Sectors
Each sector fails its own way.
The collisions are different in each subsector. Hardware versus software in earth observation. Science versus project development in carbon removal. Actuarial stability versus climate-model iteration in insurance. Regulatory cadence versus product cadence in energy markets. Each one has its own structural failure modes, and generic advice misses the mechanics.
Climate Adaptation
Climate adaptation is a sector where the technology works and the market doesn't. The science is solid. The products are real. The commercial infrastructure doesn't exist yet.
Energy Markets & Grid Tech
Energy markets are being structurally transformed, and the companies building for this transformation are being whipsawed by the very forces they're trying to serve.
Carbon Capture & Removal
Carbon removal companies are trying to operate as a research lab, a hardware manufacturer, and a project developer inside one building. Three cadences, three definitions of 'done', one founder sitting on top of the collision.
Sustainable Agriculture & AgTech
AgTech's bottleneck isn't technology. It's trust.
Clean Energy Development
Clean energy companies grow project by project, and that growth pattern creates an organizational identity that's very difficult to escape.
Climate Data & Analytics
Climate data companies sit on an uncomfortable paradox: the data pipeline IS the product, but the organization treats it as an engineering problem rather than a product management problem.
Built Environment & Retrofit
Building decarbonization is a sector caught between regulation-driven demand and the brutal reality of fragmented delivery.
Mobility & Transport
Mobility companies are infrastructure-dependent in a way that most technology sectors aren't, and that dependency reshapes the organization in ways the founding team rarely anticipates.
Natural Capital & Biodiversity Monitoring
The science of measuring biodiversity from space is advancing faster than the market's ability to buy it. The organisational challenge isn't the technology. It's that the same data serves buyers with incompatible needs.
Climate Insurance & Parametric Risk
Climate insurance companies are building products at the intersection of earth observation data and actuarial science. The organisational collision between those two cultures is where most of them stall.
Deforestation & Supply Chain Compliance
The EU Deforestation Regulation created a compliance market overnight. The companies racing to serve it are building for a deadline, and deadline-driven organisations break in specific ways.
The collision is different in every sector. The method that finds it is the same. See how a sprint works, or read the diagnostic patterns.