For businesses, research groups and developers
The place decides whether what you build works.
Whether you deliver a health service, research a treatment or build a business in a rural community: what you build meets a place with conditions of its own. The knowledge about that place is public, but it is spread across hundreds of documents. SustainBridge brings it out for every Norwegian municipality, in plain language, with sources you can check.
The tool is built for Norwegian municipalities, and every one of them is loaded. The municipality does not own the place alone — and the material it governs by is just as available to you.
Context
Same measure, different outcome
A course of treatment, a service offering or a business idea does not work the same way everywhere. Distances, meeting places, living conditions, the labour market, cultural life and emergency preparedness differ from place to place, and those differences often explain more of the result than the measure itself.
So context is not noise. It is a variable — and it can be described, the same way for every place, with sources that hold up to scrutiny. That description is what SustainBridge gives you.
Three starting points
Three ways to use it
Three who set out to create change, activity or belonging in a place — and who put their own questions to the same body of material.
The business and the entrepreneur
Whether you deliver a service or build a business, the place decides whether it holds. For the health service it is distances and transport, meeting places and activities, housing and work, and what the municipality already has. For the business in a rural community it is natural resources, cultural heritage, preparedness and the local economy — each of which rarely carries on its own, but which together can. You get both out in one place, with sources, so the connection can be tested before anyone invests. If you are establishing yourself in a new municipality, you have the material before the first meeting — not three weeks after.
The research group
A treatment is always tested in a context, and the context is usually described in one sentence in the methods chapter. Take obesity: predisposition and lifestyle explain part of it, but the effect of a programme also depends on distances, meeting places, activities, the route to school and living conditions where the patient lives. Here you get that context described the same way for every single Norwegian municipality, with sources — so you can choose comparable study sites, describe the context before the study, explain variation afterwards, and build a consortium with municipalities and businesses around the same description.
Property development and stewardship
An area is to be developed or managed, and the municipality and the developer need the same answer: what affects this area, what is actually possible here, and what the potential is. Adopted plans, land use, conservation interests, living conditions, infrastructure and priorities sit in separate documents and with separate parties. Together they show the room for action — before it is locked into a project or a tender document.
Partnership
Culture, sustainability and preparedness — with Foreningen Norsk Bærekraftsenter
With Norsk Bærekraftsenter we work in particular on the link between social culture, social sustainability and preparedness — how a local community holds together, and what it can withstand when something happens.
Practice in local projects
Students and volunteers work on concrete projects in a place, using the same knowledge base as the municipality and the businesses. What is learned in a project stays behind in the place.
Social culture, sustainability and preparedness
Three things that are rarely examined together, but that belong together in practice: the meeting places, the trust between people, and the ability to turn up for one another when something happens.
Access for research, students and the voluntary sector
Research groups, students and non-profit organisations can be given free access for specific projects that contribute to sustainable development. Send a request to Norsk Bærekraftsenter at post@norskbarekraftsenter.no — say who you are, what you work on, and how access would help you succeed. Each request is considered on its own merits.
Extendable
New data streams when the task calls for it
The body of material is not a fixed package. If you need something more specialised — your own domain data, a portal, a register, an API at a partner — it is connected in the same structure, with the same requirements for source and traceability.
Internal sources
Your own registers, portals and document archives can be connected where the task calls for it, by local agreement. None of it is assumed to get started: the knowledge base is loaded from day one, with no setup and no start-up cost.
External sources
Government registers, statistics APIs, specialist portals and data from partners.
The same rules for all of them
A new stream is handled like the rest of the material: a defined extract, a source on every statement, and a status you can see.
A specialised task therefore does not require a new system. It requires a new stream in what is already there.
The boundary
Everyone works from what is public
Who we are
Safe, effective and affordable
Our leadership team combines long experience in sustainability and municipal governance, deep expertise in data, analysis and evaluation, and technical experience from tech start-ups. Beneath the platform lie more than ten years of research and method development — most of it built together with Norwegian municipalities, and tested there.
A Norwegian company
SustainBridge Solutions AS, Trondheim, Norway. Company registration number 935 557 313. Norwegian law, Norwegian supervisory authorities and Norwegian-language support.
All processing takes place within the EU/EEA
The application, the database, the files and the AI processing itself sit inside the EU/EEA — not just storage. Today in Stockholm, Ireland and Frankfurt. Subprocessors are named, with purpose and location.
From NOK 2,900 per month
Within ordinary procurement limits, with no tender process. Your data is never used for training, and your information never leaves the EU/EEA.
Get started
See it with your own place as the starting point
In a 30-minute walkthrough we use the place you work in, not a generic example.