Pillar Three
Digitisation & collaborative ecosystems
Making the chain visible and enabling convergence, innovation and the creation of collaborative ecosystems — value drawn from data that is shared, not siloed.
What this pillar covers
Focus areas
- A data spine: provenance, carbon, engagement
- Digital product passports & traceability
- Convergence across standards & frameworks
- Ecosystems that create shared value
What we believe
Data architecture is destiny. Digital product passports, EUDR geolocation, CBAM emissions, ESRS datapoints and due-diligence records are converging on one underlying capability: knowing your chain and being able to show it. Products will carry their own evidence. The winners will treat that evidence as an asset — transparent and stakeholder-inclusive, in line with emerging global expectations, not the continued privatisation of secretive due diligence.
What we do
We help companies and coalitions design the data spine of the transparent chain — what to trace, what to verify, what to share and with whom — and build the collaborative ecosystems that turn shared visibility into shared value.
How we engage
Where we can help
01
Traceability & the data spine
- Define and build the supply chain mapping and sub-tier visibility strategies matched to regulatory scope (DPP, EUDR, CBAM, forced-labour evidence)
- Data architecture design: identifiers, carriers and interoperability decisions that determine whether compliance is a bolt-on or a rebuild
- Work towards provenance, carbon and engagement signal in one spine — carbon carried as product-level primary data, so it can trigger a sourcing decision or an investment case, not just populate a disclosure
02
Continuous signal
- From audit day to living system: continuous monitoring design, early-warning indicators and effectiveness measurement
- Worker and community voice as evidentiary infrastructure — grievances, surveys and early warning living beside provenance and carbon, with our partner &Wider
- Claims substantiation: verified data behind every on-pack and public claim
- CBAM and product passports are making primary supplier data commercially consequential — the point at which reducing emissions, rather than estimating them, becomes worth paying for
03
Collaborative ecosystems
- Sector collaborations and shared-assessment models: one robust assessment, governed collectively, used by many
- Data-sharing governance: who sees what, consent, competition and confidentiality by design
- Convergence work across standards and frameworks — interoperability instead of questionnaire proliferation
- Find efficiency in the ecosystem: from circularity to power generation, from resilience needs to disaster risk reduction, from innovation to collaboration — visibility, controls, engagement and verified data are the capabilities that create efficiency, resilience and growth
Companies building traceability and evidence systems; platforms, standards bodies and coalitions designing shared infrastructure.
Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas
Use what is yours so as to harm no other.
Talk to us about making your chain visible