The product footprint is not a separate exercise. It is the lowest level of resolution on the same governed record that answers your group disclosure, your entity filing and your border position. Cappi resolves that record at corporate, entity, site and product level, so margin can be traced to the site or the SKU that made it and chased where it is being lost. Buyers score it in tenders today; the ESPR Digital Product Passport reads it sector by sector after.
The product profile earns first where the data is already collected and the questions are already being asked. In the CBAM goods the hardest part of the collection has been done for the border, so the marginal step to a product answer is the smallest in the market you compete in. In batteries, electronics, machinery, textiles and consumer goods the pull is commercial before it is statutory, which means the record built for a buyer this year is the record the passport asks for later.
A product's carbon profile has moved from the annex into the price. Procurement teams score it in tenders, buyers carry it into their own Scope 3 and border positions, and lenders read it as a proxy for operational discipline, so two identical products no longer earn the same: the one with an evidenced footprint is scored, shortlisted and priced ahead of the one with an estimate, and the gap widens with every buying cycle. Cappi turns that scoring into your advantage by delivering an audit-ready footprint for every product from data you already hold, so the profile that wins the order costs you an answer, not a new data project.
The commercial clock is already running: tenders are being scored this quarter, buyer reviews land annually, and every cycle answered with an estimate is a cycle a competitor answers with evidence. The statutory clock follows as ESPR delegated acts land sector by sector, and a passport cannot be assembled retroactively from records that were never kept, so the data you keep this year decides what you can prove when your sector's act arrives. Acting today costs an answer from data you already hold; acting later costs the tenders in between and a rebuild under deadline.
Every benefit below is a number you can measure in your own operation, because a benefit you cannot count is marketing, and proof discipline applies to our own claims first.
The pull is strongest where the rules are, and the demand is wider than the rules: it travels with your buyers.
Every product claim is ultimately priced by whether it survives scrutiny, and scrutiny in this market means recalculation: the buyer's assurance team, the customs authority and the accredited verifier each take the figure back to its inputs and test whether they arrive at it again. Cappi is built for that test. Each footprint is reproducible on demand and holds one consistent position across the product answer, the border declaration and the corporate report, so reviews close instead of opening negotiations, and the commercial cost of scrutiny, delayed awards, qualified findings, renegotiated terms, stays off your deals. A figure produced in a disconnected tool fails the same test structurally: the moment production data moves, its filings diverge, and divergence between filings is the first exception any assessor raises. That is not a feature comparison. It is the difference between evidence that clears and evidence that costs.
Every product you prove becomes a permanent asset: the record holds when a buyer's auditor challenges it, it is ready when your sector's passport obligation arrives, and it strengthens the next tender rather than expiring with the last one.
EU data residency on AWS, tenant isolation and a full audit trail on every row, with an explicit clause on data rights in every engagement. Your product data and your suppliers' data are never pooled into anything you have not agreed to.
Every evidence pack exports in open formats at any moment with its derivation intact, so your footprints travel to any buyer, verifier or system you choose. Nothing about your position depends on you remaining a customer.
The same information you collect for the border and the annual report already carries most of a product footprint. An intro conversation maps which buyer questions your current data can already answer, where the gaps are, and what closing them is worth in the tenders you are scoring in now.
Thirty minutes. Confidential from the first conversation.
