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Climate Tech Design

Your climate solution solves a real problem. Now prove it works.

Funding has tightened. Institutional buyers are skeptical. But your solution—whether it's tracking emissions, predicting extreme weather, optimizing renewable output, or helping municipalities prepare for climate disasters—addresses a problem that only gets more urgent.

The gap isn't between your solution and reality. It's between your solution and the buyers who fund and deploy it. We help you close that gap.

BCG + IBM iX
Consulting Background
Strategic thinking meets institutional buyer psychology
MassChallenge
Mentor Network
Active in the climate tech ecosystem
NN/g Certified
UX Master Certification
Advanced research, interaction design & strategy
The Climate Tech Founder's Challenge

Why climate tech founders get stuck.

You're solving a real problem. Your technical approach is sound. But you're facing pressures that most startup founders don't.

Funding Tightness

Capital dried up. Grants are oversubscribed. The investors who once funded climate tech are now risk-averse. Your pitch has to work harder.

Buyer Skepticism

Governments, utilities, and enterprises care about climate impact—but they care more about ROI, operational integration, and risk mitigation. They need to see the business case.

Complexity

You're integrating with existing systems, navigating regulatory requirements, and educating buyers about a problem they didn't know they had. Speed matters, but so does rigor.

Limited Design Capacity

You have brilliant engineers and domain experts, but few people who can think about user adoption, institutional buyer psychology, and how to position your solution so it actually gets deployed.

How We Help Climate Tech Founders

Build your business case while you build your product.

01

Validation & Positioning

Early Stage

You have a strong idea, but you need to test it with potential buyers before investing in full development. We conduct rapid user research with institutional buyers—governments, utilities, enterprises—to validate that your solution addresses a real pain point and that there's a viable business model.

Research reportBuyer personasPositioning frameworkMessaging architecture
3–4 weeks
02

Product Design & UX

Growth Stage

Your MVP is validated. Now you need to design for actual adoption. Institutional buyers need integration, reliability, transparency, and clear ROI. We design the experience and messaging that makes your solution easy to understand, integrate, and justify to internal stakeholders.

UX designsIntegration documentationBuyer education materialsROI calculator
6–12 weeks
03

Go-to-Market & Business Case

Scale Stage

You're ready to launch or scale. We help you build a go-to-market strategy and business case materials that institutional buyers actually respond to—including customer journey maps that account for complex buying processes.

Go-to-market strategyBusiness case templateSales enablement decksCase study frameworks
4–8 weeks
How We're Different

We're not a climate-focused agency. We're a UX strategy firm that understands climate.

Most climate tech founders work with either specialized climate consultants (who understand the space but not UX) or general design agencies (who understand UX but not climate or institutional buyers).

This combination means we can help you build a product that works and a business case that sells.

Strategic Design Thinking

Consulting backgrounds at BCG and IBM iX, where we learned to think like institutional buyers—about integration, risk, ROI, and organizational change.

UX Craft

Rigorous user research and design practice, tested on enterprise platforms where adoption actually matters.

Climate Understanding

Active mentorship and project work in the climate tech space, so we understand the specific pressures and opportunities you face.

Services for Climate Tech Founders

Services Built for Climate Tech Founders

Our standard engagement models, applied to the climate tech context. We also offer the Climate Tech Accelerator—a bundled program for founders at critical inflection points. We're always open to customizing any engagement to fit your stage and runway.

Discovery Sprint

Fixed Scope
Validation & Positioning
3–4 weeks

A rapid engagement to validate your solution with institutional buyers and establish your positioning framework. Includes user interviews, competitive analysis, buyer persona development, and messaging architecture.

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Project-Based Design Engagement

Fixed Scope
Buyer-Centric Product Design
6–16 weeks

UX design and go-to-market strategy built for institutional buyers. Covers product design, business case development, ROI modeling, and sales enablement materials—so your solution is easy to evaluate, adopt, and justify internally.

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Strategic Retainer

Retainer
Ongoing Advisory
3-month minimum

An embedded strategic partnership for climate tech teams with continuous design and positioning needs. We advise on product direction, buyer psychology, go-to-market strategy, and organizational adoption.

Let's Build a Partnership →

Climate Tech Accelerator

Special
Bundled Program
4–12 weeks

A bundled engagement designed specifically for climate tech founders at critical decision points. Combines validation, product design, and go-to-market into a single coherent program—with pricing calibrated to your stage and runway.

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Let's Talk Climate Tech

Let's talk about your climate tech solution.

Whether you're validating a new idea, designing for institutional buyers, or building the business case for scale—we're here to help.

The climate crisis won't wait, but your solution doesn't need to rush into the market unprepared. Let's build it right.

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