Waste In. Compliance Out.
Data4Compliance, IHT's Compliance-as-a-Service offering, turns organic waste processed in a Bugs4Rent™ Insect Biodigester into signed, buyer-ready evidence.
28+ countries now require companies to report climate and waste impact. CPGs must prove Scope 3. Most suppliers have neither the sensors nor the systems to produce auditable data. That gap is what this platform closes.
The problem
The gap between what buyers require and what suppliers can produce.
Waste costs keep climbing
For processors, greenhouses, breweries and farms.
Compliance data is now mandatory
CPGs must prove Scope 3 emissions and auditable supply-chain sustainability.
Suppliers cannot produce it
No sensors, no systems, no expertise. CPGs are exposed; suppliers risk losing market access.
$1 trillion is lost to food waste every year. The reporting obligation has arrived faster than the measurement capacity.
Phase 1 — no hardware required
Findings in your first quarter, not your fifth.
Supply-chain assurance runs on software IHT already operates. No unit on site, no processing cycles, no waiting for a dataset to mature. The diagnostic starts on signature and delivers in six to eight weeks.
Liability exposure
Regulatory classification of every supplier in the extended chain by country, sector, commodity, headcount and export exposure, with risk tiering, plus a dated record that due diligence was performed.
Why this gets signed. Liability in supply chains increasingly turns on what the buyer knew and when. A timestamped record of assessment is worth more than a favourable finding — and this is a General Counsel's argument, not a sustainability one.
Market access
An auditable readiness position established before a customer, retailer or regulator asks for it.
Why this gets signed. The asymmetry. The programme's cost is small and known; the cost of being asked and having nothing is a delisting conversation with a major account.
Hidden cost below Tier 1
Spend categorisation, total-cost-of-ownership analysis, supplier qualification scoring and gap identification across six weighted dimensions and 136 assessment items.
Why this gets signed. This is the CFO's item. It is a margin finding, not a sustainability finding — cost the buyer is already paying and cannot currently see.
Continuity risk
Maturity scoring across five levels, single-source and concentration exposure, supplier capability gaps.
Why this gets signed. Continuity is a board topic in every food business post-2020, and this makes it measurable below the first tier, which is where it actually lives.
The programme
Assurance first. Verified climate intelligence when the unit lands.
Phase 1 — Supply Chain Assurance
- Starts
- On signature
- First value
- 6–8 weeks: delivered diagnostic and priority gap register
- Deliverables
- Extended-chain supplier map with regulatory classification and risk tiering; maturity baseline; priority gap register with owners and dates; cost and continuity findings; evidence package with explicit per-field data-quality marks; auditor portal access
- Form
- Paid engagement — anchor subscription, per-supplier seats, per-package fees
Phase 2 — Verified Climate Intelligence
- Starts
- On deployment of the first unit at a nominated site
- First value
- From the first completed processing cycles
- Deliverables
- Measured mass balance and avoided emissions per cycle; Scope 1 and 2 populated from measurement rather than self-report; regulatory exports upgraded from declared to measured
- Form
- Contracted at a defined rate, activating on the trigger
Per-field data-quality marks are the point. Every figure we deliver states whether it was measured, calculated, declared or unavailable. An incomplete package that says so is usable in an audit. One that hides the gaps is not.
Two customers, one deployment
Two customers, one deployment
Compliance-as-a-service, in a box. We measure it, package it and deliver it — the supplier does nothing new.
- 1
CPG identifies priority suppliers
- 2
IHT deploys the unit on-site — zero CAPEX to the client
- 3
Supplier's waste disposal costs fall
- 4
CPG receives standardised, auditable data
- 5
IHT earns service, product and data revenue
Operational waste customers (push)
The growers and processors that host a biodigester. They use the data to answer buyer questionnaires and support their position with buyers.
Strategic data buyers (pull)
Retailers, CPGs, food manufacturers, distributors, feed companies, lenders and insurers that need primary data from their suppliers. A buyer can sponsor an Anchor program that covers its Tier 1-3 Suppliers.
How Data4Compliance Works
Capture, Qualify, Assure
Three steps turn what happens inside the biodigester into evidence a buyer or auditor can use.
01
Capture
Field capture at the biodigester records each cycle: organic waste in, outputs out.
02
Qualify
Organic waste is mapped and baselined. Each field carries a data-quality mark: measured, calculated, declared or unavailable.
03
Assure
The result is a signed evidence package, ready for buyers and auditors.
Sensor telemetry from the new biodigester is In progress.
Who Uses It
Four Roles
Organization type decides the role. Active modules decide the features. Each role sees only what it needs.
Anchor
The buying company at the top of the supply chain
A full command view of its supplier network: supply chain map, regulatory workflow and the Data4Compliance frameworks.
Supplier
Tier 1-2. Organic waste arises after harvest: packing, storage and distribution.
