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Sustainable Design with AI

Open source

Open-source infrastructure

Connectors, automation toolkits, and MCP servers that integrate leading sustainability software with AI agents and modern engineering workflows.

openLCAAvailable

openLCA IPC Toolkit

Python toolkit for automating openLCA calculations, batch runs, parameter updates, and result extraction over the IPC protocol.

Replaces manual desktop work with scripted, repeatable workflows — so a study can be re-run, versioned, and audited rather than rebuilt by hand.

PythonopenLCAIPC
pip install openlca-ipc
openLCAIn development

openLCA MCP

MCP server that connects AI agents to openLCA workspaces, models, calculations, and results through a structured interface.

Exposes LCA operations as typed, inspectable tools so automation stays legible — every agent action maps to a documented model operation.

MCPPythonJSON-RPC
BrightwayIn development

Brightway MCP

MCP server for Brightway2, enabling AI-assisted LCA workflows over databases, methods, and calculations.

Brings the Brightway ecosystem — a widely used programmatic LCA framework — into agent and assistant workflows without hiding the underlying calls.

MCPPythonBrightway2
BioSTEAMIn development

BioSTEAM MCP

MCP server for BioSTEAM models, simulation runs, and scenario analysis with AI-assisted interpretation.

Lets assistants build, run, and interrogate process models while the flowsheet, assumptions, and results stay in plain, reviewable form.

MCPPythonBioSTEAM

Why it matters

Open principles, deliberately.

Sustainability analysis is only as credible as its assumptions. Open tooling keeps those assumptions inspectable.

Open standards

Built on open protocols and interoperable interfaces that avoid vendor lock-in.

Developer friendly

Clean APIs, clear documentation, and modular design for fast integration and extension.

Community first

Open source by design, community maintained, and transparently governed.

Interoperable

Connects leading sustainability tools and AI agents across ecosystems and workflows.

Architecture

How the layers connect.

Our infrastructure sits between AI-driven workflows and the sustainability software that does the actual computation — it does not replace either.

AI agents & workflows

  • Agentic applications
  • Chat assistants
  • Automation pipelines
  • Custom scripts
MCP / API

SDAI open infrastructure

  • openLCA IPC Toolkit
  • openLCA MCP
  • Brightway MCP
  • BioSTEAM MCP
Connects to

Sustainability software

  • openLCA
  • Brightway2
  • BioSTEAM
  • thermosteam

Contribute

Issues, pull requests, and method critiques are all welcome. Everything we publish is intended to be inspected, challenged, and reused.

github.com/SDAI-institute

Building on these tools?

We're interested in how the connectors get used in practice — and what's missing. Tell us what you're integrating.