Business Resilience Guide

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Prodigy exterior wildfire sprinklers running along a roofline at golden hour

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BUSINESS RESILIENCE GUIDE

PROTECT THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE BUILDING.

Permanent, engineered exterior wildfire protection for the commercial properties, operating campuses and critical assets that entire businesses stand on.

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY / OPERATIONS / ASSET RESILIENCEWestern North America · Australia

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Business Resilience Guide

THE EXPOSURE

THE SITE IS EVACUATED. THE ASSET STAYS BEHIND.

Everything the business stands on remains at the interface after the last vehicle leaves. What protects it that night was decided long before.

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THE RESPONSE

PROTECTION THAT DOES NOT LEAVE WITH THE STAFF.

Engineered roof saturation across the campus, activated from anywhere, running on its own water and its own power.

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01 · THE CONTINUITY GAPBusiness Resilience Guide

Before vs after the loss

INSURANCE RESPONDS TO A LOSS. RESILIENCE IS BUILT BEFORE ONE.

Insurance remains a critical part of managing a commercial property's financial exposure. Coverage differs by policy. Triggers differ. Limits differ. Indemnity periods differ.

The effects of wildfire can also include access, utility, smoke and customer-demand impacts that do not fit neatly into a simple “building destroyed / building rebuilt” narrative.

Prodigy's role is physical mitigation: permanent exterior wildfire protection infrastructure designed to reduce localized structure ignition risk and improve the resilience of selected physical assets. Insurance responds according to the policy when an insured loss occurs. Physical mitigation is installed before the ember arrives.

The two strategies can coexist. They do different jobs.

THE EVIDENCE

40%

of small businesses never reopen after a major disaster. When the building itself is gone, the share that never reopens climbs higher again, and a commercial rebuild is a two to three year road, not a season.

Across wildfire-exposed regions, insurers are re-underwriting, restricting or withdrawing commercial coverage, making demonstrated physical mitigation part of the insurability conversation itself.

Source: FEMA, widely cited small-business disaster recovery statistic.

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02 · THE PHYSICAL RESPONSEBusiness Resilience Guide

The engineered answer

ENGINEERED AROUND THE SITE. PERMANENTLY IN PLACE.

Prodigy designs exterior wildfire structure protection around the individual commercial property, its buildings, roofs, water, power, terrain and operating priorities.

Selected roof and exterior exposure areas are divided into engineered protection zones. Permanent sprinkler infrastructure is installed using roof-specific mounting and routing methods. Water delivery is engineered around the hydraulic requirements of the protection strategy, and critical assets can be prioritized in the site design.

The protection infrastructure is already part of the property before conditions change.

ENGINEERED PROTECTION MODEL — SAME PROPERTY, DIFFERENT LAYER

PRODIGY SYSTEM CONCEPT · PROTECTION MODEL / BRG-05

Isometric protection model — the same commercial campus with engineered gold distribution piping and roof-plane wetting coverage

Z1PRIMARY BUILDING

Z2SECONDARY OPS

Z3PRODUCTION

Z4CRITICAL PLANT + SUPPLY

MAIN DISTRIBUTIONZONE CONTROL POINTROOF-PLANE WETTING COVERAGE

Conceptual protection strategy. Final sprinkler placement, zoning, pipe routing and hydraulic design are property specific.

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03 · CONTROLBusiness Resilience Guide

Command from anywhere

WHEN CONDITIONS CHANGE, THE PROPERTY CAN RESPOND.

A protection system is only worth owning if it works on the worst day, including the day the site is cleared and nobody is left to turn a valve.

Configured Prodigy systems can be run from anywhere: remotely from a phone, locally at the panel, or automatically where the design specifies it. Wetting arrives in engineered cycles, protected surfaces stay wet while water is spent deliberately, not dumped.

MONITOR

Conditions, alerts and site status tracked as fire risk develops.

DECIDE

The operator decides when the property moves to protection posture.

ACTIVATE

Zones are activated by the chosen control path.

WET

Protected roof and exterior surfaces receive engineered wetting.

CYCLE

Smart cycles manage water while maintaining coverage.

REMOTE

Operate protection zones off-site after the property is cleared.

LOCAL

Direct on-site control at the system panel and manifold.

AUTOMATED WHERE SPECIFIED

Detection-triggered activation where the system design specifies it.

THE HUMIDITY BUBBLE

ONE BUBBLE · EVERY SURFACE PROTECTED

A BUBBLE OF MOISTURE

Ridge heads throw 30 to 50 ft of water and the eave heads wrap below them, holding the whole structure inside one continuous humidity bubble.

EMBERS DIE ON CONTACT

Embers arriving on the wind meet saturated surfaces and moist air — and go out instead of igniting.

EVERY SURFACE, AT ONCE

Roof planes, walls, decks and undersides stay wet together. There is no dry corner for fire to find.

HELD FOR HOURS

Engineered cycles keep the bubble standing on stored water, hour after hour.

