Windhover ESGPreliminary E&S studies take weeks. Ours take 48 hours.
Most consultancies need several weeks to deliver a preliminary environmental and social assessment. We screen the same open global datasets, deliver in 48 hours on average, and hand you every figure, source and GIS layer so your team can reuse them.
Desk-based screening and scoping aligned with the IFC Performance Standards, and a sound starting point for national ESIA requirements.
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48 hours on average. Very large sites or areas where the data takes longer to gather may need a little more time: we tell you if so.
From a pin on a map to a sourced E&S picture.
Describe your site
A point and a radius, or your site outline (KML, shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage), plus your sector.
We screen open data
Land cover, population, buildings, forest loss, protected areas, schools, clinics, heritage, water: every fact sourced.
Read the key issues
A one-page summary in plain words, then a Word report per Performance Standard, Excel tables and GIS layers.
Automate the repetitive part. Keep the expert judgement.
The same data, collected again for every project
For each new site, consultancies rebuild the same baseline: land cover, population, buildings, protected areas, sensitive receptors. We automate this collection and consolidation from global open datasets.
An expert stays in the loop
Automation prepares the ground; an environmental and social specialist then checks the results. Every figure stays traceable, so the review is fast and reliable.
Your project stays confidential
We do not share your project or its data with anyone. We speed up data collection and consolidation so that your team can make decisions sooner.
People and nature first.
The IFC Performance Standards, like the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework and the Equator Principles, exist to protect people and the environment. Every figure we compute answers one of their questions.
- PS3Water and resources that people and ecosystems depend on.
- PS4Communities living around the site: their health, safety and access.
- PS5People who live on or farm the land, and their homes and livelihoods.
- PS6Forests, natural habitats, protected areas and the species they shelter.
- PS7Indigenous Peoples and their lands, flagged for specialist review.
- PS8Cultural heritage: historic sites, places of worship, cemeteries.
Ten questions, answered with sources.
Are there buildings or farmland in the site? Natural habitat, recent forest loss, protected areas nearby? Schools, clinics, heritage, water? Each answer says yes, not detected or not assessed, and why.
Built for experts who check everything.
Traceable
Dataset, version, licence and access date for every fact. Checkable in under a minute.
Honest about gaps
"Not detected" never means "absent". Missing data is flagged, not hidden.
Side by side
Two sources disagree? You see both values and the spread. Nothing is averaged.
Yours to reuse
Excel tables, GIS layers and Word reports: every figure delivered, ready for your own analysis.
Theo Saunier
I design and build this tool to bring environmental and social screening up to the speed and transparency that project finance now expects.
With Yaowen Deng
A portfolio, a corridor, a special case?
Several sites to compare, a linear project, a tight deadline or specific national requirements: tell us about it and we will send you a tailored quote.
Your first preliminary assessment, express and free.
No card needed. Your report and all its data in 48 hours on average.
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