AI for Superhuman Ecosystem Intelligence
Lance Legel
Ecological Intelligence, Inc. maps, models, and maximizes ecosystems. We develop AI for those who see landscapes as they are and as they could become:
→ Landscape architects. Visionary designers. Providing palettes for the most flourishing, biodiverse, functional, resilient, and beautiful ecosystems on the planet.
→ City planners. Community leaders. Scaling solutions to environmental crises (e.g. wildfires) through AI-powered simulation, optimization, and management of risk mitigations.
→ Land developers. World changers. Accelerating 30% land value increases through ecological digital twins for site surveying, landscape design, city permitting, and commercial contracting.
We synthesize scientific data into AI world models that forecast and maximize any landscape on Earth.
The speed of compounding value
Speed is the value: to optimal design, scientific discovery, commercial transaction, and restoration.
Ecological function is beautiful
Thomas Rainer, co-author of Planting in a Post-Wild World, wrote to me of Piet Oudolf's plantings:
"The ecological and functional patterns ... give its aesthetics an emotional power."
From this I derive Rainer's Law: ecological function is beautiful. People love to see butterflies pollinating wildflowers. Mathematically, we can describe this as follows:
Beauty of a landscape is proportional to the integral of ecosystem function across space and time.
We exist to model this, and to bring every landscape on Earth to its full ecological potential: for the industries that shape land, the communities that depend on it, and the future of life.