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Most of what we build starts as one partner's problem. We build it on OJAI, so it ships faster, shares the same maps and data, and keeps working after the project ends.

Custom build · TrashBlitz, digitized

From spreadsheet rows to a national picture.

Belize's national TrashBlitz tagged 18,735 pieces of debris at nine sites in 2024. We bring every past audit sheet into OJAI with the same categories, brands and sites, so new audits land straight in a live dashboard and the yearly report is a click.

TrashBlitz_2024.xlsx18,735 rows
9 sites · 5 districts
National TrashBlitz dashboard2024 · 18,735 items · 9 sites
Top items2024 · pieces
Materialshare of items
    Top brandsidentifiable items

      Crystal Water and Coca-Cola made up 36% of identifiable brands in 2024.

      Sources: Sea of Life, Belize TrashBlitz 2024 report (via Break Free From Plastic); 2025 national totals as reported by Greater Belize Media. 2025 breakdowns beyond the reported totals are illustrative.

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      Start with the place. Ship in weeks, not years.

      Weeks 1 to 2Start with the placeWe learn the coastline, the program and the people who will use it, and load what data exists.
      Weeks 3 to 6Prototype on OJAIA working version on real data, in your colors, tested with the people who will run it.
      ThenBuild it to lastTraining, handover and support, on a platform that keeps improving underneath.
      Have a problem we should build for?

      Tell us about the place.

      A coastline, a dataset, a program that lives in spreadsheets. We'll come back with a working prototype.

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