Senior scientists
World-class biodiversity scientists, methodology experts and senior researchers who bring judgment to deliveries and sign off on the calls the data alone cannot settle.
KEA NETWORK
The expertise no model can replace.
A curated global network of senior scientists, field practitioners, data collection vendors and community partners, onboarded onto our platform and on call for the engagements that need them.
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WHY A NETWORK
Today's models have read every paper. They have not walked the landscape.
Frontier AI has absorbed most published biodiversity and ecology knowledge, and it produces impressively good baseline analysis. What it cannot reach is the last frontier of knowledge: the taxonomic, methodological and place-based expertise held by specialists working in specific ecosystems. Without them, most real problems in this field cannot be solved well.
Putting that expertise on permanent payroll is impractical and financially unviable. So we built the alternative: a curated roster of senior professionals onboarded onto our platform, drawn into project task forces for the geography, ecosystem and question at hand, and equipped with the same AI and agent tooling our core team uses.
WHO IS IN IT
Local knowledge. Global scientific depth. One delivery team.
Field practitioners
Conservation operators, applied ecologists and method practitioners whose value sits in operational experience rather than publication record.
Data collection vendors
Local service providers with the capacity to deploy eDNA, camera trap, bioacoustic and field survey programs on the ground.
Community partners
Indigenous communities, local conservation groups, citizen science programs and place-based knowledge holders whose contribution is essential to credible work in a specific landscape.
BUILT FOR THE QUESTION AT HAND
The right expertise, assembled around the decision.
Every engagement draws the combination of scientific authority, local field capacity and specialist judgment the site requires. The network scales from strategic oversight to focused technical contribution without diluting accountability for the result.
Strategic Affiliates
High-profile members on retainer, with strategic influence over methodology direction and standing involvement across engagements.
Project Affiliates
Senior members engaged on a project basis, listed on the delivery roster, matched to task forces by geography and discipline.
Broader Network
Occasional contributors: post-docs, students, citizen scientists and specialists brought in for narrow, well-scoped questions.
Great biodiversity work depends on the people who know the science and the landscape.