Netherlands
Market: Services, Other, Artificial Intelligence
Project stage: Operating business
Also this project:
- Participate in the Unicorn Battle
Idea or High Level Concept
Compliance is fragmented and costs 6–10% of $34T global trade.
Sustalium gives SMBs an intelligent way to tame complexity, reduce costs, and stay compliant effortlessly.
Traction and Current Status
Sustalium BV was formed in Q1 2026.
MPV launch was in Q2 2026, with 10 power users.
V1.0 launch was in October 2026.
First Master Service Agreement signed in September 2026.
Over 100 compliance frameworks in Sustalium and growing.
Sustalium was invited as business entity participate in the EU-driven Digital Product Passport initiative.
Problem or Opportunity
Compliance and sustainability burden for businesses is increasing at a rapid rate.
The underserved micro-, small-, medium-businesses (SMB), that either have no compliance department or are understaffed, are impacted extra hard due to:
- New regulations which SMB are not exempt from
- Move to digital compliance as opposed to paper based
- Compliance audits moving from random checks to continuous
Punishments they face are:
- shipments being delayed
- fines
- enterprise customers cancelling contracts
All due to not having access to the tools, methods and insights.
Solution
Sustalium is a digital first, self-serve compliance platform, which is a disruptor to the SMB compliance market.
Sustalium differs by:
- Offering a easy to access applicable compliance finder tool
( https://sustalium.com/countries/map/ )
- Immediate signup/start, no consultant or sales-call
- One tool for all compliances types
- Within 30 minutes published compliance asset
- Each compliance asset has public page, QR code and auditor view
Business Model, Chanells, Metrics
SMB pay per compliance asset, with volume discounts available.
Baseline price is € 10 per month/per compliance asset, invoiced on an annual basis.
The average required amount of compliance documents per products is 3.
The average amount of products for:
Micro-business = 10
Small-business = 50
Medium-business = 250
GTM is not aimed at direct-B2B-approach (SEO & GEO is applied).
GTM is focussed on scaling networks, such as business networks, incubators, EU programs and e-commerce platforms hosting SMBs (e.g. shopify, amazon).
