Quickstart

Last Updated: 2025-03-03

Introduction

Get started with the world's largest database and most powerful tools for impact forecasting. This quickstart guide will walk you through exploring Koi's climate solution data, building forecasts, and organizing them into collections—whether for product types, markets, investment portfolios, or even portfolios of portfolios. Let's dive in.

1. Set Up a Collection: Koi Collections act as folders for organizing and grouping different analyses. Use the toolbar to navigate to Collections > Create New Collection with a name and description. Collections may represent any grouping of interest to the Koi user, such as technology type, market application, or investment portfolio.

2. Explore Koi's Data: Navigate to the Search section and explore Koi's datasets. Try searching keywords and even URLs of company websites. Notice the tags under each climate solution name that indicate the availability of associated data.

3. Save Climate Solutions: Begin loading and visualizing climate solution pages.

   You can export data individually from charts or in bulk from the datasheet tab.

   When you identify a climate solution you want to return to later, use the right hand buttons to save it either as a Bookmark or as an item within your Collection. You may adjust parameters such as the timespan and functional unit before saving, and your selections will be retained when accessed later.

   We recommend adding a climate solution to a Collection when the data have been reviewed by the user and are fairly complete for their use case.

   Bookmarks are intended for datasets of interest but those that need further user review or alterations. For example, for data gap supplementation, refinement, or integration into a different model.

4. Explore your collection: Access a summary of your collection models and view the aggregated data by navigating through the various collection tabs, starting with the Executive Summary. Climate solutions within a collection can be added, removed or modified.

5. Modify models and refine your collection: With Koi, the pond is yours to navigate—whether you're taking a casual swim with the pre-built models or diving deep to refine every detail.

   Customize climate solutions to develop complete models that appropriately represent your system. The level of effort you invest will determine how tailored your results are to your specific needs. Some find that the complete pre-built models are enough for their purposes, while others choose to put in more work to fine-tune and customize their models.

   Use Koi's editing capabilities to make minor or major changes, mix and match Koi datasets, supplement with your own literature findings, and adjust market sizes to reflect the desired type of analysis.

   Below are some example workflows for model refinement using Koi data.

   Note that all custom models are automatically created as clones of the original Koi model and are saved to a user's private Forecasts. A cloned model will need to be re-added to a collection, and the Koi original removed.

Workflow Example 1

Include additional GHG intensities for comparison in a climate solution model.

Use the Customize Forecast feature to clone and edit an existing climate solution model. The custom model will inherit all of the existing model data and the user will supplement with the additional data scraped from the above CSV.

Workflow Example 2

How to fill in a data gap to enable collection-level viewing of model results.