Brandon Kelly / Meeting & Ecological Wealth Work
Brandon stepped in to facilitate the meeting after Max logged off at the start of the call. Attendees were Brandon, Trinh Nguyen, Christian, and Ioz Baya — a new participant joining from the Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Brazil. Ioz communicated primarily via chat in Portuguese, sharing that he works in cabruca forest on the cocoa coast, where roughly 300 years of cocoa cultivation history represents one of the few agricultural practices that keeps the Atlantic Forest standing. He raised a question about species valuation: how capitalism assigns different economic values to different tree species — mahogany, eucalyptus, jacaranda, jequitibá — and what that asymmetry means for ecological accounting.
Brandon described his ongoing work on ecological wealth provisioning — compiling decades of established labor frameworks from buildings, food systems, and environments into a program. No major new breakthroughs this week, but continued incremental progress working with AI tools toward making ecological labor opportunities legible and fundable.
Trinh Nguyen / Thesis Research
Trinh reported completing a full draft of her thesis but described the revision process as labor-intensive. Earlier committee feedback had deconstructed the work substantially before allowing it to be rebuilt in a more polished form. She noted the Regen case study had been genuinely useful to her research and expressed appreciation for the ongoing connection with the group.
Christian / Klima Protocol Partnership
Christian provided detail on the Klima Protocol carbon credit deal: 7,500 city forest credits sold to the Klima Protocol for over $300,000, closing several months ago. Those credits are now represented on Klima’s protocol on Base, but final retirement still occurs on Regen Ledger, so Regen maintains the authoritative registry. A follow-up call with Klima was scheduled later in the week to explore expanding the relationship.
One direction Christian floated: routing all Regen Compute carbon offset credits through Klima’s registry sourcing, with credits ultimately retired back on Regen Ledger and tagged as having passed through Klima’s infrastructure. This would give Klima additional supply and give Regen Compute subscribers access to Klima’s larger distribution network. Klima also operates Carbon Mark, a companion platform with a more consumer-friendly interface aimed at both individual and institutional carbon buyers.
Christian acknowledged uncertainty about whether Klima is in a stronger market position than Regen Network itself. He noted that R&D Inc. has shifted much of its near-term focus toward AI-informed environmental consulting — contracts that provide multi-month stable revenue — rather than eco-credit sales, which have been unpredictable over several years. The voluntary carbon market remains weak, and credit sales alone have proven difficult to use as payroll.
Brandon Kelly & Christian / Social Media Strategy
The Regen Compute X account and Christian’s personal X account are both managed by Wahid, who Christian described as diligent but largely without feedback — Christian acknowledged he rarely looks at what is posted and has limited interest in social media. The last post on Christian’s account was May 10, roughly two weeks prior to the call.
Brandon’s critique centered on content style: recent posts were getting around 53 likes but read as clearly AI-generated and “esoteric green marketing” — framing that positions Regen as critical of the status quo without giving the reader a concrete next action. He quoted one post: “GM. The future isn’t decided someday — it’s shaped by the systems we choose to build right now. One path leads to depletion… the other restores connection, resilience, and a future worth living in.” His argument was that this framing risks triggering the defensiveness that climate skepticism exploits, and fails to convert because there is no actionable ask.
Brandon’s suggested approach: use Regen Network’s logo prominently with an AI-generated abstract visual variant, keep copy shorter and less punctuated, and anchor every post to a specific call to action — retire credits, subscribe to Regen Compute, use the MCP tools — rotating across Regen’s actual product lanes. He noted that with current AI tools, a 30-post content batch could be generated and scheduled without full automation, and that both Klima and Regen should realistically be posting at least daily.
Christian suggested Brandon put that feedback directly to Wahid in the Regen Compute Telegram channel, where Wahid is active and would likely engage. He noted he’d raise again whether Wahid could take over posting on Regen Network’s main account, though the core team had been reluctant to grant that access previously. The structural problem both identified: at R&D everyone is prioritizing revenue and product work, and consistent social posting is the first task to fall off under that pressure.
Brandon Kelly / Regen Compute GitHub
Brandon reported making open-source contributions to the Regen Compute GitHub repository, using Claude to guide the scope of work up to what the maintainer would sanction. He also noted he is the most recent contributor to Gregory Landua’s open-source repository. In both cases he is waiting for the respective maintainers to determine next direction before proceeding further. Christian said he hadn’t checked the Regen Compute repository recently and planned to configure GitHub notifications for pull requests so he would see activity as it happens.