Grand Challenge
May 28 2026

Scaling Site-Level Nature Intelligence Through Hybrid Workflows

Featured Winner - Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge: Mozaic Earth

For Mozaic Earth, understanding corporate environmental risk requires connecting high-level oversight with localized reality. Developed by a team of AI experts, field ecologists, and corporate strategy veterans, the platform serves as an end-to-end operational software system for land management.

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The corporate management of land-based assets has long been constrained by an expensive structural trade-off. Large-scale infrastructure firms, utilities, and commercial real estate portfolios handle thousands of varying properties, yet they lack the operational visibility needed to evaluate shifting ecological vulnerabilities. When a business relies solely on traditional, localized environmental consultancies, assessing asset condition requires massive budgets, manual travel, and months of administrative delay. This friction prevents companies from establishing a unified baseline, leaving them highly exposed to accelerating physical threats like acute flooding or localized habitat degradation.

To break through this operational bottleneck, nature tech platforms must change how landscape data is gathered and verified. High-resolution satellite imagery offers an excellent starting point, but remote sensing alone cannot replace physical validation on the ground. True enterprise-grade intelligence requires decoupling data collection from expert interpretation. By moving the technical complexity into a structured digital background, organizations can transform anyone on the ground into a distributed monitoring network—capturing high-fidelity local insights at scale while maintaining rigorous scientific standards.

Democratizing Field Data with an Expert-in-the-Loop Architecture

This is the exact operational shift that Mozaic Earth is designed to execute. Operating as an intuitive operating system for land portfolios, the platform eliminates the massive costs of field research by dividing the data workflow into three interconnected, user-focused layers:

  • The Distributed Mobile Layer: Using an intuitive mobile application, local maintenance operators and field employees can capture standardized, geo-tagged ground imagery during routine site visits. The application abstracts away all scientific complexity, allowing staff to collect audit-ready ecological data without prior training. The Predictive
  • AI Backend: Once uploaded, the raw ground data is processed alongside high-resolution satellite imagery by Mosaic Earth's specialized interpretation engine. The system systematically calculates localized habitat baselines, detects environmental changes, and models asset-specific financial vulnerabilities. 
  • The Expert Verification Loop: To maintain absolute institutional trust, professional ecologists log into the cloud environment to remotely audit, survey, and verify the automated AI outputs. This human-in-the-loop validation ensures that the final data pipeline remains entirely decision-grade.

This hybrid approach translates directly into immediate business value for asset managers. For instance, in regions like the United Kingdom—where environmental flooding represents a primary driver of infrastructure downtime and unplanned maintenance costs—the platform allows portfolio managers to track risks across thousands of isolated sites simultaneously. Instead of reacting to ecological crises after they occur, organizations can systematically compare asset resilience across different geographic zones. This clear visibility allows corporate boards to optimize capital allocation, protect operational continuity, and confidently direct mitigation budgets to the highest-risk facilities.

The Grand Challenge Victory

Mozaic Earth was named an official winner of the Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge—a global competition convened by Conservation X Labs, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to find affordable, accessible nature data tools for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Standing out from a highly competitive pool of over 380 international applicants, the platform advanced through a rigorous selection process and a comprehensive two-month field-testing phase. During these pilots, Mozaic Earth worked directly with active SMEs across diverse global sectors to deploy its technology under the TNFD’s structured LEAP (Locate, Evaluate, Assess, and Prepare) assessment framework.

By proving that complex, site-level environmental auditing can be simplified into a cost-effective, autonomous internal workflow, the platform demonstrated unparalleled practical performance for users with no prior technical background in ecology. This milestone validation cements Mozaic Earth’s role as an industry leader, creating a new standard for corporate land stewardship and unlocking a trusted, scalable blueprint for businesses worldwide. The work of these innovators is just getting started, proving that the future of nature-positive business is already here.