Field visit at dawn · Iquitos, Peru, 2026

Itín Partners · Salta, Argentina

We design and manage large-scale projects with a positive impact on nature.

We focus on structuring financial solutions and scaling their adoption. The engine of this work is Compass: a model that gathers what your organisation already knows. Your team can consult it in plain language, and it always stays current.

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The problem we solve

What an organisation knows is the resource that costs most to rebuild, and it tends to sit trapped: in the experience of a few people, scattered across teams, or in documents nobody consults again.

Building that knowledge took years of studies, fieldwork and relationships. And the larger an organisation grows, the harder it becomes to keep it organised and ready when it's time to make a decision.

In the experience of a few people

One person knows why the strategy now back on the table was ruled out the first time. The day that person leaves, the organisation loses that judgement.

Scattered across teams

Each team masters its part of the problem and none sees the whole. The decisions that cross teams are the ones that take longest.

Forgotten documents

The studies and plans the organisation has already paid for are still relevant, but nobody turns to them with questions any more.

When the territory is new, the problem is reversed: the knowledge exists — published, in earlier studies, in the people who live there — but it does not yet work for your organisation.

What we do

Two starting points, one destination.

If your organisation already knows the territory

We turn your organisation's accumulated knowledge into an interactive, up-to-date platform. Your team can query the data and assumptions directly, in plain language.

If the territory or problem is new

We build this understanding from scratch: we survey the science, the earlier studies and local knowledge, and order them into a model ready to consult. Your team takes that knowledge on board and decides with confidence from day one.

What stays installed

The model of your decision, running and queryable.

Compass is an interactive platform where your team can consult, in plain language, each variable of a decision: what drives a project forward, what holds it back, who can block it, and what evidence, at what level of confidence, supports each link. It answers only from what it holds; when a question falls outside that scope, it declares it rather than guessing.

The model belongs to your organisation. With Itín's maintenance, regulations and assumptions are updated so your team always decides on today's reality. This service protects your autonomy: when a project ends, the model, its evidence and its judgement remain available to the work that follows. Your team uses the model from day one, in working sessions run by Itín; direct access — consulting it without us — arrives on the date agreed in the proposal.

Animated diagram of a decision model: the regulation, the water and the communities connected to the operation, and the operation to the plan. A regulation changes outside, the change travels the links to the operation, and the plan adjusts, staying current.

01The model is built once, with your team.
02Outside, a regulation changes.
03The change travels the links to the operation.
04The alert arrives and the plan adjusts.

QueryThe water regulation has changed. Which of the operation's commitments are affected?

Two commitments depend on the minimum flow the regulation modifies: the quarterly aquifer monitoring and the water-use agreement with the community. The evidence behind both was verified in June; the plan brings the agreement review forward.

Source: water management plan · Verified: 06/2026 · Confidence: high

QueryWhat backs the agreement with the community?

The agreement sets a seasonal reserve flow, agreed at the 2024 monitoring roundtable. It is backed by the minutes of that roundtable and the baseline hydrological study; neither contradicts the new regulation, with a twelve per cent margin.

Sources: roundtable minutes · hydrological study · Verified: 03/2026 · Confidence: medium

QueryWhat should move first?

The review of the agreement: it is the lever with the greatest effect at the lowest cost. The model suggests taking it to the next roundtable, before the water-abstraction permit expires.

Lever: water-use agreement · Timing: next roundtable · Confidence: high

A conversation with Compass: each answer opens the next question. It answers only from your project's validated evidence; if something is not loaded, it declares it.

Every link carries its source, the date it was last verified, and its confidence grade. Change alerts are part of the maintenance Itín provides.

What your organisation can do.

From day one

Get answers without meetings.

The model answers the question that today requires a meeting and three emails, and shows the evidence behind it.

Reduce dependence on any one person.

Decision-making stops depending on a single person's calendar: the judgement lives in the model, ready to be consulted.

Defend every decision before third parties.

Board, credit committee, funder or regulator: every statement is backed by source, date and confidence grade.

Stay ahead of changes that affect your decisions.

With maintenance in Itín's hands, every assumption carries the date it was last verified, and changes are flagged.

And over time

The value grows over time. Departments decide from a shared knowledge base, with the same assumptions and evidence in view. When a regulation changes or a funder asks for evidence, the answer is already there. New teams and regions build directly on what the organisation already knows. And effort concentrates on the few points where a small intervention creates a large change: what works is repeated and scaled faster.

You can tackle things bigger than any single head can hold.

Who it is for.

This is for organisations whose decisions depend on what happens outside: land and water, communities, policy and permits, markets, financing and business models — and whose commitments outlast what any fixed plan can foresee.

