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We're heading to #NYCW (Sept 20-24) and can't wait to reconnect with the carbon removal community! Here's where to find us: Monday — Varsha Ramesh Walsh joins Beston Group® for a roundtable discussion at Puro.earth's CDR Summit Tuesday — Varsha Ramesh Walsh speaks on a panel at Mandulis Energy Presents: When Ash Creates New Opportunities (featuring Cloverly and Isometric). A documentary + conversation on financing clean energy and carbon removal as one commercial model. Space is limited. Tuesday night — MRV: Mingle, Rematch, Vibe: we're hosting a networking game night with Joust. Drinks, Codenames, Uno, and the people behind your inbox. Low stakes games, high stakes friendships. In between, catch Varsha Ramesh Walsh, Nikki Raichelson, Athena Angel, and Emma Hebert at various events throughout the week! Want to connect? Reach out to hello@useoffstream.com, and check out the link to our game night in the comments — see you in NYC!

The carbon credit knowledge you're building for right now will be outdated in six months. That's why it can't be something you pick up along the way, it has to be embedded from day one. That's not a warning. It's Kathryn C.'s actual operating assumption as Finance Lead at Mandulis Energy, after watching a biochar certification process stall for three years before Offstream got it done in 90 days. "If it's going to take you more than three months to do it yourself, the information you're operating on is going to be completely different by the time you get through the process." For a developer deploying across 18 sites, that's not a minor inefficiency. It's 18 opportunities that shrink every quarter someone spends building registry fluency from scratch instead of partnering with a team that already has it. Speed isn't a nice-to-have here. It's the whole strategy. Link in comments 👇 #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #carboncertification

Most carbon removal developers don't have a technology problem. They have a knowledge problem. Knowing which registry to pursue. How to frame a submission. What a buyer's due diligence team is actually looking for. Which feedstocks will create friction before you've spent six months on them. Terraton figured out early on that closing that knowledge gap wasn't something to solve by hiring or building in-house - it meant leaning on expertise that already existed. They kept building biochar facilities. Offstream handled the LCA modeling, the PDDs, and the dMRV. Their first carbon credit purchase agreement was signed within 60 days. If you're building a biochar, BiCRS, or Bio-CCS project and want to know what the fastest path to verified credits looks like for your situation, book a 30-minute intro call with our team. Link to the case study in the comments 👇 #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #carboncertification

"Going to a registry without the right partner is like going to court without a lawyer." Greg D'Alesandre, Co-founder of Terraton, said this - not as a criticism of registries, but as hard-won clarity about what it actually takes to move fast in this market. Terraton is one of the most technically sophisticated biochar teams out there. And even they found that registry fluency isn't something you build quickly. It's something you borrow from people who already have it. The full story of how Terraton closed their first carbon credit deal in 60 days is linked in the comments. #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #dMRV

Most PDDs are built forward: gather the data, write the document, submit it, hope it holds up. Mandulis Energy tried that approach for three years. Multiple partners. No project on a registry. Then they flipped it. "You start with the end goal, the retirement of the credit, and work backward to the PDD. What needs to be in here to get us there? Most people start the other way around," says Kathryn C., Finance Lead at Mandulis Energy That single shift, designing the document to exceed buyer scrutiny at the point of sale rather than just satisfy a checklist, is what took their biochar carbon removal project from three years of stalled attempts to an approved PDD on Rainbow Standard in under 90 days. Same document. Different approach. Real results. Full story in the case study. Link in comments 👇 #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #MRV

If you're building a carbon removal project, this is the most useful 5-minute read we've published. It's the story of how Terraton, a biochar startup scaling toward thousands of facilities across multiple geographies and feedstocks, closed their first carbon credit purchase agreement in 60 days by bringing Offstream in as their carbon credit certification partner. Terraton's team are sharp operators. Engineering-driven, software-fluent, and serious about building biochar at scale. They knew early on that the fastest path forward wasn't trying to develop registry fluency in-house. It was outsourcing the carbon reporting layer to a team that already had it, and staying focused on what they do best: sourcing biomass and building well-run facilities supported by their own operating software. Their path to verified credits is now 3–6 months faster than it would have been going it alone. Buyers asked no follow-up questions. And they didn't have to hire a carbon team to get there. If you're at a similar stage and weighing your options: build in-house, bring in a partner, or fold certification into your vertical stack - we'd love to talk through what that looks like for your specific project. Read the case study, then book a call with our team. Link in comments 👇 #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #dMRV

