For sustainability teams
You are being asked to substantiate claims that were made before anyone asked how. TrustRise is where the evidence behind them lives — collected from suppliers, linked to products, and ready when someone asks.
The spreadsheet problem
Supplier data arrives as attachments. Someone consolidates it into a workbook. Six months later the workbook is the only record of where anything came from, and the person who built it has moved teams.
Then marketing publishes a claim, legal asks what it rests on, and the answer takes three weeks to assemble from email.
Not a workbook per season with a naming convention.
Data comes from the companies that hold it, attributed to them.
Expiring certificates surface before they lapse, not after.
Everything leaves as structured data when you need it elsewhere.
Claims you can defend
Every field carries an evidence level: self-declared, document-backed, or verified against the certification body’s records.
Claim gating uses it. A sustainability claim publishes only when its evidence reaches verified — so a claim that would not survive scrutiny does not reach the public page at all.
This matters most in the situation you cannot plan for: a journalist’s email, a retailer’s audit, a regulator’s letter. The answer is already assembled.
Reporting, without the reassembly
CSRD, retailer questionnaires, certification renewals — each asks for the same underlying facts in a different shape.
Collecting them once, at the point where the supplier holds them, means the next questionnaire is an export rather than a project. The data model follows the JRC specification for textile passports, which is also where most retailer requests are converging.
Material origin traced through every production step.
GOTS, GRS, RWS and OEKO-TEX with transaction certificates.
Substances of concern captured where treatment happens.
Carbon, water and energy against the specification’s structure.
Your suppliers will actually answer
The reason supplier data collection fails is rarely refusal. It is that six brands ask the same mill in six formats, and none of them explain why.
TrustRise gives suppliers a free account and a structured request naming exactly what is needed. They answer once and it serves every brand that asks. That is the difference between a response in a week and no response at all.
Start with one product
Pick a product where you already have a cooperative supplier. Send one request and see what comes back. That tells you more about your readiness than any assessment, and it costs nothing on either side.