Introduction
Our mission is to become the premier World Ecosystem Hub for carbon and biocredits origination and purchase transactions. In doing so, I wanted to make a positive impact on Earth by architecting a digital platform for high integrity carbon deals, while adding value to farmers' parcels and building climate resilient farms. As an ecologist and software engineer, I was raised in a coffee farm over the highlands Andes of Colombia. This hands-on experience harvesting coffee berries and exchanging dreams and insights with growers about thriving in rapidly changing climates drove my purpose of a AI carbon digital platform.
My overarching inspiration was to devise a fair sharing benefits model with the sale of carbon credits among coffee growers that would balance out people, planet, and profit. This is when Great Geometer Software was established to develop an interoperable carbon ecosystem hub (MVP in progress) to originate and trade land-use carbon credits by harnessing the power of world-wide geospatial digital transformation. As a result, companies need to offset their carbon footprints and farmers need the cash to run forest conservation, landscape connectivity, reforestation of degraded and deforested ecosystems.
Success to Date
- We created a software architecture under AWS Well Architected Framework, presently in a Proof of Concept (POC) stage
- We partnered with Ecotropics, a non-profit which develops land-use and nature based biodiversity and carbon credits projects, to co-work our digital product journey.
- Our founder, Jose A Restrepo has architected digital products such as the Inter American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN), NASA GCMD Earth sciences, Ford Global Showroom e-Commerce, NutrienAg Solutions carbon Agrible for North American growers, Epic Games achievements platform, Peardeck K-12 e-learning by Go Guardian and many more.
- As a co- founder of Ecotropics, Jose A Restrepo, has inked deals with Swiss firms to develop carbon credit projects on Nature Based Solutions in Colombia, South America. We originated and developed project REDD+ listed 47 in Ecoregistry by using Cercarbono standards and third party auditing by Versa. To learn more, click here.
Problem
In an era where our digital footprint and transportation grows larger by the day, an innovative carbon credits start-up is turning the tide on tech-related liaison between supply and demand of carbon credits. But how exactly does GGS address the challenges faced by environmentally conscious consumers in our increasingly digital world as well as their transportation?
Your Emails Have a Carbon Footprint
Did you know that sending just one email produces about 4 grams of CO2? With over 300 billion emails sent daily, that's a staggering 1.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released into our atmosphere every single day – equivalent to the emissions from 260,000 cars!
Addressing Consumer Challenges
Aligning with Emotional Trends
Embodying Industry Values
The Potential Impact: By the Numbers
- 1 million trees can be planted through user-generated carbon credits in five years
- 15% average reduction in digital carbon footprints thanks to our optimized AI algorithms ideally ranging from 1 to 0,5 grams per query.
- 500+ companies have integrated our platform for carbon purchases into their ESG strategies and climate disclosure
- Countries where carbon tax is enacted will use our platform to accomplish their decarbonization emissions goals.
Looking Ahead
As we continue to navigate the complexities of our digital world, innovative solutions like this digital platform offer a beacon of hope. By addressing consumer challenges, aligning with emotional trends on Verified Carbon Market sentiment, rebuilding trust with carbon credits market-based initiatives and embodying core industry values, they're not just offsetting carbon – they're setting a measurable milestone for how technology can be a force for environmental good and their end users and consumers.
Solution
Our digital platform is staged in a Proof of Concept (POC) with a Point of Entry through smart contracts with parcel holders (e.g. landowners) who own rainforests on their land. They upload official records of land title and maps then via API endpoints feed the geospatial powertrain (e.g. analytical engines) of data services companies to tell them what areas of their parcels are eligible for forest conservation, and reforestation. This stage in the platform parses cadastral layers to avoid overlapping with other project initiatives and in-country land zoning restrictions.
Once this process is completed, it is posted for the registry via API to be officially registered in the pipeline of nested or batch projects. As a result, once all carbon accounting and geospatial analysis are performed; then starts the third party audit readiness. This stage is evidence based to validate and verify our platform calculations and project safeguards for each project and polygons.
Next, audit validates and verifies data either to approve or send back the nested polygons for a couple rounds of findings that might need to be refactored either to comply with the methodologies created by certifiers or national reference levels for carbon emissions. Once this process is undertaken, via API, endpoints hit the blockchain registry and trading segments towards brokers’ platform with options to exchange via FIAT or crypto.
Another keystone instance is a dashboard with account statements for growers, grountruth consultants, and aggregated data for company buyers to track the effectiveness of their quarterly carbon credit purchases and Voila! Your company started the decarbonization journey.
