Bloom was built with communities in mind.

Over the years, we’ve all seen many cases of greenwashing as companies try to report on their sustainability efforts. We’ve also seen many private sector actors with good intentions struggle with how to track and report on their impact, while being far removed from the first mile of their supply chains. Similarly, we’ve needed a better way to measure our own initiatives within communities—to understand the positive and sometimes unintended negative impact to be able to properly adjust. Importantly, we’ve wanted to ensure that local communities and supply chain actors themselves are benefitting from the data they provide.

As the movement towards improving supply chain traceability or reporting on environmental, social and governance (ESGs) targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has grown, so too has the overwhelming nature of the task. Standards are not designed to be easily harmonized with others and no standard language exists on “responsible sourcing.”

With Bloom, users can prove their compliance claims and social impact on communities in the first mile of the supply chain.

Bloom was built with these communities in mind. With Bloom, we want to encourage transformative global change, seed development and resiliency, which ultimately will reduce supply chain risks.

The idea for Bloom came from decades of research and experience implementing projects to support transparent supply chains, especially IMPACT’s efforts working with communities in Democratic Republic of Congo to implement conflict-free and legal artisanal gold supply chains.