Founding Buyer Working Sessions

Before you choose a Digital Product Passport solution, work out what you actually need.

A free 45-minute working session for brands and manufacturers preparing for Digital Product Passports.

This is not a Digital Product Passport solution.

yellow3 does not issue, host or operate product passports. We are building for the buyer side of the decision.

First-round applications closed 11 September 2026.
61%

of the 70+ European organisations KPMG surveyed had not yet decided whether to build or buy their Digital Product Passport solution.

KPMG 2026 DPP Readiness Survey. Fieldwork September to December 2025. KPMG describes the survey as indicative, not representative of the whole European market.
The working session

We work on your real situation, not a maturity score.

We separate what your organisation already knows, what it can prove, what can be decided now, and what genuinely cannot yet be decided.

01

Where your organisation stands today.

02

Who owns Digital Product Passport readiness and who will ultimately sign the decision.

03

What work, systems, vendors or internal projects already exist.

04

What is blocking progress and what decision must ultimately be made.

05

What evidence exists, what is missing, and what “defensible” means inside your organisation.

06

What can be decided now, without waiting for every delegated act or standard.

07

What genuinely has to wait, and what evidence should still start being collected.

08

The cost of delay, the cost of a wrong vendor decision, and the next sensible step.

What you receive

A Buyer Readback, not another dashboard.

A concise document delivered after the session. Its job is to give your organisation a clear, inspectable record of what can be acted on, what remains unresolved, and what should happen next.

No readiness-score theatre. No invented certainty.

Buyer Readback
Organisation-specific working-session output
Where you are nowOwnership, work already completed, exposure and blockers.
What you can decide todayDecisions not dependent on unresolved delegated acts.
What genuinely depends on what is still comingLegislation, standards, registry infrastructure and other true dependencies.
Evidence to start collecting regardlessNo-regret product, supplier and data evidence.
The decisions your organisation will eventually faceBuild or buy, vendor selection, architecture, supplier obligations and signing role.
Next sensible stepSometimes the next step is internal rather than a yellow3 sale.
Why yellow3 is doing this

We are building the Buyer Platform around real buyer decisions.

yellow3 structures and proves the decision.
The selected provider operates the passports.
01Strategy
02Readiness
03Capability architecture
04Evidence-based selection
05Structured procurement
Actual yellow3 Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform Evidence-based selection screen
Actual Buyer Platform screen · Stage 4 of 5
Evidence-based selectionThe platform compares suppliers against mandatory requirements and keeps demonstrated evidence, provider statements and unestablished evidence visibly separate.
Actual yellow3 Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform Board Decision Snapshot screen
Actual Buyer Platform output · Frozen record
Board Decision SnapshotA point-in-time decision record that preserves the recommendation, unresolved conditions, thresholds, evidence state and provenance behind the decision.
These are real exported Buyer Platform screens, shown as product proof. The Founding Buyer Working Session and Buyer Readback remain separate from the authenticated product interface.
Independence

The supplier register and the buyer product have different jobs.

yellow3 also operates the public Digital Product Passport Supplier Register. Suppliers cannot buy a better finding, a ranking, or a place in front of buyers. The Buyer Platform is a separate buyer-side commercial product.

No paid inclusion
No paid ranking
No paid findings
No paid verification
No improved placement
No composite supplier scores
Who should apply

People inside brands and manufacturers who have to make the Digital Product Passport decision real.

Also relevant if you have informally inherited the Digital Product Passport question because nobody has formally assigned ownership yet.

Digital Product Passport readiness
Sustainability
Product compliance
Procurement
Supply chain
IT
Product / R&D
Internal Digital Product Passport ownership
Vendor-selection preparation

Digital Product Passport suppliers are not eligible for Buyer Working Sessions. Supplier-side applicants should be redirected to the yellow3 DPP Supplier Register process.

How it works

Four steps. The free session comes first.

01

Apply

Short form, designed to take under two minutes.

02

Working session

45 minutes around your organisation’s actual situation.

03

Buyer Readback

Delivered within two business days.

04

Optional next step

Good-fit participants may later be invited to the paid Founding Buyer Programme.

Archive

First-round applications are closed.

The first Founding Buyer Working Sessions closed on 11 September 2026.

This page is retained as a record of the programme. The Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform is now the active self-service route for buyer-side Digital Product Passport work.

Founding Buyer Working Sessions · Archive

The first working-session round is complete.

Applications closed 11 September 2026. Continue with the active Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform.

Open the Buyer Platform