📊 Protocol Pitch · Deck A · The Boardroom Brief

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Deck A · For FTSE 100 · Multinationals · Group ESG · Procurement

CircularOS · Midland Polymer Trading Ltd

66 Sealed Protocols.
One Audit-Grade Compliance Fabric.

The first plastic-circularity operating system your audit committee can actually defend. £450 per verified tonne. Stripe-billed. SHA-256 sealed. Truth Ledger backed.

Sovereign Protocols

£450

Per Verified Tonne

Functional Domains

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Slide 2 · The Boardroom Question

"Can you defend our plastic numbers — line by line — in front of an auditor who is paid to find one fault?"

Most ESG dashboards cannot. They aggregate supplier self-declarations, blend in modelled assumptions, layer a colour scheme on top, and call it a report. That works until the day the regulator, the audit committee, the journalist, or the activist shareholder asks the same question your CFO asks about every other number on the books: "show me the receipt."

Plastic is the next material exposed to that question. EPR is here. The Plastic Packaging Tax is here. Greenwashing case law is here. And the reporting burden is migrating from the sustainability team to the audit committee.

"Net-zero by 2050" doesn't survive a 2026 audit. A receipt does.

EPR fees are landing on producers — but the underlying tonnage is rarely independently verified.
Greenwashing claims are now litigable in the UK, EU, and increasingly the US — without a defensible chain of custody, every claim is a future liability.
Audit committees are asking sustainability teams to evidence their numbers the way finance does — invoice, weighbridge ticket, processor receipt, sealed.

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Slide 3 · The Category Shift

You don't need another report. You need an operating system you can plug into.

CircularOS is not a consultancy and not a dashboard. It is a sealed operating system for the circular economy of plastic — built on 66 numbered, dated, sovereign protocols across ten functional domains. Every tonne that moves through it is documented from intake to verification to settlement. Every action is recorded in an immutable Truth Ledger. Every receipt carries a SHA-256 seal.

You do not buy advice. You buy verified tonnes, in the form of an ESG Block, at £450 each. The protocols are what make that price defensible.

Protocols

Numbered · sealed · publicly indexed at /protocol-hub

Domains

Intake · Governance · Capital · Network · Processors · Evidence · Reporting · Compliance · Alignment · Replication

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Truth Ledger

Immutable action log · every tonne traceable to the verification event

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Slide 4 · The Compliance Spine

The 66 protocols, grouped by what an auditor actually asks about.

An auditor doesn't care about marketing language. They ask six questions in sequence. Each maps to a protocol cluster.

"How was it taken in?" → Protocol 060 · Supplier Intake · 6 stages from first contact to first verified tonne.
"What if there's a dispute?" → Protocol 062 · Dispute & Escalation · 3 levels · 72h / 7d / 14d sovereign arbitration.
"Who paid for what, and when?" → Protocol 063 · Working Capital Bridge · governs the gap between £200 Carrot and dPRN settlement.
"Where was it processed?" → Protocol 065 · Processor Onboarding · MRF qualification · 4 stages · sealed contracts.
"How was it verified?" → MD-435 Proof Stack · six interlocking proof products · one Truth Ledger.
"How is it reported?" → Protocol 066 · EPR Compliance · four reporting cycles · regulator dispute path defined.

Most ESG vendors give you a number. We give you the protocol that produced the number.

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Slide 5 · The Product

ESG Block · £450 · One verified tonne · Audit-defensible from day one.

An ESG Block is the unit your sustainability team can buy, your finance team can book, and your audit committee can defend. One block represents one verified tonne of plastic diverted under the 66-protocol fabric, at the £450 sovereign anchor price.

What you get per block

· Truth Ledger entry with SHA-256 seal
· Verified weight + processor receipt
· Chain-of-custody PDF
· Public dPRN reference number
· Reportable to EPR cycle

How you buy it

· Stripe Checkout · single block or volume
· Self-serve at /esg-block
· Annual contract for 1,000+ blocks
· White-label option (L1–L6 licence ladder)
· Procurement-ready invoice

£450

Per Block (1 tonne)

£45k

100-Block Starter

£450k

1,000-Block Annual

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Slide 6 · The EPR Shield + Greenwashing Immunity

Two products built on the same protocol fabric — one for the regulator, one for the press release.

The same 66 protocols power two derivative products explicitly designed for the corporate ESG buyer:

🛡 EPR Shield

A documented compliance posture across the four UK EPR reporting cycles. Maps your purchased blocks to your declared tonnage. Provides regulator-ready evidence packs on demand. Closes the gap between "we said we did" and "here is the receipt."

🪞 Greenwashing Immunity

Every public claim you make about a purchased block is back-referenced to a SHA-256 sealed Truth Ledger entry. If a journalist, regulator, or NGO asks "prove it" — you hand them a URL. The claim defends itself.

The protocols are not the product. The protocols are why the product is defensible.

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Slide 7 · The 90-Day Plug-In

From first call to first audit-defensible tonne — in one quarter.

30d

Phase 1 · Audit

Map your declared tonnage · identify exposure · scope first 100 blocks · run Protocol 060 supplier intake on your existing waste partners.

60d

Phase 2 · First Blocks

100 ESG Blocks delivered · Truth Ledger entries created · evidence pack generated · first quarterly EPR report filed under the new fabric.

90d

Phase 3 · Lock-In

Annual contract negotiated · 1,000-block volume · white-label option scoped if you want it badged internally · board pack delivered.

No platform integration. No software install. No procurement gauntlet. The fabric is already live, the protocols are already sealed, the receipts are already minted at the source.

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Slide 8 · The Ask

One starter contract. One quarter. £45,000.

We are not asking you to believe the system. We are asking you to buy 100 verified blocks, run your own audit on them, and decide for yourself whether the protocol fabric earns the £450 anchor.

If it does, the conversation moves to the 1,000-block annual contract. If it does not, you have spent £45,000 and learned more about your own plastic footprint than any consultancy would have surfaced for ten times the price.

Open the door · 100-Block Starter · £45,000

Self-serve via the ESG Block product page · or request a board-room brief.

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66 Sealed Protocols.One Audit-Grade Compliance Fabric.