Community intelligence
The moment
The Problem
We need a just energy transition that treats the communities where clean energy projects are sited as partners.
The Price
Increased traffic and noise pollution. Loss of agricultural lands. Adverse health effects. Ugly construction.
Indigenous people, Black and brown folks, and women and girls often pay the biggest price.
The platform
Pythia is a knowledge platform to un-gate the intelligence and expertise needed so development projects create the greatest benefit for communities.
If you're a community-based organization or grantmaker, we'd love to talk. Schedule a conversation to share your community's experience with development and see a demo of Pythia.
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Three kinds of knowledge
Pythia helps harness meaningful community intelligence. Communities retain control of their data and decide how its shared:
Community intelligence backs up organizers and leaders as credible representatives of the people whom developers and regulators want at the table.
The gap
A handful of new, developer-aligned tech startups are trying to address social risk using proxies—public meeting records, petitions, and social media—to measure the likelihood of community opposition at the siting and origination stage, before a developer submits a project proposal and before any contracts are executed.
The timing is right, but they're relying on incomplete (and sometimes misleading) information that can only approximate how a community feels. This approach can also be extractive, without giving residents voice or power in the process.