Strategic capital advisory across the full project lifecycle — site selection through commercial operation. $20B+ of project value, soup to nuts.
Anybody can write a grant. Is that the business we're in? No. We're strategic capital advisors for projects that have to actually get built — across ports, transportation and logistics, energy, and infrastructure. Site selection, capital structuring, federal and state funding, M&A integration, operational standup. Twenty years and more than $20 billion in project value behind it.
Economic Development & Funding is how most clients first walk in: federal grants, state incentives, PILOT programs, tax credits. That work is real, and we win it. But the practice is the depth behind it — what we do once we know your project, your market, your capital stack, and what you're actually trying to build.
The grant work specifically runs on Prosody Labs' AI-fluency methodology where it earns its keep. See the live dashboard analyzing the full FY25 PIDP program — all 37 awards and $774.1M in federal funding — the methodology in production, with the proof public.
An independent, rubric-anchored review — three weeks from the deadline — that found seven scoring gaps, including the one-point shortfall that decided automatic advancement. The county filed complete, on time, and knew exactly what it was signing its name to.
How we rebuilt a federal PIDP port application in three weeks, from debrief to submission — anchored by persistent project memory, primary-source research, and verified math, with AI fluency solving the quantitative safety case these awards turn on.
A $17M terminal modernization grant for a Midwest river-logistics operator — won on speed and rigor with AI fluency parsing the rubric, reconciling the data, and running the math. Same discipline, different proving ground.
For organizations pursuing large projects that depend on public capital and incentives to pencil.
We identify the right grants, incentives, PILOT programs, tax credits (including NMTC), TIF, and rebate programs; we read the rules with the rigor of a lawyer who also closes deals; and we build the proposal, narrative, and economic case the program actually scores against.
For organizations with a project idea and a long road between the idea and a working asset.
Site selection, negotiation, structuring, capital sourcing, regulatory navigation, and operational standup. Twenty years and more than $20B of project value, applied to ports, infrastructure, energy, and operating assets.
For projects, operating companies, or acquisitions that need debt, equity, or hybrid capital structured correctly the first time.
Investment banking discipline (built at EAA/EAS), executive operating discipline (from Tyr Energy and Aquila), and a practicing attorney's read on what the documents actually say. Capital sourcing, structuring, and lender and investor relations.
For acquirers and operating companies who have closed the deal and now have to make the asset run.
The post-deal work where most acquisitions actually break. Integration planning and execution across ports, logistics, and operating assets — the phase that decides whether the asset you own is the asset you modeled.
We don't show up with a financing structure looking for a project. The work starts with what the client is trying to build, what's already standing in the way, and what's actually at stake. The right program, the right capital stack, the right narrative — those come after the problem is named.
Federal grant programs, state incentive programs, tax-credit rules, and lender terms reward teams who actually read the rules. We do. We map every requirement to every section we draft, and we don't write paragraphs that don't earn points.
The budget that reaches the application or the lender ties out to a single workbook. Total project cost, federal request, local match, sources and uses — all reconciled, all defensible, all backed by exhibits a reviewer can audit.
Projects don't always end at submission. When you want us there, we stay through award, agreement negotiation, draw schedules, compliance support, and whatever else the project needs — sometimes handing off once the award is won, sometimes staying through commercial operation. The work is closing the project, not just winning the grant.
The grants that move infrastructure forward.
Ports, terminals, inland waterways, surface transportation. The work is federal grant strategy and capital structuring for projects that have to actually break ground — and the grants that fund them are not the kind of thing engineers can write in their spare time. Prosody has anchored its current cycle of work here: port-infrastructure grants, terminal modernization, capital deployment for projects measured in the tens to hundreds of millions.
Funding strategy for the people who actually feed the country.
Ag producers, ag-tech operators, co-ops, agribusiness CFOs, USDA program participants. The work spans federal and state funding strategy, project financing for scale-up and capital investment, and the M&A integration support that happens when a co-op or operating company gets bigger than its current structure. Prosody's relationships span CFORT, CoBank, NGFA, and state ag programs across Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa.
For federal, state, and local programs that fund the next round of public infrastructure.
The government practice spans two adjacent lanes: economic development and funding strategy for projects with public-sector funding partners (federal grants, state incentives, PILOT programs, tax credits), and strategic advisory for public agencies and authorities themselves. Prosody authored the Opportunity Zone 2.0 nominations for five Illinois regional port districts — 18 census tracts of QROF-eligible ground — and maintains working relationships with the port districts and authorities that govern development on it. Federal infrastructure cycles, state economic-development priorities, and local capital structures all touch one another; Prosody handles the project-development work that makes all three add up.
For PE firms managing portfolios in an AI-dominated divestiture market — and institutional investors looking for placeable projects.
Private equity is sitting on hold-period companies that aren't AI and aren't easy to exit. The market wants AI exposure; the portfolio doesn't have it. Prosody works with PE firms on three fronts: PMO function for hold-period challenges in non-AI portfolio companies, capital augmentation to extend runway or restructure debt, and exit advisory when the path forward is a strategic sale or recapitalization. We also work with institutional investors and Opportunity Zone funds seeking deal flow in the Mississippi River Basin: Prosody authored the OZ 2.0 nominations for five Illinois regional port districts (18 census tracts) and maintains working relationships with the port districts and authorities that govern development on that QROF-eligible ground. Charles's background — twenty years of project development, M&A integration at Tyr Energy, investment banking through EAA/EAS, and securities-licensed practicing attorney — maps to what sponsors and investors actually need.
Engineering, environmental studies, or transaction counsel — when your project needs them, we say so early and help you find the right firm. And we won't tell you a weak project is a strong one. If the math doesn't work, we'll say so before you spend a dollar.
Send us the NOFO, the term sheet, or the one-pager. Within 48 hours we'll tell you whether it's worth your money — and if it isn't, we'll say that too.