How it works

Every product deserves
a life story.

Products are already getting permanent digital identities, through standards like GS1 Digital Link and the EU Digital Product Passport. CirqTerra doesn’t issue that identity. It adds the layer those passports can’t provide: settlement. Each time a product is sold, resold, repaired, rented, or recycled, the platform records the event against the item’s existing ID and automatically pays everyone with a stake in it. One rail for the entire life of a product, across every brand, category, and sales channel.

U.S. Provisional Patents Filed · 2026 Built for EPR & Digital Product Passport rules Privacy by design
LifeCycle ID · the item’s settlement record, riding its existing product ID Append-only history
Made & enrolled
A jacket leaves the factory carrying the product ID it already has: QR, RFID, or serial. Enrollment attaches a LifeCycle ID to that identity, and the brand prepays the item’s recycling from day one.
Sold new
First sale recorded. The buyer's reward, the retailer's share, and the item's environmental footprint certificate, all settled in one transaction.
Resold, twice
Each resale pays the seller, the shop that handled it, an ongoing royalty to the brand, and rewards the buyer for choosing used over new.
Repaired
A zipper repair becomes part of the record. The repairer gets paid; the item's provenance gets richer, not murkier.
Recycled, automatically
Years later, a scanner at a recycling facility recognizes the passport. The facility earns a fee, the recycling is verified and paid for, even if the last owner did nothing at all.
The core mechanism

One event. Everyone paid. Instantly.

When a passported item is resold, a single settlement splits the proceeds among every stakeholder at the moment of transaction. No invoices, no monthly reconciliation, no one chasing anyone.

Seller
Their proceeds
Settled to their account, same day.
Local shop
Intake share
The store that received, graded, and listed the item earns on every event it handles.
Brand
Ongoing royalty
Brands earn on resales for the life of the product, including channels they don't operate.
Buyer
Reward credit
Brand-funded credit, and buying used earns meaningfully more of it than buying new. That's the point.
People & Planet Fund
Mandatory contribution
Every event contributes to an independently governed fund serving communities bearing environmental burden.
Money moves only through licensed payment processors; CirqTerra calculates and instructs. Illustrative flow. Commercial terms are set per program.
Incentives, not appeals

The money flows favor reuse — on purpose.

Most sustainability programs ask people to do the right thing. CirqTerra pays them to. Every rule in the platform's economics tilts the same direction: keep products in use longer, and make durability profitable.

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Used earns more than new

Buyers earn a larger reward on used purchases than new ones, and new-item sales carry a higher People & Planet Fund contribution than resales. Choosing used is the financially rational choice.

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Durability pays the brand back

Brands prepay each item's eventual recycling into escrow. Items that live many lives before disposal draw down less of it, so brands can calculate, in dollars, the return on making things that last.

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A score you can't fake

Each brand gets a Circular Participation Rate: a resale-to-new score computed from real, verified transactions rather than self-reported estimates. Usable in sustainability reporting.

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Recycling that runs itself

Recycling facilities install passport scanners and earn a fee on every enrolled item they catch, paid from the brand's escrow. Recycling gets recorded and rewarded even when the consumer does nothing.

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An open service economy

Accredited repairers, cleaners, authenticators, and recyclers earn a share whenever they add documented value to an item, and better recovery technology earns a premium, funding further investment.

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Works before everyone joins

Items from brands that haven't enrolled still get processed and resold. The network doesn't wait for permission to be useful. Brands can join anytime and unlock their history.

Who it serves

One rail. A seat for everyone.

Six stakeholders share the same settlement rail. Pick a seat to see what the platform looks like from there.

Buy, sell, repair, recycle — and always come out ahead.

One wallet, one verified record of everything you own, and a scanner that turns any tagged item into something you can act on in a few taps.

