Building the record layer for ecological systems.
Foundational infrastructure for the settlement of ecological performance claims.
The Gap
The ecological restoration industry spends more than $22 billion annually in the United States on the promise of ecological outcomes. Sophisticated funders — NFWF, EPA, state agencies, conservation finance counterparties — increasingly structure grants and contracts around those outcomes. The accountability language is there. The verification infrastructure beneath it is not. Restoration practice has advanced. Science has validated what works. The bottleneck is the record layer: the infrastructure that converts continuous field observations into evidence capable of bearing the legal and financial weight of a disbursement decision, a compliance determination, or a performance contract settlement. That layer has never been built. Carbon markets demonstrated what happens when financial instruments are built without it. They failed not because the science was wrong but because the records could not survive adversarial scrutiny. The claims were assertions, not evidence. Restoration finance is more sophisticated — but it rests on the same absent foundation. Capital does not move on data. It moves on records that can be relied upon. BiomeOS is the first system producing them.
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 — achored 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.