maiar.forest

Intelligent forestry

maiar builds revolutionary systems that turn our land from monoculture deserts into a biodiverse future.

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

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DEMO WORKSPACE · DEMO DATA
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maiar.forest makes close-to-nature forestry scalable.

One interface connects forest, map and planning.

AI TREE DETECTION
  • Several AI models
    Several detection models run on satellite, aerial photo and drone data.
  • Geometry and dimensions
    Every tree gets a position, a crown outline and automatically estimated dimensions.
  • Professional review
    The forester reviews the candidates and decides what goes into the inventory.
DECISION SUPPORT
  • Choose your approach
    Choose a management approach, and maiar.forest drafts a plan that fits it.
  • Explainable proposals
    Every proposal shows its reasoning and flags uncertainty and missing data.
  • Memory
    Every action, in the system and in the forest, is saved and logged.
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CONCEPT UI · DETECTION AND PLANNING
DRAFT · THE FORESTER STAYS RESPONSIBLE
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The same tree-level inventory covers three needs.

UNTOUCHED FOREST

Monitoring untouched forest

Untouched forest has to be documented before it is set aside and monitored after. Today that means field visits. maiar.forest maps every tree from aerial photos and lidar, and follows changes between visits with satellite data.

CLOSE-TO-NATURE

Managing close-to-nature forest

Close-to-nature forestry means managing mixed, uneven-aged forest tree by tree, returning to each stand every few years. maiar.forest gives the forester an up-to-date tree map and a draft plan for each round.

CERTIFICATION

Documentation for FSC and PEFC

Certified forest is audited every year, and certification groups do their own internal audits. maiar.forest keeps a dated record of the forest and the work in it, so both take less work. Auditors are customers too: they use the same records or our tools on their own.

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A European market for tree-level forest data.

TAM · Certified forest worldwide
about €280m / year
About 400m ha of FSC/PEFC-certified forest at €0.70/ha. Monitoring of untouched and close-to-nature forest comes on top.
SAM · Our European markets
about €83m / year
About 118m ha of certified forest in Europe at €0.70/ha, plus monitoring of untouched forest.
SOM · Our target in year 3
about €1.6m / year
200,000 ha in Denmark, 3m ha in the other Nordic countries and 0.5m ha in Germany, through large agreements.

Prices from €0.40 to €1.74 per ha per year, lower for large holdings.

Drivers Denmark → the Nordics → Germany and the rest of Europe.
EU Forest Strategy 2030
3 billion additional trees and closer-to-nature management across the EU.
Danish Green Tripartite (2024)
250,000 ha of new forest in Denmark by 2045, 100,000 ha of it untouched.
Close-to-nature in Denmark
About 60,000 ha today and about 260,000 ha by 2045 (our estimate).
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The team behind maiar.forest

Lauge Groes

FOUNDER AND CEO
AI · remote sensing · vision
  • IT project lead at the Danish EPA/SGAV since 2022: Digitalt Skovkort (the national forest map) and VEF 26–28 – national bat database and modelling.
  • Strong focus on how AI and remote sensing can create close-to-nature solutions.
  • MSc in IT from ITU (Digital Innovation & Management). Thesis on AI and creativity (2019), training a small language model to write poems.

Joachim Aaløkke Sørensen

CTO
Product · UX · architecture
  • Built and launched KonektESG on .NET and Azure, with customers such as IKEA, Siemens and KMD. Led a development team of 10.
  • Architecture: CI/CD, cloud architecture, API design, automated testing, infrastructure as code and agentic software development.
  • MSc in IT from ITU (Digital Design and Communication). Product Owner and UX designer.
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Join the journey

We are looking for partners for field validation and production readiness, and early investors to fund it.

First users: Danish foresters managing mixed, continuous-cover forest sustainably.

ROADMAP

Inventory + detection + planning

Production-ready core planning and AI automation.

Traceable, automatic planning

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

Drones in the workflow

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

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