what we're building

Visible and verifiable adaptation

Climate adaptation needs to scale. But it won't happen through one-off projects. It scales when adaptation becomes systematically visible, measurable, and valuable.

Plain Site is building the infrastructure for that. We identify where adaptation potential exists, demonstrate what it could deliver, and verify performance to standards that unlock insurance and financing value.

We focus on urban environments where density creates both risk concentration and aggregated opportunity.

What We've seen

The overlooked opportunity

When people think about flood resilience, they picture major infrastructure projects. Retention ponds. Engineered defences. Large-scale interventions with large-scale budgets.

But across every urban portfolio, there's something else: thousands of small spaces doing nothing. Car park margins. Roof sections. Underused courtyards. Service areas.

Coincidentally, nature-based solutions work through accumulation. Each rain garden, green roof section, or permeable surface slows and absorbs water. Individually, they seem insignificant.

Collectively, they represent meaningful catchment-level resilience.

The problem has been visibility and verification. No one's been counting these spaces, modelling their potential, or proving their combined impact to a standard supports investment.

We believe that the most impactful interventions will happen in these overlooked, ordinary spaces that already exist in our cities. Spaces hidden in plain sight.

Put your portfolio to work against flooding

If you own climate-exposed commercial property, you're likely watching insurance premiums climb while coverage tightens.

Plain Site helps you deploy risk management bursaries effectively by finding overlooked adaptation opportunities, quantifying risk reduction, and verifying performance. Protect asset values whilst improving your insurance position.

Not sure if your insurer offers risk bursaries? Book a demo and we'll help you navigate what's available.