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Consulting by Conservation X Labs

Conservation X Labs helps governments, NGOs, and businesses solve the planet’s hardest problems.

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What We Do:

We build tools, systems, and partnerships that drive real change for nature. Through open innovation, artificial intelligence, and field-tested conservation technologies, Conservation X Labs helps organizations transform ambition into action—and deliver impact at scale.

Open Innovation Services

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We design and execute prize competitions and challenges that tap into global innovation networks, bringing fresh thinking to your toughest problems. Our approach goes far beyond posting a challenge online—we architect innovation ecosystems that attract the right solvers and generate implementable solutions, then connect them with the partners and investors to accelerate and scale. 

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Instead of funding a single approach, you unlock dozens of competing solutions—and only pay for what works. This model dramatically reduces risk, accelerates outcomes, and unlocks significant follow-on investment for the most promising innovations.

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Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Services

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Conservation organizations shouldn't need PhD-level data scientists to harness the power of artificial intelligence. Our AI-as-a-Service offering puts our experienced machine learning teams directly to work on your conservation challenges. Our services include:

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  • developing AI models that detect species and animal behaviors, enable re-identification of individual animals, and monitor forest health 
  • custom LLM training
  • transforming and annotating complex biodiversity training data

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Our AI experts make complex machine learning comprehensible and usable in the real world, leveraging our teams’ experience deploying AI models to Wildbook, Scout, Sentinel, and other production systems used in the field.

Conservation Science and Technology for Monitoring Biodiversity

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New communication capabilities, advances in AI and Machine Learning, eDNA, satellite imagery and low-cost sensors make possible the automated monitoring of ecosystem health, invasive and endemic species presence, and threats such as human wildlife conflict and poaching. Selecting the right technology and deploying it cost effectively can feel overwhelmingly complex. Our team can help you navigate the technology landscape, and design science-based deployments based on what you are seeking to monitor, and where—the terrain, ecoregion, accessibility, communication options.

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Why Work With CXL?

We're builders, scientists, and systems thinkers.

Our team has spent a decade designing conservation technologies, leading innovation prizes, and developing some of the world’s most advanced AI tools. When you work with us, you’re getting hands-on partners who understand both the science and the system change needed to create lasting impact.

Example Projects

Global Cooling Prize

Conservation X Labs ran the Global Cooling Prize — an international competition to re-invent room air conditioners — with a $3M prize purse supported by philanthropies, private-sector partners, and the Government of India. The competition engaged top innovators from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, requiring each of the 8 finalists to deliver two working prototypes for rigorous testing — one in a certified laboratory and one in an actual apartment. Two winning teams not only met but exceeded the target of 5x lower climate impact. The Prize catalyzed three startups and fostered five global partnerships among incumbent AC manufacturers, early-stage firms, and academic researchers.

Individual Beluga Re-ID

The Wild Me Lab worked with NOAA and the U.S. Department of the Interior (BOEM) to synthesize AI competition results into a working AI model for individual beluga ID in Cook Inlet Alaska as a part of NOAA’s long-term population studies. Subsequent versions of that AI model (MiewID) have been advanced to also re-ID individuals from other NOAA study populations, including Pacific coast gray whales, spinner dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, sea turtles, and more.

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"Giraffe are highly mobile animals that roam vast, often remote landscapes, and GiraffeSpotter (the Wildbook for Giraffe) has provided us with a critical tool to inform their conservation by leveraging cloud-based computing, a collaborative individual-based photo-ID database, and integrated data from multiple platforms to monitor populations and reveal unprecedented insights into their ecology."

– Dr. Michael Brown, Giraffe Conservation Foundation

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