Ecological intelligence, embedded in landscape design decisions.
PerenOS is the ecological intelligence layer for climate-adaptive landscapes. It generates plant communities adapted to the specific conditions of a site and the climate it is moving into, from a diagnosis that names site pressures, states obligations, and makes uncertainty visible. Reasoning is explicit in every output. Outputs are designed for integration into professional submissions and project records.
Hours saved per project on ecological justification, climate framing, and species rationale, produced upstream or downstream of spatial decisions. It removes time pressure at specification stage.
Every hour currently spent on this is unrecoverable under a fixed-fee contract.
Species selections grounded in documented functional reasoning.
Where multi-year maintenance obligations apply, that documentation is the difference between a defensible decision and an exposed one.
Traceable community proposals calibrated to projected 2040 to 2060 conditions, suitable for biodiversity net gain submissions, CSRD disclosure, TNFD reporting, and planning authority review.
Built upstream, before spatial decisions are fixed.
The platform begins from the question of what specific ecological functions the site requires, then identifies the species best placed to deliver those functions under current and projected conditions. PerenOS treats functions as the primary design input, and species as the output of the reasoning those functions require.
Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. It seeks to understand the vital connections between plants, animals, and the world around them.
Every plant does specific work inside a system. It roots deeply and stabilises soil structure, flowers late and feeds pollinators through a period of scarcity, buffers heat, retains water, supports soil biology, or provides habitat and food. A plant's ecological functions are defined by what it does within a community, not by what it does in isolation. PerenOS treats functions as the primary design input, and species as the output of the reasoning those functions require.
South-facing urban fringe. Clay-loam soil. 0.4 hectares. England, BNG mandatory. Summer drought, urban heat island, compaction. Pollinator corridor goal.
Drought stress, urban heat island effect, compaction risk, pollinator corridor potential. Probabilistic, with stated confidence levels.
Deep rooting, late-season nectar provision, thermal buffering, low-intervention establishment. Ranked against site conditions and the projected climate trajectory to 2050.
A bounded species set with stated roles, expected succession behaviour, and explicit uncertainty flags. Decision support for the practitioner, not prescription.
Every hour a practitioner spends producing ecological justification is unrecoverable under a fixed-fee contract. Every species that fails beyond the defects liability period is a compliance risk that runs with the land. Every project accumulates knowledge: what established, what failed, how a community performed through two dry summers. That knowledge disappears when the project closes.
PerenOS holds site conditions, projected climate trajectories, and plant community dynamics in the same analysis, upstream of the decisions that fix them. It converts unrecoverable time and accumulated compliance risk into a defensible, traceable record built before the spatial design is fixed.
Global average temperature already above pre-industrial levels. Further warming of 1.5 to 2°C locked in by mid-century under current trajectories.¹
Of the world's plant species at risk of extinction. Climate-driven range shifts are already altering community composition in every major biome.²
Countries that signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in 2022. The national legislation required to deliver those commitments is now entering planning law across every major economy.³
Every hour spent producing ecological justification, climate framing, and species rationale is unrecoverable under a fixed-fee contract. PerenOS generates that reasoning upstream, before spatial decisions are fixed, so practitioners are not reconstructing it under time pressure at specification stage. Where regulatory obligations require traceable documentation, the record is built into the output from the first decision.
Demand for ecological input at design stage consistently exceeds the hours available. PerenOS extends capacity without compromising rigour: it speaks the language of community ecology, draws on TRY, sPlot, and GBIF, integrates climate-analogue modelling, and produces reasoning that can be interrogated, challenged, and built on.
Biodiversity net gain and equivalent obligations are now cost lines on every major development. The liability does not end at completion: where 30-year maintenance obligations apply, a species that fails at year eight is a financial and legal exposure. PerenOS produces the documentation that makes compliance genuinely deliverable and grounds every species decision in traceable functional reasoning, shifting liability from professional intuition to a documented record.
Ecological decisions made at municipal scale carry public accountability that private projects do not. The reasoning behind a green space decision, a heat island strategy, or a restoration programme must be defensible to committees, oversight bodies, and residents. PerenOS provides that reasoning in a form that is transparent, traceable, and suited to institutional reporting.
Infrastructure land footprints are large, long-lived, and increasingly subject to ecological obligations that compound over time. A species selection wrong for the projected 2050 climate does not fail at year one — it fails at year fifteen, across thousands of kilometres of managed verge. PerenOS provides the ecological reasoning and longitudinal monitoring capability to manage those footprints at scale, with the audit trail that institutional investors and disclosure frameworks now require.
What is happening in England, France, and the European Union is not an exception. It is the leading edge of a regulatory shift affecting every major economy. The commitment made at Kunming in 2022 by 196 countries to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is now translating into national planning law, corporate disclosure requirements, and financial governance frameworks across six continents. Practitioners and operators who build the ecological reasoning layer and documentation capability now will be ahead of every market this wave reaches next.
