DECAVERA · Mission & Methodology
The evidence sets
the ceiling.
DECAVERA bridges the gap between EU Ecodesign compliance disclosure and high-stakes operational decisions. We believe corporate sustainability claims and supply chain investments must be held to the highest standard of evidence.
The Industry Challenge
Compliance without verified evidence is a corporate liability.
As the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) approaches mandatory enforcement, apparel and textile brands are assembling Digital Product Passports. However, two fundamental pitfalls threaten the industry:
Passports treated as passive marketing PDFs
Most DPP implementations treat passports as static QR codes linking to unverified marketing assertions. When regulatory customs authorities or ESG auditors request primary supplier records across Tier 1 through Tier 4 facilities, superficial averages fail verification.
Confusing correlation with causation
Standard analytics and generative AI models routinely mistake a correlation for an explanation. When an operational change occurs, organizations prematurely claim credit, without adjusting for hidden supply chain factors like factory equipment age, fiber quality variations, or ambient seasonal temperatures.
“Where the evidence will not carry the claim, DECAVERA returns CAUSALITY_NOT_IDENTIFIED instead of generating a plausible narrative.”
The DECAVERA Architecture
Five Stacked Layers of Epistemic Integrity
We replace black-box speculation with five transparent, mathematically verifiable layers that build upon one another:
Primary DPP Data
Ingests material BOMs, cradle-to-gate carbon, and ordered Tier 1–4 supplier stages. Evaluates 8 indicative EU textile readiness sections deterministically.
Balanced Performance
Pure mathematical calculation of profitability, sustainability, quality, and velocity against explicit published thresholds, producing structured, coded findings.
Tamper-Evident Ledger
Two-phase revision protocol. Metrics cannot be silently overwritten; pre- and post-intervention states are sealed with SHA-256 hash chains.
Evidence Workbench
Translates questions into formal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), integrates human expert review, and runs permutation tests and bootstrap slope intervals.
Decision Lab
Contrasts identified randomized controlled pilots against confounded observational trends. Computes ITT bootstrap effects across governance postures.
Holistic Performance
10 Dimensions, One Traceable Decision
We refuse to collapse complex supply chain trade-offs into a single vanity score. Every textile product is evaluated across 10 distinct, balanced dimensions:
1. Gross Margin
Commercial viability calculated from bills of materials, tier labor rates, and freight tariffs.
2. Quality Loss Cost
Direct financial scrap and rework penalties quantified in Euros per production lot.
3. Carbon Footprint
Cradle-to-gate GHG emissions tracked stage by stage across fiber, spinning, dyeing, and assembly.
4. Energy & Renewables
Process thermal and electrical intensity (kWh/kg) with verified on-site renewable energy shares.
5. Water Consumption
Liters per kilogram of finished goods with closed-loop effluent treatment validation.
6. Recycled Content
Post-consumer and pre-consumer recycled percentage verified through transaction certificates.
7. Defect & Return Rate
Statistical process quality tracked across spinning, weaving, wet processing, and stitching.
8. Supply Chain Velocity
Cumulative manufacturing lead times and bottleneck identification across supply tiers.
9. Traceability Depth
Primary supplier verification coverage from Tier 1 garmenting down to Tier 4 raw agriculture/synthesis.
10. Evidence Integrity
Cryptographic SHA-256 validation ensuring baseline and after-measurement records are authentic.
Demonstration Integrity Notice
All products, thresholds, supplier facilities, and intervention runs inside this demonstration platform are synthetic demonstration artifacts. DPP readiness scores are indicative completeness evaluations against European ecodesign requirements, not formal legal compliance determinations. DECAVERA is designed to demonstrate how scientific evidence governance can transform supply chain decision-making.
Get Started
Ready to experience evidence-bounded decision support?
Explore the live interactive platform, inspect our open-box decision models, or inquire about our training cohorts.