Economy3 · Sign Your Work
Integrity = Sales Lift
Economy3's Digital Product Passports move you from being a price taker to an integrity provider, unlocking agentic discovery and higher margins.
Bottom-up documentation is the only approach that wins agentic surfaces while accumulating non-captured business history and circularity.
Formula for Success:
- ·Non-Captured Sovereignty
- ·Deterministic Mapping
- ·Circular Integrity
Product tracing and structured data that help agents, buyers, retailers, journalists, and customers understand, trust, recommend, and buy your products.
Register and Manage →Your product story — structured for AI discovery, signed for trust.
Custody chain · 8 hops · all signed
UPSTREAM
RESOURCE3
Upstream natural resources. land, baseline, origin. This is the durable record of resource management.
MANAGE →
REGENERATE3
Unified compliance and sustainability ledger - for carbon and restoration data. sequestration, metrics, and impact.
RESTORE →
INFRASTRUCTURE3
Public works/construction tracing. materials, labor, milestones. Manage infrastructure projects like commons solar or Wifi builds.
BUILD →
MAKERS
TEXTILE3
Products: Small farmer and commercial seed to store tracing.
TRACE →
FOOD3
Products: Small farmer and commercial seed to store soil and nutrition tracing.
TRACE →
MINE3
Artisanal minerals and rare earths, pit to processor.
TRACE →
WATER3
Net-to-plate integrity for artisanal fishers.
TRACE →
FLOWS3
Liquids, energy, and continuous flow tracing.
TRACE →
COORDINATION
COMMONS3
Cooperative aggregation. Bundle producer QRs into community lots.
AGGREGATE →
HOW IT WORKS
The 7-layer chain from natural resource to circular economy.
EXPLORE →
MARKET
MARKET3
Backbone for dynamic marketing claims, advertising, & promotion.
SELL →
RESALE3
Post-sale record preservation. provenance, condition, authenticity.
PRESERVE →
SOURCING
Buyer discovery: search by values, location, and integrity.
SOURCE →
AI AGENTS
MCP tools for provenance, compliance, and agentic commerce.
CONNECT →
Economy3 for Shopify
Digital Product Passports for agentic discovery and compliance.
Connect your store →
Technology Demonstration
One QR. Four Views.
Scan to try all 4 views
Platform Capabilities
Create a public claim
Add a sustainability, material, ad, or quality claim. Pin this record as evidence.
Hand off to a commercial buyer
Record the heritage to commercial handoff as its own scoped event. Pin this record; the buyer signs.
Prepare a buyer record
Build a buyer-facing proof package: retailer onboarding, customs packet, distributor handoff.
Document home-country sourcing
Show domestic-sourcing, local-content, or origin-market requirements are met.
Prepare for export
Build the importer, customs, and destination-market document set for this product.
Record stewardship
For land, water, soil, ecosystems, or minerals. Capture what happened and add a public QR.
Continue this record
Add a hop to this record's history — resale, repair, transfer, reuse, or ownership change. The QR stays alive.
The thesis, rigorously
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
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
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.
Read the full thesis →- 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
- 2Catalini, C., Cremer, J., Tucker, C. (2025). "Some Simple Economics of AGI." SSRN. §4.2: The Verifiable Share.
- 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