You’ve probably been in that room. Everyone agrees on what needs to happen. The board commits. The plan looks solid. Then you get back to operations and reality hits—the energy consultant’s recommendations don’t account for your 24/7 production constraints. The financing won’t pencil for the regenerative design everyone loved. The carbon market opportunity requires documentation systems you don’t have.
Six months later, you’re still running the same way you were before the meeting.
The problem isn’t the plan. It’s the gap between planning and doing.
Organizations like yours come to this work from different places, but there’s usually a common thread: you’re committed to transformation that matters, and you keep hitting walls between vision and execution.
Maybe you’re under pressure from above. The board wants carbon neutrality by 2030. Customers are demanding supply chain transparency. Regulations are tightening. You understand why this matters, but most consultants hand you a strategy deck that dies in implementation. You need partners who can bridge the gap between what should happen and what can happen given your operational reality.
Maybe you’re already pioneering. You’ve been implementing regenerative practices or high-performance design while others were still talking about it. But you’re hitting limits—technical questions beyond your team’s expertise, financing structures that don’t fit what you’re trying to do, feeling isolated because so few people understand what you’re attempting. You need partners who can match your ambition with technical depth.
Maybe you’re navigating risk. You’re a farmer considering regenerative practices, intrigued by carbon markets but needing straight talk about whether this works economically, not just ecologically. Or a developer who sees the potential in net-zero communities but keeps hitting walls with contractors who can’t deliver the performance or can’t hit the price point. You need partners who understand both the opportunity and the real-world constraints.
Maybe you’re stuck between disciplines. Your sustainability goals require integrating energy, water, operations, and supply chain—but those teams don’t naturally talk to each other. The energy expert optimizes one variable. The water consultant optimizes another. Nobody’s looking at how the systems interact. You need partners who can see the whole picture and design solutions where benefits cascade rather than conflict.
Wherever you’re starting from, you share something in common: you’re serious about transformation, you’re willing to do the work, and you need partners who can close the gap between strategy and execution.
Organizations pursuing meaningful change typically encounter the same disconnects:
Between strategy and operations. The decarbonization roadmap looks great until you try to implement it without shutting down production. The regenerative agriculture plan makes sense until a farmer risks their livelihood on practices they’ve never tried. The net-zero design is beautiful until it has to pencil financially.
Between disciplines. The building scientist optimizes the envelope. The mechanical engineer optimizes the HVAC. The water engineer optimizes drainage. Each solution works in isolation, but nobody’s looking at how they interact—or where the real breakthroughs hide in the intersections.
Between design and construction. The drawings promise extraordinary performance. Then the contractor builds what they know how to build, and the performance never materializes. Or the contractor wants to deliver high-performance work but doesn’t have the technical support to de-risk the approach.
Between vision and financing. The project pencils at scale, but nobody will finance the first one. Or the regenerative transition makes long-term sense, but cash flow doesn’t work during the transition years. Or the technology is proven but the financial models haven’t caught up.
Most consultants work on one side of these gaps. Most contractors work on the other side. Organizations like yours are left bridging them alone.
KeenWorks exists in the space most people can’t occupy—between technical depth and construction capability, between systems thinking and operational execution, between strategic vision and financial viability.
We’re both licensed general contractor and strategic consultant. Both building scientist and systems thinker. Both technical expert and implementation partner.
Which means when we design a decarbonization roadmap for a manufacturing facility, we’re designing something we could build. When we help agricultural operations transition to regenerative practices, we understand both the soil science and the economic reality. When we develop net-zero communities, we’re accountable for whether they perform.
The solutions we recommend? We’ve stress-tested them against the constraints that kill most plans: budget, operations, labor availability, existing infrastructure, organizational capacity.
This isn’t about having more capabilities than other consultants. It’s about having capabilities that typically remain separated—and knowing how to integrate them so solutions work in practice, not just in theory.
Every engagement begins with understanding context—the technical components, operational constraints, stakeholder relationships, organizational culture, and broader environment. This perspective reveals leverage points where targeted interventions produce outsized results, rather than optimizing single variables in isolation.
The challenges our clients face sit at intersections—energy and water, agriculture and ecology, building performance and human behavior, technology and organization. We bring expertise across these domains and, more importantly, understand how they interact. That’s where breakthrough solutions live.
This isn’t about delivering recommendations and moving on. Whether we’re executing construction ourselves or guiding organizational transformation, we stay engaged until the promised outcomes materialize. We’re accountable for results, not just reports.
The goal isn’t creating dependency. It’s transferring knowledge, developing your team’s capabilities, and establishing systems that let you continue the journey independently. Organizations should need us less over time, not more.
The solutions we design have to work through changing climate conditions, evolving markets, and future generations. This means considering lifecycle costs, climate adaptation, material recovery, and long-term resilience. Today’s decisions should serve decades, not just the next budget cycle.
