All of circular commerce, on one rail.

Not a new passport.
The settlement layer.

If aligned profit is the engine, the LifeCycle ID is the rail it runs on.

Both the lifelong brand royalty and the per-sale payouts need one thing: a settlement account for the item, tied to an identity you can pay against. That identity already exists, built by GS1 Digital Link, the EU Digital Product Passport, and platforms like EON. CirqTerra doesn’t reinvent it. The LifeCycle ID is the item’s settlement account, riding that universal ID, and the Settlement Ledger is its running statement: every payout, royalty, and EPR event. CirqTerra generates the financial and EPR record the passport can’t, because the passport isn’t in the money. Think of it like banking: the passport is the item’s ID, the LifeCycle ID is its account, the Settlement Ledger is its statement.

CirqTerra is to circular commerce what Stripe is to online payments.

It is the layer beneath the marketplaces, not another one of them. Brands plug in once, instead of betting on which resale marketplace wins, and value follows their products wherever they go.

We don’t replace the ecosystem.
We settle it.

CirqTerra sits beneath the players circular commerce already has, and is built to give each one the settlement they’re missing:

Passport & product-ID platforms (GS1 Digital Link, the EU DPP, and platforms like EON): the rail rides their identifiers and feeds them the financial and EPR-ready record a passport alone can’t generate.
Marketplaces (platforms like Poshmark, The RealReal, and ThredUp): the rail settles the multi-party split beneath the sales they already run.
Authenticators & graders (services like Entrupy and Ximilar): the rail is designed to accredit providers like these and lock their results to the item’s record.
Intake & recovery nodes (consignment shops, thrift stores, recyclers): they scan and settle on the rail.
PROs (the producer responsibility organizations designated under laws like California’s SB 707): the rail produces the verified diversion record their reimbursement runs on.

Companies named above are examples of the existing ecosystem CirqTerra is designed to serve and settle. None is a partner or endorser unless expressly announced.

A perceived competitor is an ideal partner: integrate the LifeCycle ID and they get richer data, automatic brand royalties, and settlement they’d otherwise have to build.

Today, when a brand partners with a resale marketplace, it typically gets data and customer re-engagement. The marketplace keeps the commission. No one pays the brand a royalty on the resale itself. CirqTerra is the layer that does.

Values got circularity started.
They can't finish it.

Every takeback program, every passport, every mandate depends on the same person: the consumer holding the item at the end. And that consumer has three real options. Sell it, which takes photos, listings, patience, and a buyer. Donate it, which takes a trip and a leap of faith about where it actually ends up. Or throw it away, the easiest option of the three, and the one that ends in landfill. Not because people don't care. Because every door that leads somewhere better is heavier than the trash can. So the item disappears, the record disappears with it, and no one involved earns a thing.

So CirqTerra doesn't ask the consumer to care. It gives them a reason to care. Brands and retailers put up the deposits and rewards; the rail carries them, so they work wherever a person shops. Where a deposit applies, the item carries one the same way a returnable can or bottle does: whoever brings it back collects it. The right thing becomes the rewarding thing. Every time an item comes back, the record the whole system needs writes itself.

When doing the right thing pays, you don't need believers.
You get everyone.

Two rules we will not trade away.

A neutral rail only works if the neutrality is built in.
Promises are not architecture.

Discovery is never for sale. When a consumer searches across partners, results are ordered by the item: price, condition, distance, availability. Never by who paid. Every partner pays the same referral rate, and no partner can buy a higher position. There is no paid placement on CirqTerra and there will not be one. The moment referral rates differ by partner, ranking becomes purchasable in effect even if it is never openly sold.

Accreditation is never a paywall. Repairers, graders, and recyclers are accredited on a scale set by their size, so a one-person repair shop pays close to nothing while a national refurbisher pays real money. For providers below a revenue threshold, located in a qualifying community, or worker-owned, the People & Planet Fund covers the cost outright. A circular economy that prices out its smallest operators is not a circular economy.

The rail is only worth building
if nobody can buy their way up it.

The item has an identity.
So should the owner.

Once the rail carries every item's LifeCycle ID, the same rail can carry the owner's: the Ownership Passport. One place for every item a person owns, with its verified history, receipts, and warranties, alongside the loyalty rewards from each brand they shop, every brand still funding and running its own. It is also one search across every partner platform, marketplace, and resale program at once: think Kayak, for resale. CirqTerra shows what is out there and hands you to the partner that holds it. Every purchase is completed on their site, never ours.

The LifeCycle ID gives every item an account.
The Ownership Passport gives every owner one.

Value stays brand-specific: CirqTerra aggregates access and ownership records, and never pools spendable value across brands. We win apparel and textile retail first, then the rail becomes the ownership layer for circular commerce.