Green Grants | Whitespectre

Tech Expertise for Climate Action

At Whitespectre, we're passionate about using our expertise to make a positive impact. Our Green Grants program offers pro-bono consulting to non-profits and early-stage startups dedicated to preventing further climate change or mitigating its effects.

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Tech Expertise for Climate Action

To apply for a Whitespectre Green Grant, tell us about your organization, mission, and what areas you're seeking support in. We'll be in touch within 5 business days to discuss your needs.

Green Grants recipients can receive support from Whitespectre's experts on a number of fronts: Technical Architecture & Engineering, Product Strategy, UI/UX Design, and AI Integration & Execution Strategies.

Green Grants is part of Whitespectre's commitment to the planet, which spans other initiatives including 1% for the planet and our Running for Trees program.

GREEN GRANTS PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

Terraso: Advancing Sustainable Land Management with Offline Solutions

We recently partnered with Tech Matters' Terraso initiative to help bring their Land Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) App offline. Terraso empowers local landscape leaders and conservationists worldwide, and their app helps farmers make informed decisions about sustainable land management. But many farmers, especially in remote areas, lack reliable internet access.

To help bridge this digital divide, we provided expertise in React Native and IoT:

Defined the architecture for offline data collection and cloud synchronization
Designed the approach for managing offline data across mobile devices
Reviewed initial code and documentation to provide implementation recommendations
Advised on building offline capabilities as core functionality rather than an add-on feature

Our guidance helped Terraso build their offline-first solution faster, enabling reliable soil data collection for farmers in areas without internet access.

Enabling ‎offline functionality in LandPKS is crucial for our farmers in remote areas, but navigating the technical challenges was daunting. Whitespectre’s expertise in offline-first architecture and React Native gave us critical insights and provided a clear path forward. They supported us throughout our implementation, resulting in more maintainable code delivered faster. The result: an impactful open source tool for sustainable land management."
Steve FrancisProject Director, Terraso
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How we support our Green Grants Partners

Tech Architecture

Whitespectre is well-known for our expertise in designing and architecting robust, scalable platforms, applications, and integrations. Our relevant areas of expertise in the climate tech space include data infrastructure, AI-integration, IoT, and overall best practices on setting up backend systems and front-end architectures for smart scaling.

Product Strategy

We've helped scale companies from launch to multi-million dollar acquisitions. We've worked with partners in the earliest 'scrappy' stages with PoCs to MVPs, as well a billion+ enterprise players. Our approach is centered on hypothesis-driven development, user-centric design, and a healthy embrace of both big vision and 'get it shipped' pragmatism.

Engineering Consulting

For engineering challenges, Whitespectre’s senior consultants provide critical technical insight to help partners make informed decisions and overcome obstacles. Whether troubleshooting architectural bottlenecks or guiding technology stack choices, we share proven practices that accelerate progress and avoid common pitfalls.

UI/UX Design

Whitespectre helps Green Grants partners improve user experience through design audits, design sprints, and rapid prototyping. We collaborate closely to identify areas for improvement, define key user flows, and gather feedback that drives effective iteration.

AI Development and Integration

Whitespectre’s expertise in AI enables Green Grants partners to leverage emerging technologies for greater impact. From predictive analytics to AI-driven decision support, we guide teams on how to responsibly and effectively integrate AI into their solutions.

Learn how we create impactful solutions. Explore our case studies and see our work in action.

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Case Studies

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Merryfield: Driving business growth through an app evolution

Merryfield was ready to expand its better-for-you platform to reach all-new consumer segments, brands and retailers. As their long-term, trusted mobile app partner across engineering, product and UI/UX, we were excited to help them get there and help scale their mobile app offering to take their business to a new level, with product strategy consulting, UI/UX expertise, and an app delivery team.

Purple Carrot: Mobile app for market expansion and user engagement

We helped plant-based meal subscription leader, Purple Carrot, accelerate the development of a mobile app to fuel user interaction and engagement, higher average order values, and future opportunities. With a dedicated technology team and best practice mentoring, Purple Carrot scaled their subscription business from early start-up days to tripling growth to a successful acquisition.

SpotOn: A top-rated mobile app for an award-winning GPS collar

We partnered with SpotOn to build the backend platform and mobile application behind the next generation of their award-winning GPS fence technology. We built a light, performant and stable application and platform, powering state-of-the-art GPS technology, which launched to great reviews—receiving a 4.9-star rating on the Apple App Store and a 4.5-star rating on the Google Play Store.

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Insights from our team

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Building Native Modules for React Native with Kotlin and Swift

Forget Java and Objective-C. Instead, learn how to communicate with the native layer of your React Native app using Kotlin and Swift, using primitive and complex data types with promises.

Smart Code Sharing for Streamlined React Development: An Inside Look

Maintaining efficiency and minimizing repetition in multi-platform development can be a challenge. Discover how we leaned into code reusability to accelerate development of an enterprise React Native application and how to use code sharing overall to fast track development and maximize efficiency.

Building Offline-First React Native Apps with React Query and TypeScript

Offline-first React Native apps offer a responsive and seamless user experience even without internet connectivity. Using an example app, we’re going to share how you can boost their performance and reliability by leveraging React Query and TypeScript during development.

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