Since 2001, careful cultivation of a global network of allies, associates and colleagues assures our clients that Environmental Intelligence can strategically resource any engagement requiring our expertise in energy, environment, international security and climate change adaptation.
Our unique and highly-qualified team specializes in the assessment of risk to capital, community, natural resources and cost of operations.
Whether investigating the sustainability of geospatial systems and situational intelligence or assessment and performance verification of energy use at manufacturing plants, we provide clients visual analytics, resourcing strategies and insights into work process management that foster awareness of strategic priorities with cost-saving approaches to emerging issues.
Our Core Competencies:
Trust Environmental Intelligence and its network of partners and affiliates to deliver strategic assessments of sustainability management systems.
Discover the new principles behind enlightened policies that align processes to generate performance-verified outcomes with proven sustainability.
Our approach increases your capacity to envision the future you want to realize, then plan and implement the steps to sustainably achieve and regenerate new levels of quality while reducing risk and increasing return to your stakeholders.
We focus on identification of risk and opportunities for energy efficiency, natural resource conservation and security for organizations and communities.
Our work concentrates in three sectors where integrated thinking creates breakthrough value, supported by seven core competencies that typically remain siloed.
Food & Agriculture: Farms, ranches, and agricultural enterprises implementing regenerative practices that improve soil health, reduce environmental impact, and create new revenue through emerging carbon and ecosystem service markets.
Agricultural operations considering regenerative transition typically need straight talk about what works economically, not just ecologically. They need partners who understand both soil science and farm economics, who can navigate carbon markets, document soil health improvements, and manage the financial risk of transitioning to new practices. Food companies pursuing credible Scope 3 reductions need supply chain partners who can deliver measurable results, not just purchased offsets.
These capabilities support our work across all three sectors:
Integrated Technical Expertise: We work across building science, energy systems, water management, soil science, and operational performance—creating solutions that work because they account for how systems interact, not just how individual components perform.
Contractor + Advisor Advantage: As both licensed general contractor and strategic consultant, we bridge the gap between vision and implementation. We design solutions we could build ourselves, and we build with full understanding of strategic intent.
Systems Thinking & Strategic Clarity: We apply rigorous systems analysis to map interconnections, identify leverage points, and design interventions that create cascading positive effects—then translate this complexity into clear, actionable strategies.
High-Performance Building & Development: We deliver net-zero energy buildings, Passive House design, deep energy retrofits, integrated water systems, and resilient housing that dramatically reduces environmental impact while enhancing occupant experience.
Regenerative Communities & Sustainability Strategy: We help organizations and communities move beyond sustainability toward regeneration—creating systems that restore ecological health, rebuild community resilience, and align human activity with living systems.
Operational Transformation & Technology Integration: We optimize organizational performance through management systems, digital tools, and strategic technology deployment—recognizing that environmental excellence and operational excellence are inseparable.
Emerging Technology & Investment Advisory: We provide independent assessment of clean technologies, construction systems, and investment opportunities—helping clients navigate innovation while managing risk.
Integration: We connect capabilities that typically remain separate—technical design and construction execution, building science and agricultural systems, strategy and implementation, analysis and action.
Experience: We’ve worked across scales from individual buildings to regional systems, across sectors from manufacturing to agriculture to community development, across technologies from passive design to emerging innovations.
Independence: We provide objective analysis and advice, free from product sales incentives or predetermined solutions. Our recommendations serve client goals, not revenue targets.
Accountability: As contractors, we know the difference between designs that work on paper and designs that work when built. We’re accountable for outcomes because we implement what we recommend.
Regenerative Commitment: We’re not interested in helping organizations be marginally less bad. We’re committed to transformations that restore ecological health, build community resilience, and create lasting positive change.
We’re currently concentrating on initiatives where our integrated capabilities create distinctive value:
High-Performance Residential: Developing compact (1200-1800 sf), super-efficient homes that achieve net-zero or Passive House performance at accessible price points—proving that extraordinary building performance and housing affordability can coexist.
Agricultural Carbon Markets: Helping farmers and ranchers navigate emerging carbon markets, documenting soil health improvements and generating revenue while supporting supply chain partners in achieving credible Scope 3 emissions reductions.
Industrial Decarbonization: Partnering with manufacturers and service organizations to develop and implement comprehensive decarbonization roadmaps that integrate energy efficiency, renewable generation, electrification, and circular economy principles.
Regenerative Community Planning: Working with municipalities and developers to design community-scale systems that integrate high-performance buildings, renewable energy, water independence, food production, and social connectivity.
If you’re pursuing transformation and hitting walls in execution, let’s have a conversation about your specific situation.
We’re interested in learning about your challenges and exploring whether our capabilities align with your needs. No predetermined solutions—just honest discussion about:
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The challenges ahead are significant, but so are the opportunities. The transformation you’re working toward is possible. The question is whether you have partners who can help close the gap between strategy and execution.
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We’re ready when you are.
