Littoral

Littoral

Littoral

Predictive coastal intelligence and foresight to adapt and protect coastal communities

Boston, MA, USA

United States

Other, including part of a larger organization (please explain below)

In the process of registering a For profit, B-corp model

We are addressing the urgent challenge of coastal vulnerability from accelerating sea-level rise—while enabling the shift to a low-carbon, climate-resilient blue economy and cities. Anthropogenic climate change is driving the fastest sea-level rise in 3,000 years, worsening erosion across low-lying, sandy coastlines. A 2019 World Bank report estimates that over $18.3 trillion will be spent on coastal protection this century, yet even in best-case scenarios, less than half the world’s coasts will be protected. Despite this, more than 680 million people may still be displaced. The most affected communities often lack access to the data and tools needed for timely, adaptive planning. While real-time intelligence powers sectors like aviation and weather, no such global platform exists for coastline monitoring—leaving many regions vulnerable and underprepared. Our solution fills this critical gap. We are building a global coastal intelligence platform using satellite imagery and machine learning to deliver predictive, site-specific insights. This enables governments, developers, and communities to shift from reactive responses to proactive planning—favoring nature-based, low-carbon interventions over hard infrastructure. Much like global weather or air traffic systems, we need a real-time, continuous platform to guide climate resilience along the world’s coastlines.

We aim to provide coastal communities around the world with a coastal intelligence platform that can be used to understand, predict and take-action towards creating a more resilient shoreline. Using earth observation data combined with artificial intelligence to track changing coastlines and forecast future changes to provide timely, actionable intelligence customized to your specific coastline or island. Our predictive monitoring system tracks the movement of sediment with satellite imagery, extracts relevant patterns from historical satellite data of localized shorelines, and uses those patterns to predict how sediment will move in the future. In tandem the language processing pipeline learns the history of human interventions or resulting decision outcomes from coastal management documentation like environmental impact assesment reports which results in a grounded interpretable data intelligence platform.

A population of over 750 million are estimated at living in ≤ 10 m of the low-elevation coastal zone (LECZ) – and are at heightened risk from sea level rise (source: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5747-2021). Our solution directly serves coastal communities—particularly in low-lying nations like the Maldives—who are on the frontlines of climate change. These communities are underserved in two critical ways: they lack access to accurate, real-time coastal change data and the tools to make proactive, climate-resilient planning decisions. Our AI-powered coastal intelligence platform fills this gap by using satellite imagery and predictive models to generate forecasts of erosion, shoreline change, and sediment dynamics. These insights empower governments, local planners, and vulnerable communities to prioritize interventions or selectively intervene, safeguard infrastructure, and protect livelihoods—creating coastal resilience in the face of climate change. Importantly, the data generated will contribute to an open-access, global dataset—democratizing climate intelligence and fostering collaboration between coastal communities. In regions where adaptation funding is limited and decisions must be targeted, our platform helps shift responses from reactive to proactive—improving resilience with transparency, foresight, and equity.