maiar.forest

FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPE · 2026

Terraforming Earth

maiar builds revolutionary systems that transform our earth from monocultural deserts to a biodiverse future.

The first step is forest: maiar.forest manages close-to-nature forest at the individual-tree level.

DEMO WORKSPACE · DEMO DATA

AI DETECTION · DECISION SUPPORT

maiar.forest makes close-to-nature forestry scalable.

One interface connects forest, maps, and planning.

AI TREE DETECTION

Multiple AI models
Several detection models run on satellite, orthophoto, and drone data.
Geometry and dimensions
Each tree gets a position, a crown outline, and automatically estimated dimensions.
Expert review
The forest manager reviews candidates and decides what enters the inventory.

DECISION SUPPORT

Choose your approach
Select a management approach; maiar.forest generates a draft plan to match.
Explainable proposals
Every proposal shows its reasoning and marks uncertainty and missing data.
Memory
Every action in both the system and nature is remembered and logged.

CONCEPT UI · DETECTION AND PLANNING

USE CASES

The same tree-level inventory serves three use cases.

UNTOUCHED FOREST

Monitoring untouched forest

The state pays the owner once for the trees that will never be cut. That requires a count of every tree before the forest is set aside. After that, the forest must show that protection works. A tree-level inventory that can be repeated from new imagery does both jobs.

CLOSE-TO-NATURE FORESTRY

Managing close-to-nature forestry

In close-to-nature forestry the forest manager returns to each stand every few years to decide which trees to cut. This continues for decades. With a current inventory and a draft plan for each round, the manager does not start from nothing each time.

CERTIFICATES

Documenting for FSC, PEFC and EUDR

Auditors check a certified forest every year against the same documents: the management plan, the inventory, the biodiversity areas, and the harvest records. When the normal workflow keeps these documents current, the owner does not pay a consultant to prepare them before each audit.

THE MARKET · DENMARK

More forest is planned in Denmark.

FOREST AREA, DENMARK (HA)

1990 → today → 2045 in hectares. Today: forest area and close-to-nature forestry from the 2023 inventory, untouched forest as of January 2025. Dashed: decided targets for 2045.

TODAY → 2045

Forest area
651,757 ha (2023) → ≈902,000 ha
Untouched forest
75,000 ha (2025) → ≈175,000 ha
Close-to-nature forestry
≈60,000 ha measured (2023) → ≈260,000 ha decided

The Green Tripartite (2024) adds 250,000 ha of new forest by 2045, 100,000 ha of it untouched.

More forest is planned. The chart shows three series in hectares at 1990, today and 2045. Today = latest inventory: forest area and close-to-nature forestry from Danmarks Skovstatistik 2023, untouched forest as of January 2025. The 2045 values are policy targets (Green Tripartite, June 2024: 250,000 ha new forest, 100,000 ha of it untouched), not forecasts. Sources: forest area 1990 = 544,538 ha and 2023 = 651,757 ha, Danmarks Skovstatistik 2023 (IGN/KU) Table 1.4 — the 1990 census figure scaled to the 2011 satellite-mapped forest area, i.e. the same definition as 2023; untouched forest 217 ha early 1990s (Johannsen et al. 2013), 75,000 ha (Naturstyrelsen, Jan 2025); close-to-nature ~0 before 2004, 62,593 ha uneven-aged managed forest (NFI 2023); 2045 targets per funding/markedsanalyse/denmark-market-analysis.md.

THE MARKET · EU-27

EU forest protection and wood demand

MORE FOREST UNDER STRICT PROTECTION

10% of EU land by 2030
The EU strategy targets strict protection of 10% of its land, including all remaining primary and old-growth forests.
More existing forest protected
Reaching the target requires additional protected areas. Forest designations can bring existing woodland under strict protection, rather than create new forest.
Less land available for harvesting
When managed forest enters strict protection, commercial harvesting stops. The EU target covers all land types, so it does not specify how many forest hectares will leave production.

