The EU border prices the carbon in industrial goods such as steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers and hydrogen; the UK introduces a separate regime from 01-01-2027. Without verified actuals, conservative Commission defaults apply. Cappi establishes whether your actual emissions outperform the default and evidences them at the installation and through the relevant precursor chain, beneath independent accredited verification: every figure reproducible, preparation and attestation in separate hands.
Without verified actuals, CBAM applies Commission default values, set conservatively and carrying a mark-up. Cappi calculates actual embedded emissions from installation and precursor evidence, establishes whether they outperform the default and, where they do, builds the evidence to rely on them ahead of competitors still declaring on defaults.
CBAM is settled by two parties who cannot move the figure alone. The producer holds the data that determines it; the importer carries the certificate bill that results from it, and the buyer, the customs authority and the verifier each test the same submission. Cappi reaches the installation and its precursor suppliers, resolves one figure, and delivers it to every party in the transaction. Where actuals outperform the default, the exporter's price position and the importer's certificate position improve from the same body of work.
Default values are set conservatively, so a better-performing exporter gains nothing by staying silent. Where an installation outperforms its default, paying on the default is not a cost of trading. It is a cost of not measuring, and it is recoverable. Where it does not, Cappi states so before anyone relies on the figure.
Illustrative case in which evidenced actual intensities, including precursors, sit below published default values. Actuals can sit above or below the default, and certificates due are embedded emissions less the free-allocation adjustment for the year; your own position depends on your sites, routes and CN codes.
The methodology is prescribed but not mechanical: production route, product composition, precursor origins, reporting periods and the free-allocation adjustment all move the result. What distinguishes providers is the ability to resolve method, evidence and precursor chain into one reproducible CBAM position.
Carbon accounting platforms are built to estimate at scale. That is the right design for a corporate inventory and the wrong one for a border, where a customs authority and an accredited verifier both have to arrive at your figure from your inputs. Cappi does not estimate where source data can establish the answer. It applies the prescribed CBAM methodology to installation, production and precursor evidence and preserves the derivation behind every figure, so each line of your declaration can be walked back to its source.
The work is identical. What differs is who it serves and where the value lands.
Carbon cost extends beyond CBAM. Carbon pricing is developing in several production markets, including the Middle East, India, Vietnam and Malaysia, so the same installation and precursor data increasingly serves a domestic obligation as well as a border one. Collected once, it delivers value twice.
Under current legislation, the share of embedded emissions charged at the border increases in defined annual steps. As free allocation is phased out, a larger share of embedded emissions becomes financially exposed under CBAM.
Evidence built for one declaration serves every declaration that follows. It remains your property, held securely and portable at any time.
EU data residency on AWS, tenant isolation, a full audit trail on every row, and an explicit clause on data rights in every engagement. Your data and your suppliers' data are never pooled without your agreement.
Every evidence pack exports in open formats at any time, with its derivation intact. Your evidence moves to any buyer, verifier or system without dependence on Cappi.
The Exposure Snapshot returns your own position: what your consignments cost on default values against actual embedded emissions, across your CN codes and routes, and whether evidenced actuals would improve it. It is free of charge, carries no obligation and remains yours whether or not anything follows.
Thirty minutes. Confidential from the outset.
