Design sustainability into every decision.
SDAI helps organizations assess impacts, optimize resources, and build circular, low-carbon systems through life cycle assessment, sustainable design, and AI-enabled decision support.
How the frameworks connect
Circular economy sets the system direction. Circular design translates it into product and process choices. LCA tests whether those choices actually reduce impact.
SDAI Foundation
Open methods, documentation, and research infrastructure that keep sustainability work transparent, teachable, and reproducible.
SDAI Labs
Applied tools and workflow systems that turn environmental analysis into usable interfaces, automation, and decision support.
Why it matters
Most sustainability decisions happen after design is locked in, with data that arrived too late.
Teams across product development, manufacturing, and procurement face the same constraints: analysis arrives after decisions are already expensive to change, LCA is specialist work that does not scale, and carbon accounting stops at the fence line. SDAI is being built to fix that.
LCA is still specialist-gated
Structured life cycle assessment requires specialist software, curated databases, and significant manual setup. That limits who can run it and when decisions are still open enough to act on the results.
Carbon accounting stops at the fence line
Scope 1 and 2 inventory covers direct operations. The larger share of impact—across supply chains, product use, and end-of-life—sits in scope 3 and rarely gets acted on because the data is hard to connect.
Circular design stays theoretical
Design teams know circularity matters. But translating principles into material choices, product architecture, and end-of-life planning requires analytical support most teams do not currently have.
Three frameworks
The analytical foundations of SDAI.
LCA, circular design, and carbon accounting are distinct disciplines—but they answer complementary questions. SDAI builds tools around all three, with the data and method connections that make them work together.
LCA
Measure impacts across the full life cycle
LCA identifies where environmental impacts actually happen—across materials, manufacturing, use, and end-of-life. SDAI helps teams structure, run, and interpret assessments so results drive decisions, not just reports.
Circular Design
Design out waste from the start
Circular design shifts the question from managing waste later to preventing it by design. SDAI supports material decisions, product architecture, and end-of-life planning to keep products and value in the system longer.
Carbon Accounting
Account for emissions across the value chain
For most organizations, the biggest climate impact sits beyond direct operations. SDAI helps connect operational, purchased, and supply-chain emissions back to the product and process decisions that drive them.
Ecosystem
Open foundation. Applied delivery.
The Foundation validates methods, builds shared infrastructure, and keeps the work open. SDAI Labs turns that into production workflows, tools, and implementation support.
Open methods, documentation, and research infrastructure that keep sustainability work transparent, teachable, and reproducible.
Applied tools and workflow systems that turn environmental analysis into usable interfaces, automation, and decision support.
Method rigor
Grounded in ISO standards, peer-validated approaches, and assumptions teams can inspect and challenge.
Workflow design
Built for modular tooling, programmatic automation, and AI-assisted orchestration of sustainability analysis.
Decision relevance
Structured for the teams making product, procurement, process, and reporting decisions—not only specialists.
Tools
What we are building.
LCA Copilot
PreviewAI-assisted life cycle assessment, built for real analysis. LCA Copilot supports the full LCA workflow—from structuring a study and defining system boundaries to interpreting results and preparing decision-ready outputs.
openLCA-ipc
A Python package that makes it easier to interact with openLCA programmatically. Run automated calculations, repeatable workflows, and larger-scale scenario analysis without manual desktop work.
openLCA MCP
PreviewA Model Context Protocol server that creates a structured bridge between openLCA and AI-driven workflows—enabling more intelligent querying, orchestration, and interaction with environmental models.
Green Hydrogen TEA
A modular framework for evaluating the economic performance of green hydrogen production pathways under varying technical and market conditions.
Biosteam++
PreviewA more capable environment for exploring bioprocess design, systems performance, and sustainability trade-offs across technical, economic, and environmental dimensions.
Where it applies
Real decisions, not hypotheticals.
From product development to enterprise reporting, SDAI tools are designed around the decisions where better environmental analysis changes what gets built, bought, and reported.
Product design
Compare materials, components, and architectures against life cycle and circularity criteria before design decisions are hard to reverse.
Process engineering
Evaluate process configurations for environmental performance alongside cost and throughput—before a design is committed.
Supply chain decisions
Map scope 3 emissions and resource flows across sourcing, logistics, and upstream production to find where impact is concentrated.
Circular economy strategy
Assess reuse, remanufacturing, recovery, and waste-to-value pathways with tools built around circular design hierarchies and lifecycle data.
ESG and carbon reporting
Turn sustainability data into structured, traceable reporting that connects disclosures to operational and design decisions that can actually change.
Get involved
Be part of the build.
We are developing LCA Copilot, openLCA integrations, green hydrogen TEA tools, and AI-assisted sustainability workflows. If you work in LCA, circular systems, process design, or sustainability strategy—we would like to hear from you.
What you will hear about
Tool previews, early access, research releases, and workflow pilots across LCA, carbon accounting, and circular design.
Who we want to hear from
Researchers, sustainability managers, product teams, process engineers, and anyone doing serious environmental analysis work.
Request access
Tell us who you are, what you are working on, and where better sustainability analysis would make a difference for your team.