About Us
Making Subsurface Intelligence Accessible
Passive Water Intelligence LLC was founded on a simple premise: every water district, dam owner, and mine operator deserves affordable, continuous subsurface monitoring.
Our Mission
We make continuous subsurface water intelligence affordable and accessible. Traditional monitoring methods require expensive drilling, periodic manual measurements, and leave dangerous blind spots between observation wells.
PWI deploys networks of low-cost passive sensors that capture mechanical response and other subsurface signal data — and extracts actionable intelligence about what's happening underground, continuously and spatially.
Our technology costs 10–100x less than conventional approaches, requires no drilling or permits, and delivers more information from a single sensor than an entire observation well network.
By the Numbers
Our Team
Michael Jessop
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Inventor of the PMRI passive mechanical response analysis platform. Has deployed 12 field surveys across 6 US states with 467 sensors, proving the technology across gold, oil & gas, water, geothermal, and structural applications.
Aaron Mattson
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer
Leads business development, field deployment operations, and commercial strategy. Manages survey logistics and sensor deployment coordination across multiple active field campaigns.
Two Companies, One Platform
PWI — Passive Water Intelligence
Water and environmental monitoring services. Aquifer monitoring, dam safety, mine water management, geothermal, and environmental contamination tracking. Subscription-based SaaS model.
PMRI — Passive Mechanical Response Inversion
Mineral exploration and oil & gas technology platform. Gold, copper, lithium, oil, hydrogen, and helium detection. The core analysis engine powering both companies.
Milestones
First field deployments across multiple western US sites
Expanded to 12 active surveys across 6 US states
467 sensors deployed across 12 active surveys
Passive Water Intelligence LLC registered in Utah
Machine learning classifier achieves 100% accuracy across 12 geological contexts
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We're looking for partners in water districts, dam operators, and mining companies.
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