In partnership with MineTech Connect
The Minimum Viable Ecosystem is a working mine-to-market chain for gold and diamonds, where origin and conditions are evidenced rather than asserted. The evidence is built at the mine, by the people who are there, and travels the full length of the chain to you.
Start a conversation →Brands are not the only ones under pressure. Mines and producing communities face their own version of it. The MVE was built to address both at the same time.
One coordinated chain. Evidence, value and impact flowing both ways.
One chain. Two orchestrators. Continuous governance from mine to wearer, where verified ESG data flows the full length rather than stopping at the first handoff.
Upstream orchestration
Holds the evidence, mine to refinery.
Downstream orchestration
Holds the value, refinery to wearer.
We do not certify. Certification and assurance verdicts are issued by independent bodies: Fairmined, IRMA, LBMA, the RJC, the Kimberley Process, and the assurance partner appointed to each ecosystem. What the MVE does is build the evidence those bodies assess, and keep it current, so that certification becomes a decision they can reach rather than a document someone has to construct.
We do not trade. We take no title, broker nothing, and set no prices. The commercial relationships for the material stay where they already are, between the actors who hold them.
You do not have to take all of it. Start where your chain is weakest, and go further when it earns its place.
Where a stone or a metal really came from is rarely traceable. Brands receive paperwork. They cannot see the chain.
Verified origin, and a continuous chain of custody from mine to brand.
GPS-verified mine site. Named cooperative or operator. A continuous chain-of-custody record, built to be audited.
Brand: provenance you can stand behind.
Mines: access to formal markets, and evidence to negotiate against.
Compliance frameworks demand evidence that brands cannot produce from their current suppliers.
A defensible evidence file, strong enough for regulators, retailers, and your own reporting.
An ESG profile per consignment. A due diligence file built to the requirements of the EU CSDDD and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, and structured to feed CSRD reporting.
Brand: claims your evidence can carry, and a file a retailer can accept.
Mines: continued offtake, and evidence a lender can assess.
Premiums disappear. Communities see little. Brands cannot prove that their sourcing changed anything on the ground.
Verified positive impact. Measurable, named, evidenced.
Community development through impact projects. A quarterly impact report.
Brand: an investor-grade story.
Communities: named projects.
A natural place to pause. Where would you want to begin?
Each MVE is shaped to the realities, risks and impact opportunities of its own chain. Both are built with the partners already operating in that chain, wherever the material comes from.
The constraint on this market is not demand. It is verified supply, and there is very little of it.
Nothing here arrives as a report once a year. The platform carries current evidence continuously, and what each party can see was settled in governance before the ecosystem activated.
The platform is built and operated by MineTech Connect. Qori designs and holds the brand-facing layer: what you see, how it reads, and what you can take out of it.
The screens are real. The figures inside them are illustrative, not a client's. We do not publish sample numbers dressed as results, because a figure you cannot trace is the whole problem we exist to solve. Yours populate from the ecosystem you join.
What you can see, what the mining operation can see, and what stays private are agreed before the ecosystem activates, not negotiated after something goes wrong. Communities hold consent and veto rights over any material that names them, and that veto travels across the platform.
Every quarter, we check what your brand says in public against what the upstream data actually shows.
If there is a gap between the claim and the evidence, you hear it from us, with a route to closing it, before you hear it from a regulator, a journalist, or an activist holding a screenshot of your own website.
No upstream data provider can do this. They hold the evidence, but they do not know what you are saying at retail.
No communications agency can do this. They know exactly what you are saying, and have no way to test it.
The MVE is built to work with your refineries, cutters and manufacturers, not around them. Nothing forces a change to what you already have in place.
Your existing refineries, cutters and fabricators remain. The MVE adds a layer above them.
Built to sit alongside RJC, WJI 2030 and UN Global Compact reporting, strengthening what you already do.
Start with one capsule. One material. One mine. Or do not start at all. The decision stays with you, throughout.
An MVE activates in roughly eight months from kickoff. Four phases run in parallel: upstream readiness on one side, brand readiness on the other.
Data foundations in place. Mines mapped. Assurance partner engaged.
Brand onboarding. ESG gap report. Consortium scoping.
ESG profiles live for the first cooperatives. Baseline against the relevant sector scheme.
Offtake architecture. Premium structure. Financing scoped.
First consignment with a complete evidence file. Audit burden falls.
Compliance programme. Fabricator chain of custody.
Continuous supply. A live ESG profile per consignment.
Consumer code live. Impact report published. First piece at retail.
We are a specialist sustainability and ESG advisory dedicated exclusively to the jewellery value chain.
In partnership with MineTech Connect, we bring technical and operational expertise from mining and extraction through to brands and retail, so that credibility holds at every stage rather than only at the end.
With that end-to-end view, we work from a simple premise: behind every gemstone and every gram of metal are people, livelihoods and communities whose futures are tied to this industry.
We help jewellery businesses build supply chains that are ethical, transparent and ready for what is coming, anchored in strong governance, rigorous systems and impact that can be measured rather than asserted.
Fifteen years in ESG, sustainability and impact across resource-intensive sectors, with a focus on mining and jewellery. Has built ESG systems inside Mejuri, IWC Schaffhausen, Stephen Webster, Garrard and Monica Vinader, and has contributed environmental and social risk analysis to mining litigation before international courts.
A decade in sustainable jewellery as consultant, researcher and lecturer, working with sector bodies including the RJC and CIBJO. Has lectured at Berlin Fashion Week, the London College of Fashion and Designskolen Kolding. Co-founder of Truly Precious. The downstream voice.
Mining, data and technology. M.Sc. in Mineral and Energy Economics, FMVA. Financial valuation and modelling of large-scale mining projects, with Anglo American, Vale and the US Department of Energy. The platform architect.
Change management, innovation and learning design. Founder of ACMP Peru's emerging chapter and CEO of Innovation Academy & Experience, with years building executive education in Lean Six Sigma and change management. Designs how the ecosystem is adopted on the ground, by the people who have to use it.
Years inside Peru's Ministry of Education and public policy. The human side of impact governance.
Built between Latin America and Europe. Together, we know this chain from every angle.
A responsible ecosystem should not fall to your team to build. Tell us what you source and where you believe it comes from. If your chain already holds up, we will say so.
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