About
Carbonfact is an environmental data platform tailored specifically to the apparel, textile, fashion, leather, footwear, and luxury industries. It enables brands and suppliers to measure, report, and reduce their environmental footprint with a suite of interconnected tools powered by automation and AI-assisted data management. At its core, Carbonfact offers fully automated GHG inventory (carbon accounting), granular product-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), and smart data gap-filling to handle the complexity of fashion supply chains — even for products with hundreds or thousands of components. The platform integrates with existing enterprise tools to eliminate manual data entry. Key capabilities include Digital Product Passport (DPP) creation for regulatory compliance, French Eco-Score calculation and benchmarking, Science-Based Targets (SBTi) support, CSRD disclosure automation, and eco-design simulation tools that let teams model how design changes reduce a product's footprint before production. Carbonfact is trusted by leading brands such as On, La Sportiva, A.P.C., The North Face, and Burton, and is recognized as one of TIME's Best Inventions. It is designed for sustainability teams, product developers, and supply chain managers who need scalable, audit-ready environmental data across entire product catalogs — not just spot checks.
Key Features
- Granular Product LCA: Delivers detailed Life Cycle Assessments for every SKU in a product catalog, handling complex multi-component products (e.g., footwear with 1,500+ components) using smart data gap-filling and automated assumptions.
- Automated Carbon Accounting: Fully automated and transparent GHG inventory that syncs with existing enterprise tools to eliminate manual data processes and provide year-to-date carbon insights.
- Multi-Framework Reporting: Generates audit-ready reports for 10+ regulatory and voluntary frameworks including CSRD, SBTi, French Eco-Score, and Digital Product Passports (DPP).
- Eco-Design & Decarbonization Tools: Simulation tools that allow product and sustainability teams to model how design changes impact environmental footprint before going into production, enabling data-driven decarbonization.
- Supplier Data Exchange: Enables brands and suppliers to securely share verified LCA data, supporting fair material sourcing comparisons and transparent supply chain sustainability decisions.
Use Cases
- A footwear brand with thousands of multi-component SKUs uses Carbonfact to automate product-level LCAs without requiring manual data collection for every component.
- A fashion brand's sustainability team uses Carbonfact to generate CSRD-compliant disclosures and SBTi progress reports from a single integrated platform.
- A product designer uses Carbonfact's eco-design simulation tools to compare the environmental impact of alternative materials before finalizing a new collection, reducing the product's footprint by design.
- A luxury brand uses Carbonfact to build Digital Product Passports for its entire catalog to comply with EU regulatory requirements and communicate sustainability credentials to consumers.
- A sporting goods supplier uses Carbonfact to share verified LCA data securely with brand partners, enabling transparent and fair material sourcing comparisons.
Pros
- Purpose-built for fashion & apparel: Unlike generic carbon tools, Carbonfact is designed specifically for the complexities of the fashion, footwear, and luxury industries, including multi-tier supply chains and high SKU volumes.
- Smart data gap-filling: Automatically derives accurate assumptions when supplier data is missing, making large-scale LCAs feasible without requiring exhaustive manual data collection.
- Comprehensive regulatory coverage: Supports CSRD, SBTi, French Eco-Score, DPP, and 10+ other frameworks in one platform, reducing the burden of multi-regulation compliance.
- Trusted by leading brands: Adopted by 200+ brands and suppliers including The North Face, On, Burton, and A.P.C., and recognized as a TIME Best Invention.
Cons
- Industry-specific scope: Carbonfact is exclusively designed for fashion, apparel, footwear, and luxury sectors, making it unsuitable for companies in other industries seeking sustainability software.
- Enterprise pricing: As a specialized enterprise SaaS platform requiring demos and custom onboarding, pricing is not publicly listed and likely represents a significant investment for smaller brands.
- Data-intensive onboarding: Achieving accurate LCAs requires substantial initial data input from product and supply chain teams, which can be time-consuming during implementation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Carbonfact and who is it for?
Carbonfact is an environmental data platform for apparel, textile, fashion, leather, footwear, and luxury brands. It is designed for sustainability managers, product teams, and supply chain professionals who need to measure, report, and reduce their environmental footprint at scale.
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and how does Carbonfact automate it?
A Life Cycle Assessment measures the total environmental impact of a product from raw material extraction through manufacturing, transport, use, and end-of-life. Carbonfact automates this process by ingesting data from existing systems, applying smart gap-filling for missing supplier data, and producing granular LCAs for every product in a brand's catalog.
Which reporting frameworks does Carbonfact support?
Carbonfact supports 10+ frameworks including CSRD (EU), Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), French Eco-Score, Digital Product Passports (DPP), and more — all from a single platform with audit-ready outputs.
What is a Digital Product Passport (DPP) and can Carbonfact generate one?
A Digital Product Passport is an EU regulatory requirement that records and shares a product's environmental and sustainability data throughout its lifecycle. Carbonfact enables brands to build a solid data foundation using LCA data and publish DPPs for all their products to meet upcoming regulatory mandates.
How does Carbonfact handle missing or incomplete supply chain data?
Carbonfact uses intelligent data gap-filling, which derives accurate assumptions and rules based on available data. This allows brands to produce reliable LCAs even when complete supplier-level data is unavailable, making large-scale footprint measurement practical.
