Carbon footprint software that calculates and certifies for you.

Xain is not a consultancy, nor a calculator that depends on you filling in forms. It is a calculation engine that reads the technical documentation of your products and purchases and returns a traceable result. The same engine serves the first certificate and the ten-thousandth, so the cost of each additional certificate is marginal.

What problem does Xain solve?

Your customers, your tenders or your own sustainability report ask for an emissions figure, and you do not have it at product level. Measuring it by hand takes weeks, relies on every supplier answering and needs someone who knows how to do it. Xain starts from what already exists in your company: drawings, data sheets, photos, manuals, the bill of materials or the purchase lines in your ERP.

What solutions does Xain offer?

The technology is the same: one company’s product is another’s Scope 3. The services are separate. Whoever measures what they sell asks for the product certificate. Whoever measures what they buy asks for Scope 3. The tool is adapted for SBTi.

Each solution answers a different need and shares the same method.

• Product carbon footprint: the certificate for a product, with a registration number and traceability down to the factor of each node.
• Scope 3 for purchases: Categories 1 (purchased goods and services) and 2 (capital goods), measured with physical factors and not with the amount on the invoices.
• Per-shipment certificate: the footprint by reference, SKU, colour, destination or shipment.
• For suppliers: what to do when your customer asks you for the footprint of your product.

How do you ask for it and how do you receive it?

You can work by email, through the web platform or by integrating Xain with your ERP through the API. In every case the result arrives with the breakdown of the materials and processes that make it up, so you can review it and improve.

Why physical factors?

A physical factor starts from what the product is: material, weight, process (including its energy) and transport. A spend-based factor starts from what it costs. With the first, two identical products have the same footprint even if their price differs, and a supplier that decarbonises its process sees it reflected. We explain it on the page about physical versus spend-based factors.

Who asks for it inside the company?

• Procurement: needs the Scope 3 of what it buys and to compare suppliers without depending on each one replying.
• Sustainability and ESG: needs a traceable, method-backed figure for its reports and its customers’ requests.
• Product engineering and quality: needs to see which material or process weighs most in each product.
• Sales management and industrial manufacturers: need to answer a tender or a customer with a certificate they can show.