Accelerating ecosystem restoration.
Orenna is an AI-native platform for restoration teams. Characterize a site in minutes, keep every file and decision in one project record, model outcomes and economics, and work with a grounded assistant that cites its sources. Your team spends less time assembling data and chasing documents, and more time on the design, judgment, and stewardship that move a project forward.
The work is hard enough. The busywork should not be.
Every restoration project opens with weeks of gathering soils, hydrology, flood risk, wetlands, species, water quality, land-use, and infrastructure data from agencies that do not share one format. The reasoning ends up in one engineer's head, a folder of PDFs, a spreadsheet, and a drawing nobody can find six months later. When a team member moves on, the reasoning leaves with them. By the time a claim needs defending, the evidence is scattered across drives and email threads.
Orenna fixes the data layer the whole workflow runs on, so projects start faster and hard-won knowledge stays with the project.
One platform for the whole project.
Three things a spreadsheet and shared drive cannot do.
Characterize any site in minutes.
Draw or upload your area of interest and Orenna assembles the baseline: soils, terrain, hydrology and streamflow, flood hazard, wetlands, land cover, climate, listed species, impaired waters, contamination, water rights, infrastructure, and more, drawn from authoritative public datasets. You get cited findings, a watershed narrative, and grounded intervention candidates. Work that used to take weeks starts in minutes, and every finding shows its source.
Give every project one source of truth.
Upload RFPs, contracts, field notes, prior studies, photos, monitoring data, reports, drawings, and model outputs into the project data room. Orenna fingerprints files, organizes them by lifecycle stage, and treats the project canon as higher-trust than the open web. The institutional memory lives in the project, not in a departing engineer's inbox.
Work with a grounded project assistant.
Orenna's assistant is not generic chat. It answers from the project's characterization, canon documents, decisions, outcomes, scenarios, and reports, with sources attached. It works across project management, site assessment, modeling and analysis, design, permitting, implementation, monitoring, and pre-award capture. It can draft, analyze, run read-only tools, and surface gaps, while your practitioners direct the work and sign off. Ask "why did we set the Q100 boundary there?" months later, and the answer is still in the project.
Meet the
Co-Founders
Ben Snyder, Co-Founder
He built Orenna to fix something he has lived with for two decades: restoration teams lose hard-won knowledge between projects and spend too much of their time assembling data instead of doing the work that matters. Orenna gives that time back and keeps the knowledge in the project.
Fabienne Snyder, Co-Founder
Fabienne brings decades of production, design, and creative direction experience to making complex environmental infrastructure understandable. Her background in psychology and years of writing—from content strategy to storytelling—shape how she approaches design and communication at Orenna. She leads visual communication, UI/UX design, and content strategy, translating technical verification workflows into clear, intuitive interfaces.
She spent nine years at The Clorox Company and worked at top design firms, earning recognition for launching the Green Works brand and redesigning the iconic Clorox Bleach label. Self-taught and fiercely curious, she built her career on the ability to learn whatever the work demands.
Laina Levy, PhD., Founding Contributor
Laina Reynolds Levy, PhD is a fundraising and partnerships leader with more than 20 years of experience supporting mission-driven organizations working for democracy, equity, and community well-being. Her work is grounded in building strong relationships and healthy organizations that can sustain long-term social change. Laina has led fundraising and communications programs for national and international nonprofits and is an experienced writer and storyteller who brings together big-picture strategy, data, and real human stories to mobilize funders and supporters.
She holds a PhD in Peace Studies with a focus on conflict resolution, which shapes her collaborative and people-centered approach to leadership and partnership-building. Laina lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and is a lifelong skier, rafter, and outdoor enthusiast who believes access to nature strengthens communities and inspires shared stewardship. She is an enrolled citizen of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation.