Built specifically for teams developing climate finance proposals, Climate Finance Intelligence turns static documents — both internal and external — into an instantly searchable knowledge base, delivering critical insights and donor alignment in seconds, not weeks.
CFI turns your institutional knowledge and source documents into an instantly searchable evidence base — so your next concept note is grounded in what's actually been approved.
See tools for AEs →CFI helps you evaluate proposals, check Donor alignment, and structure submissions that meet the evidentiary standards reviewers actually apply — before they reach the Donor's desk.
See tools for DPs →CFI gives you the precedent visibility and portfolio oversight to make confident no-objection decisions — without building a knowledge management function from scratch.
See tools for NDAs →Both can produce a climate rationale or review a Concept Note. Only one does it without a multi-week engagement, a day rate, or your documents leaving your infrastructure.
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An outside engagement can produce strong work — for the length of that engagement. Climate Finance Intelligence runs on demand, at a fixed cost, and everything it produces and retrieves stays inside your own system — available to your team long after any single project closes.
An outside engagement only sees the cases it happened to work on — however capable the firm. CFI draws on the full pattern of what's actually been approved across every comparable case, not one engagement's slice of experience. Single runs, no commitment. Repeating this across a full pipeline? A Co-Design Sprint or Enterprise deployment may work out more efficient — see below.
Includes a kickoff co-design workshop, an instance configured to your core requirements, priority Concept Note AI-Assistants built for your team — Climate Rationale, Theory of Change, and Concept Note Evaluator — and a configuration blueprint you control.
Talk to us →CFI is a capital investment in your digital infrastructure. A perpetual license pays for itself in under 18 months by streamlining project development and quality assurance and reducing reliance on external consultants.
View Enterprise Fees →Any Co-Design Sprint fee already paid credits in full toward the license, or your first year of an annual subscription.
We've covered the most frequently asked questions below. If you have any additional questions, contact us at any time.
Climate Finance Intelligence (CFI) is a specialist AI platform built for climate finance practitioners — accredited entities, project preparation facilities, and advisory teams working with multilateral and bilateral Donor programs. It combines a purpose-built knowledge management system, AI-powered document evaluation tools, and institutional administration capabilities into a single platform designed to accelerate and strengthen the full project preparation cycle: from initial research through concept note development to funding proposal submission.
CFI is built for institutions that work professionally with climate finance — not individual researchers or general development practitioners. Its primary users are accredited entities managing active project pipelines, project preparation facilities supporting multiple applicants simultaneously, and advisory teams whose work depends on being able to produce high-quality, evidence-grounded submissions reliably and at scale. The platform is designed for team deployment, with enterprise-grade administration and cost controls.
CFI is a specialist enterprise platform, not a general-purpose chatbot. Key differences:
No, we're not affiliated with any funder. Janus Advisory Services Corp. is an independent provider and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund, or GEF. CFI is built by a team with deep experience navigating these Donors' evidentiary standards. That's expertise, not an institutional relationship.
Yes, we've had productive presentations with teams at the GCF Secretariat. What GCF can't do, structurally, is formally endorse a private-sector product. That's true of any vendor, not a signal about CFI specifically. Engagement and endorsement are different things, and we're not claiming the latter.
Your institution's data — documents you upload, queries you run, outputs you generate — is not shared with other organizations on the platform and is not used to train or update any underlying AI model. The platform operates on a zero-retention basis for query and session data. Institutional documents uploaded through the administration panel are accessible only to users within your organization. For clients with specific data residency, security certification, or contractual requirements, your account team can provide detailed technical and legal documentation.
No. The platform is designed for climate finance practitioners, not engineers. Day-to-day use — running queries, uploading documents for evaluation, accessing research outputs — requires no technical background. Administrative functions such as managing user access and setting usage budgets are handled through a web-based panel that does not require IT expertise to operate. Initial deployment, including any integration with your organization's identity management systems, may involve a brief setup step; your account team walks clients through this.
For most institutional clients, the platform is accessible within days of completing onboarding — there is no lengthy integration project required to start using the core research and evaluation tools. Your team can begin running queries against the knowledge base immediately. Uploading your own institutional documents and configuring team-level access and usage budgets adds a short additional setup step but does not gate access to the platform's core functionality.
Yes. The Master Administration Panel includes a Resource Center where administrators can upload and manage documents they want available to their team: internal templates, proprietary research, project-specific reference material, or any content that extends the platform's knowledge base with your institution's own assets. This content is accessible only to your organization's users and does not enter the shared corpus.
The climate science and national policy layers are actively maintained and expanded — new peer-reviewed literature and updated national policy instruments are incorporated on an ongoing basis, with nothing required from your team. Where your institution has authorized integration of a Donor's project library, that layer is kept current as well, on your behalf.
Full pricing for all tiers is listed on our Pricing page. Tier 1 assistants are flat, per-project fees. Tier 2 offers role-specific three-month bundles. Tier 3 Enterprise is a one-time deployment quoted by scope.
This is worth exploring with your account team and your Donor relationship. Many climate finance readiness and project preparation programs explicitly support capacity-building expenditures — including tools that improve the quality and efficiency of project preparation. Whether CFI qualifies under a specific program's eligible cost categories depends on the grant terms and how the expenditure is framed in your budget justification. We can support clients in preparing the documentation needed to make that case.
The platform is built for team deployment. The Master Administration Panel gives a designated administrator central control over user provisioning — adding and removing users, setting access levels, and assigning token budgets by individual or team. There is no separate account management system for each user; everything is managed from a single administrative interface. For larger institutions with multiple departments or client portfolios, usage can be tracked and budgeted at the team level rather than only at the organizational level.
The platform's interface and primary workflows operate in English. The underlying knowledge base includes national policy documents in local languages for some geographies, and the system can work with source documents in languages other than English — though retrieval and synthesis performance is strongest for English-language source material. If your work regularly involves documents in specific languages, speak with your account team about current capability and roadmap for those languages.
Institutional clients receive dedicated onboarding support, including setup of the administration panel, configuration of team access and budgets, and guidance on integrating CFI into your existing project preparation workflows. Ongoing support is available for technical issues, corpus coverage questions, and workflow optimization. The level of support included and available as an add-on varies by contract; your account team can walk through the options.
Our platform is only as defensible as the evidence behind it — and only as useful as the teams who put it to work. We partner with specialists rather than approximate their expertise ourselves.
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"The challenge of securing climate finance is immense, and we are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver a decisive advantage. Integrating Climate Finance Intelligence into our workflow means we can deliver superior quality proposals faster."
Human expertise and AI-powered intelligence, applied together — helping unlock funding for high-impact projects that build climate resilience.
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Janus does not perform climate modelling. Geoskop owns and provides Sustax; we integrate its outputs into client deliverables under agreed terms.
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