Why our clients buy from us
We know right? It should be totally obvious…
We keep getting asked why our clients partner with us. The truth is, our clients are using us for a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing planetary landscape. So maybe it’s not totally obvious. We’ll explain →
Roxanna representing Onassis Fine Jewelry at our COP16 biodiversity event.
“There are deeper currencies at stake.”
Yes, of course, like any responsible business owners, we went looking for clients. But we didn’t find our clients; they found us.
Some of our clients did the planes, trains, automobiles, and backpacking trip into the jungle. Some were sent by friends, some just searched the right things on Google. Some we really have no idea — we forgot to ask and once it we started talking it was obvious that of course we would find each other.
We DO call into the void regularly on social media, cold calls, and search engines. But we haven’t been able to find a pattern in the people who decide to buy our products. No similarities in age, gender, ethnicity, industry, culture, language, or geography. We know that they all have planetary consciousness, but they also arrived at that awareness through different paths — logic, science, spirituality, or just traveling.
So maybe the question isn’t ‘How did our clients find us?’, but ‘What were they searching for?’
Our clients are already cool
“A hero is someone who leaves home not to escape the world, but to discover what the world could become — and then returns to share that vision.”
Yes, we’re the coolest. But here’s the thing, our clients were already cool before they met us.
Now we have lots of Friends who are non-commercial and help us in other ways. But our clients have a business relationship with us. So they buy our products instead of just supporting our general punkiness.
If you look at them as a group, like a lot of people are doing now becuase we’re launching new products globally, you can see they are all successful entrepreneurs targeting urban hubs. And they are pretty trendy. Most of them have cutting edge products, or market defining stuff of their own.
So as a group you could say our clients are all savvy businesspeople who have built something innovative, climate-friendly, and forward-thinking for their own markets. They’re living proof that the economy of the future is already here.
Our clients still had a problem
“Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.”
All our clients are credible people. We’re picky about who we do business with, and we truly admire the people we’ve told you about. They are serious-minded, smart, and trustworthy.
What’s interesting about our clients as a group is that they still had a problem. Their core focus was on their ecosystems. Urban hubs, smart cities, multigenerational consumers, reducing impact, ethical sales, emerging tech, and science.
They were solving business cases in their context.
But all of them had Nature dependencies, and in all the settings they were selling in, this was a question for their stakeholders. What were they doing about it? How were they giving back? What was their sustainable sourcing strategy? How were they going to motivate their staff? What was their brand's positioning on the planet?
And most importantly — Where was the proof?
In today’s world, innovation isn’t enough. Customers, investors, and the media don’t just ask, ‘What are you building?’ They ask, ‘Can we trust it?’ And that question of credibility takes time and resources our clients couldn’t afford to pull away from their core brand.
We’re mentors and allies
“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.”
Sometimes it makes sense to handle something in-house. A lot of the major brands are attempting to do that for Nature right now with insetting teams.
We know because we get a lot of frantic calls from those teams. For anyone working in this field, it’s rapidly becoming apparent just how specific this expertise really is. Like technology, planetary science is evolving too fast to be adequately curated, published, or taught in urban centers or universities.
Just to be clear here, the complex problem — whether in-house or outsourced — is how to convert money to Nature. See, you can put a lot of money into something and not get Nature out the other side. (And a lot of people around the world are discovering that the hard way right now.)
Now it is not narcissistic at all, for Savimbo to state: we really are experts. For one thing, we employ a lot of Indigenous and local communities that aren’t necessarily going to work a 9 to 5 in the city, or get a PhD. But their hands-on expertise — more of a trade-apprenticship model — is absolutely unmatched. And for the core founding team our expertise is well-documented for over 20 years.
So when it comes to the planet, we’re serious about our tagline. We’re mentors and allies.
But everyone also agrees, Savimbo’s best work is below the canopy. Making that conversion count. Stretching the financing as far as it will go. Making sure everyone knows work was done — AND done fairly.
We’ve already built the financial rails, the Indigenous partnerships, and the biodiversity governance systems that make climate action real and verifiable.
Our clients know we take care of the credibility, so they can take care of their business.
So thats why
“Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. ”
So that’s why our clients work with us. We’re a competitive edge.
When you work with us, you don’t have to split your focus. You stay the hero of your own story, while we stand beside you as the guide — making sure that when your innovation is tested in the market, it’s backed by trust, legitimacy, and transparency.
We’re not going to bullshit. Because we care about the planet more than we care about money. And we’re very clear on who we work for, we work for Nature. And our clients know that too.
When you work with us, you don’t just build a great climate-friendly brand. You become recognized as a trusted pioneer — someone who shows the world not only that a new economy is possible, but that it can be done right.
For the 🌎.
