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Maílis Carrilho
Updated by Maílis Carrilho on November 3rd, 2025
Perennial is an end-to-end MMRV (measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification) platform that quantifies field-level soil carbon outcomes for Scope 3 programs and soil-carbon projects. Its approach—digital soil mapping combined with lean, targeted sampling—aims to deliver IPCC Tier 3 measurements with far fewer samples, lowering cost and farmer burden while keeping uncertainty low. Sustainability and procurement teams use it to baseline supply sheds, prioritize high-potential acres, and report disaggregated emissions/removals by carbon pool with audit-ready uncertainty. Perennial also led Verra’s VT0014 tool for registry-grade digital soil mapping, underscoring its standards alignment for corporate Scope 3, SBTi FLAG, and Verra contexts.

Available Carbon Accounting Features

AI-Powered Insights for Optimization
Audit Support
Carbon Footprint Calculation
Compliance Reporting
Scope 3 Emissions Tracking
Supply Chain Emissions Hotspot Identification

Missing Carbon Accounting Features

Benchmarking & Peer Comparison
Carbon Credit Trading
Carbon Offset Tracking
Carbon Pricing
Cost Tracking
Customizable Dashboards
Customizable Reporting Templates
Data Import/Export
Decarbonization Planning
Emissions Factor Database
Emissions Forecasting
Goal Setting & Tracking
Integration with IoT Sensors
Lifecycle Assessment
Multi-Site Support
Real-Time Monitoring (non-energy)
Risk Assessment & Scoring
Scenario Analysis for Emissions Reduction
Scope 1 Emissions Tracking
Scope 2 Emissions Tracking
Target Setting & Tracking
Tax and Incentive Management

Pricing

Starting Price
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Options
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Available Since

January 2018

Deployment Options

  • Web Browser (Cloud - Based)

Good Option For

  • Small Business (11-50 people)
  • Medium Business (51-250 people)
  • Large Business (250+ people)

Deep dive


Core Features

Perennial estimates soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and change by fusing soil samples with AI and biogeochemically informed predictors from satellite and environmental data. Some of its main features are:

  • Digital Soil Mapping at scale: ATLAS-SOC delivers SOC baselines and change with up to 10× fewer samples, reducing cost and disruption while maintaining low uncertainty.

  • Adaptable MMRV pathways: Choose DSM, DSM+model, or measure/re-measure to meet IPCC Tier 2/3 and registry requirements without multi-year model validations.

  • Standards alignment: Built to align with Verra Scope 3, GHGP Land Sector & Removals Guidance, SBTi FLAG, VCI; registry-aligned for Verra/Gold Standard/Australia CER.

  • Uncertainty you can audit: Field-level outputs include disaggregated carbon pools and pixel-level uncertainty ranges packaged for VVB review and disclosures.

  • Prospecting & hotspotting: SOCSPOT estimates long-term sequestration potential so teams can target acres most likely to respond to regenerative practices.

  • Soil ecosystem data: Global soil-health indicators (e.g., microbial moisture/temperature response, biomass) support agronomy decisions and portfolio planning.

Closing Insights

Use cases illustrate range across food brands and project developers. Vital Farms used Perennial to replace proxies with farm-level emissions factors across a network of 450+ pasture-raised egg farms—combining LCA with IPCC Tier 3 soils (via ATLAS-SOC) to produce Scope 3 factors by egg type and region, and a baseline to track change over time. On the project-development side, rTek entered a 10-year partnership with Perennial to regenerate globally degraded grasslands, citing the ability to scale rigorous, low-uncertainty measurements with minimal sampling.

Recent developments include the Verra-approved VT0014 digital soil-mapping tool (Q3 2025), the first AI-enabled quantification tool recognized by a major registry, and the launch of Soil Ecosystem Maps (March 2025), an interactive product exposing global SOC, sequestration potential, and soil-health indicators for planning and reporting.

What sets Perennial apart, per its materials, is registry-aligned DSM with pixel-level uncertainty, lean sampling (often up to 10× fewer samples), and an adaptable MMRV that aligns to GHGP/SBTi-FLAG and Verra without forcing a single model everywhere—useful for heterogeneous supply sheds.

For organizations seeking defensible, field-level Scope 3 evidence and scalable soil-carbon monitoring, Perennial offers a pragmatic, standards-aware pathway from baseline to verified outcomes.


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