Services

Expert consultancy and custom solutions

Nature-based projects fail to secure funding not because of poor work but because they can’t demonstrate evidence. We help making impact transparent.

Trusted by leading organizations

PHASE 1

Assess and Design

Before any tool is deployed or any dashboard built, you need clarity. Where is your project? What do you measure today? Where are the gaps between what you claim and what you can prove?

This phase is about asking the right questions. We audit your existing data infrastructure, map your stakeholder landscape, and co-design the monitoring and reporting architecture that fits your project. 

Ideal at project launch, or when entering a new funding cycle

Solution architecture

We design the full technical and operational blueprint for your transparency setup, matching your project’s scale, team capacity, and reporting requirements.

Audit

A structured review of your current data flows, monitoring methods, and impact claims. We identify what’s solid, what’s missing, and what’s at risk in a funder review.

Theory of Change

We help you articulate how your intervention creates lasting impact — building a logic model that connects activities to measurable, verifiable outcomes.

Data Mapping

A complete inventory of your data assets: what you collect, how, at what frequency, and how it maps to the indicators your stakeholders actually care about.

PHASE 2

Build and Implement

With the architecture in place, we build. This is where strategy becomes infrastructure. 

We work across three implementation paths: configuring explorer.land for your specific project, extending your existing  information management system, or building from scratch and tailored to your specific needs. Together we select the right path depending o your data, your partners, and your timeline.

Most clients come with constraints: limited bandwidth, legacy systems, complex multi-partner setups. We work with your reality and develop towards your operational needs.

 

Runs in parallel with project implementation

Software development

Custom features, data pipelines, and platform extensions tailored to your project’s specific monitoring and reporting needs.

Integration

We connect the dots. Field data collection apps, satellite providers, certification registries, donor reporting systems, we integrate across your existing stack. 

Data onboarding

We structure, clean, and import your historical and field data so your project starts from a solid, verifiable baseline. 

Custom solutions

Not every project fits a template. We scope, design, and build what yours actually needs on whatever technical foundation makes sense.

PHASE 3

Monitor and Report

Impact isn’t a moment but a continuous record. This phase is where your project generates the ongoing, spatially-grounded evidence that funders, certifiers, and communities can actually trust.

We combine satellite data, field verification, and expert analysis to keep your monitoring rigorous and your reporting credible across every reporting cycle, every year.

Ongoing — typically annual cycles, sometimes quarterly

Impact monitoring

Theory of Change tells you what to track. We help you track it. From indicator selection to data collection setup, we turn your impact logic into a working monitoring system that holds up when funders and auditors ask questions.

MEL consultancy

Good Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) is an organizational capability, not a document. We work with your team directly, structuring workstreams, clarifying roles, and improving the processes that connect field reality to credible reporting.

Remote sensing

We help you to develop specific remote sensing based indicators calibrated to your information demand and project area.

 

Geospatial consultancy

Expert analysis of spatial data for site delineation, carbon boundary validation, biodiversity hotspot mapping, and EUDR supply chain traceability.

TESTIMONIALS

What partners say about working with us

explorer.land has been pivotal in our restoration work and m&e! 💚🌳

explorer.land has been pivotal in our restoration work and m&e! 💚🌳

Greenpop

Greenpop's Team

Greenpop
The best thing that has happened to me in 2025 is to start working with OpenForests.

The best thing that has happened to me in 2025 is to start working with OpenForests.

ARARA

Rob de Laet, Project Lead

Rob de Laet
Estimados amigos, mucho apreciamos nuestra alianza, lo que hemos construido juntos, asì que, ¡Salud por lo que està por venir¡, con todo el ànimo, juntos somos...

Estimados amigos, mucho apreciamos nuestra alianza, lo que hemos construido juntos, asì que, ¡Salud por lo que està por venir¡, con todo el ànimo, juntos somos una ola. Todo el èxito, el bosque con nosotros, somos el equipo del Planeta. 

GESG

Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo, General Director

Martha Pati Ruiz Corzo
We truly appreciate the collaboration and what we’ve been building together over time — especially the trust and shared learning behind it.

We truly appreciate the collaboration and what we’ve been building together over time — especially the trust and shared learning behind it.

Sustainable Seeds GmbH

Sustainable Seeds GmbH
I really love the mobile UI! I know that challenge from Terrastories, and I think you’ve done an excellent job approaching it. I played around with...

I really love the mobile UI! I know that challenge from Terrastories, and I think you’ve done an excellent job approaching it. I played around with the page and map, and as before, experienced that everything is as intuitive as I expect it to be. Really great stuff!

Amazon Conservation Team

Rudo Kemper, Manager, Mapping & Programs Support

Rudo Kemper
An important part of my role at Greenpop is to authentically and transparently communicate the impact of our work to our donors. explorer.land has helped me...

An important part of my role at Greenpop is to authentically and transparently communicate the impact of our work to our donors. explorer.land has helped me visually communicate our work. It has combined many of the goals we have for project communications into an easy-to-use platform. The service we have received from the explorer.land team has been exceptional.

The GreenPop Foundation

Carla Wessels, Partnerships & Communications

Carla Wessels
ReWild Africa is a storytelling company that sheds light on solutions to ecological restoration. With OpenForests explorer.land we found an incredible valuable map-based tool to connect...

ReWild Africa is a storytelling company that sheds light on solutions to ecological restoration. With OpenForests explorer.land we found an incredible valuable map-based tool to connect all story elements, including the films we are producing to a specific project location. This way we enable our clients to tell engaging and transformative stories in a transparent way.

ReWild Africa

Samuel Chevallier, Co-Founder and Director

Samuel Chevalier
Since engagement in explorer.land, potential clients, and partners are contacting us. It is a wonderful platform with a super-wide network of potential clients and partners. It...

Since engagement in explorer.land, potential clients, and partners are contacting us. It is a wonderful platform with a super-wide network of potential clients and partners. It has helped us a lot in moving forward with our ecosystem restoration activities. Not only because we can prove exactly what we are doing, but it has also put us in contact with various international clients and partners. The platform really works for us.

Co2 Operate B.V.

Paul Burgers, CEO

Paul Burgers
OpenForests’ web map has been a fantastic tool to visualize our reforestation project El Silencio for fundraising.

OpenForests’ web map has been a fantastic tool to visualize our reforestation project El Silencio for fundraising.

Fundacion Biodiversa Colombia

Fernando Arbeláez, President

Fernando Arbeláez

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