Impact and Assurnace 

Solution

Impact that is meaningful, measurable and equitable.

Grower Essentials (GE 1) Bluechip and Connect App ‘Places’ feature.

Using the Connect Platform, Grower, Manufacturer, Trade and Brand Partners can collect and verify primary data that is meaningful, measurable and equitable.

All commercial, social and environmental primary data captured can be third-party verified through Sourcery Assurace Partner network and converted into Bluechip digital assets (non-fungible tokens or NFTs) that can be made available for licensed purchase via the forthcoming Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.

Through the the sale of Bluechips, Partners are recongised and financially rewarded for their commitment to commercial, social and environmental excellence in trade.

Solutions

Modules

Regional-specific impact modules that include harmonised scope, data collection and verification methodology to capture reliable primary data across farms, facilities, fibre and products.

Services

Suite of third-party services to engage, train, collect and verify and report on the commercial, social and environmental primary data catured via the Connect Platform.

Impact

Once collected, primary verified data is converted into digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Bluechips that can be made available for licensed purchase via the Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.

Do you Know your

Grower

Early insights and learning from Sourcery’s Impact and Assurance Programme in India and Pakistan.

Through Sourcery’s Impact and Assurance Programme, Sourcery began to collect essential data that provides a clear picture of who exactly the growers are, where their farms are located, what their households look like, understand their agro-climatic conditions, their current farming practices and pre-existing economic circumstances & transactions.

What we learned is that robust and reliable data requires investment in people and places and must be meaningful, measureable and equitable to everyone.

Please read the “Insight Report: Grower Essentials - Know Your Grower” to learn more about who grows your cotton.

Verified Impact. Anytime and Anywhere.

The Connect App allows you to receive, download and complete all Impact and Assurance data module surveys anytime and anywhere, online or off-line.

Once completed and verified, Sourcery relies on a network of Impact Partners to analyze and report on the commercial, social and environmental performance of our Partners through their data.

Select Partners will receive impact service incentives and may receive future data royalties from the license sale of Bluechip digital assets that contain the data via the Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.

Impact and Assurance Modules

Meaningful, Measurable and Equitable Impact

The Impact and Assurance Protocol data criteria, collection and verification methodologies were developed with the aim to support Sourcery Partners need to inform and ‘presumptively’ meet the reporting requirements of shareholders, existing and emerging regulation, international frameworks, voluntary standards and certifications and their own strategic impact objectives.

This approach is grounded in our Partner Principals—ensuring that all data is captured and verified in an inclusive, empirical, scientific, practical and equitable manner where data harmonisation, sovereignty and interoperability is not viewed as a threat to progress, but an advantage that accelerates impact by ensuring those who make measurable progress can be truly recongised and rewarded for their efforts.

Sourcery support(s) the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Impact and Assurance Modules include scopes, data criteria and verification methodologies that were developed to meet and presumptively comply with international regulation and global impact frameworks and various certification schemes—bringing more confidence to buyers and sellers.

  • United States Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)

  • United Kingdom (UK) Modern Slavery Act 2015

  • European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

  • European Union (EU) European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRSs)

  • European Union (EU) Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)

  • European Union (EU) Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

  • Digital Product Passport (DPP)

  • Science-Based Target (SBTs) FLAG Standard

  • Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals & ISO 14064

  • United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • Voluntary private standards and certifications (BCI, etc.)

Disclosure: Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) wheel and goal icons are under copyright. There use here is for demonstration purposes only and is not intended to suggest or imply a partnership, endorsement between the United Nations (UN) and Sourcery Group, Inc.

Data Ownership, Sovereignty and Equity

Bluechip Exchange

Once capture and verified, select data (non-commercially sensitive) is converted into digital assets or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Bluechips that can then be made available for licensed purchase via the forthcoming Sourcery Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.

Everyone from growers to brands can now be recognised and rewarded for their commitment to commercial, social and environmental excellence—this is what it means to transform trade for good.

*Graphical representation ‘Bluechips’ that will be available for purchase in the Sourcery Bluechip Marketplace coming early 2026. Limited data is available today via Sourcery directly.

Transforming Trade for Good, Together

Impact Partners

The data contained in each Impact and Assurance Bluechip is unprocessed (e.g. raw) verified data.

As a commercially neutral sourcing and digital trade platform, Sourcery itself does not make value judgments, analysis, scoring or generate reports of the data contained in each Bluechip.

Instead, Sourcery welcomes qualified Impact Assessors. Impact Assessors are independent professional organisations approved by Sourcery to receive, perform analysis, score and generate reports on the data outcomes using proven scientific methods. Brand, Manufacturer, Grower Partners and third-parties can select any qualified Impact Partner to receive and process the data following the licensed purchase of the corresponding Bluechip.

