SustainAI · Sustainability assessment and carbon credit readiness
SustainAI helps African businesses and project developers measure environmental impact, plan decarbonisation and evaluate carbon credit opportunities through expert advisory and proprietary assessment technology.
The SustainAI journey
An Optisource Technology business
Our approach
Carbon credits can bring value to the right projects, but they start with reliable measurement and real reductions. We help you understand your emissions, decide where to reduce them, and then assess honestly whether a carbon credit route is feasible and worth pursuing.
Where a project does have potential, we help prepare it for independent validation and verification. We are clear about which steps we support and which are carried out by independent bodies, registries and buyers.
We do not guarantee carbon credit issuance, credit volumes, prices or revenue, certification or regulatory approval. Validation, verification and issuance are carried out by independent bodies and registries.
Assessment services
Use them individually or in sequence, depending on where your organisation or project is today.
We measure your organisation's or project's greenhouse gas emissions using the GHG Protocol, covering Scope 1 and Scope 2 and, where relevant, Scope 3.
We identify and prioritise practical ways to reduce emissions, such as energy efficiency, fuel switching, renewable supply and process changes, with indicative costs and trade-offs.
We screen whether an activity could generate carbon credits under a recognised standard, considering additionality, baselines, applicable methodologies, permanence, leakage and host-country requirements.
We assess how prepared a project is for independent validation, covering documentation, data, monitoring, ownership of emission reduction rights, stakeholder engagement and safeguards.
We design measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) processes so that monitoring data and supporting evidence can stand up to independent review.
We support the preparation of project documentation for review by an independent validation and verification body, and help you prepare for registry processes and conversations with buyers and financiers.
Advisory and technology
Our advisers work with assessment technology that structures data collection, applies consistent assessment criteria and keeps an evidence trail, so that conclusions can be explained and reviewed.
Who we work with
We work first with organisations and project developers in Nigeria, with wider African expansion planned. Projects in Nigeria may be subject to national climate change requirements, including those overseen by the National Council on Climate Change established under the Climate Change Act 2021. These requirements continue to develop, so we check each project's position at the time of assessment.
We will review your enquiry and reply by email. If a carbon credit route looks relevant, we will explain what an eligibility and feasibility assessment would involve before any work begins.
Not sure where to start? Read how carbon credit readiness works.