Longitudinal, not snapshot
Agricultural transition is assessed through evidence accumulated through time.
ABOUT SOILARC
Agricultural transition happens through time.
The evidence should too.
SoilArc was created around a simple problem: agricultural change is rarely visible in a single measurement, report or reporting period. Evidence is fragmented across time, sources and systems, making it difficult for those providing and managing capital to establish what is actually changing.
PURPOSE
The farm has a story.
Evidence reveals it over time.
SoilArc connects the evidence that is available into a longitudinal record, preserving source, date, lineage, limitations and uncertainty.
The purpose is not to reduce a farm to a universal score. It is to establish direction, persistence and evidence confidence, while keeping the underlying evidence accessible.
- Source
- Date
- Lineage
- Limitations
- Uncertainty
PRINCIPLES
What SoilArc holds to.
Evidence before inference
Available evidence and its provenance remain the foundation of the record.
Direction before score
SoilArc seeks to establish the direction and persistence of change rather than collapse a farm into a single universal number.
Confidence made explicit
The strength, limitations, gaps and conflicts in the available evidence remain visible.
FARM TO PORTFOLIO
From the individual farm
to the portfolio.
SoilArc is being designed for use from the individual farm through to agricultural portfolios, so institutional users can move between portfolio-level intelligence and the evidence underlying an individual asset.
FOUNDERS
The people behind SoilArc.
Richard Buchanan
Co-founder / CEORichard brings experience across institutional finance, real assets and natural capital. He leads SoilArc’s commercial strategy, capital formation, partnerships and governance.
Christopher McGregor
Co-founder / CTOChristopher is a technology founder, inventor and systems architect with experience building large-scale mobile and payments ventures, including technologies deployed or licensed across more than 20 million devices and ventures taken through successful exits. He leads SoilArc’s architecture, engineering and product delivery.