--- title: "Sustainability Software for Food Value Chains | Spirefly" description: "AI-powered sustainability software for the food industry. Spend less time on data, improve resilience, and communicate your results across the value chain." url: "https://www.spirefly.com/solutions/food-value-chain/" type: marketing license: proprietary --- # AI-powered Sustainability for the food industry Spend less time on data, improve your resilience, and communicate your achievements. ## Food companies know sustainability matters to their business. Yet, most lack the tools to quantify, improve, and accelerate their sustainability efforts. **Sustainability teams are doing the work of entire departments** Usually with no more than two people and a spreadsheet. Measurement, supplier chasing, and reporting compete for the same week, so the work that improves your footprint keeps sliding to the next quarter. **Reporting eats up the available budget** SBTi, EUDR, CSRD, and EcoVadis each ask for your data in a different shape. You assemble the same story four times over, and the budget you meant to spend on improvement is gone by the time you file. **Data collection becomes a second job** Your data sits with procurement, logistics, and hundreds of growers, in whatever quality each of them keeps it. Harmonizing it swallows the weeks you needed for the assessment itself. ## Accelerating sustainability along the entire food value chain - Ingredient providers - Food brands - Retail and Hospitality ## Always as precise as your data allows Spirefly uses the most precise data available for each ingredient and supplier, and falls back to the next-best source where that data isn't there yet: primary supplier data measured at source where you have it, then product LCAs, physical-flow data, and spend-based estimates behind it. - **Primary supplier data** — Measured at source - **Product LCAs** — Full life-cycle studies - **Physical flows** — Measured material & energy volumes - **Spend-based** — Fallback that completes coverage [See how Spirefly measures your footprint](https://www.spirefly.com/measure) ## Nature + Carbon data, a complete picture for food companies - Food-specific impact databases - 90,000+ crop and location-specific risk profiles - SBTi FLAG emissions ## Quantify your reduction pathways Model the levers that move your footprint the most: regenerative farming with your growers, lower-carbon recipes and ingredients, renewable energy at your processing sites, and cutting food waste. Scenarios run on your actual volumes and return carbon, water, and land within minutes, so trade-offs are clear while you still have time to act on them. [Explore scenario planning](https://www.spirefly.com/act/scenario-planning) ## Sustainability Workbench: Turn your carbon and nature data into action Your carbon and nature data is the foundation for the decisions a food business makes, from sourcing to sustainability strategy. From setting science-based targets to answering supplier questionnaires to building your CSRD disclosures. The Sustainability Workbench is where those tasks get done. With the data work automated, your team spends its time strengthening the resilience of your supply chain and showing the progress you have made. It's an AI-powered environment that gives you access to reliable resources, proven processes, and best practices, all adapted to your products, suppliers, and goals. [Explore the Sustainability Workbench](https://www.spirefly.com/act) ## What customers say > "Spirefly quickly maps corporate nature risks and impacts, helping companies kickstart their biodiversity journeys and prioritize data, reporting, and action." > — Nicola Friedman, Rainforest Alliance > "Spirefly quantified our supply chain's biodiversity impacts, allowing us to target high-risk suppliers and locations to drive more effective environmental policies." > — Leaya Amey, Maple Leaf Foods > "SBTN gave us the confidence to trust our assessment, and Spirefly made the process faster and more efficient by providing seamless access to the necessary data." > — Nicholas Hamilton, Sodexo ## Frequently asked questions **Can we start without primary supply chain data?** Yes. Where primary supplier data is unavailable, Spirefly draws on peer-reviewed industry databases: AgriBalyse for food and agricultural products, and ecoinvent for other inputs. For origins that can't be directly traced, Spirefly uses trade flow models to estimate likely countries of origin. You start with what you have and refine over time. **Does Spirefly support SBTi FLAG targets?** Yes. FLAG (Forests, Land and Agriculture) is the SBTi framework for companies with significant land-use emissions. Spirefly has FLAG and non-FLAG emission splits built in, so land-use targets and fossil fuel targets are tracked separately, exactly as SBTi requires. **What environmental impacts does Spirefly measure?** Spirefly measures four impact categories using the ReCiPe 2016 LCIA methodology: carbon emissions, water use, land use, and pollution: specifically freshwater eutrophication and soil acidification. All four are calculated at the product and supply chain level. **What nature risks does Spirefly assess?** Spirefly calculates country- and crop-specific nature risk exposure across 15+ dimensions, including water availability, land degradation, deforestation, and biodiversity indicators. Risk data is drawn from SBTN, Trends.Earth, LandGriffon, and UNEP-WCMC. **How much internal resource does working with Spirefly require?** The main input is your supply chain data: ingredient lists, spend data, or supplier information. From there, most analytical work is handled by Spirefly; your team steers, reviews, and acts on the outputs. Spirefly has been successfully deployed in sustainability teams of 1–5 people. **How does supply chain data get into Spirefly?** Most clients start with data exports: a CSV from your ERP, a supplier spreadsheet, or spend data. Over time, Spirefly works toward a more integrated setup where data flows in directly through APIs. **Can we bring our own LCA data or product carbon footprints?** Yes. Spirefly accepts your own LCA data, supplier-level primary data, or existing product carbon footprints. Where primary data is unavailable, the platform fills in using industry databases. As your data improves, your baseline updates automatically. **How long does onboarding take?** Once your data is gathered, companies are up and running within one week. The onboarding session itself takes 30 minutes.