Tero

Lucia Fernandes

@lucia_climate

Satellite-verified soil-carbon MRV for smallholder farming cooperatives.

Climate AISão Paulo, BRPre-seedOUTBOUNDCOLD START

Cold-start climate researcher — pre-launch academic defection

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Founder Score

A running score for this person, not this pitch — it persists across applications and never resets to zero.

46May 02, 25

Published soil-carbon remote-sensing paper, first-author

58Jun 25, 25

Repo gained a satellite-ingestion pipeline — productizing signal

3-Axis Score

Founder, market, and idea-fit are scored independently and never averaged — disagreement between them is signal, not noise.

Founder

Is this person capable of pulling this off?

62improving

First-author on a cited remote-sensing paper; repo now shows a working ingestion pipeline rather than pure research code. Not yet activated via outreach.

2 evidence points backing this score

Market

BULLISH

Is this a market worth building a fund-scale outcome in?

60improving

Verified carbon-credit MRV is under-tooled for smallholder cooperatives specifically; buyer-side demand from carbon registries is rising.

Idea vs Market

Does the specific idea survive contact with that market?

55stable

Thesis-shaped; needs the founder to commit full-time before conviction can rise further.

Trust Score

1 verified · 0 claimed · 0 contradicted

Every claim this founder made, traced to a source and rated by how well it holds up.

Verified — independently cross-checked against an outside sourceClaimed — founder's word only — not yet checkedInferred — reasoned from evidence, not stated outrightContradicted — checked, and it does not hold up

teamFirst-author, peer-reviewed soil-carbon remote sensing paper

Verified

Checked: Semantic Scholar author record

“Sentinel-2 derived soil organic carbon estimation for smallholder plots” — arXiv:2503.09xxx

productWorking satellite-ingestion pipeline

Inferred

Inferred from repo commits; not yet demoed live.

“add: Sentinel-2 ingestion job + carbon-flux estimator” — github.com/lferandes/tero-mrv@2c88f1

Legibility

A great talker and a great builder can score the same on a deck. This strips out how well the pitch was told, and scores what was actually built.

Raw · the substance, stripped of delivery62

Polished · how good it sounded in the room58

Correction applied — the gap between substance and delivery is removed.

Corrected · what we actually act on62

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