Help R&D design
more sustainable products
With Footprinter's AI sustainable innovation platform, embed sustainability in R&D and make better and earlier sustainable design decisions.
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AI Driven Impact
AI Factor Assignment
Automatically maps materials and processes to the most accurate sustainability factors using AI — no more manual matching.
AI ERP and PLM Integration
Plug in your PLM or ERP — our AI automatically footprints your data with minimal setup.
AI Industry Benchmarking
Compare product categories against internal trends and external best-in-class benchmarks, like ultra-concentrated formulations.
AI Component Benchmarking
Instantly compare individual components or materials to top-performing alternatives — including recycled content and renewable inputs.
All the features you need to design more sustainable products and portfolios.
Good, caring design plays a powerful role in reducing our impact on the planet.
Model Product Sustainability
LCA that fits your products, your process, your language
- Built around your workflow
Green Design adapts to your products, strategy, and sustainability goals. - Use your PLM structure
Match your stage-gate naming, product specs, serving sizes, and BOMs. - Real data, real impact
Tap into robust libraries sourced from multiple trusted databases, with best-available environmental factors. - Designed for usability
Customized tabs and material rows make data entry and review intuitive.
Work Together, Naturally
Sustainability is a team sport
- Team-based projects
Multi-user collaboration with project-level permission settings. - Clear handoffs
Visual chevrons track completion status across the project lifecycle. - Real data, real impact
Tap into robust libraries sourced from multiple trusted databases, with best-available environmental factors. - Invite & align
Collaborate seamlessly with teammates, wherever they are.
Informed Design Decisions
Actionable insights at the moment of design
- See the signal, not the noise
Simple but powerful visualizations guide better choices. - Benchmark performance
Instantly compare versions, brands, and category norms. - Embedded intelligence
Direct designers toward better materials, formats, and trade-offs. - Explore what’s possible
Experiment fast with flexible, intuitive bottom-up modeling. Try substitutions, right-size components, or eliminate entirely.
Manage the Sustainable Portfolio
Tools to move from green ideas to green results
- Stage-gate ready
Set approvals and checkpoints at key design decisions. - Find the winners early
Identify high-impact projects and course-correct weak ones. - Report with confidence
Track, share, and scale success across your organization.
Software for product designers who care about sustainability.
Footprinter is designed for time-pressed designers and product line managers.
“If it wasn’t easy to use, we wouldn’t use it”Former Reckitt R&D sustainability brand champion
A simple, clean interface and workflows. Highly visual and not just numbers with lots of decimals.
Immediate feedback. Automatically saved and synced to the portfolio.
Product designers. Packaging designers. Category and brand managers. R&D leadership and managers. Sustainability team. No training required.
Multi user. Share with teammates. Using SSO (Single sign on).
Clearly communicated KPIs and measures of success. Performance framework built to a single score. Better or worse. Moving us forward or backward.
What are the drivers of sustainability performance and tradeoffs.
Get started designing greener products
Try a Sandbox
Experiment and learn in your own environment
Pilot
Test with a small team or product line
Full Customization
Tailor to your organization goals
Roll Out
Scale across your organization
Footprinter is good at transitioning from single product LCAs and spreadsheets.
We'll get you set up in your own sandbox to experiment, learn and socialize. Get all sandy. For free!
We can help you think through how to pilot and scale up.
You have talented designers. Leverage them. Give your designers the tools to design green.
You are already innovating. Take credit for your sustainability improvements.
Your stakeholders are asking!
Built Around You
All the flexibility of custom. None of the cost, delay, or maintenance hassle. Footprinter gives you a tailored sustainability solution built with our own powerful development tools—fast, affordable, and future-proof.
Near-Custom Fit
Your app. Your data. Your workflow.
We configure every element—library, dashboard, data entry, extract—to match your needs. But we don’t write one-off client code. Instead, we use our dynamic templating engine and continuously evolving internal tools. It’s faster, more secure, and easier to maintain.
One Platform. Always Improving
Think of Footprinter as the engine behind your app.
There’s just one production version—stable, maintained, and constantly evolving. Behind the scenes, we operate in an agile, continuous development environment with active beta and test builds. This lets us deliver improvements quickly and keep costs low.
Google-Scale Hosting
Every client runs on its own dedicated Google Cloud project.
That means world-class security, single-tenant architecture, ultra-low latency, and instant scalability.
Co-Developed with You
We’re your on-call sustainability IT department.
You live sustainability every day. We listen closely and evolve the platform around your needs, making sure Footprinter is always ready for what’s next.
On the Record
Used by some of the biggest brands in the world, all over the world.
Reckitt
“Our products are used in millions of households every day. Our ambition is that every product innovation we generate is more sustainable than its predecessor.
Everything counts, from major new product launches to small incremental changes. We could be improving an existing product range by reducing plastic packaging; switching to a more sustainable, lower-carbon ingredient; exploring new solutions with our suppliers; or we could be developing a completely new product with a lower environmental footprint.
A key tool is our Sustainable Innovation Calculator. This helps us compare the sustainability of product innovations with existing benchmarks. We evaluate a product's raw materials, packaging and environmental impact to understand if innovations are more sustainable.
From Reckitt's 2024 Annual Report. Page 45
PepsiCo
“Sustainable from the Start (SftS), an internal product design program, provides life cycle analysis tools to estimate products' total environmental impact during their early design and development phase. SftS helps decision-makers to understand the sustainability implications of product development and design decisions by estimating potential impacts such as GHG emissions, water consumption, water risk and packaging recyclability.
It also establishes guidelines on reducing impacts with changes to alternative ingredients, improved packaging and more sustainable technology and distribution. Results from SftS are then incorporated into the new product development business process for visibility and decision-making.
When the SftS process identifies an opportunity between a product and our design standards or long-term sustainability goals – such as non-recyclable packaging – the product team is required to develop a future solution or mitigation plan.
From PepsiCo's ESG Topics A-Z: Sustainable Product Design