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Goable is a physics-first suitability-scoring API for outdoor activities. One REST call to POST /v1/score turns weather, ocean, atmospheric and astronomical data into a single 0–100 verdict for a specific activity, at a specific place and time. Deterministic, audit-logged, fully typed. Built on 25+ peer-reviewed formulas across 20 physics namespaces. Open catalogue (CC BY 4.0), proprietary engine.

Three horizons of buyer. T1 (shipping): booking platforms, school operating systems, travel apps, outdoor ops tools that need a machine-readable verdict instead of raw forecast numbers. T2 (year 2-3): MGAs, reinsurers and brokers building parametric leisure- weather products. T3 (year 3-5): tourism boards, REITs and adaptation researchers needing multi-decadal climate viability projections. Same engine, three product lines.

28 base activities across water (kitesurfing, surfing, windsurfing, sailing, scuba), snow (ski touring, freeride, alpine skiing, snowboarding), air (paragliding, hang gliding, hot-air ballooning), and land (climbing, trekking, trail-running, mountain biking, road cycling, bouldering, canyoning). Sub-spots and regional variants on top of the base profiles. The full list lives in the open catalogue.

Yes — 1,000 calls/month, 1 spot, 5 activities, public catalogue access, no SLA. Designed for prototypes and integration testing. See pricing for production tiers (Starter €49/mo, Pro €249/mo, Scale custom).

Every score traces to peer-reviewed physics formulas — Beaufort (wind), Iribarren (breakers), UTCI (thermal comfort), CAPE-LI (lightning), EPA AQI (air quality), Bourgouin (precipitation form), and so on. No black-box ML in the scoring path. Every coefficient is published in the open catalogue with a citation. See the science reference for the full coefficient-by-coefficient index.

The newest engine layer. We adapt Item Response Theory (from psychometrics) to a continuous physical condition space, separating the intrinsic difficulty of a condition from the skill of the rider experiencing it. It is the first quantitative measurement of intrinsic condition difficulty for outdoor activities. Read the full methodology.

Every score is joined to its observed outcome (when the operator reports one), and a daily-refreshed materialised view publishes per-cell Brier Skill Score, CRPS and reliability bins. The numbers are open — anyone can recompute them from our Stream F export. See forecast verification.

The consensus provider blends Stormglass, Open-Meteo, CMEMS and NOAA with skill-weighted aggregation — each provider weighted by its per-cell historical accuracy. A single provider going down degrades confidence but does not block the request. See provider skill scoring for the per-provider weights.

The activity definitions, citations, calibration metadata, and review status — published as the @goable-io/profiles-catalog npm package under CC BY 4.0. Anyone can audit the curve scoring their spot, submit regional variants via PR, or fork the catalogue for research. The engine itself is proprietary; the activity definitions are open data.

Goable's L6 decision-agent surface uses pseudonymous identifiers only — no PII reaches our backend. The deletion cascade (GDPR Art. 17) is wired across every table that ever held the pseudonym; on an opt-out request we hard-delete behavioural data and anonymise audit-log rows (Recital 26). Booking platforms get a receipt hash without re-storing the pseudonym themselves. See security.

A versioned, multi-sub-index public measure published annually, covering carbon-neutral share, electrification, seasonal spread, protected-area pressure, and consent coverage. Free to cite; sold to operators as a compliance pack mapping to CSRD, GRI and GSTC frameworks. See the index.

Yes — there are five research streams open to academic collaborators: suitability calibration, sustainability tracking, forecast verification, equipment transition, and Inverse Suitability skill × difficulty (the newest). Anonymisation governance: k≥10 contributors per released cell, 1 km² grid, 90-day publication lag. See the research dataset or partner with us.

Goable s.r.l. is based in Málaga, Spain. EU-resident, CSRD-applicable from threshold, GDPR-native, DPO scheduled to appoint at the headcount threshold (currently <50). Contact: contact@goable.io.