Our Story
Aclymate was started by people who love the outdoors and care about the planet.
Our Mission
Our Story
For too many years, everyone sat on their hands, not doing anything about the climate crisis scientists kept warning about.
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As a child, Co-Founder and CEO Mike Smith witnessed forests burn down right in his backyard, and remembers everyone telling him, “The trees will grow back.” Upon visiting his childhood hometown 20 years later, he found that sadly, they still hadn’t grown back. That’s when he learned that nature does not always find a way, that climate change had become a very real threat — now, he knew he had to take action – that we all have to take action.
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This became the impetus for the single largest reforestation project in the U.S., the Collins-Modoc Project. When serving on an advisory board during that time – alongside smart and dedicated sustainability professionals – he realized that even they didn’t fully understand climate, so how could the layperson?
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Meanwhile, Co-Founder and CTO William Loopesko was running the first company he founded called PuppTech due to his love of animals and the outdoors, including his dog that climbed mountains with him. The company’s product measured the temperature of dogs - like controlling climate change, but for animals.
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Mike and William met each other in an entrepreneurs' group and hit it off. Mike told William about an idea to make climate accessible to everyone and William loved it – he coded everything from scratch to bring the idea to life, and Aclymate was born.
Aclymate became the answer.
If sustainability professionals get details on climate frequently wrong, how could the rest of us who don’t have sustainability experts on their teams get it right? Aclymate became the answer. Now, Aclymate helps hundreds of businesses on their journey to net zero.
Our Brand Values
The value statements that Aclymate was founded on.
We’re a mission-first company that acts with integrity and treats our customer and each other with respect.
We’re low-hierarchy with a culture of equality, so team members own their decisions and problem solving.
We appreciate balance and therefore, allow our team to have the freedom to decide their own work-life balance.
The climate cannot wait, so Team Aclymate will alternate between jogging and sprinting, but never walking.
What used to be a public-relations conversation has become a business operations conversation. Customers ask for emissions data. Investors ask about climate risk. Supply chains require sustainability disclosures. Regulators are introducing reporting frameworks. Certifications are becoming a procurement filter.
Companies of every size are being asked to measure, manage, and prove their sustainability progress — even when they have no internal sustainability team to do the work.
Sustainability work was landing on people who already had other jobs — operations, finance, marketing, HR, ESG-by-default. They needed to do carbon accounting, respond to customer reporting requests, pursue certifications, manage offsets and RECs, and produce credible proof — all without dedicated headcount or expertise.
Software alone could not solve this. Consulting alone could not scale. What lean teams needed was a partner that combined software, experts, and clear guidance into one operating model.
Aclymate combines a practical software platform with Carbon Bookkeepers, Carbon Accountants, Sustainability Consultants, and Climate Consultants who help customers organize data, prepare reporting outputs, pursue certifications, and build credible proof.
Aclymate also created Scout — an AI guide that helps users understand sustainability concepts and find the right next step. Together, software, experts, collaboration, and guidance form the Aclymate operating model.
The name Aclymate is inspired by the word “acclimate.” It reflects the idea that businesses need to adapt to a changing world where sustainability, climate accountability, and credible reporting are becoming part of everyday business. Aclymate helps companies acclimate to that new reality with practical software, expert guidance, and a clear path forward.
Aclymate does not put itself at the center of the customer's sustainability story. The customer is the hero of that story. Aclymate is the guide that helps the hero move forward.
Aclymate helps customers navigate sustainability work, not replace their judgment.
Carbon Bookkeepers, Carbon Accountants, and Sustainability Consultants extend the capacity of the customer's team.
Software that organizes the work — not another dashboard for the customer to manage on their own.
Experts who do the work alongside the customer when needed.
Evidence, certifications, offsets, RECs, and reporting outputs that hold up to scrutiny.
A partner that stays with the customer as sustainability work evolves over time.
Talk with a Sustainability Expert, see a demo, or start free to begin moving sustainability work forward.
