How AI Helps Environmental Scientists
Environmental consultants spend hours turning field data into reports. 12² builds report templates, photo logs and a deadline tracker around the firm's project tools.
Environmental Report Drafting Desk · From $4,500 + $349/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for environmental consultants: the short answer.
12² builds AI for environmental scientists that takes on the routine work: drafting report sections from field notes and lab data, organizing site photos and logs, tracking permit deadlines and drafting client letters. It runs inside the tools you already use. The responsible professional signs every submittal.
Sources
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Drafting report sections from field notes and lab data
Environmental consultants spend hours turning field data into reports.
Site photos and logs
The same requests arrive all day, often when nobody is free to answer.
Permit and sampling deadlines
The dates and records live in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Drafting report sections from field notes and lab dataIt drafts report sections from field notes and lab data.
- Site photos and logsIt organizes site photos and logs.
- Permit and sampling deadlinesIt tracks permit and sampling deadlines.
- Client update lettersIt drafts client update letters.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsReport templates, photo logs and a deadline tracker around the firm's project tools.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your project tools on the first call and write it into your quote.
Related solutions: Lab Write-Up & Protocol Desk · Geoscience Report & Log Desk · Research Write-Up & Grant Desk · all solutions
See also: all industry packages · pricing
From $4,500 + $349/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small firm (1-10 staff)From $4,500 + $349/mo. The core build for 1-10 staff: report templates, photo logs and a deadline tracker around the firm's project tools. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid firm (11-50 staff)From $9,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small firm, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations.
- Enterprise: Large firm / enterprise (50+ staff)From $25,000, custom quote. Everything in Mid firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataAgency submittals signed by the responsible professional; EPA and state reporting rules apply (unverified detail).
- Not professional advice12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Can AI sign off reports?
No. The responsible professional signs.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle site photos and logs now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected]
Got it. Your message is in.
You'll hear back within one business day.