Built for the moment someone has to trust the number
Class 3 Technologies had built a climate risk platform that modeled damage down to the bolts, ahead of anything else in the category. Nobody outside the company could see that yet: there was no public brand, and the product buried its best idea under dense tables. Engineering leadership now calls the redesigned product objectively better than what came before.
Product
Web
Built for the moment someone has to trust the number
Class 3 Technologies had built a climate risk platform that modeled damage down to the bolts, ahead of anything else in the category. Nobody outside the company could see that yet: there was no public brand, and the product buried its best idea under dense tables. Engineering leadership now calls the redesigned product objectively better than what came before.
Product
Web
Built for the moment someone has to trust the number
Class 3 Technologies had built a climate risk platform that modeled damage down to the bolts, ahead of anything else in the category. Nobody outside the company could see that yet: there was no public brand, and the product buried its best idea under dense tables. Engineering leadership now calls the redesigned product objectively better than what came before.
Product
Web
INDUSTRY
Climate Analytics
YEAR OF ENGAGEMENT
2026
HEADQUARTERS
San Francisco, CA
IMPACT
Increased Inbound leads
by shipping an optimized brand and website for it.
Key Client Retention
by improving the product to drive better customer success.
INDUSTRY
Climate Analytics
YEAR OF ENGAGEMENT
2026
HEADQUARTERS
San Francisco, CA
IMPACT
Increased Inbound leads
by shipping an optimized brand and website for it.
Key Client Retention
by improving the product to drive better customer success.
INDUSTRY
Climate Analytics
YEAR OF ENGAGEMENT
2026
HEADQUARTERS
San Francisco, CA
IMPACT
Increased Inbound leads
by shipping an optimized brand and website for it.
Key Client Retention
by improving the product to drive better customer success.
Overview
Class 3 Technologies is a climate risk and resilience software company. Its platform, Iris, models how a specific hazard affects a specific building down to the bolts, giving investors, engineers, and asset owners a risk figure they can act on before they build, buy, or insure.
Overview
Class 3 Technologies is a climate risk and resilience software company. Its platform, Iris, models how a specific hazard affects a specific building down to the bolts, giving investors, engineers, and asset owners a risk figure they can act on before they build, buy, or insure.
Overview
Class 3 Technologies is a climate risk and resilience software company. Its platform, Iris, models how a specific hazard affects a specific building down to the bolts, giving investors, engineers, and asset owners a risk figure they can act on before they build, buy, or insure.
WHAT WE DID
01
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
02
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
03
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
04
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
WHAT WE DID
01
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
02
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
03
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
04
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
WHAT WE DID
01
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
02
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
03
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
04
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
01
Brand & Trust
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
Class 3 Technologies had no public website and no brand distinct from the sea of green and blue climate tech competitors. The company's real differentiator, engineering-grade damage modeling down to the bolts, had nothing on screen to back it up. We built a full marketing site around a palette that broke from the category default, and used accurate previews of the platform instead of screenshots that weren't ready yet. Class 3 Technologies went from no public presence to a brand that reads as credible as the engineering behind it.
01
Brand & Trust
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
Class 3 Technologies had no public website and no brand distinct from the sea of green and blue climate tech competitors. The company's real differentiator, engineering-grade damage modeling down to the bolts, had nothing on screen to back it up. We built a full marketing site around a palette that broke from the category default, and used accurate previews of the platform instead of screenshots that weren't ready yet. Class 3 Technologies went from no public presence to a brand that reads as credible as the engineering behind it.
01
Brand & Trust
Built to stand out from the default climate tech palette
Class 3 Technologies had no public website and no brand distinct from the sea of green and blue climate tech competitors. The company's real differentiator, engineering-grade damage modeling down to the bolts, had nothing on screen to back it up. We built a full marketing site around a palette that broke from the category default, and used accurate previews of the platform instead of screenshots that weren't ready yet. Class 3 Technologies went from no public presence to a brand that reads as credible as the engineering behind it.
"Having a pod instead of a solo designer has been so much better, they bring things I hadn't thought about, genuinely thinking through the product with me. As the only product person on my team, that's exactly what I needed."
Hedi Smida
Co-founder @ Class 3 Technologies
"Having a pod instead of a solo designer has been so much better, they bring things I hadn't thought about, genuinely thinking through the product with me. As the only product person on my team, that's exactly what I needed."
