Environmental compliance and ESG software built in Silicon Valley

Experience from the field, lab, and regulatory front line

Every client-facing employee at Locus holds an advanced degree in science or engineering or brings direct professional EHS experience from the field. Software architects came from Hewlett-Packard, PeopleSoft, and Salesforce. Environmental scientists, geochemists, hydrologists, and compliance professionals came from the sites, the labs, and the regulatory programs Locus now manages in its software.

When a Locus customer calls with a question about a PFAS monitoring workflow, a stormwater sampling protocol, or groundwater plume modeling, the person who answers has managed that kind of program themselves. That depth of practical knowledge separates Locus from the pack and drives its deliberate and sustained commitment to recruiting scientists and engineers.

Locus has been ahead of this industry at every major inflection point. In 1999, Locus launched the first web-based environmental information management application and the first SaaS product of any kind for environmental compliance. A year later, Locus released the first mobile environmental data collection application connected to a cloud system. In 2011, the company unveiled the first iPhone application for environmental field data collection. These were not incremental improvements on existing tools. They were category-defining moments, each driven by the same founding instinct: that the volume and consequence of environmental data would eventually demand infrastructure that no one had built yet.

That instinct is instrumental in the context of artificial intelligence. AI in environmental compliance is only as reliable as the data it draws from. Unvalidated records, fragmented architectures, and manually assembled datasets produce confident-sounding outputs that cannot survive regulatory scrutiny. The organizations positioned to use AI well in this domain are the ones that spent years building validated, governed, audit-ready data foundations before AI became the conversation. Locus has been building that foundation since 1997, which means the work that makes AI trustworthy in environmental compliance is already done for every customer on the platform.

Dr. Neno Duplan was born and raised in Croatia, completed graduate engineering work at Carnegie Mellon, and built his career in Silicon Valley. The company he founded reflects all three of those influences: European regulatory depth, American engineering discipline, and Silicon Valley's relentless pursuit of what comes next.

Europe has historically set the pace on environmental and sustainability regulation. CSRD, the most demanding corporate sustainability disclosure requirement in history, is a European framework now shaping reporting obligations for multinationals worldwide. Locus expanded its European operations in 2025 to support that wave of demand, serving both European organizations and U.S. companies operating in the EU. For a company founded by a Croatian-born engineer who completed his doctoral work in Zagreb and his professional formation across multiple continents, that expansion reflects something baked into the company long before the regulatory landscape made it necessary.

For customers on either side of the Atlantic, Locus brings a regulatory perspective that is genuinely global, built by people whose professional growth spanned multiple continents and multiple regulatory traditions.

Locus is a place where a hydrologist with a Stanford PhD works alongside the software developer who built the platform that holds their data. Where the person who wrote the regulatory comment for a state water board now configures the compliance workflow that manages it. Where the environmental consultant who spent years in the field designing the questions now builds the software that answers them.

The work is serious. The problems are real. The data managed on this platform drives remediation decisions, informs enforcement actions, and shapes corporate disclosures that investors and regulators scrutinize closely. For scientists and engineers who spent years in the field wishing they had access to better tools, building those tools is its own form of motivation.

Locus is independently owned, which means the priorities of the company are set by its mission and its customers. There are no investor board mandates to navigate and no acquisition integration projects to survive. The work here is about building better environmental software, which is what the team that built it came to do.