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Solved! – world’s largest sustainability expert marketplace – comes to US
by Eetu Helminen, Jun 21st 2023

Solved and Natural Logic have joined forces to bring the world’s largest sustainability expert marketplace to the US. The unique service makes it easy for businesses, cities and networks to source expertise and services of more than 25 000 sustainability experts from around the world.
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Solved expert market place is growing internationally through a partnership with sustainability thought leader Gil Friend’s Natural Logic. Solved and Natural Logic have partnered to support US businesses and organisations in solving their sustainability challenges with providing the world’s best experts through a digital marketplace and digital tools to work on the challenges.
“Our unique marketplace makes it easy for businesses, public authorities, NGOs, and networks to find the right expert, hire her,” Solved CEO and co-founder Santtu Hulkkonen explained, “and for the experts to collaborate with each other.”
Solved customers include over 100 international networks, including C40 and International Cleantech Networks, as well as “white label” platforms for more than 200 organisations, which are interlinked so that challenges as well as experts can be shared across the different digital ecosystems.
Solved’s network of 25 000 experts, its digital expert marketplace and its digital SaaS platform, developed in Finland, will be supported by Natural Logic’s expertise and presence in the US. Natural Logic will support its customers, allies, and other companies by enabling them to present their challenges to the global expert pool in order to find innovative solutions. The experts on the marketplace will provide the customers the solutions they need to create more sustainable business. This will mean greater reach and more interesting work opportunities for experts in the US and globally.
“We are a perfect match”, said Natural Logic founder and CEO Gil Friend, widely considered one of the founders of the sustainable business movement. “Combining Solved’s expert pool, Natural Logic’s network in North America, and our joint understanding of the challenges businesses and organisations face, will both help companies address sustainability challenges more quickly and efficiently, and create new business.”
Sustainability experts can join the Solved! Expert Market Place at no cost. Posting opportunities, needs, and jobs on the marketplace is also free for businesses and networks. Commission is included in the price offer from the expert and automatically deducted.
“Finding, contracting and paying the experts is easy, quick and secure”, said Santtu Hulkkonen, CEO and Founder of Solved. “We provide the tools and expertise to match the right experts to the challenges of businesses and organisations. As our partner in the US, Natural Logic will help us grow our business, which also means, better, more sustainable business for the US clientele and Solved experts.”
Natural Logic and Solved have entered into an agreement to build new sustainable business, sustainable solutions with clients as well as regenerative impact on the environment. The clientele will be organizations and ecosystems; primarily related to a green and sustainable economy. The partners are looking to establish a joint venture, Solved/US, in the medium term.
Natural logic
Natural Logic, Inc., is a highly focused strategic advisory firm, founded in 1999. Founded and led by noted sustainability thought leader Gil Friend (named an inaugural member of the Sustainability Hall of Fame along with Ray Anderson, Amory Lovins, Karl-Henrik Robert and Bob Willard), Natural Logic helps companies prosper by taking sustainability seriously, and taking it deep—building substantial economic value by delivering substantial social and biological value.
www.natlogic.com
Solved
Solved is an impact company with 25 000 sustainability experts around the world and digital tools to build impact solutions and manage your ecosystems. We do it by bringing the best experts from around the world to solve the world’s wicked problems. Our digital platform lets you hire, pay and collaborate with them across time-zones all in one place. This builds and scales up tangible solutions and their impact in the real world.
www.solved.fi
More information:
Santtu Hulkkkonen
CEO, Co-founder
Solved
[email protected]
+358 50 373 2895
Gil Friend
CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
[email protected]
510-248-4940