Impact Services (Pilot)
Need help with assessing the climate impact of early-stage solutions?
Prime has spent 12 years building climate impact models to fit early-stage technologies — first to guide our own investment decisions as a nonprofit catalytic investor, then to support the field at large.
Today, anyone can use our CRANE tool to assess potential GHG impact at no cost. And as the organizer of Project Frame, we work with hundreds of investors to improve early-stage climate impact methodologies.
In 2025, we’re piloting a suite of Climate Impact Advisory Services that build on our climate investing expertise to support mission-aligned organizations that seek help completing and articulating impact assessments.
Prime’s Climate Impact Advisory Services are rooted in Prime’s expertise as a catalytic investor and co-founder/host of Project Frame, which improves methodologies for forward-looking impact assessment, including potential and planned impact. Learn more about these methodologies and why they're important here.
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This is a limited-time opportunity. Your partnership will inform what we offer going forward: to learn more, work with us, or offer feedback, email services@primecoalition.org!
Services Provided
An Overview
| Service | What It Is | Walk Away With | Best For | Price |
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| CRANE | Free, open-access tool to assess the potential and planned GHG impact of a climate solution. | Structured impact model in PDF, JSON, or Excel formats. | Investors and startups | Free |
| Guided Modeling | Hands-on program will guide you in developing robust, forward-looking impact models for any technology type using CRANE. | Tailored impact model in PDF, JSON, or Excel formats with the latest scientific data; and a lasting impact assessment skillset. | Accelerators & venture capital investors | Starting at $2,000 / model |
| Deep-Dive Assessments | Custom, forward-looking assessments that provide in-depth analysis to inform investment decisions and help fund managers align capital to their impact thesis. | PDF report summarizing analytical methods and findings, and bespoke impact model in Excel or Python notebook. | Venture capital & project finance investors | Starting at $7,500 / report |
| Impact Case Studies | Impact model developed and distilled to create structured, ready-to-share case studies that showcase the impact of your investments. | Marketing-ready 6–11 page PDF articulating climate solution’s impact story. | Investors seeking to articulate impact for LPs, and philanthropists. | Custom pricing |
| Insights & Education | Resources and seminars to promote excellence in climate impact, forward-looking assessment, and/or establish additionality. | Curated playbooks, convenings, and trainings tailored to your organization’s goals. | Philanthropists, investors, and educators | Custom pricing |
Detailed Service Descriptions
CRANE
A free, self-guided modeling using an open-access tool
Timeline: Self-paced
Price: $0
The only web-based platform of its kind on the market, CRANE is an open-access tool for estimating the potential and/or planned GHG impact of early-stage climate solutions. Built by Prime Coalition and partners to advance high-integrity climate modeling, CRANE offers a structured way to create GHG impact models without needing deep technical expertise. CRANE is grounded in Project Frame’s methodology.
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Founders building solutions with high GHG reduction potential
Early-stage investors looking for consistent and transparent modeling tools
Accelerators, incubators, or grant programs supporting climate entrepreneurs
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Step-by-Step Guidance: Follow a structured process to define unit impact, estimate market volumes, and determine total GHG impact
Templates and Defaults: Choose from 200+ built-in models for many solution types, or design your own
New Blank Template feature
Exportable Models: Download models as Excel, PDF, or JSON files to share or refine
Support Materials: Access guides, methodology docs, and user support
Guided Modeling
Rigorous yet streamlined support using CRANE
Timeline: Approximately 6-8 weeks (typically for multiple models)
Price: $2,000 per model
For extra support in using CRANE, accessing up-to-date, exclusive impact data, and developing a robust impact model for any technology, Prime can guide you through critical, often challenging judgment calls, like determining your model assumptions and market parameters. In Guided Modeling, Prime provides hands-on coaching from our experienced team and tested communication materials to help develop a robust, investor-ready CRANE impact model with confidence.
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Climate-focused VC funds (Pre-Seed to Series B)
Accelerators and incubators
Philanthropic funds seeking credible but cost-effective modeling.
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Live CRANE Workshop (60 min): Learn how to use CRANE alongside an expert. Includes exercises & Q&A.
Draft Model + Worksheets: Prime conducts initial research and drafts your model, using worksheets to guide accurate emissions estimates.
2-hour Review Session: 1-on-1 walkthrough and analyst feedback to refine and finalize your model.
What are guided models?
Read Prime’s Advancing Nature-Inspired Solutions With Forward-Looking GHG Impact Assessments to see a real-life example of guided modelling.
Deep-Dive Assessments
Comprehensive forward-looking GHG impact modeling
Timeline: Approximately 4–6 weeks
Price: $7,500–$15,000* per model
Deep-dive assessments are for organizations seeking robust, tailored potential or planned GHG impact models aligned with their investment strategy, decision-making processes, and reporting frameworks. Models incorporate sensitivity analysis, multiple GWP factors, 3 GHG impact scenarios, and a variety of optional analytical methods for organizations interested in going deeper.
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Venture capital firms conducting deep diligence or LP reporting
Project financiers evaluating large or complex opportunities
Investment committees seeking robust third-party validation
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Intake & Framing Session: Clarify model use case and scope
Custom Research & Modeling: In-depth scenario analysis, parameter sourcing, subject-matter expert consultation, and assumption documentation
Results Walkthrough: Comprehensive review of model insights, assumptions, and limitations
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Impact memo summarizing and contextualizing findings for stakeholders, such as LPs
Assessments of investor additionality
Adjustments such as rebound effects
*The overall cost for services can vary significantly depending on priorities and interests.
Impact Case Studies
Turn your impact model into a compelling story
Timeline: Varies depending on scope
Price: Custom
A well-structured and research-informed case study clearly explains the science and impact of the climate solution, with realistic assumptions that rely on accepted standards. Working with a third party to produce your case study legitimizes your modeled impact by integrating objective evaluation into your process.
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Philanthropies or catalytic capital providers
VC firms seeking to showcase an investment’s impact
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Model Review: If the case study is being built off of a pre existing impact model, Prime will review it for accuracy and to ensure that it aligns with critical Project Frame standards and makes conservative, defensible assumptions.
Narrative: Typically reviewed in two rounds.
Design: A polished PDF.
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Interviewing stakeholders to weave in quotes or organizational context
Expanded methodology section with comparison to Project Frame’s methodology
Presentation of the case study in slide format to communicate key points to an internal audience
What is an impact case study?
Explore Project Frame’s library of emissions impact case studies to get an idea.
Insights & Education
Custom resources and learning spaces
Timeline: Custom
Price: Custom
To advance the field, we're committed to helping learners of all kinds stay at the forefront of climate impact thinking. Whether you're building internal capacity, shaping strategy, or driving field-wide progress, we can provide access to expert-led resources, trainings, and convenings tailored to your goals. True to our nonprofit mission, we’ll always direct you to the service that best matches your needs, whether it’s provided by us, a partner, or in collaboration.
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Philanthropic funders seeking to strengthen climate grantmaking
Impact investors aiming to embed forward-looking GHG assessment practices
Educators and ecosystem builders advancing climate literacy and leadership
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Playbooks: Guides for climate impact assessment, additionality, and the impact assessment landscape.
Workshops & Seminars: Interactive sessions covering best practices, emerging methodologies, and real-world application.
Tailored Trainings: Custom curricula / sessions aligned with your team’s needs and impact goals.
Field Convenings: Facilitation of peer exchange, knowledge sharing, and collective learning.
Insights & Education Service Highlight
Prime Coalition partnered to deliver an impact management course with Impact Frontiers and Duke University, drawing upon Prime’s climate impact expertise.
