Company

Measured rather than modelled, since 2021

We are an atmospheric measurement company that ended up in carbon accounting, which is why we keep publishing numbers that disagree with the model. Forty sites, eleven countries, one method.

40 sites11 countriesFounded 2021
[What we are for]

A market priced on estimates will be arbitraged on estimates.

Carbon finance has a measurement problem it has learned to live with. Where the underlying quantity is modelled rather than observed, the incentive is to choose favourable coefficients — not through fraud, but because nothing pushes back.

Measurement pushes back. It is also, now, cheaper than the audit process built to compensate for its absence, which is the whole commercial argument for this company.

Milestones

Five years of arguing with models.

  1. 2021

    Founded

    Three atmospheric scientists and one auditor, on the argument that measurement had become cheap enough to replace estimation.

  2. 2022

    First tower

    A single flux tower on a restored peatland, run for a year against the model that would otherwise have been reported.

  3. 2023

    Inversion at scale

    Regional inversion put into production, extending coverage beyond the reach of individual towers.

  4. 2024

    Provenance ledger

    Every reading committed with its instrument and calibration state; restatement by append only.

  5. 2025

    Supply chain

    The same method applied to sourcing regions, replacing spend-based factors in a food group's Scope 3.

  6. 2026

    Where we are

    Forty sites under continuous measurement across eleven countries, and a growing pile of models we have had to argue with.

Talk to someone who will tell you it cannot be measured.

If your claim is not measurable at a sensible cost, that is the answer you will get.

New measurement measure@alethia.example Send the boundary, the claim and the period. A scientist replies, not a sales team.
Auditors and registries verify@alethia.example Request the raw series and provenance chain behind any published figure.

A replica study. Both addresses use the reserved .example domain and reach nobody.

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