AI for Superhuman Ecosystem Intelligence

Lance Legel

Ecological Intelligence, Inc. maps, models, and optimizes ecosystems. We develop AI for guardians of life, who see landscapes as they are and as they could become:

Land developers. World changers. Accelerating 30% land value increases through ecological digital twins for site surveying, landscape design, city permitting, and commercial contracting.

Landscape architects. Visionary designers. Providing palettes for the most flourishing, biodiverse, functional, resilient, and beautiful ecosystems on the planet.

City planners. Community leaders. Scaling solutions to environmental crises (e.g. wildfires) through AI-powered simulation, optimization, and management of risk mitigations.

Property insurers. Risk minimizers. Reducing portfolio losses while preserving environmental vitality, through AI-powered ecological risk mitigations.

We synthesize scientific data into AI world models that can forecast and optimize ecological outcomes for any landscape on Earth.

The speed of compounding value

Speed is the value proposition: the speed to optimal design, scientific discovery, commercial transaction, and ecological restoration.

Ecological function is beautiful

Landscape architect Thomas Rainer, co-author of Planting in a Post-Wild World, once wrote to me, in reference to plantings by Piet Oudolf:

"The ecological and functional patterns ... give its aesthetics an emotional power."

From this I derive Rainer's Law: ecological function is beautiful. People love to see butterflies pollinating wildflowers. Mathematically, we can describe this as follows:

Beauty of a landscape is proportional to the integral of ecosystem function across space and time.

We exist to understand this, to model it, and to drive the technologies that make it possible for every landscape on this planet to reach its full ecological potential. For the industries that shape land. For the communities that depend on it. For the future of life on Earth.