✓Reward credit funded by the brands and retailers you shop with, carried in one wallet by the rail, and richer when you choose used. CirqTerra never issues the credit; it delivers it.
✓Everything you own in one verified record, with receipts, warranties, and provenance attached automatically.
✓Your identity never appears in any item's history, and your data rights travel with you.
Your LifeCycle wallet Consumer app
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Down Field Jacket resold
Proceeds settled to your bank, same day
+$26.40proceeds
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Reward credit earned
A brand-funded bonus for choosing used over new
+$1.20credit
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Old tee caught at recycling
Verified and rewarded, no effort required
+$0.30credit
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Warranty transferred with purchase
Came attached to the jacket's passport
✓ Active
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Footprint certificate issued
Signed at transaction, exportable
✓ Verified
The full consumer experience, with wallet, item passports, and search, is shown in detail just below ↓
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms

Scan. Grade. List. Paid the moment it sells.

Local shops and sellers become intake points for the whole network: one workflow, with settlement, records, and national reach handled by the rail.

✓A distribution on every item you handle, settled the instant the event fires, additive to your existing margin.
✓AI condition grading from a photo, with your override always recorded.
✓Items from brands that haven't enrolled still get processed, and you still earn.
✓Your inventory appears in network-wide search: national reach from one storefront.
Intake queue Store tablet
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Down Field Jacket · intake scan
AI suggests Grade A. Confirm or override
Listed
$
Distribution settled
Your share, the moment the sale clears
+$14.20this sale
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Canvas Work Jacket · unenrolled brand
Processed anyway. You still earn your share
+$9.75this sale
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Buyers everywhere see your listing
Local storefront, network-wide reach
Live
⏱
Today's distributions settle tonight
Straight to your bank, no invoicing
+$212.30today
No invoicing, no reconciliation. The rail settles everyone the moment events fire.
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms

Royalties from channels you don't operate. A program you control.

Most resales of your products happen where you earn nothing and see nothing. On the rail, every one of them pays you, documents itself, and runs on terms you configure.

✓Ongoing royalty on every resale of your products, on every channel, for the life of the item.
✓Set your own terms with each marketplace and retail partner, and sponsor bonus reward credit for customers who buy or sell on the channels you choose. It's configuration, not custom code.
✓Compliance and Digital Product Passport records generated automatically and delivered to the reporting providers who file them. CirqTerra never files on your behalf.
✓A circular participation score computed from real, verified transactions, not self-reported estimates.
✓Luxury controls: authentication requirements per product, your own grading standards.
Brand console Live feed
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Resale recorded · independent shop
Royalty settled to your account
+$4.10royalty
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Resale recorded · partner marketplace
A channel you don't operate, still paying you
+$6.85royalty
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Compliance record generated
Delivered to your reporting provider, who files it
✓ Delivered
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Participation score updated
Verified from real events, audit-ready
Updated
Every event pays you and hands your reporting provider the verified transaction record it files from.
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms
Channel settings · your program, your terms Brand console
Loop Market · authorized channel
Your royalty on resales through this marketplace
8%Edit
Wrenfield Outfitters · retail partner
Negotiated terms with this partner
6%Edit
Bonus credit for your customers
Extra reward for buying or selling on your authorized channels
2×Edit
Authentication required
Applies to the products you flag
OnEdit
Example breakdown · luxury item resold on Loop Market at $250
Seller
Their proceeds from the sale
72%Edit$180.00
Marketplace
The channel that made the sale
10%Edit$25.00
You · brand royalty
Yours, on a channel you don't operate
7%Edit$17.50
Everything else
Platform, buyer reward credit, People & Planet Fund
11%$27.50
Choose your split with each marketplace and retail partner, and put extra reward credit behind the channels where you want demand. Adjust a percentage and every future sale settles on the new terms.
For illustrative purposes only · example settings, not actual terms

Every repair becomes part of the story — and a payday.

Accredited repairers, cleaners, and authenticators earn a share whenever they add documented value to an item, and the item is worth more for it.

