About
A passport has to outlast the contract that created it
A battery sold in 2027 is still in service in 2042, and its passport still has to resolve and still has to verify. Every significant decision this company has made follows from that one sentence.
- Founded
- 2024
- Model
- CIRPASS-aligned
- Data residency
- EU available
Definition
What does CirculeID do?
CirculeID is an enterprise Digital Product Passport platform. It gives physical products a verifiable digital identity that travels with them from raw material to end-of-life, built on GS1 Digital Link, EPCIS 2.0 and W3C Verifiable Credentials so the record satisfies EU regulation and stays portable between systems.
Consequences
What the durability constraint decides
| Decision | The alternative | Why we chose it |
|---|---|---|
| Implement open standards | A better proprietary data model | A proprietary record stops meaning anything when we do |
| Resolution on your domain | Identifiers under ours | A fifteen-year public artefact should not carry our hostname |
| Signatures verifiable without us | Verification through our API | An API call is a dependency; a signature is not |
| Passport data off the ledger | Immutability as a feature | Regulated data must sometimes be corrected, or erased |
| No token, no wallet | A token economy | It adds a procurement obstacle and solves nothing for the buyer |
| Anonymous public tier | Accounts and engagement mechanics | Collecting identity from a scan is a liability, not an asset |
How we work
What follows from it day to day
We cite, always
Every regulatory claim on this site names its instrument and links to the consolidated text.
We implement, not invent
Six layers, none of them ours. That is the portability argument in concrete form.
We state our access honestly
We host and resolve the record, so we process it. We do not claim otherwise.
We plan for the exit
Export produces documents another conforming resolver can serve. Ask early.
We track the acts
Delegated acts are read as they are adopted and turned into field requirements.
You meet the builders
Evaluations involve the people who made the decisions, not a summary of them.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Why does CirculeID implement standards instead of building its own model?
Because a passport must remain meaningful for the product’s service life, which can exceed the life of any vendor relationship. A record expressed in GS1 and W3C specifications can be served by another conforming resolver and verified by systems that never integrated with us. That is the only durable answer to lock-in.
What happens to our passports if CirculeID ceases to exist?
The identifiers follow GS1 Digital Link and can already resolve on your own domain. The events follow EPCIS 2.0 and the credentials follow W3C Verifiable Credentials, both verifiable without us. Export produces the same documents another conforming implementation can serve. We would rather you ask this now than discover the answer later.
Why was the company founded?
Because the ESPR (EU) 2024/1781 turned product data into a legal obligation with a fifteen-year tail, and obligations on that horizon are badly served by proprietary formats. The regulation created a market; the durability requirement determined what kind of company should serve it.
What do you refuse to build?
Anything that makes the record less portable or less honest: passport data on an immutable ledger, a token requirement, engagement mechanics that collect identity from people scanning products, and adoption figures we cannot evidence. Each of those would sell better in the short term, which is precisely why the position needs stating.
How big is CirculeID?
Smaller than the enterprises we sell to, which is worth saying plainly because it affects procurement. It also means the people who built the platform are the ones who answer when something breaks, and an architecture review happens with the person who made the decision rather than a summary of it.
Next step
Ask us the exit question first
What happens to your passports if you stop using us is the most revealing question in this category, and the one we would rather answer at the start.