Architecture

How CPI transforms questions into research-grounded, citable outputs.

Climate Price Index is built on four layers: research, agent, tools, and output. Each layer is designed for transparency and verifiability.

The Research Layer

At the foundation is a corpus of ~400 peer-reviewed academic papers:

• Full-text indexed — every paper is searchable
• Semantic embeddings — search by concept, not just keywords
• Extracted artifacts — figures, tables, and key findings are separately indexed
• Structured metadata — authors, journals, dates, DOIs for proper citation

This layer provides the evidence substrate — the quantitative effects, mechanisms, and academic credibility that ground all outputs.

The Agent

The CPI agent is an AI system trained to:

• Understand investment questions — parse asset class, geography, risk type
• Search strategically — query the research corpus with targeted questions
• Synthesize findings — combine multiple sources into coherent answers
• Quantify carefully — report ranges with assumptions, not false precision
• Cite properly — link every claim to its source

The agent follows an epistemic contract: it prefers progress over perfection, action over endless clarification, and verifiable claims over unsupported assertions.

The Tools

The agent has access to specialized tools:

The Output

The agent responds directly in chat with structured, citable analysis:

• Formatted responses with inline citations
• Tables and figures when they support the claim
• Clickable citations that open the source in the Reader tab
• Copy-paste ready — paste into memos, decks, or reports with formatting preserved

Every output is designed to be verifiable. Click any citation to read the original source. No black boxes.