About Manifest Climate | AI-Powered Sustainability Intelligence

Our story

We lived the problem before we built the solution.

Our consultancy expertise became the product. And the problem we solved for ourselves is the same one we're solving for teams today.

In 2020, Manifest Climate started as a sustainability consultancy. We worked directly with organizations navigating the fast-evolving landscape of climate risk, sustainability disclosure, and regulatory pressure. And we kept running into the same wall.

The analysis work was slow, manual, and inconsistent. Research that should have taken hours took weeks. Frameworks were applied differently by different analysts. Findings that needed to be defensible to boards, auditors, and regulators were built on processes that were anything but. We were spending more time managing data than delivering insight.

So we built Manifest: an AI assessment engine designed to do what our team did, but faster, more consistently, and with every finding traceable back to its source. Today, teams using Manifest run assessments in hours that used to take weeks, with outputs that are source-cited, auditor-ready, and built to withstand scrutiny.

Our principles

How we think about this work.

Evidence over assertion

Every finding in Manifest is tied to a source. If you can't show your work, it's not analysis.

Built for scrutiny

Sustainability outputs are landing in front of auditors, regulators, and boards. We design for that reality.

Expertise encoded

AI doesn't replace judgment. It scales it. The criteria and logic reflect decades of knowledge.

The people

A team that has worked on both sides of the table.

Former consultants, climate lawyers, AI researchers, and enterprise operators. We understand the work because we've done it.

Laura Zizzo

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Jim MacDonald

Chief Executive Officer

Ryan Meyers

Holly Dunne

Partnerships

Muchen Dai

Software Development

Jeff Horlor

Sales

Olena Kholodova

Product Innovation

Pete Richardson

Product Research

Adam Rochwerg

Climate Solutions

Alex Konson

Marketing

Our investors

Backed by partners that understand
what this work requires.

We're grateful to have investors who bring not just capital, but credibility: in sustainability, in enterprise software, and in building companies that thrive.