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For coffee exporters, importers and roasters

Add a regulation. Ethica does the rest.

Pick a law, a label or a buyer’s standard. Ethica’s AI works out what it needs, adds the data collection where that data lives in your supply chain, and builds the report. Two agents then watch the rules and every lot, 24/7. Try it here on two demo coffee corridors.

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284 → 68
questions → data points
65–70 %
less time collecting data
24/7
agents on rules and lots
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grading at origin in the Origin app

Demo data · snapshot 22 Oct 2026 · Ethica dictionary v2.5.0 · rules researched 21 Oct 2026

Ethica · add a rule DEMO DATA

1 Pick a corridor

2 Add a rule (click one)

3 See what you already hold

82%

must lane · 11 data points

Norway Transparency Act: 82 % already collected. New: annual public due-diligence report and information-request log.

  • Annual public due-diligence report
  • Information-request log

Share of the added rule's data points the corridor's current rules already collect. Data points, not audit results: the scheme still runs its own audit.

Why now

The question stayed the same. The penalties did not.

What consumers want

“Where did it come from, and was the farmer paid fairly?”Asked in 2017. Still asked in 2026.

44 %
of US consumer-goods growth came from sustainability-marketed products
9.7 %
more that consumers say they would pay for sustainable goods
~60 %
of business buyers expect to drop suppliers who miss their criteria

NYU Stern CSB and Circana 2025 (sales 2013–2025); PwC Voice of the Consumer 2024; Bain 2024 (within 3 years).

Regulations got serious

2015 · Disclose 2022 · Check suppliers 2026 · Prove every lot
4 % of turnover
EU deforestation rule: maximum fine, plus seized goods and revenue
USD 3.81 billion
of goods reviewed under the US forced-labour law, over 18,000 shipments
USD 13.15 million
paid by Lumber Liquidators under the US Lacey Act for illegal timber

Not knowing is no longer a defence.

EUDR Art. 25 (applies 30 Dec 2026); US CBP UFLPA data, Jan 2026; Lumber Liquidators, 2015.

The problem

Too many rules, asking the same things

23

rules for coffee: laws, labels, reports and product claims

284

questions, many of them the same thing in different words

7

groups asking: regulators, certifiers, buyers, investors and more

Without one shared system, every company in the chain answers them by hand, again and again.

The solution · Ethica, since 2025

Add a regulation. Ethica does the rest.

Try it in the tray above

  1. 1

    You add it

    Pick a law, a label or a buyer standard, or upload your own.

  2. 2

    AI works it out

    Ethica reads every requirement, quotes its clause and finds the data you already hold.

  3. 3

    Adds collection

    A simple step where the data lives: at the farm, the mill or the exporter, collected once.

  4. 4

    Reports

    Builds the report and the evidence for every buyer and regulator downstream.

284 questions become 68 data points, each collected once, where it happens.

Ethica data dictionary v2.5.0. An analyst approves every requirement the AI extracts.

Always on

Two agents protect every customer, 24/7

One watches the rules. One watches the coffee. They collect only what is needed, and make sure it all gets done.

1Watch each loop run 2Click a step to stop on it (click again to resume)

Regulation agent

Keeps every customer ready, 24/7

1 2 3 4 Regulation agent ALWAYS ON

Proof agent

Checks every lot, every step

1 2 3 4 Proof agent ALWAYS ON
See the regulation agent at work
See it on demo data · two corridors

Plot to roast, every hand-off sealed

Six demo companies, built with Bext360's Org Manager, trade two lots of green coffee into Europe. Each step is a lot with its kilos, date and documents, sealed on a public ledger before the next one starts. Four contrast lots show what happens when the evidence is not there.

Sidama → HamburgMarcala → Oslo DEMO DATA

Smallholder cherry from Sidama, washed and dry-milled in Ethiopia, shipped via Djibouti to an importer-roaster in Hamburg.

  1. 1

    HarvestCooperative · Bensa washing station10 Nov 2025

    6 harvests from mapped plots, each lot tied to its plot polygon and farmer.

    sealed

  2. 2

    WashingCooperative · Bensa washing station25 Nov 2025

    Two washing stations merge cherry into parchment; yield recorded.

    in 6,450 kg out 1,303 kg sealed

  3. 3

    Dry millCooperative · Hawassa dry mill10 Jan 2026

    Parchment merged into one green export lot; lab results attached.

    in 2,407 kg out 1,926 kg sealed

  4. 4

    ExportExporter · Addis Ababa export warehouse25 Jan 2026

    Hand-off to the exporter under a node grant and a product (SKU) link.

    sealed

  5. 5

    ImportImporter · roaster · Hamburg import10 Mar 2026

    Held at the gate until the SKU link existed, then released and sealed.

    sealed

  6. 6

    RoastImporter · roaster · Hamburg roastery2 Apr 2026

    Roast lot linked back to every plot; 250 g and 1 kg retail packs.

    in 1,200 kg out 1,008 kg sealed

A-X · Held

Held at the Hamburg intake

A lot from a plot with simulated tree-cover loss after 2020 travels all the way to Hamburg. It is held at intake and kept out of the blend: the EUDR deforestation check is missing for it, and met for the blend.

