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Roost

Automated biodiversity auditing for premium estates and eco-resorts

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Luxury eco-resorts, organic vineyards, and nature reserves spend thousands of dollars on manual ecological audits while leaving their existing outdoor security camera feeds completely unmonitored for wildlife intelligence.

Roost integrates directly with standard perimeter camera feeds and acoustic monitors to autonomously catalogue, identify, and map avian and wildlife biodiversity without requiring hardware overhauls. We deliver daily species logs, guest nature feeds, and certified ESG biodiversity metrics straight to operations managers.

Roost transforms passive perimeter security infrastructure into an active biological intelligence layer for nature-aligned commercial properties.

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Problem
  • When I manage an eco-resort or conservation estate, I want to quantify and showcase local biodiversity to guests and regulators, but hiring seasonal environmental consulting teams costs over $25k per audit and provides only static, sparse sample data.
  • Why Now: Mandatory corporate ESG nature reporting regulations (TNFD) and premium guest demand for verifiable eco-practices require 365-day continuous biodiversity evidence.
  • When I operate an organic vineyard or golf resort, I want to track pest-controlling bird species and wildlife migration patterns, but reviewing hundreds of hours of raw security footage manually wastes 40 hours monthly.
  • When I submit sustainability certification applications, I want continuous verifiable wildlife telemetry, but manual field logs lack continuous photographic timestamps and fail rigorous third-party audits.
  • Existing Alternatives: Hiring seasonal ecological consulting firms, deploying manual trail cams with SD-card manual swapping, or ignoring outdoor ecological analytics entirely.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Merlin meets Datadog for commercial land biodiversity management.
  • Zero-hardware installation connecting directly via RTSP to existing Axis, Hikvision, or UniFi cameras.
  • Dual-stream acoustic and visual classification engine trained specifically on native and migratory bird species.
  • Automated tenant and guest widgets alongside certified exportable TNFD biodiversity compliance reports.
Distribution
  • Targeting 12k certified B-Corp hospitality resorts, regenerative agriculture vineyards, and private conservation land trusts across North America and Europe.
  • Direct outreach to Chief Sustainability Officers and Estate Directors via regenerative hospitality associations.
  • Partnership with boutique perimeter security installers serving high-end agro-tourism and luxury lodge venues.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Tiered SaaS: $199/month for small estates (up to 8 cameras), $599/month for commercial lodges (up to 30 streams), and $1.5k/month for Enterprise Land Trusts with full ESG reporting exports.
  • One Metric That Matters: Number of verified unique species events catalogued per active estate stream per month.
  • SAM: 45k eco-resorts and conservation vineyards in NA/EU. SOM: 1.2k properties at $500/month average = $7.2M Year 1 ARR run rate.
Scale Costs
  • Local edge appliance firmware and lightweight on-premise container deployment to eliminate high cloud video transit bandwidth.
  • Proprietary fine-tuned avian morphology and bioacoustics dataset licensing and taxonomic verification networks.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.4
  • VP of Sustainability & ESG Compliance at Global Hospitality Group
    9.4
  • Principal Computer Vision Edge Architect
    9.1
  • General Manager of Historic Wine Estate
    9.6
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