Reimagining Sustainability in Design
What is Merova?
Merova.ai is a sustainability guidance tool for designer, students, and innovators who want to create responsibly, not just beautifully. It helps you explore the environmental impact of your design choices in real time. By integrating trusted LCA databases into your creative workflow you can explore, compare, and discover smarter, greener paths forward.
No PhD required. Just curiosity, creativity, and a drive to make better things! Be the first to know- join our list for updates on development milestones, and behind-the-scenes, and upcoming opportunities to get involved.
Design vs. Climate Change
Climate Change Feels
Distant and Overwhelming
Climate change is so vast, it’s hard to see how everyday design choices fit into the bigger picture. We often think of melting glaciers or far-off weather events, forgetting that everything we create; down to a single plastic bottle, plays a role in our planet’s health. Sustainability becomes an abstract concept, not a daily design challenge.
Limited Visibility in
the Design Process
Designers often work in enclosed studios or classrooms, far removed from the massive supply chains and production steps required to bring a product to life. Without a clear view of how raw materials are sourced, processed, and shipped, it’s nearly impossible to see—let alone reduce—the environmental impact of your work until it’s too late. By then, the carbon is baked in, and the waste is someone else’s problem.
Traditional LCA processes
can be Complex
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods exist, but they often require specialized software, deep expertise, or steep costs. For smaller studios, educators, and freelancers, this complexity makes sustainable design feel out of reach.
But here’s the kicker: Waiting until production to assess your environmental impact isn’t just risky for the planet—it’s expensive for your business. As industry leaders warn, discovering unsustainable practices late in the game can mean costly redesigns, wasted resources, or missed market opportunities. Why gamble millions on hindsight when you can design with foresight?
Design Smarter, Faster, and Greener
1 | Design
Sketch the idea, define the intent! Start your design journey the way you always do; beginning with an idea or a design brief, research, brainstorming concepts, exploring materials, and sketching form and function.
2 | Model
Model in any 3D tool you love, then bring it into Merova.ai to layer in real-world context. Here you can choose preloaded material options via dropdown. Tweak wall thickness, swap finishes, and watch impacts update instantly
3 | Reflect
See your model through the lens of environmental impact. High-impact components light up as you design, making hotspots visible and solvable. Quickly test alternatives like swapping Plastic for cork and get instant feedback on CO₂ savings. These aren’t flaws, they’re design opportunities.
4 | Iterate
Good design is a cycle. With Merova.ai, you can refine materials, geometry, or suppliers with confidence. Swap out carbon-heavy parts or try radical ideas without using physical resources. It’s experimentation with real insight, not waste.
Merova.ai is a screening and guidance tool that brings sustainability into your creative process – not after it.
Comparative Analysis
By evaluating different materials, forms, or processes side by side, users can identify which options offer the most sustainable outcomes and confidently justify their design choices.
Hot-Spot Identification
The platform highlights the components or stages within a product’s lifecycle that contribute most significantly to its overall environmental impact. By pinpointing these “hotspots,” users can focus their innovation and mitigation efforts where they matter most.
🎓 Students
Design education is evolving. While textbooks lay the groundwork, they can’t always show how material choices impact the planet in real time. That’s where Merova.ai comes in.
Students can build portfolios that go beyond aesthetics; showcasing ideas that are both imaginative and environmentally conscious. And because the process is entirely digital, they’re free to experiment without waste, iterate without hesitation, and learn through doing; developing not just skills, but a mindset of responsible innovation.
🧑🏫 Educators
Equip Students with Tomorrow's design language
Your role is more vital than ever where preparing students for a future where sustainability is a core design competency, not an optional add-on. Merova.ai supports this mission by seamlessly integrating LCA thinking into studio workflows, allowing students to gain hands-on experience without adding lecture hours.
Use it to spark critical conversations; compare projects side by side, explore CO₂ impact data, and guide students in evaluating design not just by form and function, but by environmental responsibility. Merova.ai reinforces what you already teach: that great design considers the planet, too.
⚡Professionals
In fast-paced workflows, sustainability often feels like a tradeoff; but it doesn’t have to be. Merova.ai helps you screen material choices early, test combinations quickly, and spot potential impact hotspots before costly decisions are locked in. Whether you're optimizing for emissions, materials, or sourcing risks, you gain insight early when it matters most.
Better yet, you can bring clients and collaborators along. Visualize sustainability impacts in clear, compelling ways. The result? Fewer redesigns, lower prototyping costs, and confident decisions that align speed with sustainability.
Meet the Merova Team
Amitesh Singh
Prajwal Shenoy
I’m the co-founder and technical lead at Merova, combining a strong corporate engineering background with a passion for tech-driven social impact. At Merova, I integrate AI, coding, and LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) data to expand the creative possibilities for designers, giving them immediate, visual insights that help shape more sustainable products. It’s a way for me to align technical innovation with meaningful real-world outcomes, ensuring that our solutions complement the design process while actively pushing it toward a more eco-friendly future.