For Climate Tech founders
Engineering for
Climate Tech Founders
Climate tech products live or die on data credibility — a carbon number that doesn't survive a buyer's diligence call is a dead deal. Most MVP shops treat this like any other SaaS dashboard and skip the audit trail, the unit conversions, and the methodology citations that enterprise and government buyers actually check.
Climate tech sells into long enterprise and government procurement cycles you can't compress. What you can control is how fast you get a credible pilot in front of the first buyer — the sales cycle is the bottleneck, not your engineering velocity, so every week saved on the build is a week earlier into procurement.
Stack we use
Compliance
We build to whatever MRV standard you're targeting (Verra, Gold Standard, GHG Protocol) but we're not a carbon methodology consultancy — the choice of standard and the emission factors themselves come from your team or a specialist. We build the pipeline that implements it correctly.
Engagement
from $6,000
4–8 weeks
Why climate tech builds are different
Same engagement model.
Industry-specific defaults.
We don't pretend a generic SaaS stack ships climate tech at v1. The pain points below are what most builds in your industry get wrong on the first try — we wire them correctly from commit one.
The pain points
What breaks at v1 in climate tech
Each of these is something we've watched founders get wrong on the first build. We ship the correct version on day one.
01
Carbon accounting that survives diligence
Scope 1/2/3 calculations need traceable methodology, versioned emission factors, and an audit trail back to source data. We build the data model so a buyer's sustainability team can trace a number back to its inputs, not just trust a dashboard.
02
IoT telemetry at real scale
Sensor data at production volume means backpressure, deduplication, and gap-filling for offline devices — not a websocket demo that falls over past 50 devices. We architect ingestion for the device count you'll actually have in eighteen months.
03
MRV pipelines that don't drift from the standard
Measurement, reporting, and verification frameworks (Verra, Gold Standard, or a custom methodology) change versions. We build so a methodology update doesn't mean rewriting the pipeline.
04
Dashboards built for procurement, not demo day
Enterprise and government buyers' sustainability teams want exportable, source-cited reports — not just a pretty chart. We build the export and citation layer from v1, because retrofitting it after your first RFP is expensive.
What we ship
Concretely,
by handoff.
The work you'd hand a salaried climate tech engineer — done end to end on a flat-price engagement.
- Carbon accounting engine with versioned emission factors and a traceable audit trail
- IoT ingestion pipeline sized for your real device count, with dedup and gap-filling
- MRV pipeline structured to survive a methodology version update
- Exportable, source-cited reporting for enterprise and government procurement
- Admin tooling for the data corrections your ops team will actually need
Climate Tech work we've shipped
Real founders, real shipped product
The kind of build we do for climate tech founders. Different industries, same flat-price model.
ArbVantage
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OLSP System
All-in-one affiliate marketing platform with training, traffic tools, and pre-built funnels under a single tracking pixel. Members learn lead generation and earn commissions promoting OLSP's bundled digital products.
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Campaign Refinery
Campaign Refinery is an advanced email marketing and automation platform that focuses on helping businesses send better emails, improve deliverability, and drive real engagement. It combines powerful automation, smart list management, and deep analytics to make email campaigns more effective and easier to manage.
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Common climate tech questions
Have you worked with utility or grid data APIs?
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Can you handle sensor hardware integration too?
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