Reforest AI.

The problem.

Carbon credits generated from protected forest are only worth what the forest is worth. When trees disappear, through illegal logging, political unrest, fire, or quiet boundary creep, the revenue disappears with them. Buyers quietly delist projects. Insurers raise premiums. Developers find out months after the damage is done, and by then the credits on sale have already lost credibility.

The industry needs an early-warning system that speaks the language of revenue, not science.

What we build.

Reforest AI ingests satellite imagery, on-ground sensor telemetry, and public registries, and turns them into a revenue-risk signal tailored to each REDD+ project. Developers see, in dollars, which hectares are at risk of reversal, and receive actionable alerts before credits go stale.

"We don't sell a dashboard. We sell the minute a developer knew their forest was at risk."

Approach.

The architecture is intentionally dull in the right places and opinionated where it matters. We separated the pipeline into three layers: a raw ingest tier that treats every data source as eventually-consistent, a scoring tier that converts change detection into financial risk, and a thin product surface that developers can integrate in a day.

Nothing exotic. The scoring layer is where the company lives, converting pixels into dollars for a specific project geometry, without overclaiming precision the data cannot support.

Fig.02 / Three-tier pipeline architecture: Ingest layer collects raw satellite and sensor data, Score layer computes hectare-weighted revenue-at-risk, Surface layer exposes alerts and APIs to developers.

Recognition.

Reforest AI was awarded Top Honors in the 2025 National Geographic Society Slingshot Challenge, a $10,000 grant, selected from 2,700+ entries across 96 countries. The project has been featured in Tech Cabal, TechPoint Africa, Disrupt Africa, and Hackster.io.

Status.

In operation. We are currently piloting with REDD+ developers and selectively onboarding partners. If you operate a carbon project and want to see your forest through Reforest AI's lens, get in touch.

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