CircKit is an AI-powered platform that enables apparel brands to design sustainable products and manage their product lifecycle through automated life cycle assessments and compliance reporting. By centralizing data and facilitating collaboration across teams, CircKit helps brands reduce environmental impact and enhance transparency in their sustainability efforts.
Funding
$1.8M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Apparel brands face challenges in designing sustainable products due to a lack of centralized data and difficulty in assessing environmental impacts across the product lifecycle. Manual life cycle assessments are time-consuming and costly, hindering efforts to reduce environmental impact and meet increasing compliance requirements.
Solution
CircKit is an AI-powered platform that enables apparel brands to design sustainable products and manage their product lifecycle through automated life cycle assessments (LCAs) and compliance reporting. The platform centralizes data, facilitates collaboration across teams, and provides insights into environmental and social impacts. By simulating circular design choices and automating compliance reporting, CircKit helps brands reduce costs, gain margin, meet compliance mandates, and unlock growth from circular initiatives.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes apparel and footwear brands seeking to design sustainable products, simplify compliance, and enhance transparency in their sustainability efforts.
Features
- AI-powered engine for automated and detailed Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Circular Economy Indicators (CEIs)
- Simulate™ Circular Design tool to compare the impacts of various design choices, including composition/fabric and durability
- Compliance reporting module with ready-made templates for CSR directives such as NFRD/CSRD, CSDDD, SFDR, TCFD, SECR, EPR, Green Claims Code, DPP, and ESPR
- Integration of data, including unstructured data like text and images, to provide immediate insights into a product's environmental and social impact
- B2B supplier directory, CircKit Source™, for sourcing sustainable materials, including non-virgin, upcycled, recycled, regenerated fabrics, and bio-materials
- Analysis of products through the lens of the 9 Planetary Boundaries, revealing an extensive picture of their social and environmental impact
- Streamlined sourcing through sales on a unified B2B and B2C solution