The vision

What OSENV is

OSENV is an umbrella for open-source environmental projects that share open data and can work together. The aim is practical: help people use the environmental laws that already exist to protect health and the environment.

How it works

An honest pipeline: no magic, no overpromising.

Three steps, end to end. Public data goes in; the software assembles a draft against a law that already exists; a person who is accountable decides what to do with it.

01

Open data

Public environmental records — permits, monitoring readings, inspection and enforcement history — gathered from open government sources.

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02

Agents

Software reads the record and assembles a structured draft, citing the authorities it relied on and flagging every judgment for a human to check.

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03

The law that exists

The draft maps onto instruments already on the books — notices, petitions, comment letters — that communities and attorneys can actually use.

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It drafts; a licensed attorney decides.Read the disclaimer →

OSED is the first flagship — proof the model works. Future projects join under the same roof.