Managing Traceability Risk in EUDR Compliance
Written by Clément Suavet, PhD., Data Analyst at Sustaain Understanding Traceability and Traceability Risk Traceability requires producing, collecting, and storing documents that prove the origin of products and their chain of custody. Traceability risk is the risk of mixing or substitution with products of unknown origin along the chain of custody. The EUDR and other […]
2026: The year nothing happens, yet everything shifts.
Written by Clément Collignon, CEO of Sustaain 2026: The year nothing happens, yet everything shifts. When politics stalls, trust migrates, from institutions to systems. The advantage will belong to those who can measure, prove, and explain reality when narratives start to wobble. In Davos, the future is being reassembled (again) out of well-tailored phrases. On […]
Coffee Suitability Maps
Written by Aurélien Callens, PhD. Data Scientist at Sustaain Coffee Suitability Maps: Mapping Where Coffee Can Thrive in Uganda Finding coffee plots from satellite imagery requires knowing where coffee can exist in the first place. Suitability mapping provides fast, actionable spatial constraints grounded in agronomic knowledge. What is Suitability Mapping and Why It Matters […]
The Bug in the Bean: Why Data, Not Weather, is the New Supply Shock
By Clément Collignon, CEO, Sustaain I used to be a Product Manager for Trading Softwares. In that life, the rules were simple: if a feature wasn’t in the spec, it didn’t ship. If the data didn’t validate the user story, you killed the feature. You defined the product, you built it, and you shipped it. […]
Sustaain strengthens its partnership with Volcafe
Sustaain strengthens its partnership with Volcafe to accelerate traceability and compliance in coffee supply chains Sustaain, a data and artificial intelligence platform dedicated to improving data for sustainable supply chains in soft commodities, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Volcafe, one of the world’s leading green coffee merchants. Following a year of collaboration […]
Automate Document Extraction with AI – Bills of Lading and More
Written by Florent Scarpa, Data Scientist at Sustaain Let’s talk today about a topic that moves calmly in the eye of the Gen AI hurricane: document information extraction. While some flashier topics steal the scene, information extraction silently benefits from the exponential progress of LLMs, multimodal models and agentic workflows. Why document processing […]
Cash is King — A Thriller in Three Acts for the AI Age
The season of plenty, the art of restraint 2025 feels like Thriller on repeat: everyone’s dancing, no one’s sleeping, and somewhere in the background, venture capital just hit another high note. AI startups have soaked up over half of global VC flows since January. Valuations moonwalk upward; due diligence quietly exits the room. Founders talk […]