The Mission

BorderPrice's mission is to give European SMEs procurement clarity as CBAM becomes financially binding in January 2026. SMEs importing carbon-intensive goods — steel, aluminium, fertilisers, cement, industrial components — face rising CBAM exposure and increasing customer demands for carbon and supplier data. Existing tools are built for enterprises with sustainability teams. SMEs, who don't have ESG departments, are left navigating this alone. BorderPrice turns messy import and supplier data into clear procurement actions: showing where exposure sits, identifying missing supplier data, generating structured supplier requests, and producing clean transparency packs for corporate customers. The principle is simple: reduce uncertainty without adding work. BorderPrice is built to fit procurement's existing workflow — light enough for a purchasing manager to maintain, structured enough to give SMEs real control over their CBAM and supply-chain readiness. Long-term, our mission is to make CBAM compliance and supply-chain transparency a competitive advantage for SMEs — not a burden. The businesses that adapt fastest to carbon-aware procurement will win the contracts of tomorrow. BorderPrice exists to help SMEs get there first.

The Challenge

From January 2026, CBAM becomes financially binding. SMEs importing steel, aluminium, fertilisers, cement, or industrial components face new costs and obligations — while their corporate customers increasingly demand carbon, origin, and supplier data that most SMEs cannot yet produce. The unmet need: SMEs need to see where their CBAM exposure sits, identify what supplier data they're missing, and respond to customer requests — without building a sustainability function. But existing ESG platforms are built for enterprises with ESG teams and compliance budgets. SMEs don't have these. They have a procurement manager handling CBAM, customer demands, and supplier data alongside everything else. This creates three specific gaps: 1. Visibility gap — SMEs don't know which imports fall under CBAM or how close they are to the 50-tonne threshold. 2. Data gap — they lack structured ways to identify missing supplier data and request it efficiently. 3. Response gap — when customers ask for carbon or transparency data, SMEs have no clean way to package what they have or flag what's missing. The result: SMEs face regulatory and commercial risk they cannot see, with no tool built for their reality.

The solution

BorderPrice turns messy import and supplier data into clear procurement actions — before CBAM becomes a financial risk. BorderPrice — four jobs, one connected workflow. Each shaped by direct procurement input from European SME procurement managers. 1. See exposure — Map suppliers and products against CBAM-covered HS codes. Validated as procurement priority: most SMEs don't yet know which of their imports fall under CBAM, or how close they are to the 50-tonne threshold. 2. Close data gaps — Identify what supplier and emissions data is missing and what to do next. Validated: "wait and see" is the default SME stance for non-critical components — leaving procurement teams unprepared when exposure builds at contract renewal. 3. Request supplier data — Pre-built supplier outreach templates and tracking. Validated: SMEs lack the bandwidth to manually chase supplier emissions data across dozens of non-EU suppliers in varied formats. 4. Respond to customers — Clean transparency reports for corporate customer carbon-data requests. Validated: customer pressure for Scope 3 and supplier transparency data is already reaching SMEs regardless of their own CBAM threshold status. Prototype Link - https://borderprice-simpler.lovable.app