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Climate Tracing on
Digital Product Passports

Builds:

  • ·Higher sales and lower costs
  • ·Regulatory alignment
  • ·Cultural-driven provenance

We make it simple to build privacy-first Digital Product Passport QR tracing from any mobile phone. Economy3 works in low-resource environments, stays free for raw material and craft makers, is Global South-friendly, and exceeds the toughest global standards.

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Apps

Textile

Sign work at the moment of making. QR tracing for artisans, mills, and brands.

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Food3

Trace soil, harvest, and provenance from farm to table.

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Infrastructure3

Accountable public works. Mobile QR for conflict and low-resource environments.

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Resale3

The story travels with the object. Durable histories for second-hand and repair.

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Shopify

Add provenance to your store. One-click DPP for products you already sell.

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The thesis, rigorously

1.

Most platforms use the wrong code

EU businesses misallocate Green Deal spending on DPPs, climate audits, and reporting because they treat compliance as tasks. Most current solutions rely on JSON and JSON-RPC, even though ESPR specifies JSON-LD, the W3C standard.¹ AI purchasing agents read the same format. These choices turn the work into sunk costs. One record in the right format satisfies regulators in every jurisdiction and gets found by every AI agent.

¹ EU ESPR 2024/1781 Art. 9 · JRC doi:10.2760/4511279 · CA SB-253 · Berry Amendment 10 U.S.C. § 4862

2.

AI commerce rewards the signed record

Agentic purchasing agents verify structured product data without exposing the buyer's context window.² sv — the verifiable share of agentic output — expands with cryptographic provenance.

² Catalini, Cremer, Tucker (2025) §4.2 · sv defined at §2.1

3.

Provenance becomes scarcity

In infinite synthetic production, the provenance-verified product is the scarce one.³ The maker who signs their work gains a durable advantage that no synthetic can replicate.

³ Catalini, Cremer, Tucker (2025) §6.1.2 — The Provenance Premium

One format.
Two problems solved.

The strategic path uses climate compliance as sustainable competitive advantage. It starts with signing your work. Verified products capture buyer intent, discovery, and conversion in regular and agentic search² — a pre-condition for the $3–5T agentic economy.

In agentics, using new technology to speed up old systems, you fall further behind. Verified products capture buyer intent, discovery, and conversion in agentic search. The $3–5T opportunity goes to signed records.²

The choice: strategic flexibility, robust permissioned data, and agentic prosperity. Or structural blindness, sunk costs, and the continued funding of negative externalities in informal value chains. Economy3 is built on the right standard — open source, no lock-in, works from a phone in Bikaner to a customs registry in Brussels.

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  1. 1EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation 2024/1781; California SB-253 Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act; Australia ASRS AASB S1/S2; Berry Amendment 10 U.S.C. § 4862
  2. 2Catalini, C., Cremer, J., Tucker, C. (2025). "Some Simple Economics of AGI." SSRN. §4.2: The Verifiable Share.
  3. 3Ibid. §6.1.2: "When synthetic production is infinitely scalable, provenance becomes the scarcity anchor."
Permissioned integrity moves competitive advantage closer to the people who create the world's most beautiful and delicious things, unlocks the $3–5 trillion agentic economy, and stops AI from shoplifting the future.

Economy3 · Sign Your Work · 2026