Software / PCF Lite
Product carbon footprints, and what to actually do about them.
A footprint that arrives as a single number is a compliance artefact. PCF Lite is built to produce the other thing — a view across your range that tells you which products to change, and what to change about them.
What it does
Cradle-to-gate product footprints
Build a footprint from recipe and sourcing data, stage by stage, with the assumptions visible at every step rather than buried in a cell formula.
Portfolio, not just products
One footprint tells you a number. A range tells you where to act. Compare across your whole portfolio to find the products carrying disproportionate impact.
Research benchmarking
Compare against the Poore & Nemecek dataset to see whether a result is genuinely high for its category or simply typical of it. Context turns a number into a decision.
Bespoke emission factor library
Keep your own verified factors alongside published ones, reusable across every footprint you build, so the same ingredient is never calculated two different ways.
Review before it goes out
Footprints move through draft and review before they are final, so nothing reaches a customer or a report without someone signing it off.
Built for how food works
Recipes, ingredients, yields and processing stages are first-class concepts, not fields bolted onto a generic carbon tool.
How it is delivered
We build the footprints. You review and use them.
Most clients do not want to become carbon accountants, and they should not have to. The usual arrangement is that we build the footprints from your data and you review them in the platform — so the expertise is ours, the numbers are yours, and nobody on your team has to learn a methodology to get a defensible answer. Licensed annually, with an allowance of footprints included and more available as you need them.