Responsible AI

In the circular economy, a claim is only as good as its proof.

Recovery rates, carbon savings, responsible sourcing — none of it counts unless it can be traced, explained and audited. PlanetLoop is built so every material claim and every AI recommendation can be challenged and verified.

Why we lead with provenance

Circularity runs on trust. When a recovered mineral is sold as responsibly sourced, when a carbon saving is reported to a regulator, when a product passport says a component can be reused — someone is relying on that being true. "The model said so" is never good enough.

So PlanetLoop treats provenance and explainability as core engineering, not compliance theatre. Every output carries its reasoning and its lineage, every consequential decision routes through a human, and every claim can be reconstructed from source — which is exactly what makes the intelligence safe to deploy where real materials, money and risk are on the line.

Our commitments

Six things we never compromise.

They hold across every loop and every deployment — how we make circular intelligence safe to act on.

Explainable by default

Every recommendation arrives with the reasoning and the data behind it.

Full material provenance

Trace any output to source — every input, version and transformation, end to end.

Human in the loop

People hold the controls on consequential decisions. The system advises; a person decides.

Independent assurance

Outputs and product passports are built to be audited by third parties, not trusted on our word.

Bias tested

Models are evaluated for bias and failure modes before deployment, and monitored after.

Data sovereignty

Your data and the intelligence built from it stay yours, governed by your policies.

Anatomy of a trusted claim

What "provable" looks like in practice.

Every recovery decision PlanetLoop issues is a record, not a black box — the basis of an auditable digital product passport.

Decision
Recover gold & palladium from circuit-board batch #4471
Inputs
17 sources — composition scans, market prices, process data · traceable
Model
Recovery-optimisation v3.2.1 · confidence 98.4%
Reasoning
Recoverable value exceeds processing cost; cleaner pathway available
Approved by
Operations · human in the loop
Verified
Yield measured against ground truth · logged to product passport
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Answers to the questions we hear most. Still unsure? Get in touch and we'll walk you through it.

Circularity runs on trust. When a recovered mineral is sold as responsibly sourced, or a carbon saving is reported to a regulator, someone relies on that being true. PlanetLoop treats provenance and explainability as core engineering so every material claim and AI recommendation can be challenged and verified — not taken on faith.
Every output can be traced to source — every input, model version and transformation — and every consequential decision routes through a human. That lineage is what makes a recovery decision into an auditable digital product passport a regulator or third party can verify.
No. PlanetLoop keeps a human in the loop for consequential decisions. The system advises — ranking, costing and explaining options — and a person approves. The AI accelerates the decision; it doesn't remove accountability for it.

Deploy circular AI you can stand behind.

Bring us a claim you need to prove. We'll show you what governed, traceable intelligence changes.