About PolicyLens

A small, deliberate project. We tell you who builds it and how it runs, so you can decide whether to trust it.

What it is

PolicyLens is an indexed database of climate, energy, and sustainability policy documents from governments and intergovernmental bodies, paired with an AI chat assistant that answers questions using only those primary sources.

We do one job: strategic and regulatory policy research. We are deliberately not a market-data product, not a project finance tool, and not a compliance-certification service. See /coverage for the explicit scope.

Who builds it

PolicyLens is built and operated by NamiFlow, an independent software company based in Yokohama, Japan. The product is currently developed and maintained by a single founder, working with AI tooling and external advisors. We are not VC-funded.

We disclose this because it matters for your buying decision. A solo-operated product carries key-person risk: if the founder cannot maintain the service, ingestion stalls and answers become stale. We mitigate this through automated monthly ingestion pipelines, a transparent coverage page, and a refund policy that is honest about the limits (see /terms). For mission-critical, multi-year procurement at scale, this may not be the right fit. For individual researchers and small teams who want a sharp, honest tool at a fair price, it is.

Why it exists

Climate and energy policy moves fast. Every week a new NDC update, a new national plan, a new statutory amendment lands somewhere — and existing tools either show you the raw PDF (Climate Policy Radar, IEA database) or charge institutional pricing for value-added analysis.

We sit in the middle: primary documents, structured into machine-readable key facts, queryable through an AI chat that refuses to hallucinate. For analysts who need to cite a real document this afternoon, this is faster than reading PDFs and safer than trusting a generic chatbot.

How we stay honest

  • Primary sources only: every answer cites an official government or IGO document with title, country, date, and URL.
  • Country attribution discipline: the chat will not pull India's policy into a Vietnam answer. Tested with multi-country comparison queries.
  • "No information found" over fabrication: when the database does not contain the answer, we say so cleanly in the headline rather than padding with adjacent figures.
  • Public coverage page: we publish what we cover, what we deliberately exclude, and what is structurally impossible to cover (e.g., countries that don't publish certain document types).
  • Honest refund policy: digital content cannot be refunded after delivery, and we say so before purchase, with explicit recommendations to evaluate the free document browser and coverage page first.

Get in touch

For general questions, missing-document requests, or feedback: info@namiflow.jp.

For procurement inquiries (10+ seats, custom contract, data processing agreement): same email, with subject line "PolicyLens enterprise inquiry". We evaluate case by case and reply within a few business days.