This is how you originate and trade a carbon credit through our platform. The expected release is for the end of March 2025. The impact on the environment and business is a win to win for growers and companies who discount from their carbon footprint balance sheet ledger. Leading to less carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation as well as sequestering carbon dioxide emissions.
Forging Emotional Connections with a Digital Carbon Credits Platform
- Environmental Stewardship: The platform plans to tap into the customer's desire to be an active steward of the environment. By highlighting the tangible impact of their carbon offsets on ecosystem restoration and conservation, the platform can foster a sense of personal responsibility and pride in the customer's role as a climate champion.
- Belonging to a Community: The platform ca cultivate a strong sense of community among its users. Features like group challenges, social sharing, and leaderboards can tap into the human need for social validation and connection, making customers feel part of a collective effort to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
- Personal Transformation: The platform aims to empower customers to see themselves as agents of positive change. By providing personalized corporate dashboards, progress tracking, and goal-setting tools, the platform can help customers visualize and celebrate their own environmental impact, fostering a sense of personal growth and accomplishment. This is called digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (dMRV).
- Simplicity and Transparency: In an age of growing skepticism towards greenwashing, the platform can offer a refreshing sense of simplicity and transparency. By demystifying the complex world of environmental markets, troll media against carbon offsets and providing clear, easy-to-understand data insights, the platform can build trust and convey a genuine commitment to environmental integrity.
- Tech-Savvy Optimism: Customers, especially younger demographics, are increasingly drawn to technology-driven solutions that harness innovation to solve global problems. The platform can embody a sense of tech-savvy optimism, showcasing how the latest digital tools and analytics can drive real-world impact on our current climate crisis.
- Legacy and Purpose: For some customers, the platform can tap into a desire to leave a lasting, positive legacy for future generations. By highlighting the long-term, intergenerational benefits of nature-based carbon sequestration and avoidance, the platform can appeal to a customer's sense of purpose and desire to make a meaningful contribution to the world’s ecosystems.
Business Model
Planned Revenue Streams for a Digital Carbon Credits Platform
- Business-to-Business (B2B) Model: The primary planned revenue stream for the digital carbon credits platform could be selling its orchestration services and Project Design Documents (PDD) products to other businesses such as corporations, carbon and biodiversity project developers, and farm landowners with pastures and existing native forests.
- Carbon Credit Origination: The platform may work with project developers to originate high-quality, verified carbon credits from nature-based solutions in a cost-effective way while reducing project cycle development time. It can then sell these credits to corporate buyers seeking to offset their emissions or meet sustainability goals.
- Carbon Credit Trading: The platform uses an interoperable trusted trading marketplace where businesses can buy and sell carbon credits. It may be able to generate revenue through transaction fees, bid-ask spreads, auctions or subscription-based access to the trading platform.
- Enterprise Carbon Management: The platform may offer advanced carbon accounting, reporting, and management tools to help larger corporate customers track, manage, and optimally utilize their carbon credits and nascent biodiversity credits on their decarbonization journey.
- Project Development Services: The platform may provide consulting and project management services to help businesses develop their own nature-based carbon projects, earning fees for these value-added services.
- Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Model: In addition to the B2B revenue streams, the platform may also explore a direct-to-consumer model, targeting environmentally conscious individuals by selling units or fractions of carbon credits.
- Retail Carbon Credit Sales: The platform may allow individual consumers to purchase carbon credits to offset their personal carbon footprints, potentially through subscription-based plans or one-time purchases.
- Community Engagement: The platform can create a vibrant community of individual carbon credit buyers, potentially generating quarterly revenue through membership fees, merchandise sales, or premium community experiences.
- Impact Investment: The platform could position itself as an investment vehicle, allowing individuals and institutions to invest in a diversified portfolio of nature-based carbon projects, offtake agreements, and earning returns on the underlying carbon credit assets.
- Carbon Credit Derivatives: The platform could develop and trade carbon credit derivative products, such as futures, spot-forward, options, or swaps, generating revenue through trading fees and spreads.
- Data and Analytics: The platform's extensive data on carbon markets Intel, project performance, and consumer behavior could be monetized through specialized data products and analytics services.
Ultimately, our revenue model would be designed to align with its core mission of driving positive environmental impact through the origination and trading of high-quality carbon credits. By diversifying its revenue streams and exploring innovative approaches, we may be able to maximize its financial sustainability while staying true to its values and vision. Our revenue streams can start with:
Once our first carbon blockchain unit is ready for sale, it can be placed in a timely bidding system where global corporations bid after a set flooring price. Whence bid closes, brokering API paywall hits the exchange in a secured way. Companies can bid and purchase with confidence carbon credits through our platform. We plan to offer dashboards for each company, so they can integrate our orchestration (data and services) with their ESG reports, financials and procure with confidence quarterly carbon credits from our platform.