Hedi Smida
Co-founder @ Class 3 Technologies
"Having a pod instead of a solo designer has been so much better, they bring things I hadn't thought about, genuinely thinking through the product with me. As the only product person on my team, that's exactly what I needed."
Hedi Smida
Co-founder @ Class 3 Technologies
02
PRODUCT SYSTEM
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
Iris ran on a stock interface toolkit with nine near-identical shades of blue and no visual identity of its own. Internally, the team described the product as an airplane cockpit: dense, technical, and hard to trust at a glance. We replaced the generic toolkit with a consistent visual and interaction language built specifically for how risk data needs to be read, from color to spacing to how a rating displays next to its number. Class 3 Technologies now has one coherent product instead of default pieces stitched together, with a shared language new features can build on.
02
PRODUCT SYSTEM
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
Iris ran on a stock interface toolkit with nine near-identical shades of blue and no visual identity of its own. Internally, the team described the product as an airplane cockpit: dense, technical, and hard to trust at a glance. We replaced the generic toolkit with a consistent visual and interaction language built specifically for how risk data needs to be read, from color to spacing to how a rating displays next to its number. Class 3 Technologies now has one coherent product instead of default pieces stitched together, with a shared language new features can build on.
02
PRODUCT SYSTEM
Turning a generic interface into one coherent product
Iris ran on a stock interface toolkit with nine near-identical shades of blue and no visual identity of its own. Internally, the team described the product as an airplane cockpit: dense, technical, and hard to trust at a glance. We replaced the generic toolkit with a consistent visual and interaction language built specifically for how risk data needs to be read, from color to spacing to how a rating displays next to its number. Class 3 Technologies now has one coherent product instead of default pieces stitched together, with a shared language new features can build on.
03
Product Usability
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
Navigating Iris was a real problem: every view showed all its detail at once, and users had to hunt through dense tables just to find the one number they came for. We rebuilt how the data is organized and revealed, structuring each view so the summary shows first and deeper detail only opens when a user interacts with it. Engineering leadership called the redesigned view objectively better than anything the platform had shown before, and finding the right answer no longer means reading every row in a table.
03
Product Usability
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
Navigating Iris was a real problem: every view showed all its detail at once, and users had to hunt through dense tables just to find the one number they came for. We rebuilt how the data is organized and revealed, structuring each view so the summary shows first and deeper detail only opens when a user interacts with it. Engineering leadership called the redesigned view objectively better than anything the platform had shown before, and finding the right answer no longer means reading every row in a table.
03
Product Usability
Making the platform's best idea visible for the first time
Navigating Iris was a real problem: every view showed all its detail at once, and users had to hunt through dense tables just to find the one number they came for. We rebuilt how the data is organized and revealed, structuring each view so the summary shows first and deeper detail only opens when a user interacts with it. Engineering leadership called the redesigned view objectively better than anything the platform had shown before, and finding the right answer no longer means reading every row in a table.
04
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
The platform led with a hazard map for every asset, even though most of the hazards Class 3 covers don't have reliable maps at all. Leading with the weakest data undersold the platform's actual strength. We helped the team pivot the product's information architecture to lead with vulnerability, the modeling nobody else in the category does at this depth, while keeping the hazard view visually first for its impact. The platform now leads with what makes Class 3 different instead of what's easiest to render on a map.
04
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
The platform led with a hazard map for every asset, even though most of the hazards Class 3 covers don't have reliable maps at all. Leading with the weakest data undersold the platform's actual strength. We helped the team pivot the product's information architecture to lead with vulnerability, the modeling nobody else in the category does at this depth, while keeping the hazard view visually first for its impact. The platform now leads with what makes Class 3 different instead of what's easiest to render on a map.
04
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Reordering the product around what actually earns trust
The platform led with a hazard map for every asset, even though most of the hazards Class 3 covers don't have reliable maps at all. Leading with the weakest data undersold the platform's actual strength. We helped the team pivot the product's information architecture to lead with vulnerability, the modeling nobody else in the category does at this depth, while keeping the hazard view visually first for its impact. The platform now leads with what makes Class 3 different instead of what's easiest to render on a map.
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We analyze your product, identify what’s creating friction, and help you define the right priorities, what to fix and build next.