✓Paid on completion for every documented service event.
✓Repairs are recorded on the item's passport, and warranty extends automatically.
✓Second-hand and 3D-printed parts welcome, with provenance tracked, aligned with right-to-repair rules.
✓A published pathway from independent to top-tier accreditation.
Repair job Service provider
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Zipper repair · Down Field Jacket
Recorded on the item's LifeCycle record
✓ Recorded
✓
Warranty auto-extended
A documented repair raises trust and value
Done
$
Service fee settled
Paid the moment the job is confirmed
+$18.00service fee
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Replacement part logged
Second-hand part, provenance tracked
✓ Logged
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Tier progress updated
Published path to higher accreditation
On track
On this rail, repair makes an item worth more, not less.
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms

New revenue for what you already do.

Install a scanner at intake and earn on every enrolled item you catch: prepaid by brands, additive to your commodity material income, zero workflow change.

✓A scanning fee on every enrolled item, drawn from the brand's end-of-life escrow.
✓No change to your existing sorting, contracts, or municipal relationships.
✓Advanced material recovery earns a premium and generates more valuable environmental certificates.
✓Every scan produces a verified record that strengthens grants, reporting, and ESG disclosures. Your reporting providers file from it; CirqTerra doesn't submit anything.
Facility scanner Intake line
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Item recognized at intake
LifeCycle ID matched on the line
✓ Matched
$
Scanning fee earned
Prepaid by the brand at enrollment
+$0.25per item
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1,142 enrolled items so far today
Additive to your commodity revenue
+$285.50today
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Verified recycling recorded
Record delivered for reporting and grant files
✓ Recorded
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Advanced tier pathway
Better recovery earns richer certificates
Available
Recycling gets recorded and paid for, even when the consumer does nothing at all.
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms

A first-class stakeholder — not a rounding error.

Every transaction on the network contributes to the People & Planet Fund. Contributions are mandatory by design, and the platform has no say in where they go.

✓A contribution on every event: structural, not discretionary.
✓Governed by an independent board: no platform vote, no brand vote.
✓Routed to communities bearing disproportionate environmental burden.
✓A public, append-only ledger, auditable line by line.
People & Planet Fund Public ledger
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Contribution received · resale event
Routed to a local environmental-justice pool
+$1.10contribution
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Contribution received · new-item sale
New sales contribute at a higher rate than resales
+$2.60contribution
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Governance decision recorded
Independent board, conflicts auto-recused
Logged
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Transparency report published
Every distribution, publicly visible
Public
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Grant cycle open
Applications reviewed by the independent board
Open
The platform collects. The community decides. The ledger proves it.
For illustrative purposes only · example amounts, not actual terms
Inside the experience

Where everything lives together.

Three views from the consumer side of the platform: your passport wallet, where everything you own lives in one verified record built automatically from real transactions; a single item's passport; and a search that looks everywhere at once.