Sourcery also welcomes Impact Collaborators. Impact Collaborators include mult-stakeholder initiatives, standard owners, certifications and trade associations and third-party service providers that can rely on Sourcery Partner data and Impact Assessor reports to support and inform their various measurement and evaluation frameworks for added transparency, integrity and trust.

  • Impact Assessors are pre-qualified by Sourcery to receive, perform analysis, scoring or generate reports or on the data contained in each Bluechip following a corresponding Bluechip license transaction via the Bluechip Exchange.

    Brands, Manufacturer, Trade and Grower Partners and third-parties can select one or more Impact Assessor organisations prior to a license purchase of the Bluechip who can access, process and store the raw data and interpret and perform a professional and scientific assessment and analysis of the data to generate reports, such as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), geopolitical or social risk registers and reports, greenhouse gas balance sheet, etc.

    To learn more, please visit Partners.

  • Impact Collaborators include various multi-stakeholder, standards and certification, agronomy orgnanisations such as Better Cotton, USDA, USCTP among others among others who have developed one (1) or more management and evaluation (M&E) frameworks that have BEEN adopted and by Sourcery Partners.

    Using the Connect Platform and gaining access to the Bluechip data, Impact Collaborators can more confidently rely on robust empirical and scientific data collected to inform the environmental and social outcomes in their frameworks.

    Impact Collaborators do not receive the raw data themselves, they too must rely on a qualified report from one (1) or more Impact Assessor organisations.

    To learn more, visit Partners.

*Prospective Impact Partner logos are protected under copyright. Used for demonstration purposes only and does not imply existing partnership with Sourcery.

Shifting the impact

paradigm

With Impact and Assurance, Sourcery Partners aim to shift the impact paradigm for good— transforming how we collect, verify and value commercial, social environmental impact and traceability.

Authenticity, sovereignty and data equity leads to more meaningful, measurable, and lasting impact that benefits everyone from growers to consumers.

Authenticity

By applying this Impact and Assurance Solution, it is possible to strengthen the authenticity of the fibre origin and materials used in products through verified primary farm-level and chain-of-custody data. The module data scope, criteria, collection methodology, and verification methods aim to increase confidence in chain-of-custody and impact reporting¹ while also helping to inform and elevate existing standards and ‘presumptively’ comply with both existing and emerging trade regulation and sustainability reporting legislation.¹

Sovereignty

Putting data sovereignty, rights and ownership into the hands of growers, grower organisations, traders and manufacturers is critical to transforming trade for good. The Sourcery Connect App uses the Bluenumber® system which offers all Sourcery Partners cutting edge digital identity that protects, stores and ensures proper usage and rights to data. All transactions, images and documents generated on the farm and in the value chain are stored securely on the blockchain on encrypted digital assets called Bluechips, which are non-fungible tokens (NFTs)² that safeguard access and usage and allow for data monetization that benefits our Partners.

Equity

The Impact and Assurance Solution aims to drive more investment in sustainable agriculture and transparent trade by giving Sourcery Partners the option to generate more commercial more value, revenue and profit for their business by licensing their data downstream to Brands and third-parties. This is critical to ensuring that the high costs of professional extension services, disclosure and trade risks of adopting true sustainable progress is shared equitably throughout the value chain which unlocks the resources necessary to scale impact and deliver meaningful, measurable commercial, social and environmental outcomes for all for everyone—grower to consumer.

Impact

Commercial, social, and environmental excellence is a byproduct of more transparent and efficient trade—this is what it means to shift the impact paradigm.

Partners who aim to report their commitments and progress to investors and shareholders (ESG), governments (regulation) and consumers or on their own can do so with more confidence and trust by having the power of empirical and scientific third-party verified data contained in the Bluechips— proving origin, authenticity and impact.

1. Sourcery does not make any value judgments or scoring of the data. Approved Impact Assessors can access the data (via license) to interpret, score and map data to various standards, certifications or legislation or assess any commercial, social and environmental outcomes. 2. An NFT or non-fungible token is a unique digital asset that represents ownership of digital content, such as art, music, images, documents, and data. NFTs cannot be duplicated as they have their own unique identity, and the content stored in them is securely managed on the blockchain, which proves ownership and authenticity and user managed access.

Ready to join us and shift the impact paradigm for good?

True collaboration, commitment and investment will lead to market transformation.

You are invited to join us in our mission to transform trade for good and help drive more meaningful and measurable commercial and environmental value that has a profound and positive impact from growers to consumers.

Note: The t-shirt pictured is one of a 250,000 piece order. This order required approx. 150 small holder growers and 93 metric tons of cotton fibre to produce.