LCA and Carbon Platform Data Integration

Move lifecycle assessment and product-carbon-footprint data into the Annex XIII carbon fields of a Digital Product Passport. AI extraction from an existing LCA report, an AI estimator when there is no report yet, and a REST API for teams with their own integration engineering.

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Carbon-footprint data is one of the hardest Annex XIII field groups to populate

Under the EU Battery Regulation, a Digital Product Passport for an EV, LMT, industrial, or stationary battery must carry a lifecycle carbon-footprint value, the methodology used, the scope boundary (cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave), the reporting year, verification body details, and issue and validity dates. That data usually lives in a PDF from SimaPro, OpenLCA, GaBi, or a consultancy engagement, and needs to move field by field into the passport.

Traceable focuses on that transfer. Not on running the LCA itself, and not on replacing the tool that produced it.

Three paths for moving LCA data into a DPP

Path 1

Upload the LCA report PDF and let AI extract the fields

Upload the report you already have (a SimaPro, OpenLCA, GaBi, or consultancy PDF) into Traceable. AI reads the document, identifies the carbon-footprint verification structure, and returns the values that populate the passport: verification body, methodology, scope, functional unit, total CO2e, reporting year, issue and validity dates. Every extracted value comes with a per-field confidence score. Nothing is committed to the passport until a human reviewer accepts it.

Path 2

No LCA report yet? Use the AI estimator

For teams that have not yet commissioned a full LCA, Traceable includes an AI carbon-footprint estimator that generates a first-pass CO2e figure from the product data already in your wizard: chemistry, capacity, mass, bill of materials, and manufacturing location. Estimates are clearly flagged as estimates, never as verified values, and require operator review before publish. This path is a starting point, not a substitute for a verified LCA when the regulation requires one.

Path 3

Push structured data through the REST API

For LCA platform vendors and consultancies with their own integration engineering, Traceable exposes a REST API v1 that accepts structured product and carbon-footprint payloads. Per-tenant API keys, signed requests, per-endpoint rate limits, and a full audit trail. Suitable for pushing carbon-footprint values from your own automation into a customer's passport with their authorisation.

What the AI extracts from a carbon-footprint report

The extractor is trained on the shape of a lifecycle carbon-footprint verification document. It targets the fields that a Digital Product Passport carbon block needs, so extraction output maps cleanly to the passport wizard.

certificate_number       : e.g. VER-2026-04812
verification_body        : name of verifier, e.g. SGS / TUV / Bureau Veritas
methodology              : ISO 14067 / PEF / other
scope                    : cradle-to-gate / cradle-to-grave
functional_unit          : e.g. 1 kWh delivered over lifetime
co2e_total_kg            : numeric CO2e per functional unit
reporting_year           : year the assessment applies to
issue_date               : date the verification was issued
valid_until              : expiry date of the verification

Every field returned includes a confidence score. Anything the AI is unsure about is flagged for human review before it lands on the passport. Nothing auto-commits.

Supported document shapes

Traceable extracts from the PDF or image output of your LCA tooling. Formats that route through the extractor today:

  • PDF exports from SimaPro, OpenLCA, GaBi, Sphera, One Click LCA, Ecochain, and other LCA platforms
  • PDF verification statements issued by third-party verifiers such as TUV, SGS, and Bureau Veritas
  • PDF or PNG deliverables produced by an LCA consultancy engagement
  • Environmental Product Declarations that carry a verified CO2e figure

Traceable does not parse structured LCA file formats such as .spold, .zolca, ILCD zip, or JSON-LD LCA today. If your platform can export its result as a PDF, the extractor can read it.

For LCA platforms and consultancies with their own integration engineering

When the customer wants their LCA vendor to push carbon data directly, Traceable's REST API v1 is the entry point. Authentication is per-tenant API key with signed requests. Every write is scoped to the operator that issued the key, and every write lands in the audit trail.

GET   /api/v1/products                 List products for the tenant
GET   /api/v1/products/{id}            Full product record
PATCH /api/v1/products/{id}            Update product fields (carbon block included)
POST  /api/v1/documents                Attach a supporting document
GET   /api/v1/webhook-endpoints        Manage outbound webhook subscriptions

See the full API reference and endpoint list →

What Traceable does not do

It is worth being explicit about the boundary, because the LCA tooling market has strong existing products and we do not compete with them.

  • Traceable does not ship a native SimaPro, OpenLCA, GaBi, or Sphera connector. We read the report your tool produces; we do not talk to your tool.
  • Traceable does not look up impact factors in ecoinvent or any other LCI database. The LCA tool you run is the authoritative source for the number.
  • Traceable does not run a lifecycle assessment on your behalf. The AI estimator is a directional first-pass number, not a substitute for a verified LCA when the regulation requires one.

Partnerships with LCA platforms

We are actively evaluating deeper integrations with LCA platform vendors and welcome pilot conversations. A partnership today means a small joint engagement with a shared customer: your platform runs the assessment, Traceable holds the passport, and we work out the smoothest data path between the two. No productised named-tool connector exists yet, and we will not claim one until it ships.

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Further reading

Platform

AI Document Intelligence

How the extraction pipeline works end to end: upload, auto-detect, schema-bound extract, confidence scoring, and mandatory human review.

Industry

Battery Passport Compliance

The Annex XIII carbon-footprint fields that this integration is designed to populate, in the context of the full battery passport.

Platform

API Reference (dev.traceable.digital)

The REST API v1 endpoints an LCA platform or consultancy would call to push structured carbon data programmatically.

Related: Testing and Certification Integration  ·  Partners overview