Notes on feedstock, verification, and offtake — written for the grant bodies, climate-tech incubators, and corporate carbon-credit buyers evaluating a pre-seed supplier like us. For dated market and policy developments, see the news log.
Biochar's dual benefit — durable carbon removal and soil health — is exactly where pitch decks most easily blur two claims that buyers should be able to evaluate independently.
Fixed-volume, take-or-pay contracts assume the hard part is already proven. At pre-seed, it isn't. What a milestone-gated offtake structure looks like instead.
What we think a reviewer evaluating a pre-seed biochar application is actually checking for, beyond the headline numbers on the summary slide.
A due-diligence checklist for corporate buyers and grant reviewers evaluating pre-seed CDR suppliers — feedstock, MRV, permanence, co-benefits, and use of funds.
Verification isn't the same as measurement. Why third-party audit cost is a real line item for early-stage biochar developers, not a rubber stamp.
Feedstock identity shapes the counterfactual baseline, the permanence claim, and the due-diligence questions a buyer will ask — coconut husk is a useful case study in why.