The intelligence gap
Procurement and sourcing teams are making decisions about landscapes they cannot see.
A certification tells you that a supplier followed a set of practices. It does not tell you that the forest surrounding their concession has lost 40% of its tree cover in the last decade. A supplier questionnaire tells you what the supplier chose to report. It does not tell you that the watershed feeding their production region has been converting from permanent to seasonal water for twenty years.
This is not a failure of the certification system or the supplier. Certifications answer "how was this produced?" Supplier reporting answers "what does the supplier want us to know?" Neither is designed to answer "what is actually happening in this landscape now, historically, and in the areas surrounding the sourcing site?"
That question requires a different kind of intelligence. Not process verification. Landscape intelligence.
EcoVadis assesses supplier sustainability management. SAP Ariba manages procurement workflows. Organic and regenerative certifications verify farming practices. Each does its job. None of them characterise the ecological condition of the landscape itself. Archaster is that layer.
From process verification to landscape intelligence
| Current state | With Archaster |
|---|---|
| Certifications verify practices. No independent view of the ecological condition of the landscape those practices occur in. | Satellite-verified ecological portrait of any sourcing site — vegetation health, water systems, biodiversity indicators, deforestation context — cited to source. |
| Annual audits and supplier reporting cycles. Ecological changes between cycles go undetected. | Continuous monitoring. Vegetation stress, water decline, and deforestation encroachment visible as they develop, not after they surface in a disruption or audit. |
| Monitoring scoped to the supplier's reported boundary. Surrounding landscape pressure invisible. | Buffer zone analysis as standard — 500m and 2km rings around every site. Landscape-level pressure mapped alongside the site itself. |
| Manual site-by-site assessment. Large portfolios take weeks to screen. | Batch upload. Hundreds of supplier coordinates assessed in minutes. |
What it supports
Landscape-level supply intelligence
The ecological condition of a sourcing region is a leading indicator of supply resilience. Vegetation stress, declining water availability, deforestation pressure advancing from surrounding areas, loss of functional biodiversity groups: these are all signals that appear in landscape data before they appear in supplier communications, audit reports, or market prices.
Archaster surfaces these signals continuously for any sourcing location. A procurement team that can see the ecological trajectory of their supplier portfolio, and not just a snapshot, has a different basis for supplier engagement, diversification planning, and risk assessment than one working from annual audits alone.
A basis for constructive supplier engagement
Most ecological intelligence positions the supplier as a subject to be verified or caught out. That posture damages the relationships procurement teams spend years building.
Archaster gives sourcing teams and/or their suppliers a common, verifiable view of the landscape, through satellite data that neither side produced, analysed against frameworks neither side owns. The conversation shifts from "prove to us that your claims are true" to "what is actually happening in this landscape, and what should we do about it together."
Suppliers who are managing their landscapes well benefit from this clarity. Those who aren't, get the context they need to understand what's changing and where intervention might matter.
Batch portfolio assessment
Large sourcing portfolios currently get assessed site-by-site or not at all. Annual reporting cycles leave months of invisibility between snapshots. Archaster analyses hundreds of supplier locations in minutes, continuously, so the sites that need attention surface when they need it, not when the audit cycle catches up.
Upload supplier coordinates as GeoJSON or KML. Get an ecological portrait of every site or region. From vegetation health, deforestation, water stress, sensitive area proximity, biodiversity functional groups.
Regulatory due diligence
Emerging regulations — EUDR, CSRD E4, TNFD — are converging on a common requirement: site-level ecological evidence. Certifications contribute to due diligence cases, but regulators increasingly ask for independent verification of landscape condition, not certification status alone.
Archaster provides the evidence layer these requirements point toward: 40 years of land and water history, near-real-time deforestation alerts with buffer zone analysis, biodiversity screening against sensitive areas, and exportable outputs structured for due diligence documentation.
This means the landscape intelligence you can use for sourcing decisions also satisfies the regulatory requirements arriving alongside them.
Complements your existing stack
Archaster is not a procurement platform. It does not replace EcoVadis, SAP Ariba, or IntegrityNext. It is the ecological data layer those tools currently lack; the one that looks at the land rather than at what is reported about it. Use it alongside your existing tools to give procurement decisions a grounding in landscape reality.
Already have supplier polygons?
If your traceability work has produced KML or GeoJSON files of supplier farms, mills, or sourcing regions, upload them directly. Archaster runs the full ecological assessment — vegetation health, deforestation context with buffer zones, water history, biodiversity screening — across every location in minutes. No redrawing, no setup, no per-site configuration.
.kml · .geojson · batch upload
Run a batch assessmentFrequently asked questions
How is Archaster different from what our certification and audit systems already provide?
Certifications verify that a supplier followed specific practices such as organic standards, chain of custody protocols, deforestation-free commitments. Archaster independently verifies what is happening in the landscape itself: vegetation health trajectory, historical water patterns, deforestation context including surrounding areas, and biodiversity functional group representation. These answer different questions. Certifications tell you how something was produced. Archaster tells you what the landscape it was produced in is doing. Both matter. Neither substitutes for the other.
Can Archaster analyse multiple suppliers at once?
Yes. Batch upload supports GeoJSON and KML files with hundreds of supplier polygons. Each site receives a full ecological assessment — vegetation indices, deforestation alerts with buffer zone analysis, biodiversity screening, water history. The sites that need attention surface first.
Does Archaster work for commodities beyond timber and palm oil?
Yes. Because Archaster analyses landscapes rather than specific commodity supply chains, it works for any sourced material that comes from a location, like textiles (cotton, flax, hemp etc.), food ingredients (cocoa, coffee, vanilla, spices etc.), cosmetic raw materials, building materials, and more. If you have coordinates for where it's sourced, Archaster can characterise the ecological condition of that location.
How does Archaster support EUDR and other regulatory requirements?
EUDR requires documented evidence that commodities are deforestation-free. CSRD E4 requires screening sourcing locations against biodiversity-sensitive areas. Both ask for site-level ecological evidence. Archaster provides 40 years of land history, near-real-time deforestation alerts, buffer zone analysis, and biodiversity screening; structured for due diligence documentation and traceable to institutional peer-reviewed sources.
How does this fit into our existing due diligence workflow?
Archaster is designed as the upstream ecological data layer for whatever workflow you already run. It does not replace your procurement platform, your reporting tool, or your supplier management system. It provides the landscape evidence those systems currently lack.