Project developers currently use dozens of non-standardized software to run carbon accounting, remote sensing data, GIS calculations, land zoning regulations, in-country legal challenges, environmental safeguards, standards and methodologies rapidly updated by certifiers, as well as audit readiness. As a result, our platform can provide reliable data to reduce time and provide opportunity costs for project developers using main certifications, audit firms and market carbon standards. Developers can pay a subscription based on every project that uses our microservices orchestration analytical engines to build their Project Design Documents.
Market
The Verified Carbon Market (VCM), with a large demand, hit a peak of $2 billions USD in 2021. Land use segment of this target market (i.e. REDD+, ARR, Agtech, biodiversity), went headwind with average price dropping to $6.53/ton, down 11 percent from $7.37 in 2022, but over 60% higher than average prices in 2021 [2]. For example, Mac Laren racing automobiles paid for a reforestation (ARR) carbon credit USD $50 per 1 tonCo2eq equals to one “security/commodity” in financial terms [4]. According to the latest World Bank report, Global carbon pricing revenues in 2023 exceeded USD 100 billion for the first time, driven by high prices in the EU, with over half of the revenue collected used to fund climate- and nature-related programs [5].
Carbon Credit Market Opportunity for Nature-Based Solutions
The carbon credit market, particularly for nature-based solutions (NBS), has been experiencing significant growth in recent years. Nature-based solutions refer to actions that protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.
Market Size and Growth
The global carbon credit market is projected to grow from approximately $2 billion in 2020 to about $50 billion by 2030, according to a report by BloombergNEF [1]. With a percent growth for nature-based projects, including forestry and land-use and agriculture projects, made up almost half of the market share at 46%. From 2021 to 2022, the average price of these kinds of credits increased by 75% and 14%, respectively. Credits from agriculture projects also increased in volume by 283%. Nature-based solutions are expected to play a significant role in this growth in accordance to a report by Ecosystem Market Place [2].
Recent Statistics
Market Opportunity
The growing market for nature-based carbon credits presents significant opportunities:
Challenges and Considerations
While the opportunity is substantial, there are challenges to consider:
Despite these challenges, the carbon credit market for nature-based solutions represents a significant and growing opportunity for environmental conservation, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development.
Press
- Carbon Pulse
Data centres to emit billions through 2030, drive carbon removal demand, say analysts - Quantum Commodity Intelligence
Lufthansa enters carbon offset market - Abatable
Abatable partners with the Olympic Games Paris 2024 to deliver a lasting climate legacy - Bill Winters - Group Chief Executive at Standard Chartered
Why it’s essential to advocate for high-integrity carbon markets - Bloomberg
Wall Street Backers See Breakthrough Moment for Carbon Offsets - World Economic Forum
3 reasons for companies to embrace forest carbon markets in 2024 - Bloomberg Professional Services
Investing in carbon markets: Cleared for take-off - Uplink
Fundacion Ecotropics Colombia: Ecosystem Infrastructure REDD+ is a climate change mitigation project - Reuters
Meta closes deal to buy up to 3.9 mln carbon credits in Latin America - Florida Tech & Growth Podcast
Episode 013: The Evolving Carbon Credits Market With Jose Restrepo, CTO at Ecotropics
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Team
Advisors
Our team ranges from a myriad of experts and advisors about legal, IT, business development, UI/UX design and Public Relations, such as:
Use of Proceeds
If the offering's maximum amount of $1,200,000 is raised:
| Use | Value | % of Proceeds |
|---|---|---|
| Offshore/Nearshore Software Development | $240,000 | 20.0% |
| AWS Cloud Services | $360,000 | 30.0% |
| Infrastructure Setup & Tools | $180,000 | 15.0% |
| Hiring Costs | $240,000 | 20.0% |
| Digital Marketing | $30,000 | 2.5% |
| Repayment of Outstanding Debt | $31,200 | 2.6% |
| Contingency Fund | $60,000 | 5.0% |
| Intermediary fees | $58,800 | 4.9% |
Terms
This number includes all funds raised by the Company in this round on Netcapital. This is an offering of Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Great Geometer Software Inc.. This offering must reach its target of at least $10,000 by its offering deadline of April 30, 2026 at 11:59pm ET. If this offering does not reach its target by the offering deadline, then your money will be refunded.
If the offering is successful at raising the maximum amount, then the company’s implied valuation after the offering (sometimes called its post-money valuation) will be:
Financials
These financial statements have been reviewed by an independent Certified Public Accountant.
SEC Filings
The Offering Statement is a formal description of the company and this transaction. It’s filed with the SEC to comply with the requirements of exemption 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933.
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