Gate, don't average

TrueCarbon Nexus is a carbon-credit marketplace, built for AshTerra Sciences, and it exists because the market has one disease: junk credits that do not represent real, additional carbon. A marketplace that cannot tell good from junk does not fix that. It just launders the junk faster.

So every project carries an integrity score. It is a weighted rubric, additionality, year-on-year emission reduction, baseline quality, and co-benefits, each scored and weighted and composited into one number. That part is ordinary.

The decision that matters is the floor. If additionality or emission reduction falls below a hard threshold, the project is red-flagged no matter how good its composite looks. A project cannot be strong on paperwork and co-benefits and average its way past a fatal weakness on the two dimensions that actually decide whether the carbon is real. Gate, don't average.

I built it as named, versioned constants, weights and thresholds you can read and change, tagged as a specific rubric version, with different defaults per project type, rather than a number that falls out of a black box. In a market whose entire problem is trust, a scoring system nobody can inspect is part of the disease, not the cure.

One honest line, because the alternative is the exact overclaiming the product is supposed to fight: the satellite-imagery verification is on the roadmap, not automated today. The scores are entered by assessors against the rubric, with the imagery linked in the interface. I am not going to call it automated remote sensing until it is.