Use Cases

An acquirer of landfill gas projects regularly received too many requests for proposals to thoroughly analyze, causing paralysis in its critical early opportunity triage process.

The acquirer had to provide an indicative bid before reviewing the data room and submitting a specific bid. With dozens of projects in the pipeline, bandwidth constraints made it difficult to optimize for the best opportunities.

Using the CEARTscan product, which comes free with a volume purchase of CEARTscore, the team was able to identify risks outside of the sales presentation, such as counterparty or revenue risks, leading to “a fast no” in some cases and deliberate prioritization of others.

Because CEARTscore and client weighting allowed the client to identify a unique value proposition and blocker for competitors, the team was able to negotiate a 25% reduction in acquisition price.

A biomass developer was considering three potential plant acquisitions but had limited bandwidth to assess them. 

After running the deals through CEARTscore, the developer found that one deal was facing local opposition from multiple ends and the second deal had material risks to feedstock and power purchase agreements. They were discarded as options with minimum bandwidth requirements. 

The third deal also had seemingly insurmountable issues financially and contractually. However, using CLIENTscore, CEARTscore’s customizable weighting score, the developer was able to identify multiple paths forward and ultimately make a successful bid on the plant. 

Because of the risks CEARTscore identified, the developer was able to lower the cost of acquisition by more than 75%. 

A solar developer was looking to differentiate themselves in a tight market with policy changes and looming deadlines. 

The developer used CEARTscore to identify the 6 most advanced projects out of 124 in the pipeline, package them into easily illustrated, de-risked projects (by sharing the platform with buyers), and move them into the market at a time-critical moment.

An insurance provider was missing out on projects due to coverage capacity constraints. 

Many of the firm proposals issued for projects had little chance in getting past due diligence, increasing the total allowed volume of proposals outstanding. 

After running their projects through CEARTscore, the firm was able to assess the projects that did have a path forward in the due diligence stage, increasing proposal capacity and the volume of closed deals. 

A solar developer with 5 GW of early development transacts 1 GW at a time into an RFP process. Historically, requests from bidders and the following due diligence by the winners eat up weeks of analyst staff time.

The CEARTscore Chat feature allows the client to upload a file with all questions at once and instantly receive a detailed list of answers with citations to the source in the data room. Days become minutes.