Your passport wallet
12 items
One verified record · rewards live with the brands that fund them
My things · all verified
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Down Field Jacket · M
Kestrel & Pine · bought used · 3rd lifecycle
LifeCycle IDGrade AReceipt attached
Tap ▸ passport
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Merino Crew · L
Harbor Knit · bought new 2025 · warranty active
LifeCycle IDWarranty travels with item
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Everyday Sneakers · 9
Loam Studio · resoled by accredited repairer
LifeCycle IDRepair on record
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Canvas Work Jacket · M
Unenrolled brand · self-enrolled by you
Brand not yet enrolledStill resellable
No typing, ever
Items appear here automatically when transactions settle, with receipt-grade proof attached. Sell one, and it moves to the buyer's record while its history stays with the item.
The passport wallet
Everything you own, one verified record: receipts, warranties, and provenance attached by the rail itself. Tap any item to open its full passport, shown on the next screen.
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◂ Your wallet · viewing Down Field Jacket
🧥Grade A · Verified
Down Field Jacket · M
LifeCycle ID 7C4A-91F2-BB08 · append-only history
Made & enrolled · 2023
Recycling prepaid by the brand at enrollment
Sold new
First sale recorded · footprint certificate issued
Resold · owner 2
Prior owners appear only as anonymous IDs
Resold · you
Full provenance transferred · nothing about prior owners
Zipper repaired · 2026
Accredited repairer · warranty auto-extended
Environmental certificate
Signed at transaction · exportable
Verified
One item's passport · what opens on tap
The history stays with the item, not the person. A buyer inherits verified provenance without learning anything about prior owners.
⌕ down jacket · size M Search
Used only Grade A–B Within 10 mi Repaired ok Ships
Results from everywhere · one search
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Down Field Jacket · M
Kestrel & Pine · Grade A · 2 prior owners
Verified historyEarns credit
Local resale shop · 0.8 mi
$48
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Ridgeline Puffer · M
Fernbrook Supply · Grade B · repair on record
Verified history
Brand's own resale channel · ships
$72
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Down Field Jacket · M
Same physical item, listed in two places
Compare offers
Partner marketplace · ships
$52
One search fans out across partner marketplaces, brand channels, and local shops at once. Results are matched by item ID, so you can see the very same jacket offered in two places and pick the better deal. Checkout happens on the seller's own site.
Search once, buy anywhere
Items with passports show their verified history right in the results, richer than any ordinary listing.

And because your wallet knows every program you belong to, search does too. Your reward programs and connected store apps live in one view, and results surface the places where your memberships are worth something first.

Programs & places
4 programs
Each balance lives with the brand or store that issued it
Your reward programs · 4 connected
K
Kestrel & Pine Rewards
Linked · brand app connected
$18.50
Redeem at K&P →
H
Harbor Knit Circle
Linked · points program
240 pts
Redeem at Harbor Knit →
W
Wrenfield Outfitters
Store credit · marketplace app connected
$12.00
Redeem at Wrenfield →
L
Loop Market
Partner marketplace · member
Member
+ Connect another program
Every balance you hold, in one view, and each one stays with the program that issued it. Tap redeem and you're taken straight to that program's own checkout.
Programs & places
All your reward programs and store apps, side by side, each balance living where it belongs.
⌕ trail backpack · 28L Search
Your memberships first Used only Within 10 mi
Sorted · where your rewards are worth something
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Ridge Pack 28L
Kestrel & Pine · Grade A · verified history
You have $18.50 hereMember
Kestrel & Pine resale channel
$66
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Switchback Daypack
Fernbrook Supply · Grade B
You have $12.00 here
Wrenfield Outfitters · 1.4 mi
$54
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Cairn Pack 30L
Loam Studio · Grade A · 1 prior owner
MemberVerified history
Loop Market · ships
$49
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Field Pack 26L
Harbor Knit · Grade B
Verified history
Independent shop · 6.2 mi
$41
Results are annotated with the spending power you already hold at each seller, so the places where you're a member rise to the top, and you see what a purchase really costs you before you tap.
Search that knows your memberships
Your rewards appear right on the results. No value moves anywhere until you choose where to buy.
All brands, items, prices, and balances shown are fictional and illustrative. They demonstrate the product experience, not actual listings, partners, or commercial terms.
Regulatory tailwind

Built for the rules that are already arriving.

A wave of extended producer responsibility and product-passport regulation is taking effect across the EU and U.S. states. CirqTerra treats compliance as a byproduct of its architecture. The same event that pays everyone also produces the verified, item-level transaction records these frameworks demand. To be clear about roles: CirqTerra does not file or submit reports. The final transaction records feed the compliance and reporting platforms that already do the filing, and they submit.

EU Digital Product Passport EU EPR Directives EU Right to Repair California SB 54 California SB 707 GS1 standards GDPR / CCPA

Privacy is structural, not bolted on: personal identity lives separately from item histories, deletion rights are honored without corrupting any product's permanent record, and consumers can export their complete history at any time.

The network is being built now.

We're speaking with brands, retailers, recyclers, and investors ahead of pilot programs. If keeping products in circulation should pay everyone, including you, let's talk.

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