Three data tools for sustainability work

Auditable evidence for the sustainability work regulators, funders, and communities actually trust.

We provide accurate, transparent, and actionable data solutions for organizations engaged in sustainable development, agroforestry, carbon-project evidence, and social impact projects — built primarily for the agricultural sector.

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Verdicts, kept apart — supported, insufficient evidence, contradicted
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Supplier, one claim set, one reporting period per review
30 Dec 2026
EUDR applies to large and medium operators
2nd-party
Commissioned and paid by the buyer carrying the risk — never the supplier
The offer

Supplier Claims Verification Review.

One service, one report, one method. It answers a single question for the buyer who has to accept a supplier's or partner's report: does what they reported meet our agreed requirements, and is it adequately supported by evidence?

A / EUDR SUPPLIER DATA

Plot polygons and traceability claims.

Geometry integrity, duplicates across farmer records, overlapping boundaries, implausible areas, drawn-not-walked boundaries, deforestation screening — and whether the volume claimed is supported by the mapped area.

B / ACTIVITIES & RESULTS

Training delivered, inputs distributed, beneficiaries counted.

Eligibility, completion calculated from approved module rules, approvals before reporting, records inside the period — tested against the contract, not against assumptions.

THE REPORT

Three verdicts, kept apart.

Supported, insufficient evidence, or contradicted — with a discrepancy register, explicit testing limitations, and a prioritised corrective action plan.

What powers it

One method. A set of custom-built tools to run it.

The review is the offer. These are the tools we built ourselves to deliver it — one public showcase you can try, the rest doing their jobs inside every engagement. Their output reaches you in the report; you never need a login. Each has one job.

Commodities Public showcase

Commodity

Global cocoa data, in one searchable view.

Consolidates global cocoa production, prices, and value-chain distribution from ICCO, FAO, COCOBOD, and the World Bank into one searchable view — with a public read-only API.

CocoaPricesValue chainAPI
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Privacy & Compliance Custom-built tool

MyDataCompliance

A 15-minute data-protection scorecard.

Our own compliance instrument — maps the obligations we carry as we move farmer personal data between jurisdictions, and evidences lawful handling to clients.

GDPRCCPAGhana DPAKenya DPANigeria NDPA
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Sustainability Data Custom-built tool

AgriTrace

Complete sustainability data collection, management and tracking for agricultural supply chains.

Sustainability data engine — collection, management and tracking of the field, programme and supply-chain records a review runs on, with provenance intact.

Sustainability dataField dataFarmer registrySurveysCLMRSEUDRTraceabilityCustom-built
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Trade & Compliance Custom-built tool

Verdex

EUDR pre-screening for agricultural exporters.

Geospatial testing module — deforestation screening plus polygon integrity: duplicates across farmer records, overlapping boundaries, implausible areas, drawn-not-walked geometry.

EUDRSatelliteCocoaCoffeePalmSoy
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MRV / Carbon Deferred

Carbon

MRV evidence for agricultural and agroforestry carbon projects.

Now in beta. Carbon is a digital MRV platform for smallholder agroforestry carbon projects: offline field capture of parcels and trees, a reproducible carbon engine that deducts for uncertainty, Plan Vivo and Verra VM0047 baselines, and a hash-chained audit trail behind every credit. Built and deployed; we are selecting the first pilot project — register interest to be one.

MRVdMRVCarbonAgroforestryPlan VivoVM0047Beta
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What we actually do

We turn messy field and supply-chain data into evidence that holds up.

Sustainability data today is fragmented, hard to verify, and often disconnected from the people in the field. Reports get written, but the underlying measurements are weak. We close that gap.

01 / SOURCE

Capture data once, at the source.

Field teams, plot polygons, supply-chain records — collected with the right provenance metadata from the start, not reverse-engineered from a PDF later.

02 / VERIFY

Keep the chain of evidence intact.

Per-record hashes, satellite snapshots dated to the day of capture, source citations on every number. When an auditor asks "how do you know?", there is an answer.

03 / USE

One record. Many outputs.

The same dataset feeds compliance filings, funder reports, and internal decisions — without re-keying, reformatting, or quietly rounding to make a chart work.