A-F · Open question

An open question, shown as one

Coffee from a semi-forest plot. The EU's guidance on whether small-scale coffee under forest counts as agricultural use leaves this case open, so the lot carries an open question instead of a guessed answer.

Held, then released. The exporter's shipment into Hamburg stopped at the gate because the two companies had not yet linked their products. The exporter added the link, and the hand-off completed and was sealed on its own.

Four reasons companies ask for proof

Law, label, report, claim

Every rule a coffee company works to sits in one of four lanes. The five most asked for are marked. Ethica covers all four lanes from the same data.

1EUDR 2Rainforest Alliance 3Fairtrade 4EU Organic 54C Code

Must

The law

What a government requires before the coffee can be sold or the company can trade.

  • EUDR Top 5
  • LkSG Germany
  • Norway Transparency Act Norway

Mark

The label

Certifications a brand uses to sell: the seal on the bag, the audit behind it.

  • Rainforest Alliance Top 5
  • Fairtrade Top 5
  • EU Organic Top 5
  • 4C Code Top 5
  • Bird Friendly Scheme
  • C.A.F.E. Practices Scheme

Report

The sustainability story

Numbers a company publishes: emissions, targets, due-diligence accounts.

  • CSRD / ESRS EU
  • GHG Protocol LSR Voluntary
  • SBTi FLAG Voluntary

Claim

The words on the pack

Rules on what a green or social claim may say, and the proof it needs.

  • ECGT / UWG (DE) Germany
Collect once

Ask once, answer every rule

Asked one rule at a time, the requests pile up. Mapped to one dictionary, most of them are the same data point asked again.

The Top 5

92 → 41

separate requests → unique data points (55 % fewer asks). 12 come straight from tracking.

EUDR, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, EU Organic, 4C Code

Two corridors · Germany

124 → 50

separate requests → unique data points (60 % fewer asks). 17 come straight from tracking.

EUDR, LkSG, the four labels, CSRD and the claims rules

Two corridors · Norway

72 → 35

separate requests → unique data points (51 % fewer asks). 12 come straight from tracking.

Transparency Act, three labels and land-sector reporting

Counts from the Ethica data dictionary v2.5.0 (50 rules, 113 data points). Readiness, not certification.

For producers

Producers get the tools, and coffee worth more

The people who carry the data get something back for it.

Grading at the farm gate

In the Origin app: scan the lot tag, weigh and grade on your own form, add a photo. It works offline; tap Sync back in coverage.

Each measure is checked against your limits, and the grade, weight and place travel with the lot to every buyer.

A simple ERP

Farmers, plots, harvests, lots and payments in one app, even offline.

Providing the data is part of running the business, not extra paperwork.

A product data package

Each lot ships with its key data: origin, plot, deforestation evidence, certificates and payments.

The buyer can sell it into any market without asking again.

~50 %

of business buyers would pay a premium of 5 % or more for products that meet their sustainability criteria

Bain, CEO’s Guide to Sustainability, 2024 (500 companies).

The result

Every requirement met, at lower cost

65–70 %

less staff time collecting compliance data

USD 137,000

saved a year across farmer, trader and roaster

Farmers join free. One subscription covers the whole chain. Run the numbers for your role ↓

Modelled from Ethica rule counts with illustrative inputs; not a measured customer result.

What it saves

60 to 70 % less time collecting data

The saving comes from the collecting itself: each data point is asked once instead of once per rule, and what tracking already records only needs a quick check. Pick a role and change the inputs.

Coffee trader

Exporter / importer, both corridors · 7 rules

An exporter or importer serving both corridors re-asks its suppliers for each rule and each buyer. Asked once, the answers travel with the lot.

Rule by rule
114
Asked once
31
From tracking
13

No overlap alone removes 61 % of the questions; tracking fills in the rest.

Time spent collecting compliance data, per year

70 %

less time

Rule by rule

1,520 h

Asked once

457 h

Saved

USD 37,217

1,063 hours

Per supplier: 38 h → 11.4 h a year.

How we calculated this

Rule by rule, each rule asks for its own data points: Farmer 92, Trader 114, Retailer 124 questions per farm or supplier a year. With Bext360 each unique data point is asked once, and each one tracking already records counts as a quarter of a question, for the check. Saving = 1 − (asked once + ¼ × from tracking) ÷ asked rule by rule.

Hours = farms or suppliers × questions × minutes ÷ 60; cost = hours × cost per hour. Weighted by the effort each data point takes (the dictionary's planning estimates), the saving is lower: about 57 % for every role.

