CarbonChain GTM brain

CarbonChain provides supply chain carbon accounting and CBAM software to manufacturers, commodity traders and banks.

category

Commodity supply chain carbon accounting

market profile

  • text: Carbon-intensive commodity supply chains need facility-level data for product footprints, supplier comparisons and carbon border reporting.
  • text: EU importers evaluating CBAM tools must compare supplier data collection and filing capabilities alongside broader emissions accounting.

personas

  • title: Head of sustainability or carbon accounting
    pains:
    • Supplier data is incomplete across complex metals and commodity supply chains
    • Must produce defensible product footprints and CBAM declarations
  • title: Procurement director
    pains:
    • Low purchase prices can hide carbon border costs
    • Cannot compare suppliers without consistent facility-level carbon data
  • title: Commodity trader CFO or trade finance lead
    pains:
    • Customers and financiers request emissions transparency for physical trades
    • Carbon cost can change the economics of sourcing and financing

icp

  • text: Manufacturers and commodity traders with carbon-intensive, international materials flows, especially metals importers exposed to CBAM; no minimum size is published.
  • text: Banks and trade finance teams needing emissions data for commodity customers and financing decisions.

message pillars

  • text: Bring different carbon requirements into one workflow.
  • text: Help buyers see carbon-related supplier costs.
  • text: Use commodity supplier asset data to improve specificity.
  • text: Turn product footprints into commercial differentiation.

objections

  • objection: Do we need a lengthy data migration before getting insight?
    response: The company says supplier benchmarking can begin without imported data, with ERP, CTRM, Excel and API data for deeper analysis.
  • objection: Can we trust the calculations and safeguard commercially sensitive data?
    response: Review the stated SGS methodology validation, ISO 27001 certification and data controls against your own audit requirements.

competitors

  • name: Persefoni
    why: Enterprise and financial institution carbon accounting platform.
  • name: Normative
    why: Carbon accounting platform with scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting.
  • name: Climatiq
    why: Emissions data and calculation tools including CBAM use cases.
  • name: Greenly
    why: Corporate carbon accounting with a CBAM module.

influencers

  • name: Adam Hearne
    url: https://www.carbonchain.com/blog/a-letter-from-our-ceo-carbonchains-10m-series-a-funding
    why: CEO and cofounder writes about the company's funding and climate accounting mission.

keywords

  • CBAM reporting software
  • commodity supply chain emissions
  • steel product carbon footprint
  • supplier carbon cost analysis
  • scope 3 emissions metals
  • trade finance carbon accounting

voice

  • evidence led
  • commercially pragmatic
  • technical

signals

  • text: An importer of covered materials is preparing CBAM reporting and needs supplier installation data.
  • text: A metal supplier receives customer product-footprint requests or needs to model low-carbon sourcing.
  • text: A commodity bank is requesting emissions information as part of financing assessment.

stack

  • ERP integrations
  • CTRM integrations
  • Excel
  • API

hiring

  • Product Manager, London
  • Data Engineer, New York or London

pricing

model: unknown

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • webinars
  • newsletter
  • partners

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Adam Hearne
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Adam worked in mining for 12 years, and saw first hand how the world's resources are extracted from the earth to go into products that make daily life possible. He then worked at Amazon for 3 years managing the world's most complex supply chains. It wasn't until the Australian bushfire crisis in October 2019 threatened his childhood home that Adam realized that he could use his experience to help tackle the climate crisis and bring transparency to carbon reporting of the world’s supply chains
  • name: ROHEET SHAH
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Roheet began his career launching a housing fund in Damascus, Syria until the civil war forced his evacuation. Later, after years working on oil & gas projects as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group and managing Amazon UK's smart home business, Roheet realized that he wanted to return to a career with impact at its focus, and thought that there was no better challenge than to tackle the climate crisis.

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