SERVICES

We can support you along your whole journey. Pick your entry point – they connect.

We operate at the intersection where ecological systems meets value chains and the architecture of capital and corporate strategy. Starting with us on the journey of regenerative growth and social prosperity is an immersive, holistic and transformative process.
Building the internal capability to lead on natural capital, regenerative finance and just and circular economy transition simultaneously is a significant investment – and for many organisations, the timing is not right for a full-time hire. But the complexity of the landscape, and the pace at which it is moving, means that a quarterly retainer or a one-off strategy document is no longer sufficient either. There is a gap between what organisations need and what conventional advisory models deliver.

 

We fill this gap.

 

As your embedded fractional CSO, we provide strategic leadership, technical depth and stakeholder credibility of a seasoned collective of senior executives – without the overhead of a permanent appointment. We co-design flagship projects and initiatives together with you, help you build the internal business case, prepare you for and attend your board and investment committee meetings, lead your nature, just transition and circularity work streams, represent your organisations in external forums, broker coalitions and partnerships and build the internal literacy and capability your teams need to execute with confidence. This is not a retainer for advice. It is accountability for outcomes.

Natural Capital Intelligence
Just & Circular Transition
Regenerative Finance

Natural Capital Intelligence

Nature is already on your balance sheet. You just can’t see it yet.

We help you see – and value – what your balance sheet has always been missing.  Moving from counting to valuing.

The forests, watersheds, soils and coastal systems that underpin productivity, supply chain resilience and long-term asset value have been invisible to conventional accounting – until now.

Most advisory stops at frameworks and checklists. We go further and move you from counting to valuing.  We meet you where you you’re at – at every stage of your nature journey. No hype. No jargon. Just clear intelligence, data and logical sequencing to drive real strategic and defensible decisions, so that by the time regulators, investors or markets force the question, you are already ahead of them.

We bring together ecological integrity systems science and financial rigour to map, measure and value the natural assets your organisation depends and impacts on. Whether you are navigating disclosures for the first time or building a natural capital account that genuinely informs strategic decisions, we give you the intelligence to act with conviction.

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Our service solutions include:

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Outcomes Measurement & Evaluation

Design and development practical & agile outcomes measurement & evaluation frameworks, Theory of Change models and impact logic models using lean impact data and global impact taxonomies.

Impact Visualisation

Together with our technology service delivery partners, we are able to dynamically create compelling data visualisations, ecosystem maps and reports that allow for better decision-making at the Board and management level. We also provide digital storytelling services with our technology partner that creates meaningful and impactful marketing collateral, digital assets and media content to amplify and improve customer, client, and investor engagement aimed at improving trust and showcasing a firm’s social equity.

Gender-Lens Investment and Gender Analysis

Analysis of gender-related market/portfolio patterns and overlay of a gender-lens impact strategy & management practice; identification of gender-related intersectionalities, barriers, bottlenecks or impact opportunities within your existing portfolio/program to mainstream gender; strategic advisory input using a gender lens for new product development opportunities, working towards improving customer engagement via the application of a gender lens and providing gender specific input for improving and maximising investor and member engagement.

Independent Impact Advisory Board and Training Workshops

We offer our clients impact advisory services on an on-call basis via a retainer provision as well as being able to tap into our impact expertise as members of a firm’s technical advisory board. We are able to run various workshops on impact investments and issues and work with business unit managers and boards to make decisions about the role they play in society, and are able to work with boards on incorporating impact into their corporate strategy or investment portfolio.

Just & Circular Transition

The linear model – extract, make, dispose – is not just environmentally unsustainable, it is becoming commercially indefensible. Input costs, regulatory pressure, supply chain fragility and shifting investor expections are all pointing in the same direction: organisations and communities that close their resource loops will out-compete those that don’t.

 

The question is no longer whether to transition, but how do we do it in a way that makes economic sense and respects

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We support corporates, asset managers and enterprises with the critical internal steps needed to take their climate and nature initiatives to the next level. We reframe, recalibrate, and enhance corporate strategies and the implementation of commercialisation plans to enable businesses to amplify and maximise their impact footprint.

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Our service solutions include:

Social Enterprise Business Models

Designing new or restructuring existing business models to be innovative, regenerative business models that allow for scale and long-term endurance

Shared Value

Building Shared Value partnerships and brokering cross-sector partnerships to develop ecosystems; identification & implementation of innovative and impactful new customer/client engagement opportunities; positioning and recalibrating sales and marketing strategy for impact.

Investment Readiness

Redesigning and reconfiguring the organisation’s scale-up go-to-market strategy; working on any commercialisation strategies, including assessments of the organisation’s business units, operational gaps and ability to for the business to pass investor requirements and expectations in terms of any capital raising activities.

Building investment-readiness for institutional, sub-institutional and retail grade investors

We work across the entire business to ensure an organisation can meet the investor’s due diligence requirements, which may include building an organisation’s internal controls, reviewing operational risk and assessing the gaps and working with the business to develop an implementation business plan that addresses the operational gaps and develops the business for scaling up.

Organisational Capacity Building: Market feasibility and materiality assessments

Determination of product-market fit and development of new customer/investor/beneficiary channels; risk management framework design and building operational capacity at the enterprise, program, product or investment levels; design, development and building of robust operating and enterprise framework solutions for systems, people, processes and controls.

