OVAI FAQ
What is OVAI?
OVAI, the Ocean Value Assessment for Investability, assesses the investment readiness of ocean restoration projects. An organisation uploads its project documents, an AI pipeline scores them against a published indicator catalog, and the result is a peer-reviewable investability assessment.
Who is OVAI for?
OVAI is for project developers working on marine and coastal ecosystem conservation and restoration. They register, upload their project documents and receive an Investability Score that shows how well run and well evidenced the project is.
What does the Investability Score measure?
The Investability Score is a benchmark of a project's processes and practices against international best practice. It measures investment readiness, meaning how well run and well evidenced a project is. It does not measure what a project is worth or what it will return.
How is a project assessed?
A project is assessed against 77 weighted indicators grouped into 15 categories across five dimensions: Biodiversity, Social, Governance, Finance and Communication. Each indicator is scored against passages retrieved from the project's documents, and those passages are cited by page so the reasoning can be checked.
What do the score ranges mean?
The score is a percentage. From 0-25% a project reads as Uninvestable with weak practices and from 25-50% Uninvestable with emerging practices. From 50-75% it is Investable with good practices, and from 75-100% Investable with best practices. If an exclusionary indicator applies to a project and scores 0, the project reads as Not Investable whatever its percentage.
Is the score investment advice or a credit rating?
The Investability Score measures how closely a project's processes and practices follow industry best practice. It is a professional decision-support tool, not a financial opinion: it is not investment advice, financial advice, or a recommendation to invest in, fund or reject any project, and it is not a credit rating. It does not forecast financial return and does not guarantee that a project will raise funding or succeed. Moshun.Earth is not authorised or supervised by the AMF or the ACPR, and is not registered with ESMA as a credit rating agency.
Is the score produced by AI or by people?
Scores are produced by an AI system and reflect the evidence available on the day the assessment ran. The model also draws on its own knowledge of an organisation and its public track record, so a score can reflect information that is not in the uploaded files; where it does, the source is shown next to the evidence. Peer review is a separate stage after the automated run, where the plan includes it. Until then the score is labelled as AI-generated.
How do I try it?
Register for an account at ovai.moshun.earth/register, upload your project documents and run an assessment. Plans and pricing are on the pricing page.
Who makes OVAI?
OVAI is made by Moshun.Earth SAS, a French company that builds it for business customers.