Your 5-minute gut check saves thousands of teams thousands of hours.
Join a community of domain experts building the data layer that makes climate TEA trustworthy.
Teams spend 10-15 hours finding a single data point. An experienced practitioner can validate the same information in 5-10 minutes. When a small group of experts validates data once, it serves thousands of teams globally.
The value of TEA Commons isn't volume — it's trust. Expert validation, provenance tracking, and appropriate precision for early-stage decisions are what make the data actually usable.
Data Validation
Review and validate cost assumptions, capex data, and performance metrics for accuracy and appropriate ranges.
Reference Class Development
Help define and structure the industrial reference classes that organize the data repository.
Assumption Review
Provide expert gut-checks on TEA assumptions submitted by early-stage teams.
Expert Consultation
Make yourself available for focused sessions with teams that need domain-specific guidance.
Time Commitment
Most contributions take 5-30 minutes. A data validation task involves reviewing a set of cost assumptions against your domain knowledge and flagging anything that looks off. Reference class development is more involved (2-4 hours) but is structured into discrete, manageable steps. You choose what to contribute and when — there are no minimum commitments.
Quality Standards
We're building for directional accuracy, not false precision. For early-stage teams, ±30% accuracy on cost assumptions is sufficient for go/no-go decisions — and that's a realistic bar for expert validation. Every data point includes a confidence score, source provenance, and the validating expert's assessment of appropriate ranges. The goal is trustworthy data with honest uncertainty bounds, not a false sense of exactitude.
Recognition
Named attribution on validated data and a profile in the expert directory.
Network
Access to a curated community of peers across climate verticals.
Visibility
Exposure to early-stage teams, investors, and ecosystem partners.
Opportunities
Teams needing support are routed to the practitioner network for paid engagements.
Expert directory — coming soon.
The first expert cohort is forming now. Apply below to be listed in the directory when it launches — and start contributing to the data that thousands of climate teams will rely on.
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