Who We Serve

From concept to funded project — faster, with a stronger evidentiary case.

GCF-accredited entities carry some of the hardest work in climate finance: converting a country's climate priorities into a project idea, building the evidentiary case to support it, and shepherding a funding proposal through to Board approval. CFI was built to compress that process without cutting corners on quality.

What They're Saying

"This is a fantastic tool for building confidence in our submissions. It not only validates the relevant information we've already included but also provides a clear roadmap of areas needing more attention."
Caribbean Accredited Entity
"The detailed evaluation of the Theory of Change was particularly informative and helped us significantly improve our proposal's core logic."
Southern Africa Accredited Entity
"What sets this software apart is its deep qualitative feedback. It goes far beyond a simple checklist, providing a specific assessment with concrete recommendations for improvement."
Pacific Accredited Entity
"Many DAEs have a very strong technical and structuring background — but writing in a way that convinces the Donor in English is a real challenge. The linguistic opportunity here is significant, and this tool could address that."
Multilateral Donor Reviewer
"My first impression is that it's really spot on. I compared its analysis against my own review of the concept note from over a year ago and they were quite aligned. That level of consistency with expert judgment is what sets it apart."
Multilateral Donor Reviewer
"There is clearly real potential here. We're trying to improve both efficiency and access — and those are almost two separate directions. There are DAEs that need considerable handholding, and if something can help them translate ideas into English, and into Donor language and finance logic, those different layers of translation are truly useful."
Multilateral Donor Reviewer
Accredited Entities

You convert concepts into funded action. CFI helps you get there faster.

The Business Case for CFI
For Accredited Entities, project preparation is a real cost with no guaranteed return. Every concept note that fails to meet a Donor's investment criteria is lost time, lost capacity, and a deferred opportunity for the communities the project was meant to serve. CFI reduces that risk materially — grounding every submission in the evidence Donors have historically accepted, surfacing alignment gaps before they reach a review panel, and compressing the research cycle from weeks to hours. The result is a stronger evidentiary case, prepared faster, with less staff time per submission.
Research in minutes, not days
The Knowledge Vault retrieves comparable approved projects, climate science, and national policy documentation for your specific geography — replacing days of manual document review with a cited, structured output you can use immediately.
Evaluate before you submit
The Concept Note Evaluator checks your draft against the evidentiary and investment-criteria standards applied to real approved concept notes — flagging gaps in climate rationale, unsupported claims, and misalignments before they surface in a Donor's review.
Ground every claim
Every assertion CFI produces traces to a specific source document and page. When a Donor reviewer asks "where does this come from?" — you have the answer, already cited in the draft.
The CFI Toolkit

Every tool in the suite is built for your workflow.

From first research query to submission-ready draft — CFI covers the full proposal development arc.

Knowledge Vault
Comparable projects, climate science, national policy. All retrieved by geography, all cited to source.
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Concept Note Evaluator
AI-powered pre-submission quality check grounded in real Donor evaluation standards — not a generic rubric.
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Climate Rationale Builder
Build the evidence base for your project's climate rationale, cited from peer-reviewed and institutional sources.
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Theory of Change Builder
Structure the causal logic from activities to impact, with every assumption checked against the evidence corpus.
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The Knowledge Layers

Critical knowledge discoverable and retained.

CFI is a centralized knowledge management platform that uses proprietary AI to make large document repositories instantly searchable. With simple queries/prompts, CFI empowers users to rapidly surface insights from massive bodies of data.

Layer 1
Institutional Layer
The final layer activates an organization's internal history by indexing previous submissions and internal technical notes. This prevents the loss of institutional memory when staff rotate or external consultants move on from a project.
Layer 2
Climate Science Layer
This layer integrates authoritative global and regional climate data. The base layer is comprised of reports and publications most cited in approved project files. It directly supports the construction of a defensible climate rationale.
Layer 3
Donor Layer
On behalf of our clients, we can integrate the publicly available project libraries of most donors. Thousands of project files — including Concept Notes, Funding Proposals and more — interrogable by your team.
? One Query  ·  All Three Layers
An Analyst asks:
"We're preparing a land degradation neutrality and drought-resilience proposal for agro pastoral communities in the Sahel — what has the GCF approved, and what's the climate evidence?"
CFI returns, in seconds:
  • Comparable GCF-approved desertification and drought proposals, with theory of change and co-financing
  • The satellite-derived and peer-reviewed evidence most cited in approved land-degradation proposals

One toolkit, applied differently at each stage.

We work alongside your team — amplifying internal capacity rather than replacing it. Engagements scale up or down based on what you need.

Enterprise License

Managing multiple projects? CFI scales with you.

Accredited Entities running concurrent projects across different geographies can deploy CFI as a shared institutional platform — with centralized user management, per-project token allotments, and a Resource Center to upload your own templates, precedent documents, and reference material, accessible across the whole team.

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