The humidity bubble: ridge heads throwing 30 to 50 ft of water with the eave heads wrapping below them, holding the structure inside one continuous envelope of moisture that embers cannot survive.

STRUCTURE PROTECTION ONLY

Prodigy wildfire systems are designed to protect structures and selected property assets. They are not life-safety systems and never replace emergency direction.

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04 · WATER + POWERBusiness Resilience Guide

The system behind the heads

THE SPRINKLERS ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE SYSTEM BEHIND THEM.

Exterior protection is a hydraulic and electrical system, not a set of heads on a roof.

Prodigy assesses the available water and power environment as part of every commercial design. Where required, dedicated storage, approved site water sources, pumping and pressure management, filtration and backup power form part of the engineered architecture.

The configuration must match the property, source availability, water quality, permitting and hydraulic performance are assessed for the individual site.

COMMERCIAL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

WATER SOURCE

DEDICATED STORAGE

POOL / RESERVE

APPROVED SITE WATER

WELL

MUNICIPAL

PUMPING

PUMP PACKAGE

VFD / PRESSURE CONTROL

FILTRATION WHERE REQUIRED

VALVING

PRESSURE MANAGEMENT

ZONE HYDRAULICS

ENGINEERED FLOW

INSTRUMENTATION

CONTROL MANIFOLD

ZONE CONTROL

LOCAL OVERRIDE

CONNECTED CONTROL

DETECTION INPUT WHERE SPECIFIED

PROTECTION ZONES

PRIMARY BUILDING

SECONDARY OPS

STAFF + SERVICE

CRITICAL PLANT

POWER RESILIENCE

Backup generation and independent power configurations support pumping and control when grid supply is interrupted — assessed and specified per property.

POWER RESILIENCE IS PART OF THE DESIGN. A SYSTEM THAT DIES WITH THE GRID IS NOT A SYSTEM.

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05 · THE EXECUTIVE VIEWBusiness Resilience Guide

Four chairs, one answer

THE SAME WILDFIRE. FOUR DIFFERENT BUSINESS QUESTIONS.

Wildfire exposure reads differently from every chair in the organization. A credible resilience strategy has to answer all four at once.

ROLE

THE QUESTION + CONCERN

THE PRODIGY RESPONSE

GENERAL MANAGER

"Can we keep operating through fire season?"

Guest and customer commitments, staffing continuity, the operating calendar and the property’s public confidence during a regional fire event.

Yes, with a system already installed before the season opens. Your roofs, walls and decks can be put under a humidity bubble in minutes, from a phone, without pulling staff onto a roof. You keep trading on your own plan instead of waiting on a shared water tender that may be three valleys away.

OWNER / ASSET MANAGER

"What is the real exposure of this asset?"

Capital value, insurability trajectory, revenue dependency on physical structures and the cost of extended interruption, not only rebuild cost.

We quantify it building by building. You receive an engineered assessment showing which structures carry the operation, where they ignite first, and what protecting them costs against the two to three year rebuild road behind a total loss. It is a one time capital item you can put in front of a board and an underwriter.

PROPERTY MANAGER

"What happens when the site is under alert?"

Access restrictions, tenant and occupant communication, site readiness and who can act when the property must be cleared.

People leave, protection stays. The system runs remotely from anywhere with signal, locally at the panel before you go, or automatically where the design specifies it. Named people hold the controls, so there is never a question of who is driving back through a roadblock to turn a valve.

FACILITIES MANAGER

"Can this actually be maintained?"

Water supply, pump and power reality, winterization, testing cadence and how a protection system fits the existing plant.

It is built around the plant you already run. We size to your real water and power, add storage, pumping or backup generation only where the hydraulics demand it, then commission it in front of you. You are handed drawings, a winterization procedure and a yearly test schedule, and we service it like any other building system.

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06 · COMMERCIAL SCALEBusiness Resilience Guide

Built for every scale

ONE STRUCTURE. OR AN ENTIRE OPERATING CAMPUS.

Prodigy commercial systems scale from a single critical structure to a multi-building operating campus, engineered as one protection architecture. If the operation depends on it, it can be protected.

RESORTS + LODGES

Destination properties where the season itself is the inventory.

WINERIES + ESTATES

Production, inventory and visitor operations on one exposed site.

INDUSTRIAL + UTILITIES

Critical plant where interruption cost dwarfs structure cost.

TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE

Lifts, base facilities and access assets a region depends on.

INDUSTRIAL + UTILITIES, where a substation, mill or processing plant is interrupted, the cost is measured in regional service, contract penalties and restart time, not drywall. These sites are engineered with redundant water, power and control as the default, not the upgrade.

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07 · THE BUSINESS CASEBusiness Resilience Guide

The dependency network

THE QUESTION IS NOT: WHAT DOES THE BUILDING COST?

WHAT DEPENDS ON IT?

A commercial structure sits at the centre of a dependency network: bookings, revenue, staff, inventory, operations, utilities, customer confidence and seasonal capacity.

