We are a climate tech startup developing a dramatically cheaper sensor for measuring soil carbon. Soils have gigaton-scale sequestration potential but current measurement techniques are woefully expensive and inaccurate. We've derisked our technology and are now growing the team to productionize it. Join us!
At Yard Stick, we’re inventing a new method of soil carbon measurement. Affordable soil carbon measurement will unlock soils as the most scalable and affordable form of carbon sequestration (gigatons per year!). We’ve packaged decades of soil science research into a handheld soil probe which measures soil carbon quickly and accurately, while reducing the cost of measurement by 90% over existing methods.
Primarily it's ranchers and farmers globally who want to get paid to add carbon to their soils by adopting more soil-friendly practices. This is a rapidly growing market as more companies are looking to offset their emissions. There's also a good deal of growers simply interested in learning about the climate impact of their practices, or soil researchers studying the carbon impact of various practices.
Current soil carbon measurement methods are very cost- and labor intensive, so our in-situ spectral probe will make these measurements much more accessible.
At Yard Stick, we value climate impact above all else. We help farmers get paid to fight climate change.
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Among the possible methods for CO2 removal, sequestration in soils is widely seen as the most affordable and scalable, and comes with the valuable co-benefit of improving soil health. However, current methods for actually measuring increases in soil carbon are prohibitively expensive and frankly medieval. At Yard Stick, we’re inventing a new method of soil carbon measurement. We’ve packaged decades of soil science research into a handheld soil probe which reduces the cost of measurement by 90% over existing methods. Our probe combines a suite of cutting-edge sensors, a clever form factor, and advanced machine learning techniques.
I'm currently hiring for two positions on our hardware team!
If you're interested in healthy soils, and particularly their enormous potential for carbon sequestration, consider joining my team at Yard Stick! We're building hardware that measures soil carbon in-situ, 90% cheaper than conventional methods. Currently hiring a few different hardware roles:
We are a climate tech startup developing a dramatically cheaper sensor for measuring soil carbon. Soils have gigaton-scale sequestration potential but current measurement techniques are woefully expensive and inaccurate. We've derisked our technology and are now growing the team to productionize it. Join us!
Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/yardstick/b6aecf87-1209-4e11-84b5-97a7...