STUDIO VIRIDIANDEVELOP · DESIGN · BUILD
VIRIDIAN_RECLAIMS · MATERIAL MATCH

Every material has a story — find its next one.

A just‑in‑time matching engine that pairs the region's waste streams — salvage, reclaimed, refurbished, surplus, and forthcoming deconstructions — to live project needs. Every match is scored against delivered cost and all nine of the planet's ecological boundaries (see Kate Raworth's “Doughnut Model”).

Source Network

From the Viridian Partners Rolodex & CE Source Intelligence Log. Harvesters and forthcoming‑deconstruction tips feed the engine upstream; retail partners are the fast backstop. Call these before buying new.

How Material Match works — and where it's headed

What you see today is the interactive prototype, running on illustrative seed data. The cards below map each capability to how it becomes real — the "live data" build that turns this from a demo into Studio Viridian's sourcing backbone.

01 · AGGREGATE

From links to a live, unified catalogue

Right now the source network points outward. The live system pulls partner inventories into one searchable, deduplicated catalogue — with photos — and keeps it current:

  • Partner data pacts / feeds — Second Use, ReStores, Earthwise push stock on a schedule
  • Marketplace watchers — agents surface Craigslist / FB / OfferUp / eBay hits (their ToS forbids scraping, so a human confirms)
  • One “material passport lite” schema so every source normalizes to the same record + image
02 · SOURCE FROM YOUR SPEC

Google Sheet → AI sourcing agent

Sam's idea, exactly: a project bill of materials in a Google Sheet whose columns map 1:1 to these fields. Connect it and an AI agent runs a standing search + alert for every line, live‑updating the options it brings you to pick from.

  • See it staged in Post a project need → the spec‑sheet view
  • Automates the search & watch you'd otherwise post by hand
  • Design keeps deferred tolerances so late supply still fits
03 · CROWDSOURCE THE SUPPLY

Jobsites as the source — scan & incentivize

The frontier, per Sam: bring in JIT data straight off active jobsites. A staffer (then a trained AI agent) scans materials and auto‑tags them to our fields — turning a site into a marketplace with no middleman.

  • Prototype in the Jobsite capture tab; each confirmed scan trains the agent
  • Deconstruction: incentive is built‑in — sell on site vs. pay to haul
  • New construction: needs a regulatory / economic lever — tipping‑fee spread, diversion credits, EPR, decon ordinances
04 · DECIDE WELL

Cost ledger + all nine boundaries

Every match is priced against the under‑priced virgin alternative (% below virgin, avoided tipping fees) and scored on a nine‑petal planetary‑boundary rose — not carbon alone. The project tally shows a whole bill of materials staying inside Kate Raworth's Doughnut.

  • Per‑material and cumulative‑project views
  • “Optimize for” any single boundary
  • Built to balance trade‑offs, not hide them