Building in-house MRV sounds like the right call - until a buyer asks their first question. That's exactly where Terraton found themselves. A biochar carbon removal startup scaling toward thousands of facilities across multiple geographies and feedstocks. Engineering-driven, software-fluent, founded by people who'd scaled enterprise tech. If anyone could build their own MRV in-house, it was them. Then came the RFPs. And the follow-up questions. And more follow-up questions. They brought Offstream in to handle the full stack: dynamic LCA, project design documents at every stage, and dMRV that stays consistent across all of it. The carbon expertise they needed, without having to build it from scratch. The outcome:  - First carbon credit purchase agreement signed in 60 days - 2–3 FTEs of in-house hiring avoided (~$150K–$300K/year) - Timeline to verified credits compressed by 3–6 months - Zero follow-up questions from buyers once Offstream was named New case study out now 👇 #CDR #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #dMRV

We're hiring: Implementation Engineer @ Offstream 🚀 Offstream is looking for an Implementation Engineer to own the journey from signed deal to fully deployed customer - sitting right at the intersection of compliance, software, and project management. You'll: - Own MRV implementations end-to-end, from kickoff to go-live - Translate project design docs into complete MRV plans, making judgment calls where guidance is ambiguous - Work directly with registries and compliance bodies to get plans approved - Configure the Offstream platform to match each customer's unique monitoring, reporting, and verification needs - Partner with engineering to know when to build vs. when to configure We're looking for someone with 3+ years in implementation, project management, or MRV/technical advisory — ideally in carbon markets, energy, or another data-heavy regulated industry. If you thrive on ambiguity, love owning outcomes, and get excited about using AI to move faster, we want to hear from you (even if you don't check every box, we're looking for high-slope people). 📍 Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA (hybrid, 3 days/week in office) 💰 $100K–$160K + equity + full benefits + unlimited PTO Ready to help build the infrastructure behind real climate impact? Apply here: https://bit.ly/4cNVjV7 #Hiring #ClimateJobs #CarbonMarkets #Denver #SanFrancisco #Startup

$120,000. $500,000. $1,000,000. Three numbers. Three ways to solve the same problem. Kathryn C., Finance Lead at Mandulis Energy, ran all three before deciding how to get their biochar carbon removal project certified. Hire a specialist: $120K-$150K a year, minimum, with none of the registry relationships or fluency that actually move a deal forward. Bring in a large consulting firm to cover PDD through credit retirement: $500K, likely over $1M once the full scope hits. Bring in Offstream: a fraction of either cost, and a PDD approved on Rainbow Standard in 90 days. Most developers only price the document. Kathryn priced the outcome. Full numbers in the case study. Link in comments 👇 #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #CDR #MRV

Three years of trying. No registered carbon project to show for it. Then 90 days. That's the carbon credit certification timeline for Mandulis Energy, a hybrid solar-biomass power and biochar developer bringing 24/7 clean electricity to a rural community in Uganda that had never had reliable power before. Five years ago, this community had no reliable electricity. No night market. No lights on after dark. Today, vendors sell until 10pm, kids do homework after sunset, and families can access healthcare that used to be out of reach. That's the outcome Mandulis Energy set out to deliver. Carbon credits are how it gets financed. Three years of certification attempts. Multiple partners. Still no project on a registry. Then Offstream came in: - Draft PDD approved on Rainbow Standard in under 90 days - $5M in carbon credit revenue unlocked over five years - $500K–$1M+ in consulting and headcount costs avoided - 18 sites, one partner, one platform that compounds across all of them New case study out now, linked in the comments 👇 #CDR #carbonremoval #biochar #carboncredits #MRV