Biome is commissioning a new class of ecological assets.
Today, ecological function cannot be diligenced or financed in a form that capital systems can reliably recognize. This blocks large-scale investment into the restoration and green infrastructure we need. Biome builds the commissioning infrastructure that turns restoration interventions into persistent ecological assets, creating the foundation for nature to recover at scale.
The Gap
Restoration happens constantly. Forests are planted, streams are fenced, wetlands are rebuilt. Almost none of it becomes a persistent institutional asset. A building has a deed, a survey, a maintenance history, and an owner of record. A restored wetland has fragments of these things — project boundaries, baseline studies, monitoring reports — but they do not cohere into a persistent object once the grant closes and the consultants move on. It exists as a project file and a memory: funded once, implemented once, occasionally checked on, and then left to whatever happens next. Not because anyone failed to monitor it carefully enough, but because nothing was ever commissioned as an asset in the first place: no persistent institutional identity, no continuously maintained operational record, no system that carries the object forward across time, funding cycles, and responsible parties. That is the actual gap. Not better information about ecological systems. The absence of the technical infrastructure that would let a restoration intervention exist as a persistent asset at all — the way a building or a parcel of land already does. Biome is building the commissioning infrastructure for a new class of ecological assets.
Not a Monitor. A Meter.
A monitor tells you what is happening. A meter produces the authoritative record that a transaction is settled on. Your electricity meter does not inform your utility about your consumption — it produces the number the bill is based on. BiomeOS produces the equivalent for ecological performance: a continuous, tamper-evident, independently verifiable record of what a restoration site is actually doing.
Three linked chains of custody convert raw telemetry into verified evidence. A physical chain documents instrument identity at installation. A scientific chain — anchored by a Commissioning Report co-signed by an independent Science Partner — documents the measurement basis, certifies the methodology, and establishes the credentialed foundation from which every subsequent record derives its authority. A cryptographic chain hashes every record at point of capture and anchors it to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps.
The result is a record that can support funding disbursement decisions, performance-based contract settlement, and regulatory compliance determinations — purposes that existing monitoring data was never designed to serve.
Who It Serves
Conservation funders operating outcome-based grant structures need verification infrastructure capable of supporting disbursement decisions. BiomeOS produces the continuous, auditable record that makes performance-based accountability operationally viable: Not a report about what happened, but a record that can bear the weight of a funding decision.
Restoration practitioners and land managers need independent verification that converts site-level performance into transferable institutional evidence — credible to new counterparties and new capital structures without requiring a pre-existing relationship.
Regulators and compliance programs require continuous verified records rather than episodic assessments. BiomeOS produces records designed to satisfy that standard.
Conservation finance counterparties structuring green bonds, pay-for-performance contracts, and natural capital instruments require an audit package that does not currently exist. BiomeOS produces it.
Current Position
Biome Systems is deploying BiomeOS in the Chesapeake Bay watershed — the highest-accountability restoration geography in the country — in partnership with Stroud Water Research Center, Green Forests Work, and NFWF. The pre-seed round funds the transition from working prototype to first field-certified records.