A multi-jurisdictional digital asset platform for green energy credits, delivered end-to-end from business model validation to live product to ongoing retainer.
EnergyWallet came to Embary with a concept: a platform that would let businesses hold, trade, and retire green energy certificates across multiple jurisdictions. The idea was commercially sound. The execution challenge was significant.
Digital asset handling in the energy sector sits at the intersection of financial regulation, environmental compliance, and cross-border data law. Getting it right required expertise across all three, simultaneously and not in sequence.
Embary was engaged to do everything: validate the business model, map the regulatory pathway, select and vet the technology vendors, design the architecture, oversee the build, and manage delivery to launch. The client requested a retainer post-launch. That retainer is still active.
Green energy certificates aren't a single standard. They vary by jurisdiction, regulator, and registry. Building a platform to hold and trade them meant navigating a patchwork of compliance requirements with no existing playbook.
Add to that the complexity of digital asset handling, cross-border data flows, and the need to integrate with multiple legacy registry systems, and the client had a build that most technology firms would have declined or underscoped.
Before any architecture was drawn, we spent six weeks mapping every regulatory touchpoint, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, registry by registry. That map became the foundation for every technical decision that followed.
The result was an architecture that was compliant by design, not by retrofit. Compliance wasn't bolted on after the build. It was woven into the data model, the API contracts, and the operational workflows from day one.
Business model stress-test, market sizing, competitive landscape, and a first-pass regulatory map across target jurisdictions. Delivered as a written brief with a go/no-go recommendation.
Full architecture design, vendor selection for registry integrations and custody infrastructure, engineering team vetting, and a delivery framework with real milestones.
Eighteen months of embedded delivery oversight: managing the engineering team, coordinating third-party integrations, running compliance checkpoints, and navigating the unexpected.
Post-launch, Embary transitioned to a strategic retainer: owning the product roadmap, monitoring regulatory changes across jurisdictions, and advising on the next phase of market expansion.
The platform launched on schedule and has been in continuous operation since. No post-launch compliance remediation required.
Compliant across all target jurisdictions at launch, a result of mapping constraints before writing code rather than after.
The client requested a retainer immediately post-launch. Embary continues to own the product roadmap and regulatory monitoring function.
Embary didn't just build what we asked for — they challenged our assumptions, navigated the complexity we didn't fully understand, and delivered a system we're still running on. They stayed when others would have walked away.
EnergyWallet — Founding Client · Fintech Infrastructure