Tesera

Established in 1997, Tesera Systems Inc. (Tesera) is an employee-owned Canadian software and technology company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Tesera designs and develops more accurate, scalable and cost-effective nature-based forest inventory solutions.

Across Canada, the USA, Brazil and South Africa (in both natural and plantation forests), our team has successfully demonstrated HRIS Enhanced Forest Inventories in diverse natural and managed forest landscapes covering almost 1.6 million acres, and Individual Tree Inventories on a subset of ~350,000 acres.

Our High Resolution Inventory Solutions (HRIS) integrate AI-based, machine learning and advanced data analytics to produce more accurate, versatile and scalable inventories. HRIS supports multiple data sources and applications, providing our clients with greater value – and confidence in their forest and landscape data.

Our team reflects a unique combination of forestry, data and analytics expertise. We are a small, but talented group that manages to do big things by combining our deep forestry experience with the power of machine learning and the scale of cloud services.

We run a lean operation and focus on opportunities to automate and improve our architecture, technology and performance. Externally, we focus on being agile and collaborative, providing an exceptional and responsive customer experience. We build trust and relationships on an incremental basis, often starting with a Discovery Sprint and/or pilot project – with the objective of securing ongoing long-term B2B relationships.

Our business model is based on selling accurate, comprehensive and flexible high resolution forest inventory data solutions across several global markets. We do this at scale, delivered faster and with less overhead and cost than other solution providers. Our pricing is competitively positioned, and we reinvest our earnings back into the design and development of new technologies, solutions and markets.

As we improve our margins, we will secure larger and more diverse client projects. In addition to our core HRIS inventory offering, we are developing annual recurring revenue (ARR) streams. For example, our solutions will enable clients to continually identify and update their forest landscape inventory data (based on remotely-sensed and analyzed biotic and abiotic disturbances and changes).