Protect forests without leaving smallholder farmers behind. Plotline turns messy field records and open satellite data into evidence a cocoa cooperative and its buyer can understand.
Find clearing after the 2020 cut-off. See the source images. Fix the paperwork. Build a traceable due diligence draft.
Fictional cooperative, real locations and saved satellite evidence. Live verification reads the public archives again. Screening supports human review; it does not certify legal compliance.
Green is forest on the cut-off date, per the Commission’s Global Forest Cover 2020 map. Red is tree cover lost after it. White is the plot the cooperative submitted. 2.09 hectares of forest inside this boundary were cleared in 2022, 2023, 2024.
A fictional cocoa cooperative with real locations, saved imagery, and a mix of clear and flagged results.
A forest baseline, annual loss history, and recent optical imagery. Each answers a different part of the question.
Format, geometry, plausibility, duplicate boundaries and portfolio consistency are checked before a statement is built.
Based on measured archive bytes priced at a commercial transfer rate. Excludes compute, hosting, model calls and human review. Live timings vary.
Paste a field message, a transcribed notebook, or spreadsheet text. AI finds the fields. Code rejects coordinate strings absent from the source and performs the numerical conversions. Review the extracted records before use.
Try it on messy data →The Commission’s own JRC map says what was forest on the cut-off date. Hansen says what was cleared, and in which year. Sentinel-2 says what the land looks like now - and, crucially, how wet its canopy is, which is how you tell a rainforest from a three-year-old cocoa farm.
Read the method →Datasets conflict. A tool that hides that has no answer when an auditor cites the other one. Plotline reports each line separately, refuses to call plots it cannot resolve, and attaches the imagery a reviewer needs to judge for themselves.
Watch it run →A due diligence statement is a legal attestation that no more than negligible risk was found. When the evidence does not support that sentence, the correct behaviour for software is to refuse to write it. Plotline builds the TRACES-shaped payload, the base64 GeoJSON, the Article 10 assessment against all fourteen criteria and a tamper-evident audit chain - and when a plot fails, it blocks the statement and tells the operator exactly which plot, which hectare and which article.
This is a product decision, not a convenience. A verification that depends on a commercial imagery licence can never be given away to the people who most need it, and a business model that cannot be given away to smallholders cannot solve this problem.
| Dataset | Version | Provider | Resolution | Coverage | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JRC Global Forest Cover 2020 | V4 (2026 release) | European Commission — Joint Research Centre | 10 m | Global, 60°S–80°N, state on 31 December 2020 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Global Forest Change (Hansen/UMD) | GFC-2025-v1.13 | University of Maryland GLAD / Google | 30 m | Global, annual tree-cover loss 2001–2025 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sentinel-2 L2A (surface reflectance) | sentinel-2-l2a (Earth Search, AWS Open Data) | ESA Copernicus / Element 84 Earth Search | 10 m | Global, 2015–present, ~5-day revisit | Copernicus open licence |
Our intended impact is a shorter path from a farmer's records to a buyer's sourcing decision. This mechanism needs field validation, and the app makes its current capabilities visible.
Connect each delivery to a plot so a buyer can inspect its origin.
Traceability
Compare the forest baseline with dated loss records and recent imagery. Preserve source disagreements.
Satellite screening
Show the cooperative what was found and what requires a new boundary, documents or human review.
Farmer inclusion
Block unresolved shipment drafts and package the evidence for an operator to inspect.
Due diligence support
Detected on 3 plots in this one cooperative and used to block the demonstration shipment. This shows a decision workflow, not a measured reduction in deforestation.
21 plots with saved screening evidence. The monitoring script can recheck them when new archive data is available.
For all 24 plots, against live satellite archives. The whole argument rests on this number being small enough that nobody has to be excluded.
Plotline demonstrates screening and a review workflow. It does not plant trees, prove legal compliance, or measure avoided deforestation. Those outcomes need real deployments, field validation and human oversight.
412 members. 24 plots in this workspace, every one verified against live satellite archives for a combined €0.017 - less than a cup of the coffee it protects.