WOOD DEMAND AND SOURCING

+37% global demand by 2050
FAO projects global consumption of primary processed wood products to grow 37% from 2020 to 2050. This is global context.
EUDR changes which wood buyers can source
The EU Deforestation Regulation requires covered wood products to be legal and deforestation-free, with origin traceability and due diligence. Buyers need evidence that harvesting has not caused forest degradation.
Demand for documented wood
These requirements favour suppliers who can demonstrate compliance. They can shift sourcing towards documented wood, without necessarily increasing total wood consumption.

Forest owners need reliable origin and harvest records to support buyers’ checks.

EU-27 policy context, with global demand explicitly separate. The 2030 Biodiversity Strategy targets strict protection of 10% of EU land, including remaining primary and old-growth forests. The target includes other ecosystems; it is neither 10% of forest land nor a new-forest creation target. Additional designations can increase the share of existing forest under strict protection, but no forest-hectare allocation or aggregate EU supply reduction is quantified here. Commercial harvesting is incompatible with strict protection; conservation interventions can still be permitted. Sources: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/biodiversity/eu-biodiversity-strategy/protect-nature_en and https://environment.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-01/SWD_guidance_protected_areas.pdf . FAO Global Forest Sector Outlook 2050 (2022): business-as-usual projection of 37% growth in global primary processed wood-product consumption from 2020 to 2050, not EU demand or roundwood harvest. Source: https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/consumption-of-primary-processed-wood-products-predicted-to-grow-37-percent-by-2050/en . EUDR applies to covered products, including imported and EU-produced wood. Upstream operators conduct due diligence; responsibilities vary along the supply chain. Deforestation-free wood must also meet the regulation-specific forest-degradation condition, using the 31 December 2020 cutoff. Traceability, legality and due diligence are separate from FSC/PEFC certification. Sources: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/forests/deforestation/regulation-deforestation-free-products_en and https://green-forum.ec.europa.eu/nature-and-biodiversity/deforestation-regulation-implementation/understand-due-diligence_en . The sourcing shift towards demonstrably compliant suppliers is an inference from market-access requirements, consistent with the Commission objective to boost demand for deforestation-free products; it is not measured growth in wood consumption, an EU-origin preference, or a guaranteed price premium. Source: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/green-deal-new-law-fight-global-deforestation-and-forest-degradation-driven-eu-production-and-2023-06-29_en . Origin and harvest records support buyer checks but do not alone establish compliance. Maiar monitoring-market scenario: 50–80 million ha by 2035 at €1–3/ha/year implies €50–240 million/year; working assumptions, not verified demand or prices. See documentation/markedsanalyse/europe-market-analysis.md sections 5–6. Proposed expansion after Denmark: Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Finland.

CERTIFICATION

Certification audits repeat every year.

CERTIFIED AREA · DENMARK AND EUROPE

Each line starts at its own 2010 area; the end label is the growth since then. Dashed = projection at observed pace. Today: Denmark PEFC 365,000 ha, FSC 146,000 ha (2026). Europe 117.5m ha certified, more than half of the forest (2024).

FOR THE FOREST OWNER

A certified forest must keep a management plan, an inventory, mapped biodiversity areas, and harvest records. maiar.forest produces them as part of the normal workflow.
Today the owner pays for this in consultant hours before each audit. With the records kept current, the documentation is already there when the audit comes.

FOR THE AUDITOR

Every record carries a date, a source, and its history, so the plan can be checked against evidence.
The yearly surveillance audit and the five-year recertification read the same records.

PARTNERS AND INVESTORS

Join us

We are seeking partners and early investors for field validation and production hardening.

Initial users: Danish forest managers practicing sustainable mixed-species, continuous-cover forestry.

Roadmap

Inventory + detection + planning

Production hardening of core planning and AI automation.

Traceable, automated planning

We adapt the modular planning workflow for audits against standards such as FSC and PEFC.

Drone integration into the workflow

Drones provide forest data, biomass, and 3D models—enabling higher-resolution planning.