Starrfly Labs creates environmental intelligence products — platforms that turn ordinary people into a scientific network, and turn that network into data the world can act on.
See Our WorkModel
Citizen Science
Crowdsourced environmental data
Current Product
SoilCensus
Soil microbiome mapping — coming soon
Approach
Depth First
One thing built well before the next
We build tools that let ordinary people contribute to the scientific record — because the most important environmental data often lives in a backyard, not a lab. Our products share a common model: citizens contribute observations, we own the aggregation layer, and the dataset grows more valuable with every contribution.
Coming Soon
Soil microbiome mapping, powered by citizen science.
Building the first crowdsourced map of what lives in the soil beneath our feet — at the resolution of a backyard, a community garden, a family farm. Anyone can participate. Every sample makes the dataset more valuable.
Visit SoilCensus.comStarrfly Labs sees what others overlook — the living world beneath the soil, the invasive threat crossing the county line — and builds the tools to act on it.
The environmental data that matters most is often the hardest to collect. Satellites don't see soil microbiomes. Surveys don't move fast enough to catch an invasive species before it spreads. Government agencies have the mandate but not the infrastructure.
We fill that gap. Our products are designed from the ground up for citizen participation — simple enough for anyone to use, rigorous enough for researchers and institutions to trust. The data belongs to the community that generates it.
The data should be as open as possible and as protected as necessary.
A backyard sample is as scientifically valuable as a field study sample. We design for both.
We build things that last. One good product is worth more than three half-finished ones.
Starrfly Labs is an independent product studio based in North Carolina. We are building environmental intelligence products that didn't exist before — and that the world increasingly needs.
We are small by design. Every product we build gets our full attention until it works. We move carefully and we move with purpose.
We're interested in conversations with researchers, land managers, city governments, university extension offices, conservation organizations, and anyone who thinks citizen science can help solve a problem they're working on.
hello@starrflylabs.com