Solara, CarbonBright’s AI Co-Pilot for LCA Insights and Product Sustainability

Meet Solara, CarbonBright’s AI Co-Pilot for LCA Intelligence

Life Cycle Assessments generate some of the most valuable sustainability insights available to product teams. Yet in practice, those insights often remain buried inside complex models, spreadsheets, and technical reports. Solara was created to change that.

Solara is CarbonBright’s AI co-pilot designed to make LCA data accessible, interactive, and decision-ready for teams across sustainability, product, procurement, and compliance.

What is Solara?

Solara is an AI assistant embedded directly within the CarbonBright platform. It allows users to interact with LCA data using natural language, transforming technical outputs into clear insights, actionable recommendations, and scenario-based decision support.

In our recent webinar demonstration, we showed how AI interfaces can unlock LCA insights and turn them into guidance that drives product-level impact, helping teams move from analysis to confident action.

What Can Solara Do?

Solara supports a wide range of product sustainability and compliance workflows, including:

• Hotspot identification
  Quickly surface environmental hotspots across materials, components, and lifecycle stages.
• Impact analysis
  Understand which processes and inputs are contributing most to product footprint.
• Scenario modeling & eco-design
  Model new LCA's with alternative materials, packaging, or suppliers dynamically to compare reduction pathways.
• Benchmarking & reporting
  Translate LCA outputs into marketing-safe benchmarks, executive summaries, and EPD-style insights.
• Cost-aware decision support
  Incorporate cost considerations alongside sustainability performance when exploring design changes.
• Regulatory intelligence
  Flag potential compliance risks linked to regulations such as REACH, SCIP, and RoHS.

Together, these capabilities help teams turn LCA outputs into decision-ready intelligence rather than static reports. Solara democratizes that insight by enabling cross-functional teams to ask questions, explore scenarios, and extract insights instantly.

This leads to:

• Faster product innovation cycles
• Better sustainability decision-making
• Increased confidence in data and results
• Improved collaboration across product, sustainability, and compliance teams

How Is Solara Different from General AI Tools?

While general AI chatbots provide broad knowledge, Solara is purpose-built for LCA and product sustainability workflows.

Key differences include:

• Embedded LCA context
  Solara operates directly within the CarbonBright platform, giving it structured and secure access to BOM data, LCA tools & models, and results.
• Methodology alignment
  Responses are grounded in ISO-aligned LCA methodology and platform guardrails to maintain consistency and comparability.
• Data-aware intelligence
  Solara combines product-specific data with sustainability best practices to deliver tailored insights grounded in real modeling context rather than generic responses.
• Workflow integration
  Insights can directly inform modeling, reporting, supplier engagement, and eco-design decisions without leaving the platform.

Availability

Solara is currently available in beta for existing CarbonBright customers. We are working closely with early adopters to refine capabilities, expand use cases, and ensure the experience aligns with real-world product sustainability workflows.  

Broader availability will be announced early next quarter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Solara a replacement for LCA experts?
No. Solara augments expert workflows by accelerating analysis, improving accessibility, and supporting exploration of scenarios.

What data does Solara use?
Solara interacts with structured product and supply chain data within the CarbonBright platform, combined with curated emissions databases and modeling logic.

Can Solara support compliance workflows?
Yes. Solara can help identify potential regulatory risks and support preparation for disclosure and reporting activities.

Who benefits most from Solara?
Product designers, sustainability teams, procurement, and compliance teams all benefit from faster access to insights and scenario-based decision support.

How can customers access Solara today?
Existing CarbonBright customers can request beta access through their account team.

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