We live in the world we buy into

Every day, we buy products that impact our planet. Opaque supply chains are devastating environments and compromising the wellbeing of people, animals and communities. Each product and business is different, but rarely do we have the information we need to make positive choices about what to buy.

Provenance is a digital platform that empowers brands to take steps toward greater transparency. With our software, businesses can easily gather and present information and stories about products and their supply chains, including verified data to support them. By connecting this information to things - in store, on pack and online, we can all discover the origin, journey and impact of our products.

The Dalles, Oregon, USA

Our collective power is in our shared knowledge

We don’t sell products, we are a framework for gathering and sharing knowledge about them. Provenance is here for businesses that want to bring a digital dimension to products, to reinforce a genuine connection between the people who create and consume them. We aren’t claiming to be ‘ethical’ or ‘sustainable’, but we are striving for both these ideals through a firm commitment to open, accessible information.

Provenance began out of a personal frustration for how little we know about the things we buy. — Jessi Baker, Founder and CEO

We are now a growing social enterprise with a background in software design, product manufacturing and blockchain. Our base is in London, but our mission is global. Our common goal is to deliver meaningful change to commerce through open and accessible information about products and supply chains.

Made by

Jessi Baker, Ian Kynnersley, Thibaut Schaeffer, Luke Harvey, Harini Manivannan, Catherine Rice, Laura Burnett, Simon I’Anson, Paul Mackay, Louise Garvin, Faisal Chaudhuri, David Pepper, Beth Thayne, Aurore Flaceliere, Luke Pontin, Astrid Chang, Caitlin Jones, Craig McCahill, Sarah Fulton Vachon, Felix Watts, Lucy Salmon, Emilien Hoet, Saad Ghauri and Alanna Curtin.

With help from

Alexsis de Raadt St. James, Chemain Sanan, Brian Fitzpatrick, Scott Bell, Peter Gabriel, Lily Cole, Neliana Fuenmayor, Anina Henggeler, Nicole Green, Robert Walker, Roxy Rocks-Engelman, Tim Wilson, Rosa Koolhoven, Matthew Hussey, Guy Lipscombe, Ben Maxwell, Gavin Starks and Jutta Steiner.

Join our team

We are a small tech startup that’s growing fast. If you share our mission for a more transparent system for commerce, and have unique skills or bucket loads of passion to contribute, contact us or take a look at our careers page.

I'm excited to work every day on technology that increases trust through honest, transparent communication and harnesses commerce to bring about meaningful change. Ian Kynnersley
Chief Technology Officer

Blockchain opens new horizons for brand transparency, and it’s great to be working with this tech at such a pivotal moment in consumer culture. Thibaut Schaeffer
Blockchain Engineer

Our social mission is baked into our Articles of Association at Companies House.

The company Project Provenance Ltd exists to empower people to change the way the global economy works. Creating and fostering open and accessible information about products is at our core, inspiring us to be active citizens through the things we choose to buy. We believe companies like us can and should operate both to succeed as a business and in service to local and global communities.

Press

Provenance has been featured in more than 60 titles – from the BBC and The Guardian to the FT and Reuters. If you’d like to feature us, please see a selection of Provenance images and graphics here for your research or publication. Not for commercial use. Please do not re-create or alter them in any way.