Self-serve compliance: answer buyer requests, share data, issue evidence packages. Unit fleet for Suppliers: Pending production release.
Grower
Tier 2-3. Organic waste arises at harvest and in warehousing before distribution.
A short, focused menu built around running a biodigester on-site: organic waste and loss map, buyer requests, evidence. Pending production release.
Buyer
A data buyer, such as a CPG compliance team or a retailer
Scope 3 supplier data through Extended Chain, without the operational stack.
What You Can Subscribe To
Four Modules, Built on Core Operation
01 Core Operation
Operation, organic waste and loss analysis, strategy, reporting and evidence packages, settings.
02 Extended Chain
Supplier Hub, Supplier Dashboard, Suppliers Bootcamp, and Scope 3 supplier data for buyers. Requires Core Operation.
03 Emissions & Regulatory
Residue claims, regulatory workflow, Jurisdiction RAG (Beta) and the Data4Compliance frameworks. Requires Core Operation.
04 Labour HRDD
Origin Labour due diligence. Requires Core Operation.
A data buyer can subscribe to Extended Chain without Core Operation.
Regulatory map
One evidence record. Two regulatory blocs.
FSMA 204 (Next) in the United States, CSRD (Next) and ESRS E5 (Next) in the European Union, EUDR (In operation) geolocation, and state-level organic waste diversion mandates. Different documents, built from the same record of what physically happened, attributable to a lot, a site and a period. Next is planned coverage, not a current capability.
United States
FSMA 204
NextA preparation window, not a countdown. Large retail and foodservice buyers impose their own traceability requirements on suppliers today, contractually and independently of federal enforcement timing.
State organic-waste diversion
State-level organic waste diversion mandates require a lineage-bearing record of what was diverted, from which site, and in which period.
European Union
CSRD
NextCorporate sustainability reporting that pulls climate and waste evidence from the extended chain, not only the reporting entity.
ESRS E5
NextResource use and circular-economy disclosures built from measured material flows rather than estimated ones.
VSME
In operationThe voluntary standard for smaller undertakings that still sit inside a larger buyer's evidence request.
EUDR
In operationGeolocation and lot-level origin evidence for in-scope commodities moving into the Union market.
Canada → US
Canadian hosts supplying US buyers need the same contractual traceability record those buyers already demand of domestic suppliers.
Mexico → US
Mexican agri-food exporters face the same US buyer-imposed traceability requirements at the border of the commercial relationship, not only at the border of the country.
LatAm → EU
Latin American exporters into the Union are asked for climate, waste and geolocation evidence by European buyers assembling CSRD (Next), ESRS E5 (Next) and EUDR (In operation) files.
Brazil (dual node)
Brazilian producers sit on both US and EU trade routes, so one evidence record has to serve both blocs.
For grant & funding partners
A funding track record a reviewer can verify.
Non-dilutive track record
$0K
in non-dilutive grant funding secured — SR&ED, IRAP, SONAMI.
Built with blended capital, not equity alone — $550K in private pre-seed sits alongside it.
Measured impact
CO₂e avoidance
95 % CO₂e avoidance in an independent 2025 life-cycle assessment by Mohawk College's Centre for Climate Change Management — a laboratory study.
Waste-management cost reduction
Typical for the host site
TRL — field-validated
50+ production cycles run
Production cycles run
Field-validated, not lab-stage
Field validation with named partners
Completed waste pilots with Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) and Bench Brewing (B-Corp). This is the evidence a site visit or reference check confirms.
LOI in progress — Bench Brewing, data productA financing pathway for producers
A blended-capital structure with Farm Credit Canada and Fair Finance Fund as targeted lenders, meaning a producer's grant dollars can combine with debt financing and IHT's zero-CAPEX deployment model rather than funding hardware alone.
Why this is infrastructure, not a pilot
$1 trillion is lost annually to food loss and waste. 28+ countries now require climate and waste reporting, a dozen more underway. IHT's data layer is capacity for an agenda funders are already committed to, not a one-off intervention.
Discuss grant, program or co-funding alignmentProof & ecosystem
Proof & ecosystem
- Field-validated
TRL 8, field-validated · 50+ production cycles · Patent US 63/773,694
- Laboratory study
Independent 2025 LCA — Mohawk College CCCM
- Signed
ChangeAg: signed distribution, product on shelves
- Secured
Manufacturing partner secured · 3 supplier LOIs · 3 offtake agreements
- Completed pilot
Completed waste pilots: OGVG and Bench Brewing (B-Corp)
- LOI in progress
Bench Brewing, data product
- Targeted
Targeted lenders: Farm Credit Canada, Fair Finance Fund
Start with the diagnostic.
A paid Phase 1 engagement, six to eight weeks to a delivered gap register. Tell us your chain and we will scope it.
Prefer to write directly?
Luis Ortiz, CEO — Data4Compliance. A Phase 1 diagnostic is a paid engagement.
Email Luis Ortiz