Prepaid trees are not always arriving
Buyers pay for reforestation credits years before they exist. Developers have warned of a severe shortfall of promised trees.
Carbon Pulse, Aug 2026 ↗
Recruiting pilot partners
Finance trees on
verified growth.
Kariki forecasts how a planted forest will grow, measures it every month, and releases capital only as growth is verified. Carbon prepayments and timber finance carry less delivery risk, and growers get paid as their trees grow.
01
Forecast before money moves
Site, species and age-specific growth
02
Measure every month
Growth against forecast, flagged early
03
Release on verified milestones
Tranches, not lump sums
The bigger picture
Forests carry the climate
and a working economy.
Mature native forests keep adding carbon and biodiversity as they age. Plantation forests supply timber and income through a cycle of planting, harvesting and replanting. Both depend on money reaching the people who grow and protect them.
7.6 billion t
of CO2 a year absorbed, net, by the world's forests (2001–2019)
Nature Climate Change, via WEF ↗The financing gap
The parts exist. The system is not humming.
Tools to measure, trace, certify and finance forests already exist. The weakness is in the joins between them.
Security drives up prices
Security demanded in long-term offtakes raises financing needs and credit prices, especially for early-stage projects in the Global South.
Carbon Pulse, Jun 2026 ↗Evidence arrives late
Verification happens in cycles years apart. Between them, capital providers have little independent view of whether trees are on track.
From forecast to finance
How Kariki works
Kariki sits between the money and the trees. Crediting standards still issue credits and accredited verifiers still verify; Kariki makes the finance in between safer.
STEP 01
Underwrite.
A growth forecast for each site, species and planting age sets realistic delivery volumes before anything is signed.
STEP 02
Disburse.
Capital sits with a regulated trustee and is released in tranches as planting, survival and growth milestones are verified.
STEP 03
Monitor.
Measured growth is compared with forecast every month, and any block falling behind is flagged years before a verification cycle would catch it.
STEP 04
Report.
Capital providers see every project live, and verifiers and rating agencies receive a ready evidence pack.
Growth you can see
See it on one project
A 1,000-hectare reforestation project with a US$1.5 million prepayment in four tranches. Move through thirty years, then switch on the scenario where one block falls behind.
Example project · Block B
Illustrative data, not a real project
Years since planting15 of 30
Measured vs forecast102%
Released to growerUS$1,200,000
Removals, tCO₂e per ha (cumulative)
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ForecastMeasured±12% tolerance
All demo figures are illustrative. Real forecasts come from the Kariki growth model calibrated against measured plots for each site and species.
An ecosystem partner
We connect what
already exists.
Kariki works with existing software providers, standards, verifiers and projects, not against them. We group small lots into projects large enough to finance, measure and bring to market, and we start where the gaps are real and where Moroku already works.
Australia and TasmaniaNew ZealandSolomon Islands and the PacificVietnam
01
Timber integrity.
Timber from managed, replanted forests proves its origin, so illegal timber finds it harder to pass as legal.
02
Revenue into local economies.
Finance planting and protection against verified growth, so money reaches growers in the first seasons.
03
Carbon with integrity.
As the growth record builds, bring credits to market quickly with measurement buyers can trust.
A shared stake in growth
Who it's for
Capital providers
Credit buyers, structurers, forestry and impact funds, development lenders
Prepay credits or lend against growing timber with a forecast before you commit, monthly evidence after, and funds released only on verified milestones.
I provide capital
Growers
Smallholder aggregators, plantation developers, landholder groups
Earlier, cheaper capital for planting. Monitoring comes with the finance, and payments arrive as your trees grow rather than years later.
I grow treesGovernments and standards
Forestry ministries, crediting standards, verifiers, rating agencies
Evidence that fits crediting-standard monitoring rules, and a clear record of where finance went and what grew as a result.
I set the rulesCapital with accountability
How the money moves
Kariki earns fees for underwriting, disbursement and monitoring. It never holds the credit risk, and client funds stay with a regulated trustee.
Capital provider
Trustee account
Kariki releases on verified growth
Grower plants and maintains
Verified credits to the capital provider
Old-growth forests that keep maturing as the lungs of the planet. A thriving, legal timber market that plants, harvests and replants. Capital that reaches the people who make both possible.
Let's grow something real
Join the pilot
We are looking for one capital partner and one grower for a first pilot of 200 to 1,000 hectares, monitored alongside your existing arrangements. Tell us who you are and what you would want Kariki to prove.
Recruiting pilot partners