Suppliers don't fill in forms. So we stopped asking them to.
Most of what a passport needs sits with your suppliers, across tiers, in other languages. Everdge asks them for what it needs and accepts whatever they already have.
What arrives, and what it becomes
This is the whole product in one picture. On the left is what a supplier actually sends. On the right is what it has to become before it can go in a legal document.
WHAT THEY SENT
- Zertifikat_2026.pdfGerman · scanned
- IMG_4471.jpgphoto of a datasheet
- Re: material infofigures in the email body
- mill_data.xlsxtheir column names
WHAT IT BECAME
- Fibre composition
- 62% recycled PET
- Mill
- Nordwind Textil GmbH
- Dye process
- Reactive, ZDHC-conformant
- Recycled content
- 62%
from Zertifikat_2026.pdf p.2
from Re: material info
from IMG_4471.jpg
from mill_data.xlsx · col D
Every structured value keeps the document it came from. Nothing arrives without a source.
Why it stalls at tier one
You know who makes your garment. The passport needs facts that live three suppliers further down, and each tier knows only its own supplier.
- Tier 1Garment maker
- Tier 2Fabric mill
- Tier 3Yarn / fibre producerusually unknown
- Tier 4Raw materialusually unknown
Everdge asks tier one for its supplier, and asks that supplier next — following the chain rather than expecting you to already have it mapped. Batteries have the same shape: cell, then materials, then the mine.
Why suppliers actually respond
This is the number the whole product is designed around. Every decision below removes one reason to ignore the request.
No account
A link, not a login. Account creation is where supplier requests die.
Their language
The request arrives in the language they work in, and the answer is translated back.
Whatever they have
Not a rigid form. A PDF, a photo, a paragraph in an email — all acceptable inputs.
On a phone
Most of these people are not at a desk. Save and resume, no lost progress.
Fill a component once
What that costsA fabric or a cell is filled in once and reused across every product that contains it — so the second passport in a category costs less than the first, and the fiftieth costs least.
Questions
Do suppliers need an account?
No. They get a link that opens straight onto the request, and it works on a phone. Nothing to create, nothing to remember, nothing to lose.
What languages does it handle?
The request goes out in the language the supplier works in, and whatever comes back is translated and structured. A German certificate or an Italian spec sheet does not need a human translator first.
Is the data audit-ready?
Every value keeps its source document, the confidence of the extraction, and who confirmed it. That is what makes the record defensible if a market surveillance authority asks where a figure came from.
What if a supplier sends a messy PDF?
That is the normal case, and it is what the extraction is for. If a document genuinely cannot be read, you get told which value is still missing and can ask again — rather than finding out at publish.