Pre-feasibility screening
Structured early-stage viability assessment before major development spend.
Nature-Based Solutions Feasibility Engine
Early-stage feasibility engine for nature-based carbon projects.
Understand whether your project is viable before committing serious time and capital. Carbon Roots helps developers, landowners, originators, and climate-finance teams screen viability early, identify risks before execution, and avoid wasted development cost.
Commercial positioning
Pre-feasibility is cheaper than developing a non-viable project.
Early-stage
Indicative
Screening-level
Pre-feasibility
Decision-support
Clarity of offer
A focused screening layer between idea and full project development.
Carbon Roots is designed for the early stage, where key assumptions are still uncertain and decisions need to be made quickly. The objective is simple: determine whether a nature-based pathway looks commercially worth pursuing.
It is decision-focused, risk-aware, and built for practical action, not abstract analysis.
What this helps you decide
- Proceed now with clearer confidence
- Proceed conditionally with targeted data improvement
- Pause before avoidable cost and execution risk
Carbon Roots engine
A modular pre-feasibility workflow built for multiple carbon pathways.
Core services
Shared analytical core with pathway-specific modules.
Pathway module analysis
Stream-specific modelling logic for ARR, Biochar, REDD+, and emerging NBS pathways.
Carbon potential estimation
Indicative carbon output estimates using conservative assumptions and benchmarked defaults.
Risk and data-gap assessment
Clear visibility on uncertainties, assumptions, and issues that could break viability.
Financial viability screening
Revenue scenarios, NPV, IRR, payback, and sensitivity across key commercial drivers.
Investment-readiness support
Decision-support outputs for developer, partner, and investor discussions.
Stack
Engine core + structured analysis layers.
- Proprietary nature-based modelling engine (Excel-based core)
- Structured calculations aligned to nature-based methodology principles at screening level
- Scenario engine for low/mid/high price and yield assumptions
- Risk-adjusted issuance modelling with P50/P90 logic
- Sensitivity analysis layer for key commercial drivers
Supporting tools and method posture
Supporting tools
Geospatial inputs (where available), data structuring pipelines, and dashboard-ready schema outputs for BI tools.
Positioning
Designed as a screening-level analytical layer today, built to evolve into a more automated nature-based modelling workflow.
What you get
Tangible outputs you can use to make a real decision.
Feasibility summary (PDF/memo)
Clear go / no-go / conditional view with key assumptions and recommendation.
Carbon projections
Estimated total credits, annual issuance curve, and scenario comparisons.
Financial outputs
Revenue scenarios, NPV, IRR, payback period, and key sensitivities.
Financial viability screening
What is uncertain, what needs validation, and what could break project viability.
Optional structured model
Editable Excel-based model with investor-ready assumptions structure.
Dashboard-ready dataset (optional)
Clean schema suitable for Looker or other BI workflows.
Typical turnaround: 3-7 days for standard pre-feasibility, 7-14 days for more complex or data-heavy projects.
Example output
Concept project: nature-based screening output
Illustrative pre-feasibility output from the Carbon Roots engine.
NPV
Not available
IRR
Not available
Total Credits
Not available
Break-even Price
Not available
Payback Period
Not available
Projected revenue
Awaiting LOOKR_ISSUANCE data.
Projected credit issuance
Awaiting LOOKR_ISSUANCE data.
Decision brief
Project classification:
TRUST AND CREDIBILITY
Methodology-aware, robustly structured, and built for early-stage decisions.
- Grounded in IPCC 2006 AFOLU, FAO, World Agroforestry, and CIFOR regional literature — carbon accounting fundamentals, species growth curves, and biomass defaults come from the same data hierarchy carbon registries rely on.
- Stress-tested with a five-vector risk framework and P50/P90 scenarios — biological, disturbance, baseline, implementation, and MRV risks modelled independently; outputs use conservative midpoints, never literature maxima.
- Every parameter carries a source ID, confidence score, and data-gap flag — if a number is a conservative proxy rather than site-specific data, your output tells you so.
Validation approach
How robustness is built in
Carbon accounting follows IPCC 2006 AFOLU (carbon fraction 0.47, 44/12 CO₂ conversion, species-specific root-to-shoot ratios). Baseline, leakage, and buffer deductions follow Verra VCS conventions. A 10% uncertainty haircut applies on top of deterministic credits, with P50 and P90 risk-adjusted scenarios alongside the base case.
Scope boundary
This remains a screening-level decision-support tool, not validation, verification, registry approval, investment advice, or guaranteed returns.
Primary data sources referenced in our engine:
IPCC · FAO · World Agroforestry (ICRAF) · CIFOR · World Bank · Verra VCS framework
Contact
Share your project and get an early-stage viability view.
Minimum inputs: country/region, land area, land type, project concept, and timeline expectations. Preferred inputs include boundaries, species intentions, prior studies, and implementation assumptions.
Get started
Choose the right intake path for your project.
Use the free snapshot for fast triage, or apply for a full pre-feasibility review when you need deeper decision support.
Free Project Snapshot
5-8 minute form for early-stage screening. Typical turnaround: 3-7 days.
- Fit signal: viable, conditional, or not ready
- Top risk flags and missing critical data
- Upgrade recommendation for full review
Full Pre-Feasibility Review
Structured application for investor-grade screening and risk-adjusted outputs.
- Carbon and financial scenario screening
- Financial viability screening
- Scoping call after application review