One physical disruption can move through every pathway at once. That is the exposure a resilience strategy is actually protecting.

16%

of surveyed BC tourism businesses reported closing for at least one day because of a natural hazard in 2024, with wildfire including smoke the most common reported cause among those closures.

Source: Destination BC Tourism Climate Adaptation and Environmental Sustainability Survey, 2025.

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08 · ENGINEERED COVERAGEBusiness Resilience Guide

Arithmetic before hardware

COVERAGE IS ARITHMETIC. NOT OPTIMISM.

Every Prodigy layout begins with arithmetic, not hardware. Ridge-mounted heads throw 30 to 50 feet of water to create a humidity bubble over the roof planes. Eave-mounted heads wrap the walls and undersides below them. Spaced so every arc overlaps the next, the two rings work as one system, holding a single bubble of moisture over the whole structure.

The result is a roof that can be made wet, all of it, on command, without a single person standing on it.

IF THE ARCS DO NOT OVERLAP ON PAPER, THEY WILL NOT OVERLAP ON THE ROOF.

THE COVERAGE MATH

RIDGE RING + EAVE RING · ONE SYSTEM

4 RIDGE HEADS

One at each end of the building plus 40 ft centres, throwing 30 to 50 ft of water to hold a humidity bubble over both roof planes.

8 EAVE HEADS

25 ft coverage on 35 ft centres, wrapping the walls, decks and eaves where embers collect.

2 OVERLAPPING RINGS

Every square foot of roof plane sits inside at least one arc. Most sit inside two.

0 GAPS

Coverage is proven on the drawing before a single bracket is mounted.

The coverage plan for a 120-foot commercial roofline: four ridge heads at 40-foot centres with one at each end of the building, eave heads at 35-foot centres, every arc overlapping the next. No gaps. No guesswork.

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Business Resilience Guide

THE DECISION

EVERY UNPROTECTED SEASON IS ALSO A DECISION.

Somebody in the organization owns this risk. The only question is whether they own it before the ridge glows, or after.

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09 · PROVEN IN THE FIELDBusiness Resilience Guide

Proven in the field

ALREADY STANDING GUARD ON OPERATIONS LIKE YOURS.

A representative Prodigy commercial installation: a multi-building operating campus at the wildland interface, with critical plant, inventory and an operating calendar that cannot absorb a lost quarter.

The site was walked, mapped and engineered as one protection architecture, priority structures zoned, water delivery sized to the hydraulic plan, and control paths that keep working after the site is cleared.

STRUCTURES ASSESSED

ENGINEERED ZONES

100%

PRIORITY ROOF COVERAGE

INDEPENDENT CONTROL PATHS

“Our insurer asked what mitigation was in place at renewal. This year, we sent them the engineering.”

ASSET MANAGER · PROTECTED COMMERCIAL CAMPUS

THE INVESTMENT, IN OPERATING TERMS

ONE LOST OPERATING WEEK

Interrupted production, idle payroll, contract penalties and customers who quietly re-source, operating time that never comes back.

A PERMANENT SYSTEM

A one-time capital investment in engineered property infrastructure, typically a fraction of a single lost operating week, standing guard every season after.

SYSTEM LEAD TIME VS FIRE SEASON

REPRESENTATIVE TIMELINE · SCOPE-DEPENDENT

ASSESS

WKS 1-2

ENGINEER

WKS 3-6

INSTALL

WKS 7-8

COMMISSION

WK 9

FIRE SEASON

THE SYSTEM STANDS GUARD

Assessment inside two weeks, most installs measured in days on site, commissioned before the season starts. It begins with a conversation this quarter.

Representative project profile, details simplified and anonymized. Every Prodigy system is engineered to its own site, water and power environment.

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Prodigy exterior wildfire sprinklers wetting the rooflines of a commercial campus

10 · THE PROCESS

FIRST, UNDERSTAND THE PROPERTY.

A commercial resilience engagement does not begin with a standard sprinkler package. It begins with the site, the operation and what actually depends on it, then it is engineered, installed and commissioned as permanent property infrastructure.

01COMMERCIAL RISK REVIEWOperating model, dependencies and exposure priorities.

02SITE + INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENTStructures, roof geometry, water, power, access and terrain.

03SYSTEM ENGINEERINGZoning, hydraulics, routing and control architecture for the property.

04INSTALLATIONPermanent, roof-specific mounting and disciplined pipe routing.

05COMMISSIONINGTested, documented and demonstrated on the real site.

06OPERATIONAL HANDOVERControl training, maintenance regime and documentation.

PROTECT THE OPERATION BEFORE THE SEASON DEPENDS ON IT.

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Prodigy systems are designed for structure protection and wildfire mitigation. They are not life-safety or occupant-protection systems, do not override evacuation orders and must not be relied upon to protect occupants. System performance depends on the engineered configuration, available water and power, maintenance and wildfire conditions.

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