Watershed Product Footprints provides accurate, actionable product carbon footprints (PCFs) at scale—saving teams significant time and costs over traditional approaches. The technology is built on two key components:
- AI agents trained to research supply chains and manufacturing processes as life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners would, understanding each process and material input.
- An industry-leading collection of LCA databases, enabling granular emissions calculations for each process and material.
Like the rest of the Watershed platform, Product Footprints was designed to bring together best-in-class LCA databases from different sectors. Through close collaboration with ecoinvent, the product launched with their benchmark LCA dataset, ensuring broad coverage across industries and regions, thus supporting consistent, high-quality LCA modeling. Since then, we have rapidly added additional data sources, including:
- In-house LCA databases and emissions models developed and maintained by Watershed’s science team, including the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive (CEDA) and its forest, land use, and agriculture (FLAG) dataset.
- Sector-specific LCA databases from our partners and open sources.
- A “bring your own data” capability that will enable customers to add custom LCAs or other third-party datasets they’ve licensed.
Early results have been exciting. A large computer hardware manufacturer is using Product Footprints with data from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC)—a globally-renowned research institution for the semiconductor industry—to reflect detailed process improvements and decarbonization initiatives in their PCFs. A consumer food company is using a commercially-licensed agricultural LCA database to generate PCFs that accurately reflect regional crop yields and fertilizer practices.
We’ll be sharing more customer updates and data partnerships soon. Interested in using Product Footprints to accelerate your product and supply chain decarbonization? Check out our Product Footprint solution page, where you can read more customer stories and request a demo. For information on specific data partnerships, reach out to our partnerships team at partnerships@watershedclimate.com