Working circle · decisions built with the people who live on the land

Multilateral organisations and governments

They direct public funds to territories where production, communities and nature coexist; project teams have an end date, and the evidence lives scattered across agencies, consultancies and previous administrations. The model gathers it, puts it in view before the investment is committed, and produces the plan or diagnostic the project must deliver: every decision documented with its reasoning, in a record that does not depend on one person and survives changes of administration. The evaluability the board requires — theory of change, logical framework, monitoring framework — is grounded directly in the model.

Puma on a camera trap, biodiversity monitoring · Photo: Carlos Gómez

Companies with commitments on the ground

Mining, energy and agri-export companies take on environmental and social commitments that follow them for decades — with financiers, buyers and regulators. These may include the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, the Equator Principles (action plans, biodiversity and community monitoring, closure) and buyers' due-diligence requirements. The model preserves the rationale behind each commitment, keeps it up to date, and makes it defensible — even when the team that made it is no longer there.

White quebracho with nests in the canopy · Gran Chaco

Conservation and philanthropy

Plans are written for funding calls and are archived once they close. With the model in place, each new proposal builds on what the previous one taught the organisation, while generating the theory of change and the monitoring framework the review committee requires. And for projects looking to carbon or biodiversity markets, or structuring innovative financial mechanisms, the standards ask for exactly what the model keeps in order: a baseline, dated and sourced monitoring, and evidence with a clear level of confidence. The work can enter the project's own budget as a line item, at the formulation stage. The strategy outlives the donor cycle.

All three situations hold when the territory is new: the model is then built from the knowledge that already exists outside, and your organisation makes it its own.

Why Compass

Compass goes beyond the static report.

We deliver a living decision engine, installed in your organisation: running, with its evidence graded, accessible in plain language, and kept up to date. The difference lies in the combination.

How it gets built

With your team, in the field, and with a method that has a name of its own.

The model is built with Itín's DLO method (diagnose, leverage, orchestrate): understand how the thing you decide on actually works, locate the levers — the few points where a bounded effort achieves the greatest effect — structure the financial viability, and map out who does what, in what order. It rests on recognised frameworks, such as the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation and decision-network analysis. Artificial intelligence carries the conversation; what stands behind the answer is territorial intelligence: the model built in the field and calibrated to scientific standards.

Model-building workshop with local teams · Iquitos, Peru, 2026

Part of the evidence the model grades begins like this: patient field monitoring, dated and sourced.

One camera trap, months of monitoring · Gran Chaco · Video: Carlos Gómez

How it starts.

Start where you are.

Bring us the project, question, requirement, funding opportunity or challenge you are working with. We look together at what you already have, what is missing, and where we can be useful.

A defined diagnostic.

We scope the diagnostic, deliverables and timeline together. The diagnostic is useful in its own right: it gives you a clearer picture of the evidence, assumptions, gaps and decisions that matter. If you decide to continue to the full model, its cost is credited in full against the next stage.

Decide what comes next.

The diagnostic gives you the basis for deciding whether the full model is right for your organisation. There is no obligation to continue.

What the engagement includes — and what it does not — is set out in writing before we start. If the knowledge needed exists nowhere yet — not in the published science, not in existing studies, not in the people who live and work on the land — that is primary research — a stage prior to Compass — and we say so from the start. And when the engagement arises within a project under formulation, the work and timetable are written with the funding call in view.

Founding partners

Science, law and territory at the same table.

Mauricio Núñez-Regueiro

Founding Partner & CEO

Mauricio holds a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology, specialising in food and resource economics. He has worked since 2009 on how production, communities and nature interact, and led The Nature Conservancy's Argentine Gran Chaco programme for four years. At Itín he leads the firm and the modelling: how the ecological, financial and territorial pieces move together.

Héctor Cornejo D'Andrea

Founding Partner · Legal & Corporate Structuring

Héctor is a lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in corporate law, labour relations and environmental law. At Itín he focuses on the legal and corporate structuring of projects, bringing a practical eye to governance frameworks, risk management and long-term viability.

Cecilia Leake

Founding Partner · Project Development

Cecilia is a lawyer with a background in human rights, governance, conservation and sustainability. At Itín she focuses on project development and implementation, bringing a legal, institutional and organisational perspective to turn strategic priorities into viable projects that deliver environmental, social and economic value.

Why we are called Itín

The itín isn't the showiest tree in the Chaco. It's the one that gets the job done.

In the extreme heat of the Chaco, the itín faced three problems at once: keep its water, keep photosynthesising, keep herbivores away. It solved all three with a single device: branches turned into spines that defend and photosynthesise at once. And it grew wood that withstands fire and a changing environment. That is what we are after: solutions of that precision, still working years later.

Tell us about the decision ahead of you.

We propose a conversation about one concrete case. If Compass isn't the solution your case calls for, we say so in the first minutes of the meeting.

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