Who commissions a review

Whoever carries the consequence of accepting the report.

Assurance is bought at trigger moments — a payment milestone, a report that will have to be defended, a regulatory date, a held shipment. It is almost never the organisation whose data is bad that pays to have it checked.

Traders, LBCs and exporters facing EUDR

A hard deadline, real commercial exposure, budget already allocated to compliance, and able to direct-award without a tender.

EU operators and importers

They now carry first-placer liability and cannot verify supplier data from Europe. Highest value per engagement; expect a longer cycle and heavier vendor onboarding.

Certification and programme bodies

They need local testing capacity and already understand what verification is and what it costs. A credible route to referrals.

Donors, DFIs and INGOs — through their prime contractor

Reached as a subcontractor to an incumbent prime, not as a bidder: steady volume, no prequalification barrier, and partners they cannot each visit.

“Sustainability data should be auditable to the row — not aggregated into a number nobody can defend.”
Our position · Spatial Sustainability Hub team
FAQ

Questions we get often.

Short answers. If something is missing, the contact form gets a response within two business days.

What does Spatial Sustainability Hub build?
We provide digital services with a focus on data credibility and compliance — for sustainable development, agroforestry, carbon-project evidence, and social impact, primarily in the agricultural sector. Our lead offer is the Supplier Claims Verification Review: we test whether what a supplier or implementation partner reported is supported by evidence, on behalf of the buyer carrying the risk. The tools we built — Commodity (public cocoa data showcase), Verdex (geospatial testing), MyDataCompliance (our own compliance instrument) and AgriTrace (sustainability data collection, management and tracking) — are custom-built and used inside those engagements. Carbon, a digital MRV platform for agroforestry carbon credits, is now in beta.
Where can I access the products?
Commodity is public at commodity.spatialsusty.com. Verdex, MyDataCompliance and AgriTrace are custom-built tools we use to deliver our verification services — you get their output as part of a review; they aren't sold or accessed separately. Use the contact form to scope a review.
Is a verification review the same as an audit or certification?
No. We carry out second-party verification: a buyer commissions us to test its supplier's or partner's report against agreed requirements and evidence. We do not issue certification or an independent audit opinion, and we do not imply recognition under any scheme. Our method draws on the principles in ISO/IEC 17029 — competence, consistency, impartiality — but we are not accredited against it and never suggest otherwise. Scope limitations appear on page one of every report.
Who commissions a review, and who pays?
The party carrying the risk — an EU operator, a trader or exporter, a certification or programme body, or a donor through its prime contractor. We contract with, and take money only from, that buyer. We never price by the number of findings, and confirming that a good supplier's claims hold up is worth the fee.
Which countries and regions do you serve?
We work globally, starting from Africa — the tools run wherever the data comes from. MyDataCompliance covers GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Ghana DPA 2012, Kenya DPA 2019, and Nigeria NDPA 2023.
How are you different from generic ESG dashboards?
Generic ESG dashboards aggregate numbers and present them. We design every product around keeping per-record provenance intact — so when an auditor asks where a number came from, there is an answer at the plot, the transaction, or the questionnaire response. We don't sell averages.
What is EUDR pre-screening?
The EU Deforestation Regulation requires per-plot due diligence on cocoa, coffee, palm, rubber, soy, cattle, and timber going into the EU. Verdex runs plot polygons against Hansen forest loss, JRC degradation, and WDPA protected-area layers — surfacing risky plots before they reach legal review or TRACES submission.
Is MyDataCompliance really free?
Yes. The assessment is free to use, open source (AGPL-3.0), and self-hostable via Docker in about 15 minutes. We collect only a company name and email, and we auto-delete assessment data after 90 days.
Do you offer pilots or partnerships?
Yes — selectively. We'd rather start with your actual problem than show a generic demo. Drop us a note about the workflow you're trying to fix; we usually reply within two business days.
Our mission

To provide accurate, transparent, and actionable data solutions for organizations engaged in sustainable development, agroforestry, carbon-project evidence, and social impact projects.

We're a small team. Everything we ship is grounded in real fieldwork, not glossy dashboards. We're honest about tradeoffs and what each tool can and cannot do today.