Company
Built where the evidence already exists.
RondoTrace is a Luxembourg-based satellite intelligence company. We turn the European Sentinel archives — already collected, already public — into supplier-site evidence for industrial buyers operating under CSDDD, CSRD, CBAM, and EUDR.
01 — Origin
The diligence model has changed. The infrastructure already exists.
For decades, supply-chain due diligence relied on three sources: supplier-completed questionnaires, periodic third-party audits, and voluntary certification schemes. All three are point-in-time. All three depend on the supplier’s own disclosures. Under CSDDD, CSRD, CBAM, and EUDR, this is no longer enough.
The European Space Agency’s Copernicus programme has been continuously imaging the Earth’s land surface since 2014. The data is publicly archived and consistently calibrated. For most industrial supplier sites, every meaningful physical risk indicator — ground stability, deforestation, water and soil change, air quality, thermal events, embedded emissions, settlement patterns — has been observable from orbit for over a decade.
RondoTrace exists because that observability layer has not been operationally integrated into how European industrial buyers prove their supplier diligence. We’re not replacing existing audits, questionnaires, or certifications. We’re providing the continuous evidence layer that makes them current, spatially complete, and defensible.
02 — Principles
How we work.
Complement not replace
Above your existing diligence.
Our evidence sits alongside the audits, questionnaires, and certifications you already commission. We make those processes current and spatially complete — not redundant.
Methodology disclosed
The methodology is the product.
Every site report ships with the methodology, the source data, the date range, and the limitations. A buyer using our evidence in a regulatory proceeding can defend every claim.
Evidence not verdict
Satellites record. They do not adjudicate.
We surface what the physical record shows. We do not interpret intent, attribute responsibility, or issue compliance judgments. Those determinations remain with your team and your regulators.
Limitations published
What we can't measure, we name.
Atmospheric constraints, sensor resolution limits, sub-surface invisibility — every limitation is documented per site, per domain. Our credibility depends on naming what we cannot observe.
03 — Ethics
The questions we ask of ourselves.
Satellite intelligence carries asymmetric power. A buyer with our evidence layer sees more about a supplier’s operations than the supplier may know is visible. That asymmetry creates obligations.
We surface only what is observable from publicly archived imagery. We name our limitations in every report. We do not infer intent from physical signal alone — we present the signal and let the buyer’s diligence process integrate it with on-ground information, supplier engagement, and regulatory context.
Where our evidence touches communities — human rights proxies, settlement change, land clearing patterns — we corroborate before we report. Single-source satellite anomalies are flagged as such. We do not issue community-impact findings without independent corroboration.
We exist to make supply-chain diligence more honest. The evidence we provide is honest because it is grounded in physical observation, disclosed methodology, and acknowledged limitations. Anything less would not serve the buyer, the regulator, or the communities downstream of industrial operations.
Begin with a site
One supplier site. Thirty days.
We rebuild a satellite-evidence timeline for a single site of your choosing. You see the methodology, the limitations, and the output format. No commitment beyond the assessment.