How to reuse a Cool Farm, AIA EAP, or consultant number without recalculating
If the intensity already exists and you can defend identity, period, and method — grant it. Do not rebuild the engine for every buyer template.
You paid for a Cool Farm run last season. Or an AIA Emissions Accounting Platform (AIA EAP) export. Or a consultant workbook you’ve already documented. Then a buyer sends a blank sheet and asks you to “calculate emissions.”
You do not owe them a second science project. You owe them a clear grant of an existing number — if the commercial deal says so.
The reuse test (four checks)
Before you touch a new calculator, walk these:
- Identity — Does the number cover the product, site, and period they are buying from you?
- Method label — Can you name the engine or consultant pack (Cool Farm, AIA EAP, named consultancy) without over-claiming what it proves?
- Allocation — Can you link intensity to the mass / lots on their purchase orders without inventing a new split?
- Ceiling — Are they asking for a portfolio Category 1 input, or for farm-level land-management primary data? Those are different artefacts. Do not let a template collapse them.
If all four clear, reuse. Export or attach the existing intensity. Map it into their columns once. Save your mapping.
If identity or period fails, update the pack — still on the same engine if you can. Recalculating from scratch because the column order changed is waste.
What reuse is not
- Not a claim that Cool Farm or AIA EAP “satisfies” every buyer programme or every Science Based Targets initiative Forest, Land and Agriculture (SBTi FLAG) expectation by itself. Engines produce intensity; programmes decide what they will accept.
- Not “SBTi approved” or “FLAG validated” language for a sharing method.
- Not anonymised-as-farm-level. An anonymised intensity can feed a buyer’s portfolio estimate. It is not farm-level FLAG data.
Practical sequence
- Park the buyer template. Open your last good pack.
- Confirm identity / period / lots against the PO set.
- Copy intensity + method note into a report-once row you will reuse.
- Grant that row to this buyer at the agreed tier.
- When Buyer Four arrives, grant again — do not recalculate.
Revoke stops new access. It does not wipe a buyer’s already-held last granted vintage.
Bottom line
Calculators earn their keep the first time. Every later ask is a consent and allocation problem. Sit on the number you already trust; stop paying to rediscover it.
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