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Core Features
Circularity Baseline & CTI Framework Implementation: Circular IQ enables companies to measure their baseline circular performance across materials, waste, resource flows, recycling, product design, and supply-chain circularity using the CTI framework.
Supply-Chain & Material Flow Analysis: The tool supports mapping of material and component flows, assessing the origin, reuse potential, recycled content, waste generation, and circularity rates across supply chains.
Gap Analysis & Data Quality Diagnostics: For organisations lacking full data, Circular IQ offers gap-analysis services to help identify missing data, estimate proxies where needed, and build a structured circularity dataset.
Scenario & Improvement Opportunity Analysis: The platform enables companies to run circular-economy scenarios, for example, material substitution, design for recyclability, and supplier changes, to model impact before implementation.
Reporting & Compliance Support for Circular Economy Reporting: Circular IQ is explicitly positioned to support disclosure obligations (e.g. under ESRS E5), providing structured circularity data, material-flow transparency, and performance tracking.
Dashboard & Data Visualisation: The platform offers dashboards and visualisations (e.g. flow diagrams, circularity heatmaps) that make circular-economy data accessible and actionable for different stakeholders within a company.
Modular & Sector-Agnostic Design: Circular IQ is designed to be used across industries, from manufacturing to consumer goods, construction, packaging, and retail, enabling cross-sector circularity assessment.
Plans & Pricing
According to publicly available data, Circular IQ operates as a SaaS platform. One benchmark from a public listing suggests a starting plan price of approximately €11,700 per year.
Because circular-economy analysis often depends on supply-chain complexity, material flows, and data volume, pricing likely scales with company size, number of materials/products, suppliers and required modules.
Integrations & Use Context
Circular IQ integrates through data ingestion (e.g. procurement records, supplier data, bill-of-materials, waste logs, material origin data) rather than IoT or energy sensors. Businesses often combine Circular IQ with procurement systems, supply-chain databases or ERP systems to collect required data. Once data are ingested, Circular IQ structures them according to the CTI framework to produce circularity metrics, flags, visualisations and compliance-ready reports. This makes the tool especially useful for companies with complex supply chains, manufacturing operations or product portfolios.
Certifications, Frameworks & Compliance
Circular Transition Indicators (CTI): Circular IQ’s core framework is fully aligned with the CTI initiative developed by WBCSD.
ESRS E5 / Circular Economy Disclosure: Circular IQ positions itself to help companies comply with circular-economy reporting standards, including material circularity, waste, resource use, and end-of-life impacts.
Material Traceability & Transparency: In collaboration with platforms like Madaster, Circular IQ supports material passport generation and building-level or product-level circularity audits, enhancing transparency about materials, origin, reuse and end-of-life potential.
Expert Voices & Market Perception
Circular IQ is recognised within the circular economy and sustainability community as one of the first scalable SaaS solutions enabling data-driven circularity assessment. The partnership with WBCSD to operationalise the CTI framework underlines its credibility.
Clients and industry partners highlight its value in converting complex, fragmented circular-economy data into intuitive dashboards, enabling clearer decision making, gap identification and strategic prioritisation.
Sustainability consultants note that Circular IQ addresses a major challenge: many companies lack standardised metrics or frameworks to assess circular performance — this tool fills that gap, improving comparability, traceability and reporting readiness.
Customers & Use Cases
Circular IQ is used by:
Manufacturers of consumer goods, electronics, packaging, and textiles
Construction and building materials companies using material passports
Companies under regulatory pressure for ESG and circularity disclosures
Organisations seeking to transform supply-chain practices, improve recycled-content rates, reduce waste and improve resource efficiency
Enterprises aiming to embed circularity into procurement, design, supply-chain management and sustainability governance
Through Circular IQ, these organisations can:
Quantify material use and waste generation
Map supply-chain circularity and identify bottlenecks
Evaluate and compare circularity scenarios (e.g. recycled content, waste reduction, reuse loops)
Report circularity performance internally or externally (investors, regulators)
Align company strategy with circular-economy goals and compliance requirements
Closing Insights
Circular IQ stands out as a mature, purpose-built circular-economy software platform that fills a critical gap between sustainability policy, supply-chain complexity, and operational reality. Its use of a globally recognised framework (CTI), focus on material-flow transparency, and support for circular-economy compliance (e.g. ESRS E5) make it a strong candidate for companies aiming to integrate circularity into core business processes — not just as an add-on, but as a strategic transformation.
Strengths:
Robust circularity measurement and reporting foundation
Supply-chain and materials traceability-oriented
Framework-aligned (CTI / ESRS), good for compliance and transparency
Flexible data ingestion works even with minimal data
Scenario planning and improvement-opportunity analysis
Limitations & Considerations:
Not a full carbon accounting tool — circularity ≠ emissions accounting; carbon footprint is not its core metric.
Data quality and availability are critical — poor supplier data or missing materials info limits accuracy.
Focused on circularity/waste/material flows — for integrated ESG (carbon + water + energy + social), may need a combination with other tools.
May require commitment and coordination across procurement, supply-chain and sustainability teams to be effective.
Overall, for companies serious about circular economy transformation, especially those with product- or material-intensive operations, Circular IQ represents one of the most complete, compliance-ready, and scalable software solutions available in 2025.