New — how Tessera actually scores a building

Every building.
Every risk.
One score.

Seismic, air-quality, and climate risk, scored automatically for every building, not just the ones someone happened to survey.

10independent risk layers
250mgrid resolution, any city
0consultants required
Anycity, one pipeline

What We Score

Seismic Retrofit

Know which buildings need attention first

Retrofit priority combines real earthquake-risk modelling with building-age data for your specific building, not a citywide guess applied the same way to everyone.

Parcel · sample building
62.4High

Retrofit Priority Score

The same reading shown for every building on the live map, grounded in earthquake-risk modelling and building-age data, not an arbitrary in-house formula.

Parcel · sample building
34µg/m³ PM10
Medium

Matched to the nearest real monitoring reading and classified against international health guidelines, not a single number smeared across the whole city.

Air Quality

Real readings, not a citywide guess

Every building is matched to its nearest real air-quality reading and classified against international health guidelines, not a single number smeared across the whole city.

Heat, Green & Terrain

Urban form, canopy, and slope, block by block

Local climate zone, sky-view factor, tree-canopy cover, distance to green space, elevation, and slope, six independent readings of how a block actually holds heat and drains water, not one proxy standing in for all of them.

Terrain & Heat

A 250m grid of local climate zone, canopy, elevation, and slope readings, in any city

01

No survey to commission

A score is ready before a consultant would even reply to the request. No site visit. No waiting.

02

Computed, not guessed

Every score traces back to real geometry, public records, or a real monitoring reading, never a flat number applied city-wide.

03

One pipeline, any city

The scoring doesn't depend on one specific data format. It runs the same way in a new city without renegotiating access from scratch.

How It Works

Ten layers, made simple

From raw data to a building-level score, in three steps.

01

Ingest

Building footprints, satellite imagery, public records, and real monitoring data for the target area.

02

Score

Each building gets a retrofit priority, an air-quality reading, and heat, green-access, and terrain scores.

03

Deliver

An interactive map today, a portfolio report for compliance teams next.

$ tessera run --city <your-city>

[1/4] loading building footprints and public records

[2/4] matching each building to real monitoring data

[3/4] scoring retrofit priority, air quality, and terrain

[4/4] writing building-level results

done: <your-city>_scored.gpkg

Not live in your city yet?

The pipeline isn’t tied to one specific data format. Leave your email and we’ll reach out when we expand.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

What exactly does Tessera measure?+

A retrofit priority score based on real earthquake-risk modelling and building-age data, a real air-quality reading from monitoring stations, and heat, green-access, and terrain readings, for every building or 250m grid cell, alongside supporting attributes like height, footprint, and inferred use.

Which city is the live map showing?+

A pilot region we're using to validate the pipeline before expanding. The map itself is open to explore.

Can this work in my city?+

Yes. The pipeline isn't tied to one specific data format, so expanding to a new city doesn't mean renegotiating access from scratch. Get in touch if you'd like to be next.

Is this a design or simulation tool?+

No. Tessera scores existing buildings and neighbourhoods to help prioritise where to act. It doesn't simulate a new design or replace a physics-based CFD tool.

Let’s talk.

City teams, compliance leads, or just curious about the pipeline. We’d like to hear from you.