Adaptbase
Organizing the world’s climate adaptation knowledge.

Climate adaptation is atrillion-dollar challenge.

Today the world spends $190 billion a year defending 1.2 billion people to developed-economy standards. Protecting everyone exposed to climate hazards would cost $540 billion.

McKinsey Global Institute, 2025 →

We’ve cataloged data on 2,667 adaptation actions, 831 solutions, and 12,868 outcomes in 1,309 cities globally.

How will you use it to make better decisions about adaptation actions, investments, and innovations?

For Infrastructure investors
Infrastructure investor asks
FROM THE LIVE GRAPH
Stormwater, wastewater and coastal protection lead the pipeline, at wildly different scales — the 18 projects reporting capex run from $2m to $15bn.
e.g. First combined sewer storage tank, at $18m — a mid-scale example from elsewhere in the pipeline.
93 capital projects, 62 with an asset class · as of August 2026
For Businesses
Business asks
FROM THE LIVE GRAPH
Davao City leads with 10 flood-related actions targeting transport, ahead of Makati (6) and Edmonton (5).
e.g. Legazpi City's transport and road infrastructure adaptation — one of the flood actions tied directly to the transport network.
A facility-siting risk lens · 221 actions across 64 jurisdictions · as of August 2026
For Planners
Planner asks
FROM THE LIVE GRAPH
Socio-Economic & Public Health Systems and Urban Ecology & Natural Capital draw the most dual-hazard investment — 228 and 221 actions respectively address both heat and flooding through the same system.
e.g. Toronto does both at once with its Tree Canopy and Waterfront Shoreline Project.
Where one investment pays off twice · 482 dual-hazard actions across 51 urban systems · as of August 2026
For Advocates
Advocate asks
FROM THE LIVE GRAPH
The most-reported outcomes aren't risk metrics at all — they're public health (2,145) and social cohesion (1,268), ahead of ecological (709).
e.g. Athens' green roofs — claimed for public health, ecological and service continuity benefits.
5,893 co-benefit claims from 1,012 actions · as of August 2026
How it’s built

Knowledge about effective adaptation is scattered across the web.

We built AI agents to collect millions of documents recording humanity’s adaptation plans and actions — and read them all.

CITY PLAN PDF · 2022 · PAGE 30
Miami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan
ACTION 18: Pilot and scale cool pavements

Conduct pilots of different types of cool pavements in low-impact areas, such as walkways, bike paths, parking lots, and low-volume roads…

Cool pavement could either be permeable, allowing water and water vapor into the voids of the pavement that keep it cooler when moist, or it could be more reflective than standard pavement, reducing incoming solar radiation and cooling the air temperature.

We collect the facts that matter.

Using an ontology developed with adaptation and resilience experts, we extract structured evidence — so every document reporting on every city and company is read in a rigorous, standardized way. No chatbot guessing from a pile of PDFs.

PlanMiami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan
ActionConduct pilots of different types of cool pavements
SolutionCool pavements
MechanismReducing incoming solar radiation
One shared vocabulary: 21 entity types, 60+ relationship types
Connecting the dots

Then we connect them.

One line in one city’s PDF becomes a fact you can count, compare and trace — against every other plan we’ve read.

prescribes works by implements SOLUTION Cool pavements PLAN Miami-Dade County Extreme Heat Action Plan MECHANISM Reducing incoming solar radiation ACTION Conduct pilots of different types of cool pavements
THE SENTENCE BEHIND THIS LINK · MIAMI-DADE, P. 30
“Cool pavement… could be more reflective than standard pavement, reducing incoming solar radiation and cooling the air temperature.”
The graph

Together, they form a knowledge graph.

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Deep research

This is only the start.
We deploy autonomous AI agents to expand, update and fill gaps in our knowledge.

RE-READ WHAT WE ALREADY HOLD
“Which hazards actually threaten Miami?” The graph held the city, and held the hazards, but not one link between them. The researcher re-read Miami’s own plans and came back with 10, each carrying the sentence it came from — “our coastline is particularly vulnerable to storm surge.”
→ staged for review
GO AND GET WHAT NOBODY WROTE DOWN
“Which startups are building technology-enabled solutions for extreme heat?” No city plan answers that, and we hold zero suppliers today — so the researcher leaves the library and works the open web.
→ new sources acquired
GO DEEPER ON ONE SLICE
“Build the financing timeline across every capital project we know of.” 93 projects, 163 financial instruments — the same graph, at far higher resolution.
→ queued
The foundation

Built to be built on.

WHAT COMES BACK
Facts, not paragraphs — each one still carrying the plan, the page and the sentence it came from. Your agent can show its work, and you can check it.
Any assistant · any workflow · over MCP
Research assistants
that cite real plans
City dashboards
that compare against peers
Funding tools
that show their sources
API  ·  MCP
Where we are
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Every relationship traces back to a quote: 101,478 evidence records.

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