clever Offsets

Clever Offsets, Inc. is a New York-based Delaware corporation operating a carbon market data and analytics platform for the voluntary carbon markets. The platform aggregates and standardizes registry data from 18+ carbon credit programs, covering more than 20,000 carbon offset projects across 150+ countries and tens of thousands of buyers and intermediaries, and presents it as structured profile pages and searchable datasets. Data fields include credit issuances and retirements by vintage, project scope, verifications and additional accreditations, registry alignment, methodology protocols, expected versus actual issuances, Sustainable Development Goals alignment, buyer transaction tables and verified contact information.

The company frames its work around three problems: inconsistent registry data that prevents comparability of credit quality; limited transparency into who is buying credits, in what volumes and from which project types; and the manual effort involved in carbon market due diligence. Its products are organized as three modules. The Open Access Module offers free, self-registration access to project profile pages, methodology protocols and credit issuance tables. The Buyers Module is a subscription SaaS product built on analysis of more than 500,000 transaction records, letting users identify active buyers, analyze purchasing behavior, access verified buyer profiles and export targeted lists. The Enterprise Module, launched in March 2026 and developed with design partners in the financial sector, supports delivery-risk and integrity-risk modeling at portfolio scale, covering additionality, permanence, leakage and double counting as well as physical, transition, financial, geospatial, verification and environmental impact data; users generate exportable tables and analyses through natural-language prompts against the company's authenticated database.

Founding story

According to the company, founder Rick Beaumont was previously a maritime lawyer in New York City and a senior executive at a marine insurer, handling litigation and responses to collisions and oil spills. His interest in climate action led him to the carbon markets, where he identified inaccessible, fragmented and inaccurate data as the main obstacle to projects being funded and built. He and a business partner spent about a year and a half researching and building the foundations of the data platform. In August 2023 he was accepted into the Techstars program, which provided the company's first capital; he used it to hire a data manager to professionalize and scale data acquisition and to drive user adoption so product development would track user feedback.

Business model

B2B data and software business. The company positions itself as a data provider rather than an exchange or trading platform, selling structured carbon market data through a tiered product suite: a free Open Access tier, a paid monthly subscription Buyers Module, and an Enterprise Module aimed at institutions, with a contact-sales motion for larger deployments.

Subscription-based SaaS pricing, with a free open-access tier used as an entry point and monthly subscriptions for the Buyers Module; the Enterprise Module is sold to institutions via direct engagement with the company's team.

Traction

Company materials cite coverage of 21,000-22,000+ projects across 18+ registries, 84,000-98,000+ buyers and intermediaries, 150+ countries, and analysis of more than 500,000 transaction records. At the January 2024 freemium launch, coverage was 14,000+ projects across 10+ registries. The team grew to eight people, and a client testimonial from Removall Carbon is featured on the company site.

Latest developments

In March 2026 the company launched its Enterprise Module, extending its B2B SaaS suite to portfolio-scale delivery-risk analysis for insurers, financiers, asset managers, corporates and advisors, with natural-language querying and exportable structured outputs.