Background
GaiaLens is an ESG analytics platform built for institutional investors. It provides real-time sustainability insights into publicly listed companies, helping investors detect greenwashing, assess ESG performance, and make evidence-based decisions.
They’ve recently won:
• Best ESG & Sustainability Analytics Platform – ESG Investing Awards 2025
• TechRound100 Winner 2024
• Top 10 ESG Solution Providers 2024 – GRC Outlook
• ESGFinTech100 list – 3 years in a row
…and more!
GaiaLens is using artificial intelligence to screen companies on greenwashing. AI is leveraged to provide detailed information on organizations that don’t meet ESG demands. GaiaLens has already analysed 700 leading Australian companies in regard to their ESG credentials
What Happened & The Fix
Your engineers should be building new features. Instead, they’re spending their days fighting the system, babysitting deployments, and hunting down cryptic errors.
This was the headache at GaiaLens. They had a brilliant ESG platform that was winning awards, but their technical foundation was wobbly. Their team was being held back by a system that was meant to support them. It was time for a fix.
The Old Ways & A Series of Headaches
Before we stepped in, the GaiaLens tech setup was causing three big problems:
- The Vague Error Message.
The platform was built on a system that would often fail with a useless error: “Something went wrong.” This sent developers on a wild goose chase, wasting hours trying to find the real source of the problem. - The Manual Treadmill.
Every time they wanted to release a new feature, it was a manual, nerve-wracking process. This not only slowed them down but also meant a real person had to be on hand to make sure nothing broke. - The Open Backdoor.
Their database was accessible from the public internet. Think of it like this: their front door was locked, but a back window was wide open. It was a huge security risk for a company handling sensitive financial data.
The New Way: Simple, Automated, and Secure
We gave them a new, modern foundation built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
What does that mean in plain English?
- No More Guessing Games.
We used Terraform to create a blueprint of their entire system. Now, their infrastructure is stable, consistent, and predictable. If something goes wrong, the error messages are clear and point directly to the problem. The wild goose chase is over. - Code That Deploys Itself.
We built an automated path for their code. Now, when an engineer finishes a feature, they merge it, and the system takes over. It tests the code, checks it for errors, and rolls it out to users automatically. The team gets to focus on building a great product, not just getting it out the door. - A Locked-Down Database.
We slammed that back window shut. We cut off all public access to their database and put it behind a secure VPN. Now, GaiaLens can confidently tell its big-name clients that their data is locked down tight.
The Bottom Line: What Actually Changed?
This wasn’t just a technical upgrade. It was a business upgrade.
- Their engineers are faster. They ship more features and waste less time fighting fires.
- Their platform is stable. It can handle more users and new features without creaking under the strain.
- Their business is safer. They have the modern security that their institutional clients expect.
Is your tech causing headaches that keep your team from doing their best work? Let’s talk.
Read the second part of our GaiaLens Case Study to learn how we helped build a reliable AI ESG Platform.
Scope-specific Development Services for GaiaLens
The implementation was primarily based on the following services:
Key Technologies Used in Enhancing the GaiaLens
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GaiaLens’s Success
Our rigorous hiring process goes beyond mere qualifications, delving into over 70 specific tech skills to identify the very best. By selecting the top 1.6% of tech experts, we ensured that our development services were exceptional, which significantly contributed to GaiaLens’s achievements.
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