Equitable Earth
End-to-end carbon certification platform with TurboTax-style workflows and blockchain-inspired carbon accounting.
Project Overview
At Equitable Earth, I led development of a digital-first platform that enables high-integrity carbon projects to move from onboarding through credit issuance with full transparency, traceability, and community inclusion. The system merged a TurboTax-style guided workflow, a blockchain-inspired UTXO ledger for carbon credits, and a custom meta-language for dynamic form orchestration.
Carbon certification is traditionally slow, opaque, and difficult for communities to navigate. Our goal was to create a system that was intuitive enough for non-technical users, robust enough to satisfy auditors and investors, and transparent enough to build trust in the voluntary carbon market.
The platform accelerated certification by turning months of manual work into guided digital workflows, increased trust via blockchain-style traceability, and empowered Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities (IPLCs) to lead their own projects through accessible guided forms.
Key Features
- Meta-language for constructing complex, nested forms with dynamic branching
- End-to-end workflow coverage from onboarding to credit issuance
- Blockchain-inspired UTXO accounting system preventing double-spending
- TurboTax-style user experience breaking complex processes into guided flows
- Compliance by design using Zod & OpenAPI schemas for automated validation
- Structured intake and eligibility validation for project onboarding
- Schema-driven data entry with contextual document linking
- Peer review, translation, public review, and auditor checkpoint systems
Technologies Used
Project Details
Client
Equitable Earth
Timeline
May 2023 - December 2024
Role
Lead Software Engineer & Architect
Status
Archived Project
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