PerenOS is designed to be independent of any single jurisdiction. Regulatory frameworks are context that can be added to a project, not structural assumptions embedded in the architecture.
| Year | Framework | Jurisdiction | What it requires | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Environment Protection Reform Act | Australia | Comprehensive overhaul of EPBC Act. Introduces legally binding National Environmental Standards, a net gain test for all major developments, and an independent National Environmental Protection Agency. In force mid-2026. | dcceew.gov.au |
| 2025 | CSRD and ESRS E4 | European Union | Large companies disclose material impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities related to biodiversity and ecosystems. | efrag.org |
| 2024 | ZAN — Zéro Artificialisation Nette | France | Balance between soil consumption and ecological restoration at territorial scale. Opposability to local planning documents from 2031. | legifrance.gouv.fr |
| 2024 | EU Nature Restoration Law | European Union | Binding restoration targets for degraded ecosystems across member states. 20% of land and sea under restoration measures by 2030. | eur-lex.europa.eu |
| 2024 | Biodiversity Net Gain, mandatory | England | All major developments demonstrate a minimum 10% net gain in biodiversity value at planning consent. | gov.uk/bng |
| 2023 | National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2023–2030 | Japan | Nature-Positive by 2030 mission. 30x30 conservation target. Act on Promoting Activities to Enhance Regional Biodiversity in force April 2025. | env.go.jp |
| 2023 | National Biodiversity Offset Guideline | South Africa | Biodiversity offsets required for all developments with significant residual impacts on priority biodiversity. Offsets must be secured and monitored in perpetuity. | dffe.gov.za |
| 2022 | Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework | 196 countries | Halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Protect 30% of land and seas. National legislation required to deliver commitments. | cbd.int/gbf |
| Established | Section 404 / Clean Water Act — compensatory mitigation | United States | Avoid-minimise-compensate hierarchy for federally regulated impacts on wetlands and waters. Compensatory mitigation banking market exceeds $3 billion annually. Multiple US states developing biodiversity net gain equivalents. | epa.gov/cwa-404 |
PerenOS is in active development. Before the next round of build decisions is made, the team is speaking with landscape architects, ecological consultants, planners, developers, and operators to understand how ecological reasoning actually fits into real working practice. These conversations directly shape what the platform becomes.
Research interviews run for 30 to 45 minutes, remote, and are held in full confidence. There is no commercial pitch. Your contact details are used only to arrange the call.
PerenOS begins from two questions held together: what does this piece of land need, and what do you need from it?
The community it generates follows from both: the climate the site is in and moving toward, the pressures it faces, and the needs you bring to it. The reasoning draws on the formal science of plant functional ecology and on longitudinal observation from real sites across every climate zone the platform works with.
PerenOS generates plant communities for everyone who tends a piece of land and is working out what it needs.
An allotment managed for food and the soil health that sustains it.
A larger holding designed as a coherent system across multiple plant communities.
A garden where seasonal structure and ecological function are both design requirements.
An established site whose performance is shifting as the climate moves under it.
The ecological reasoning PerenOS applies is the same across all of these. What varies is the balance between what the land can sustain and what the steward needs from it.
A plant community is a group of species that live and function together, where each plays a different role in the system. A meadow is one. A woodland edge is another. Species in community are more resilient than species grown in isolation, because they support one another through water, soil, shade, and pollinators. PerenOS generates plant communities for your site.
Every piece of land comprises several plant communities interacting with one another. The hedge at the boundary, the vegetable beds, the flower border, the fruit planting, the patch left to seed, the corner that receives little active management: each is a distinct community with its own composition, succession dynamics, and ecological relationships. PerenOS reasons about each community and about how they interact across the whole site.
Climate-adaptive design means selecting species that will perform well today and remain suited to the conditions your land is moving into through 2040 and beyond, as summers become drier and hotter and winters wetter and more variable. A species well-matched to current conditions faces a different selection environment by 2040. PerenOS reasons about which species will perform across both horizons.
You describe what you observe: what grows well, what is struggling, what the soil feels like, what surrounds your land. PerenOS reads that description and proposes a plant community from it. The ecological reasoning operates inside the platform and returns to you in plain language.
The plant communities on your land were shaped by the climate that preceded them. The species that established, the associations that formed, the communities that became stable are the ecological record of conditions that prevailed over decades, and those conditions are changing.
New climate trajectories create the conditions for new plant communities. PerenOS reasons about what those communities will be, drawing on two bodies of knowledge. The formal science of plant functional ecology and climate projection, including global datasets of species traits, vegetation plots, and distribution records, describes what is possible under projected conditions. Longitudinal observation from real sites across every climate zone the platform works with describes what has actually happened in the field, through the dry summers and wet winters that the models projected and the land experienced.
Your site is one of those observation points.
PerenOS builds a shared library of ecological observation from every site it works with. Every observation you log, including what established successfully, what failed, and which insects chose which plants, strengthens the guidance the platform produces for everyone using it and sharpens the reasoning that returns to you.
You are a user and a contributor to the largest longitudinal planting dataset in the world that does not yet exist.
You log what you see: establishment success, pollinator preference, what struggled through the dry spell.
Your observations enter a growing dataset of real-world community performance, organised by climate zone, soil type, and community composition.
Future proposals for your site, and for sites like yours, are grounded in what actually happened in the field.
You decide what you share and what remains private. The commons is built on consent.
The reasons extend further than your boundary.
Private gardens, allotments, and smallholdings together represent a significant share of urban and peri-urban green space. What you grow at home is connected to pollinators, soil health, water flow, and biodiversity corridors that extend far beyond your boundary.
The signals are visible across gardens and landscapes: species that thrived a decade ago are struggling, and species that were rare are arriving. PerenOS interprets those signals and proposes what your site can do with them.
What you notice in your garden, what survived a dry summer, what the insects chose, what comes back year after year, is longitudinal ecological data. The platform captures it and makes it useful for your own land, for the wider knowledge base, and for other users across the world.
Climate-adaptive planting means selecting species matched to the conditions the site is moving into, so the community requires progressively less intervention as it establishes. The result is reduced maintenance over time and greater resilience to conditions the site has not yet experienced.
PerenOS is in active development. Before the next build decisions are made, the team is speaking with individuals who manage gardens, allotments, and field edges to understand what ecological reasoning would actually serve in practice. These conversations shape what the platform becomes.
Conversations run for 30 minutes, remote. Arrive as you are.
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