AIforE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that benefits the Earth, Everyone, Everywhere — with Efficient use of energy and resources.
A 501(c)(3) that shepherds the Age of AI into sustainable ecosystems and ecologies that benefit the Earth, Everyone, Everywhere — with Efficient use of energy and resources. We're focused on the Five R's: ROI, Right-Sized, Renewable, Recycled, and Remediate.
We're a collective of experienced and enthusiastic tech and sustainability professionals with hundreds of years of aggregate experience at the top tech companies and sustainable organizations.
Our team isn't assembled — it's converged. We've spent decades building the technologies that now must become sustainable, and decades building the sustainability practices technology must adopt. We've shipped products at the world's largest tech companies, and stewarded ecosystems in some of the world's most fragile ones.
We've also managed the costs, ROI, and efficiencies of leading tech products and services — the same discipline AI sustainability now demands at scale. That dual fluency — deep technical expertise paired with real ecological conviction — is rare, and it's exactly what AI sustainability now requires.
We're not consultants circling the problem — we're practitioners who've lived on both sides of it. That's why we're building AI for Ecology now.
40+ years of tech leadership across engineering, innovation, product incubation, security, sustainability, sales, and marketing. Passion for tech and the ecology of the world. Microsoft, Salesforce, NetApp, Startups.
Partner at Cardinal Insights, based in the Greater Seattle area.
Seattle-based founder who built and launched Mi Boss, a chat-first AI job-matching platform.
Finance manager at Amazon Web Services, focused on capital expenditure and AI infrastructure capacity planning.
Data engineer at Blue Origin.
Senior Software Engineer at Nordstrom, leading the Data Streaming and Temporal platforms; previously at Datadog and founder of multiple startups.
AIforE is governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors. Several of the leaders above — including Stu Sutherland (Secretary) and Erwiena Wrichny (Treasurer) — currently serve as board officers. One of our Year 1 goals is growing the board toward 8 members and putting D&O insurance in place as we scale.
Update this section with individual board bios/photos as governance structure is finalized and publicly announced.
No other organization pairs deep AI/tech practitioner experience with hands-on ecological work to build AI sustainability certification standards and benchmarks — from inside both worlds.
Nonprofit building AI models to decode animal communication — a bio-acoustics and species-focused mission, not AI-industry sustainability standards.
Nonprofit providing real-time emissions data and automation to shift energy use toward cleaner power — an emissions-tracking infrastructure play, not AI-specific certification.
Nonprofit using AI-powered acoustic sensors to monitor and protect rainforests — AI deployed for conservation, not sustainability standards for the AI industry itself.
Nonprofit organizing global climate law and policy data with AI tools — a policy and data focus, not benchmarking or certifying AI sustainability.
Linux Foundation project setting standards for green software broadly (the Software Carbon Intensity spec) — sustainable software in general, not an AI-specific certification body.
The organizations backing this work — add logos and names as partnerships are confirmed.