What motivated Patch's decision to adopt an API-first approach, and why is this strategy critical for the success of the company?

The API is also important is because of the other software systems out there today, like the Persefonis or the Normatives of the world. These are carbon accounting tools which help you understand your footprint and provide production strategies that also need this functionality. 

It's a table stakes element that isn't truly a special sauce for the carbon accounting players, so it’s a prime candidate to be outsourced. Our API is critical in order to enable those types of use cases as well as other use cases related to any form of automation of climate action.