Domande Frequenti
A cinghiale digs because it wants to. A tunnel boring machine digs because you paid for it. We aligned incentives: our machines want to. Give a cinghiale a hillside and it will produce a trench by lunch, entirely unpaid, purely out of spite for your garden.
Extremely. That is the entire product. We simply do it with better lighting, better coffee, and a snout.
Our current TBM, CINGHIALE-1 (nicknamed 'Nonna'), advances roughly one snail per hour — a snail being our proprietary unit of tunneling velocity. That is approximately 14x faster than the Italian permitting process, which remains our primary engineering bottleneck.
Bricks, obviously. Every meter of tunnel yields enough spoil for 4,300 terracotta tiles, one small hilltop village, and a shockingly good tomato bed. Surplus soil is sold as Autentica Terra Toscana in tastefully branded jars.
Yes. Truffle recovery is not the mission but it has become the more profitable half of the business. Revenue split last quarter: 38% tunnels, 62% tartufo. We are, technically, a food company with a hole-digging problem.
Safer than Italian surface traffic, which is our benchmark and also a very low bar. Tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight, and cannot be double-parked in. Each cinghiale wears a certified hard hat that it removes the moment nobody is watching.
Pressure equalization. Also morale. Early prototypes without the snort feature suffered a 100% crew resignation rate.
You can queue for one. The Roma Loop opens 'presto' — a legally non-binding Italian time unit ranging from six weeks to one geological epoch.
Less than a high-speed rail line, more than a scooter. We accept euros, favors, and mid-tier Barolo. A deposit of one wheel of Parmigiano secures your place in the excavation calendar.
Constantly. We need geotechnical engineers, tunnel electricians, and roughly forty more boars. Boars apply by simply showing up at the portal and refusing to leave — a process we have found impossible to improve.
I Fondatori
Two men, one shovel, and an unshakeable belief that the fastest way across Italy is straight through it.
Co-Fondatore & Capo Scavatore
Grew up being told not to dig holes. Did it anyway. Now oversees every snout-first descent under the Apennines and personally approves each tunnel's espresso pressure rating.
Co-Fondatore & Direttore dei Tartufi
Handles the part of the business that is technically mushrooms. Converts unauthorized truffle discoveries into shareholder value and keeps the herd calm during rush hour.
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