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CarbonTrail cuts generative AI costs by 88% for sustainable emissions intelligence using Amazon Bedrock
…ormation with expert guidance and packaged solutions AWS Solutions Case Studies CarbonTrail cuts generative AI costs by 88% for sustainable emissions intelligence Learn how CarbonTrail built an AI-powered platform and API on AWS to process ba…
Description
New Zealand-based CarbonTrail built an AI-powered emissions measurement platform and CarbonAPI on AWS, running a document-analysis pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and workloads on AWS Inferentia to process bank-scale invoice and transactional data. The platform achieves an 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower cost than a comparable GPT-4-with-embeddings approach, and reduces low-confidence classifications by up to 40%. The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) uses CarbonTrail's CarbonAPI to progress toward measuring emissions across its SME customers.
…To advance CarbonTrail ’s mission of avoiding one billion tons of CO₂ by 2050, the organization built an AI-powered platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to process bank-scale data. The platform delivers 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower costs tha…
…surement platform on AWS, CarbonTrail delivers performance and efficiency gains—achieving 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower cost than comparable GPT-4 with embeddings. The platform also reduces low-confidence classifications by up to 40 percent a…
Company
CarbonTrail
…o their products and workflows in minutes rather than months. About CarbonTrail New Zealand–based sustainability technology company CarbonTrail is helping businesses and financial institutions measure, reduce, and report th…
Country
New Zealand
…o their products and workflows in minutes rather than months. About CarbonTrail New Zealand–based sustainability technology company CarbonTrail is helping businesses and financial institutions measure, reduce, and report th…
Region
Oceania
…o their products and workflows in minutes rather than months. About CarbonTrail New Zealand–based sustainability technology company CarbonTrail is helping businesses and financial institutions measure, reduce, and report th…
Industry
Financial Services
…ds across multiple systems, a scale that manual approaches could never achieve. This was the case at the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), which set a target to measure the emissions of 50 percent of its SME customers. CarbonTrail sought to build a platform capable of ingesting large volumes of a…
Problem
CarbonTrail's mission is to help businesses measure and reduce emissions, with a goal of avoiding 1 billion tons of CO2 by 2050, but traditional methods — manual processes and broad spend-based estimates — were too slow, inaccurate and resource-heavy to scale. Banks such as the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), which set a target to measure the emissions of 50% of its SME customers, are further challenged by regulatory requirements that demand processing hundreds of thousands of customer records across multiple systems, a scale manual approaches could never achieve.
…duce emissions, with a goal of avoiding 1 billion tons of CO₂ by 2050. However, traditional methods—manual processes and broad spend-based estimates—were too slow, inaccurate, and resource-heavy to scale. Banks are further challenged by regulatory requirements that demand processing…
…d spend-based estimates—were too slow, inaccurate, and resource-heavy to scale. Banks are further challenged by regulatory requirements that demand processing hundreds of thousands of customer records across multiple systems, a scale that manual approaches could never achieve. This was the case at the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), which set a target to meas…
Solution
CarbonTrail built an AI-powered emissions measurement platform on AWS that runs a document-analysis pipeline on Amazon Bedrock to process unstructured invoice and receipt data, integrating generative AI models such as Llama through Amazon Bedrock foundation models. To increase efficiency, CarbonTrail runs workloads on AWS Inferentia for higher throughput with lower emissions per token, and uses AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda for containerized, serverless, elastic operations. The platform is hosted in-region, supporting Amazon VPC peering for banking clients to meet data sovereignty requirements. CarbonTrail also introduced CarbonAPI, a developer-facing service that extends the same invoice-level emissions measurement to partners and fintechs.
…onTrail built an AI-powered emissions measurement platform on AWS. At its core, the platform runs a document-analysis pipeline on Amazon Bedrock , processing unstructured data such as invoices and receipts to extract the details required for accurate emissions calculations. To increase efficiency, CarbonTrail runs workloads on AWS Inferentia —part of…
…e details required for accurate emissions calculations. To increase efficiency, CarbonTrail runs workloads on AWS Inferentia —part of AWS’s custom silicon portfolio—achieving higher throughput with lower emissions per token. The team integrates generative AI models such as Llama through Amazon Bedrock…
Business value
CarbonTrail's platform delivers an 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower cost than a comparable GPT-4-with-embeddings approach, and reduces low-confidence classifications by up to 40%. The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) uses CarbonTrail's CarbonAPI to progress toward its goal of measuring emissions across its SME customers.
…surement platform on AWS, CarbonTrail delivers performance and efficiency gains—achieving 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower cost than comparable GPT-4 with embeddings. The platform also reduces low-confidence classifications by up to 40 percent a…
…on in processing time and 88% lower cost than comparable GPT-4 with embeddings. The platform also reduces low-confidence classifications by up to 40 percent and keeps data in-region to support sovereignty and compliance. Through CarbonA…
AI capabilities
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Document Intelligence
…m silicon portfolio—achieving higher throughput with lower emissions per token. The team integrates generative AI models such as Llama through Amazon Bedrock foundation models, enabling sustainable carbon accounting at scale. Finally, AWS Fargate and AWS…
Technology
Amazon Bedrock, AWS Inferentia, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon VPC, Llama
…onTrail built an AI-powered emissions measurement platform on AWS. At its core, the platform runs a document-analysis pipeline on Amazon Bedrock , processing unstructured data such as invoices and receipts to extract the det…
…e details required for accurate emissions calculations. To increase efficiency, CarbonTrail runs workloads on AWS Inferentia —part of AWS’s custom silicon portfolio—achieving higher throughput with lower…
…ck foundation models, enabling sustainable carbon accounting at scale. Finally, AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda provide containerized, serverless applications that give the platform elastic operations and seamless scalability. Hallam says…
Deployment model
Cloud
…To advance CarbonTrail ’s mission of avoiding one billion tons of CO₂ by 2050, the organization built an AI-powered platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to process bank-scale data. The platform delivers 87% reduction in processing time and 88% lower costs tha…
Deployment options
cloud
…ith a standard generative AI approach. That’s why we landed on AWS Inferentia.” The platform is hosted in-region to meet sovereignty requirements and supports deployment models such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) peering for banking clients. Hallam adds: “Using AWS lets us run models entirely within our environment, so…
