We pick a company's flagship product, read everything public about it, datasheets, teardowns, labels, patents, filings, and reconstruct the bill of materials. Then we run the carbon footprint. No data from you. No NDA. No kickoff call.
Free. Yours whether we ever speak or not.
40 teardowns across 7 categories. Every one built from public documents.
Showing 6 of 40
108 componentsThe chair separates into more than a hundred individual parts with a published disassembly sequence, so steel, aluminium and plastics can be sorted and recovered at end of life rather than scrapped together.
87 componentsEighty-five percent of the truck's 2,386 kg sits in eight systems, yet the electronics weighing a kilogram or two carry embodied carbon far out of proportion to their mass, the reason a mass-based cut-off misses them.
47 componentsA 4.2 tonne counterweight is cast iron that exists purely to balance the boom: several tonnes of embodied carbon carried for equilibrium rather than for work.
28 componentsThe more-electric architecture and composite airframe cut fuel burn in service, but composites take more energy per kilogram to make than the aluminium they replace: embodied carbon now against operational carbon later.
27 componentsVitreous china is fired to roughly 1,200 degC until it is effectively non-porous, and that firing, not the clay, is what dominates the energy behind a ceramic fixture.
26 componentsAn 1,100 W supply feeding an 822 W PoE budget means the switch spends its life powering other devices; across a service life that electricity dwarfs everything inside the chassis.
A report tells you what happened. A Dynamic LCA tells you what to do.
An agent goes digging: datasheets, teardowns, product labels, patents, published EPDs, regulatory filings, supplier documentation. Whatever exists.
Better BOMs™ turns those documents into structure — components, materials, masses, quantities. Every line carries the document it came from.
Each component resolves to an emissions factor and a footprint by lifecycle phase — as a Dynamic LCA, not a static report. Swap a supplier, change a material, move a manufacturing location and the number moves while you watch. Declared where the manufacturer publishes a declaration. Modeled where they don't. Labeled which, every time.
Lucy, our QA agent, compares the result to a reference product in the same category and flags anything outside the expected band. If it doesn't hold up, it doesn't go on this page.
A blueprint and 3D model are generated from public reference images, then wired to the data. Hover a part, see its emissions. Click a line, find it on the product. Both directions.
Start to finish, without asking anyone for anything.
Better to answer that with a number than an adjective.
Where a company has already published an EPD or a product carbon footprint, we tore that product down too, public documents only, their figure hidden until we were done. Across 19 products, our first pass landed within 12% of the number the company published itself.
That's how much to trust anything here. Enough to start a conversation. Not enough to file.
This checks our estimate of a product against that same product's published figure. It's a test of our method, not a comparison between products or companies.
Nothing here is verified, certified, or a statement about anyone's product. It's our estimate from public information, shown with its working.
We add 6 a week. Requests jump the queue. Tell us the product and we'll tell you when it's up.
ACLCA 2026 · The U.S. Grant, San Diego · September 14–17 · Booth 24
Twenty-minute slots. We open your teardown, you tell us where we're wrong, we fix it while you watch. 15 slots.
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