How It Works

The infrastructure layer that makes water stewardship credible

Companies are making ambitious water commitments but implementing these goals has outpaced the infrastructure needed to measure, verify, and report benefits with the integrity modern audits require.

Orenna™ fills that gap. We're the neutral registry platform that standardizes the entire lifecycle of a water benefit—from evidence collection and verification to issuance, retirement, and reporting.

What Makes Us Different

We're a Neutral Infrastructure

We don't compete with restoration companies or verification bodies—we're the rails that connect them. Think of Orenna like Visa®: we don't run stores or banks, we just provide the trusted network that everyone uses. This neutrality is what makes us trustworthy to all parties.

Others: Proprietary platforms controlled by implementers or buyers, creating conflicts of interest.
Orenna: Independent infrastructure serving the entire ecosystem.

Built for the New Rules

Our platform was designed specifically around the September 2025 VWBA 2.0 and WQBA methodologies—not retrofitted from old carbon credit software or generic project management tools. The schema, data fields, and workflows natively align with these standards.

Others: Adapted tools built for carbon markets or generic environmental tracking.
Orenna: Purpose-built for water benefit accounting from the ground up.

Tamper-Proof Records

Using blockchain technology we create permanent, unchangeable records. Once evidence is logged and verified, no one can alter it later. Every document has a cryptographic fingerprint stored on-chain, creating an audit trail that's impossible to manipulate.

Others: Editable databases where records can be changed without detection.
Orenna: Immutable evidence lineage that auditors can trust.

Prevents Double-Counting

Our retirement system ensures the same water benefit can only be claimed by one company. When units are retired, they're permanently attributed—no more awkward situations where multiple organizations claim credit for the same restored wetland.

Others: Informal tracking where the same project might be counted multiple times.
Orenna: Clear chain-of-custody with serialized units and permanent retirement records.

Reduces the Verification Bottleneck

By providing verifiers with standardized evidence packages and automated workflows, we help them work faster without sacrificing rigor. Instead of spending 60% of their time chasing documents, they focus on technical review.

Others: Manual, project-by-project verification requiring extensive custom data collection.
Orenna: Streamlined workflows that increase verifier throughput.

Designed to Scale

As software infrastructure, our model supports exponential growth. Once built, the platform can handle 10 projects or 10,000 with minimal incremental cost. This is fundamentally different from labor-intensive consulting models.

Others: Service-based models that require proportional headcount growth.
Orenna: Software rails with 90%+ gross margins that scale efficiently.

  • Organizations like Resource Environmental Solutions® that implement water projects—restoring wetlands, improving rivers, building infiltration systems. They use Orenna™ to:

    • Package project evidence into standardized formats

    • Submit documentation for independent verification

    • Manage multiple projects across different methodologies

    • Reduce the back-and-forth of duplicative data requests

    Their challenge: Every corporate buyer wants proof in a different format. Verifiers ask for different documentation. Evidence gets scattered across emails and file systems.

    Orenna's solution: One standardized evidence package that works for everyone.

  • Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Cargill funding restoration to meet sustainability commitments. They use Orenna to:

    • Track their portfolio of water benefits across regions and project types

    • Retire units when claiming credit (preventing double-counting)

    • Generate audit-ready reports for sustainability frameworks

    • Demonstrate credible impact to investors and regulators

    Their challenge: How do you prove your water commitment to auditors when documentation is inconsistent and there's no standard system to prevent the same gallon from being claimed twice?

    Orenna's solution: Tamper-proof records, standardized reporting, and a retirement system that ensures clear chain-of-custody.

  • Scientific experts and engineering firms who review water benefit claims. They use Orenna to:

    • Access complete evidence packages in standardized formats

    • Use built-in checklists aligned with VWBA 2.0 and WQBA methodologies

    • Digitally sign verifications with permanent audit trails

    • Increase throughput without sacrificing rigor

    Their challenge: Verification bottlenecks slow down the entire market. Each project requires hunting for documentation and building custom review workflows.

    Orenna's solution: Pre-organized evidence packs and automated workflows let verifiers focus on technical review, not data collection.

Why it matters

For the Market: Without neutral infrastructure, everyone reinvents the wheel. Restoration companies build custom documentation systems. Verifiers waste time on data collection. Corporate buyers struggle to compare projects or defend their claims. Transaction costs stay high, and trust stays low.

Orenna provides the rails everyone can use—reducing friction, increasing transparency, and making high-integrity water benefits scalable.

For the Planet: Companies want to fund restoration. Land stewards want to do the work. But without credible verification systems, capital flows slowly and impact is hard to prove. By making water restoration trustworthy, we unlock private capital at the speed and scale watersheds need.

Ready to Make Your Water Impact Credible?

Whether you're implementing restoration projects, funding water stewardship, or verifying environmental claims, Orenna provides the infrastructure you need.

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