What does product carbon data cost you today — and what do you save with osapiens.
The consultancy route costs ~€20k per product LCA. osapiens calculates a PCF for every BOM you upload — so 50% of the internal effort and 50% of the external spend disappear, and the per-product math becomes absurd in your favour.
What you'll need — the numbers behind your value case
These are the inputs behind the calculation. Real figures give the most accurate result — where a number isn't known, a best estimate works fine.
Products needing a PCF
Average material components per product
What consultancies quoted per LCA
FTEs doing PCF / LCA work
External LCA consultant spend per year
Which customers are asking for PCFs
Why it matters: these numbers define the size of the problem — and they are the basis your management will ask about anyway.
Your product carbon demand
size of the problem
Size of the problem
Customer requests, tenders, battery regulation, CSRD product lines — count what the market is already asking for.
products
A battery has thousands. Every component needs an emission factor — manually that is the whole problem.
components
Market rate is around €20k per product. Multiply by your product count — that is the outsourcing alternative.
€/ product
Internal effort & external spend
the 50% levers
The 50% levers
Collecting BOMs, hunting emission factors, building spreadsheets per product.
FTE
Per-product LCA studies, methodology reviews, data collection support.
€/ year
Annual saving with osapiens
€0
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ROI year 1
1 · Size of the problem
€20k per product: that is the consultancy market rate for one LCA — and a battery has thousands of components.
Upload 10,000 BOMs, get a PCF for every single one. That is the osapiens way — the marginal cost of the next footprint is zero.
2 · Real value — your current spend
Internal team (PCF / LCA work)
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External LCA & PCF consultants
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Total annual cost of product carbon data today—
Savings with osapiens
Biggest value driver
Internal effort automated away
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External spend reduced
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osapiens investment — AE fills in
Annual SaaS license
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Net annual benefit (from year 2)—
3 · Other benefits — not priced in, but real
Market access & revenue growth. Customers and consumers are asking for PCFs in tenders today — answer in days and win deals competitors cannot quote.
Primary beats secondary. Secondary data is cheap but discounted by buyers — supplier-based primary data makes your footprint a sales argument, not a disclaimer.
Scale without hires. 400 products today, every BOM you upload tomorrow — the platform calculates, your team validates.
One data model with CCF & CBAM. The supplier emission data you collect feeds corporate footprint and border adjustment too — collected once, used three times.
