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One of Frontier's projects was creating a database of carbon removal knowledge gaps, where the team would collect a dynamic list of knowledge gaps that would be categorized by their industry, impact, needed skillset, and a variety of other parameters.
The team needed a way to organize the whole database and present it in a way that would allow users to:
The Frontier team knew that Airtable is a great tool for building such databases, but they also needed a UI solution on top of Airtable that would allow them to provide the above features.
They reached out to software engineer Steven Zhang, an Airtable employee who has been actively involved in various climate initiatives.
Steven had already built Climate Tech List using Softr and Airtable, so he was familiar with Softr’s capabilities and knew how to achieve what Frontier needed.
As a result, Steven and the Frontier team were able to launch the project quickly, and now the database is available to all the subject matter experts, who can get familiar with the existing issues in the field as well as contribute themselves.
WIthin four weeks of launch, Frontier received hundreds of upvotes on different items as well as 50+ new submissions, which have been incorporated into the database.
The project also received interest from several organizations including Google, Grantham Foundation, Marble, and others who intend to use the database to launch targeted funding programs, which was the initial goal of the project.
“For us the gap database, is only the beginning," said Frauke Kracke, Science Lead at Stripe Climate. "We envision the tool to grow and evolve over time and have good indications that it is working.”
“The Frontier team needed a simple way to quickly create a configurable UI on structured data. I knew that Airtable was the best way to store that data and Softr was the easiest way to build on that.”