CEO mentoring & Independent Advisory Board

We offer our clients our technical and specialist expertise an on-call basis via a retainer mechanism, making it cost effective for CEOs and the Executive management team to tap into our expertise, as well as participating on an organisation’s Board of Advisor committee

Regenerative Finance

Capital is not the constraint – structure is.

There is no shortage of institutional appetite for investments that generate genuine ecological and social returns alongside financial ones, yet the majority of regenerative projects remain un-financed becacuse the instruments do not exist, the risk allocation is wrong, or the pathway to commercial return is unclear.

Closing this gap is where we do our most consequential work.

We design, structure and help mobilise finance solutions along the full continuum of the capital spectrum and markets architecture that make climate, nature, community, social and cultural dignity outcomes investable at scale. From blended finance vehicles, outcomes-based funding models, credits, impact funds for the bio-economy, blue economy, regenerative food systems, health outcomes or high-impact venture models.

We have worked with global foundations, multi-sector private-public coalitions, impact investors and philanthropists to create capital stacks and place-based backbone funding and governance vehicles for whole bioregions that support greater capital mobilization into nature & climate, circular food systems, blue economy, community and health outcomes.

We can also build your investment readiness and overall capacity for people, systems and processes to attract capital to transform ideas into lasting change.

Our service solutions include:

Strategy & Conceptualisation

  •       Visioning and ideation of non-conventional financial instruments, structures, and mechanisms
  •       Design of blended finance solutions to mobilize capital for nature, climate, blue economy
  •       Mapping funding landscapes and identifying financing opportunities along the full capital spectrum
  •       Developing impact investment models that align the objectives with development outcomes
  •       Structuring risk-sharing arrangements to attract private capital into Nature-based Solution
  •       Creating impact finance taxonomies to guide the selection of the most suitable financial instruments, structures, and mechanisms for nature, climate and social impact – at asset, portfolio and bio-regional levels.

Feasibility Analysis & Business Case Development

  • Conducting pre-feasibility and feasibility assessments for impact finance structures

  • Undertaking detailed options analyses for a wide range of impact finance solutions to respond to nature challenges and/or fulfil Nature Positive mandates

  • Translate technical assessments into a holistic, compelling value proposition

  • Developing financial models and viability analyses for blended finance funds and facilities

  • Developing detailed project finance models for underlying projects, initiatives and assets

  • Assessing barriers to capital flow and assessing detailed de-risking and/or credit enhancement mechanisms

  • Quantifying financial and impact return profiles for investors and stakeholders

  • Structuring outcomes-based financing models

  • Testing innovative finance concepts with market soundings and demand-side stakeholder consultations

Market Design & Assessment

  • Undertaking detailed thematic mapping of donors, funders, financiers and investors

  • Conducting ecosystem landscape mapping and policy analysis for impact finance interventions

  • Establishing public-private partnerships to leverage financing for sustainable projects

  • Advising on financial incentives and regulatory frameworks to support nature and just transition outcomes

  • Supporting capacity-building and knowledge transfer for governments, investors, NGOs and other key actors

  • Developing scaling and replication strategies for innovative finance models

Impact Measurement & Management

  • Designing financial mechanisms to contribute to measurable and verifiable environmental and social outcomes

  • Developing thematic rationales that underpin a business case, such as a nature impact rationale

  • Developing theory of change and impact metrics and process flow diagrams showing causal links from challenges to impact

  • Building impact tracking mechanisms and systems to align with investor and stakeholder expectations

Impact Funds and Special Purpose Vehicles

  • Creation of Impact Funds from product design, development and implementation right through to development of a full investment management operating platform including risk and investment governance frameworks supporting the organisation’s licensing arrangements.

Capital Raising, Investor Engagement & Governance

  • Drafting investment cases and prospectuses for a diverse range of funders, including DFIs, impact investors, and foundations

  • Identifying and securing grants, concessional finance, senior debt, guarantees, and first-loss capital

  • Leading multidisciplinary teams to develop successful proposals to project preparation and project funding organisations

  • Engaging and negotiating with multilateral banks, institutional investors, family offices

  • Structuring tiered investment entry points to accommodate different risk-return profiles

  • Developing the process flow and investment committees to select the most appropriate projects, ensuring the best use of capital towards the objectives and mandates of the fund/facility

  • Designing selection criteria for transparent and accountable selection criteria for fund allocation

  • Structuring multi-stakeholder investment decision-making processes, and drafting the associated manuals/documentation

  • Ensuring compliance with fiduciary, marketing, risk management, and Responsible Investment standards

Investment Due Diligence

  • Carbon and Nature Credits due diligence 
  • Nature and Clean technology funding commercialisation pathways
  • Impact investments with thorough detailed impact due diligence analysis
  • Identify impact investments that suit a client’s portfolio based on their risk/return appetite and impact intention.

Implementation & Operationalization

  • *Supporting the establishment and operational launch of finance instruments, mechanisms, facilities, etc.

  • *Advising on funds’ operational administration, fiduciary, marketing and compliance requirements

  • Designing and facilitating regular meetings, including board meetings, investment committee meetings and AGMs

  • *Active impact performance management, with regular reporting on fund financial performance, risk and impact metrics