Modelled from the rule counts in the Ethica dictionary v2.5.0 with illustrative inputs. Not a measured customer result. Certification fees and audits are not included.

Click through it

The whole story in 10 pages

Tracked plot to roast, held when the evidence is missing, checked against the law, the label and the report. Swipe or use the arrows; take the PDF with you.

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  1. Collect it once. Answer the law, the label and the report. Two coffee corridors, tracked plot to roast: Sidama, Ethiopia to Hamburg, and Marcala, Honduras to Oslo. Every rule checked from the same data.
  2. What changed: every buyer, label and regulator now asks which plot the coffee came from. The law: EUDR due diligence for coffee placed on the EU market from 30 December 2026, plus supply-chain laws such as Germany’s LkSG and Norway’s Transparency Act. The label: Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, EU Organic and 4C. The report and the claim: emissions reporting and the new EU rules on green claims.
  3. Two corridors: Sidama to Hamburg and Marcala to Oslo, six companies in one network; cooperative, exporter and roaster on each side, every hand-off under a grant both companies agreed. Map of the two demo corridors.
  4. Seal every handoff: harvest, washing station, dry mill, export, import and roast, each step with its weights and sealed on a public ledger. Screenshot of the Sidama to Hamburg steps.
  5. Hold it before the blend: a lot from a plot with simulated tree-cover loss after 2020 is held at the Hamburg intake; a semi-forest plot carries an open question instead of a guessed answer; a hand-off with no product link waits at the gate, then seals once the link exists.
  6. Check the certificate, not the logo: a Fairtrade certificate that expired before harvest means the lot ships without the Fairtrade claim; an organic lot with no certificate of inspection can still be sold, just not as organic.
  7. Four reasons companies ask for proof: Must (the law), Mark (the label), Report (the sustainability story) and Claim (the words on the pack). The five most asked for in coffee: EUDR, Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, EU Organic and 4C.
  8. Collect it once: the top five coffee rules ask 92 separate questions that need 41 unique data points, 12 of them straight from tracking. Germany corridor 124 to 50, Norway corridor 72 to 35. AI reads each rule and quotes the clause; a person approves every requirement.
  9. Add a rule and see what you already hold, against the Germany corridor’s law and label rules: C.A.F.E. Practices 100 %, Norway Transparency Act 82 %, CSRD 67 %, Bird Friendly 50 %. Data points already collected, not audit results.
  10. All your regulations and certifications, proven: graded at origin in the Origin app, every handoff sealed on a public ledger, every rule checked from the same data. The same platform runs gold, renewable fuels, cocoa and coffee. bext360.com/showcase/coffee
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FAQ

Questions people ask first

Where do the 60 to 70 % time savings come from?

Two things. First, no overlap: the same data point (a plot boundary, a harvest date, a certificate) is asked once instead of once per rule, which alone removes 55 to 61 % of the questions. Second, tracking: data points that already come from the tracked lot only need a quick check. Together that is 65 % for a farmer cooperative and 70 % for a trader or a roaster. Weighted by the effort each data point takes, the saving is about 57 %. The hours and costs on this page use illustrative inputs you can change; they are modelled, not measured.

Is this real coffee?

No. The cooperatives, exporters, roasters, farmers, plots and lots are demo data in a Bext360 demo account. The rules, their dates and the way they overlap are real, taken from the official texts and the scheme standards. The ledger seals are real transactions on a public ledger.

Does Bext360 certify coffee?

No. Certification stays with the schemes and their auditors, and legal duties stay with the companies. Bext360 holds the evidence, checks it against each rule and shows what is missing. We say "readiness" and "evidence held", never more than that.

Why is EUDR not a selling point here?

From 30 Dec 2026 every operator placing coffee on the EU market must meet EUDR. Under the EU consumer rules that apply in Germany from 27 Sep 2026, presenting a legal requirement as a special feature of a product is an unfair practice. So EUDR sits in the Must lane: it is the floor, not the story.

Does Norway have to follow EUDR?

Not today. EUDR is not part of the EEA Agreement, so the Oslo roaster works to the Norwegian Transparency Act. The Norway corridor shows EUDR as a what-if: if the coffee is re-exported to the EU, or the rule is taken into EEA law, here is what is already collected.

What does "x % already collected" mean?

Of the data points the added rule asks for, the share the rules you already work to collect too. It counts data points, not audit outcomes: the scheme still runs its own audit, and some rules still need their own certificate or filing.

Which certifications do coffee buyers ask for most?

For green coffee into Europe the five that come up most are EUDR (the law), Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, EU Organic and 4C. Bird Friendly and C.A.F.E. Practices are shown as additions.

Demo data. Organisations, sites, people, plots, lots and certificate numbers are invented for this demo; rules, dates and overlaps are real (researched 21 Oct 2026, re-checked before publishing). Schemes are named to describe the requirement sets Bext360 carries; no endorsement or partnership is implied. Nothing here is a certification, a legal opinion or a due-diligence statement.

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