, cross-border movement and retail placement of Mezcladita in Texas.
This experience does not replace future AGO permits. It materially reduces the execution learning curve.
MEZCLADITA · PREVIOUS U.S. RETAIL PLACEMENTMultiple flavors have already reached Texas retail shelves alongside established mezcal and spirits brands.
ARTISAN LOT CONTROLNatural variation in fruit pulp, sugar and pH can create batch-specific alcohol concentration. Each batch is measured, documented and released with its verified result.
Capital discipline
Productive assets. Facility stability. Protected liquidity.
AGO seeks US$1.3 million for Phase I: a US$900,000 equipment ceiling, US$200,000 for prepaid first-year facility rent and US$200,000 of protected opening working capital. Supplier quotations and delivered costs remain subject to reconciliation before purchase commitments.
Currently listed equipment totals US$843,090.86, leaving US$56,909.14 within the equipment ceiling for the printer and integration costs still to be priced. Provisional tariff exposure of US$137,041.24 is tracked separately and has no assigned funding line in this request; its classification, timing and funding will be confirmed before purchases.01Manufacturing & packagingBottling, injection molding, tooling and automation
02Water & beverage processingTreatment, MKF processing and quality systems
03Daylight infrastructureFour modified reefer-container retail locations
04Facility occupancy reserveFirst-year plant rent funded separately from working capital
05Protected working capitalA disciplined operating runway during ramp-up
Economics and risk
Total capability—not isolated machine price.
Manufacturing margin
In-house bottles, closures and labels give AGO more direct control over input costs and reduce exposure to finished-component supplier markups. Unit economics and sales assumptions are available for Phase II verification.
Landed-cost discipline
Current equipment planning uses a provisional 40.6% tariff rate for the items with calculable estimates. Actual customs classification, applicable rates, timing and funding require confirmation with the customs broker before purchases. No FTZ status or duty exemption is assumed.
Equipment risk
Before critical imported equipment ships, AGO plans factory acceptance checks, operating demonstrations, documentation, spares and compatibility verification across machines and molds.
Professional compliance
Facility, customs, FTZ, food and alcohol requirements will be handled with qualified specialists. Where a payment, duty or tax applies, AGO plans and pays it.
Investor structure
Shared upside without permanent dilution.
AGO proposes debt financing with 7% annual interest plus a commission on eligible bottles sold and collected. The commission rewards creditors as bottled-product sales grow without issuing shares or diluting ownership.
For 60 months, the proposed commission is US$0.01 per Signature Collection or PRIVATE AGO bottle and US$0.005 per WW WAVE WATER bottle sold and collected. Bulk Daylight water and ice are excluded; eligible AGO bottled products sold through Daylight may qualify when separately tracked and collected. AGO reports qualifying sales and collections by the 10th of each month and pays commissions by the 15th. Definitive terms govern.
Interest is scheduled; commissions depend on actual qualifying collections and are not guaranteed.
A two-stage investor process
Enough to decide whether to continue. Details after NDA.
AGO is presenting this opportunity to a select group of investors. The objective is to build long-term capital relationships while protecting the work behind the project.
Initial review
Products, operating model, US$1.3 million financing request, proposed return, illustrative Phase I financial scenarios and separately tracked provisional tariff exposure.
Mutual NDA
Executed before detailed management, sourcing, customer-acquisition and execution discussions.
Confidential diligence
Complete financial model, unit economics, quotations, suppliers, equipment specifications, tariff exposure, facility information, software and supporting documents.
Refresh and reconcile
Pricing, freight, duties, exchange rates, lead times, facility costs and final terms are updated before funding.
Timing considerations
Disciplined review.
Decisive execution.
The product families, manufacturing approach and initial equipment requirements are defined. Financing now supports facility selection, final equipment decisions and Daylight deployment. AGO will reconcile tariffs and total installed cost before committing to purchases.
Daylight sales are planned around month 4. Equipment installation and testing occur in month 4, technical training in month 5, and plant bottled-product sales begin in month 6, subject to commissioning. The debt schedule has interest-only payments in months 1–4 and scheduled principal repayment from month 5.
Ready for Round 2?
A water business with four channels.
Built for disciplined expansion.
Qualified investors may request confidential access. A mutual NDA is required before detailed strategy and diligence materials are released.