SUSTAINEXUS MTÜ · Estonian non-profit
Nature and people do better together. We are building a free global knowledge platform, a data platform grounded in real field evidence, and partner-led conservation and livelihood projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We are newly established and building in the open. Our platforms are in development, and we will tell you plainly what is ready and what is not. See where things stand.
What we do
Every part of SUSTAINEXUS exists to make good sustainable development work cheaper, better informed and easier to prove.
A free, open marketplace of digital tools and non-digital resources for practitioners, researchers and communities anywhere in the world.
A data platform that takes raw field data through cleaning, analysis and curated strategy products, with a Workbench to do your own analysis.
Practical projects that protect ecosystems and improve livelihoods together, run with local organisations and trained community data collectors.
How it fits together
The three parts reinforce each other, but each can stand on its own. You can use the knowledge platform without ever touching the data platform, and the other way round.
Our focus
Protecting nature and improving livelihoods are not separate goals. Each area below is approached with that conservation-livelihood link in mind.
Protecting and restoring forests, wetlands and watersheds, with communities as partners in conservation.
Water, sanitation and hygiene, cleaner cooking, disease prevention and healthier living environments.
Community waste systems, composting and recycling, and rehabilitating polluted or degraded land.
Sustainable incomes, green jobs, better market links and financial inclusion.
Women, youth, people with disabilities, refugees and the extreme poor, with equity built in.
Agroecology, soil and water conservation, agroforestry and reducing post-harvest losses.
Showing in practice that nature protection and better lives reinforce each other.
A free global home for the tools, methods and data that make all of the above easier.
Access
Our knowledge and tools are free for everyone. For the Data Centre, access depends on who you are and how you use it.
| Who you are | What you get | How access works |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals and communities | OpenKnowledge tools and knowledge, free | Open to everyone; create an account to submit, review or join a workspace. |
| NGOs and non-profits, universities, researchers and students | Full Data Centre access, free for non-commercial work | Through a short partnership request that we review. This keeps free access for those it is meant for. |
| Consultancies, businesses and investors | Data Centre subscriptions and paid services | Fair, published pricing that helps fund the free access for everyone else. |
Revenue from commercial use is reinvested in our mission. As a non-profit we do not distribute profits.
A first pilot
Our planned first field project is a community water-quality monitoring pilot, chosen because it is cheap to start, easy to explain and produces data that is useful to others.
This is the plan, not a result. We have not yet run the pilot, and the figures are illustrative and drawn from our own planning documents.
Where we work
The digital platforms are open to the world. Field projects start in a small number of Sub-Saharan African countries and grow only as fast as we can do them well.
Available worldwide, free where it matters most.
Where things stand
SUSTAINEXUS is newly established. Here is a plain account of what exists, what is being built, and what comes later.
Targets
These are the goals set out in our statutes, not results. We will report progress honestly, including where we fall short.
| Stage | Digital products | Non-digital products | Field projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years 1–2 | 10–30 | 10–20 | 0–1 pilot |
| Year 3 | about 80 | about 30 | 3–5 |
| Years 4–5 | 150+ | 50+ | 8–15 |
| Long term | 250+ | 80+ | 20+ ongoing, reaching 20,000+ households |
Targets come from Article 2.9.3 of our statutes.
Get involved
We are small and we welcome help. Write to us and tell us what you can offer.
Donations are not open yet. Tell us you want to be among the first supporters and we will write to you when they are.
Tell us you are interested →Tool reviewers, domain experts, translators and developers can contribute in small, well-defined ways.
Offer your skills →Local NGOs and community organisations, universities and research groups, and technology providers with non-profit programmes.
Start a conversation →Built something that helps sustainable development work? Submissions to OpenKnowledge will open after review processes are in place.
Tell us about it →Universities and researchers can apply for free Data Centre access through our partnership process.
Ask about access →Foundations, funders and institutional partners: we are happy to share our plans, budgets and governance in detail.
Contact us →Open and accountable
We are a small organisation asking you to trust us, so we publish how we are set up and how we handle the risks that come with it.
SUSTAINEXUS is an Estonian non-profit association. It cannot distribute profits, and its revenue is reinvested in the mission.
Our mission, objectives, governance and the limits on what we may do are set out in our statutes, and we will publish them.
Our founder also runs a company that is a founding member of the association. We disclose that openly, and any dealings between the two are documented, independently valued above a threshold and reported.
We commit to an independent annual audit and a public annual report that includes related-party transactions.
Questions
OpenKnowledge tools and knowledge are free for everyone. The Data Centre is free for partner NGOs, universities, researchers and students for non-commercial work, and paid for commercial use.
SUSTAINEXUS MTÜ is an Estonian non-profit association with its registered office in Tallinn. It is currently led by its founder, with plans to add independent board members and staff as it grows. See the transparency page for the governance details.
Through grants, donations and earned revenue from commercial use of the Data Centre and paid services. We are applying to institutional funders and will publish what we receive and how we spend it.
Send a short partnership request describing your organisation and your intended use. We review it and, if it fits, grant access. This keeps free access for the non-profit, academic and community work it is meant for.
Yes, once submissions open. Every submission is screened and validated before it is published, so the catalog stays trustworthy.
On this site, only what you choose to send us by email. Our platforms collect account details, and field projects collect data only with informed consent, stored securely, with only anonymised aggregates shared more widely. See our privacy notice.
The digital platforms are global. Field projects focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, starting with Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and beginning with a single pilot.
Write to admin@sustainexus.dev. We take concerns about safeguarding, data protection and integrity seriously, and we respond promptly.
Whether you can offer time, expertise, a partnership or funding, we would like to hear from you.