Lucida

Showcasing our ability to deliver sophisticated backend infrastructures, Neural Alpha delivered the database, ETLs and API powering Lucida’s advanced supply chain and deforestation analysis.

James Phare · 17 Aug 2023 · 4 min read

Client’s name / industry

Climate Advisers – NGO

Products / Services

Working closely with visual design and frontend developers MG Strategy & Design Neural Alpha developed a sophisticated backend infrastructure powering an exciting new transparency initiative for protecting tropical forests called Lucida.

Result statistics

Working alongside a global multidisciplinary team of Economists, environmental researchers and communications professionals Neural Alpha delivered the Lucida database, ETLs and API for powering advanced supply chain and deforestation analysis.

The platform provided unprecedented transparency highlighting illegal forest conversion and unsustainable land use. Using cutting edge visualisations and other interactive tools the platform enabled civil society actors to investigate leading actors driving deforestation.

“Lucida utilizes innovative processing systems to integrate data on corporate financing and structures with on-the-ground impacts, and surfaces that data through stunning visualizations and incisive analysis. Lucida provides access to previously hard-to-obtain or expensive-to-access data and focuses on ensuring the tool and insights are accessible and comprehensible. ” Climate Advisers

Objectives/Goals/Challenges

To deliver comprehensive data engineering capabilities for financial and environmental data for companies and physical assets linked to tropical agriculture in high risk locations including concession locations, ownership structures and financing structures.

Solutions

Neural Alpha employed our strong data engineering and data integration capabilities, all the time in continuous collaboration with the customer and delivery partners as the concept evolved and ideas became more clearly defined.

Benefits/Results

Neural Alpha were able to deliver the data requirements, engineering and analytical solutions for the launch of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) platform for gathering feedback from key users, donors and NGOs on time and budget.