Connecting buyers with producers of algae
We make sure that the algae the market needs is the algae that is produced. Translating demand into clear requirements. Guiding and advising both sides through a customised sourcing process. Microalgae and seaweed, any industry, any volume.
We define what you actually need, find who actually has it, and stay in it until the orders repeat.
- DefineWhether an alternative raw material meets your requirement, and what replacing the current one costs in price, production and end product.
- FindProducers shortened against your specification and your supplier criteria, audited, samples in your hands.
- LandContract, documents, transport and invoicing, until the goods arrive on specification and the orders repeat.
- DefineWhich industries can use what you grow and which cannot, at which specification and price, built on interviews with real buyers.
- FindA prioritised target list with named contacts, the outreach, the samples and the first conversations.
- LandExport documents, transport and invoicing, then a rolling forecast so the first order becomes a recurring one.
What are you trying to get done?
Find your job title. The line underneath is the job we help you finish, and the label on the right is where to start.
- Sourcing or procurement manager, already buying microalgae or seaweedSecure a raw material that meets quality, volume, consistency and price, from a supplier you can rely on. We benchmark what you buy today and find the alternatives that meet the same specification.Supply Scan
- R&D or product development managerFind a raw material that does the same job in the product. We start from the function, set the dose from a threshold rather than a brochure, and cost it per unit of finished product.Ingredient Scan
- Innovation or sustainability managerKnow where algae can replace something in the portfolio today at your volume, and where it cannot. Including the list of what to leave alone, which is usually the longer one.Ingredient Scan
- Owner or commercial lead of a seaweed farm or microalgae production siteSell the harvest you can already produce. We find which industries would buy it, at which specification and price, and how to describe it so a buyer can evaluate it.Demand Scan
Four places where supply and demand pull apart
The first three decide whether the material meets the buyer's requirements at all, and with that the quality and the value of the product. The fourth decides whether anyone ever finds out.
Species
Algae are complex and exist in thousands of variations. Each has its own properties and its own value for a given application in a given industry, and sometimes several species can serve the same application. Among microalgae, Nannochloropsis brings EPA, Schizochytrium brings DHA, spirulina brings protein and phycocyanin. Among seaweeds, two species in the same genus can give completely different carrageenan systems.
Harvest timing
When algae is harvested has a large effect on its composition. The same crop can be a quality product for one buyer or worth nothing for that application, depending on the month it was cut. The species can be exactly right and the timing wrong, and the material still fails.
Post harvest processing
Once the right species is harvested at the right moment, quality and value are still decided by what happens next. How is it processed after harvest? How pure is it? What stabilises it? How is it stored and packed? The specification can be lost between the water and your gate.
Communication
A producer can hold exactly the right material and still lose the sale, because they describe it as a species and a tonnage while the buyer needs a compound, a level, a test method and a harvest date. The material fits. The description does not.
Every buyer has different needs and requirements, which makes every search unique and tailor made
A brief usually starts with a species and an origin. That is a starting point, not a requirement.
What makes a product a match is the client's own specification: composition, biomass stabilisation, availability, consistency of quality, and price. Harvest timing, the process and the post harvest handling all change those properties, so the same species from two farms is not the same product.
So the useful work starts before the search does.
Writing
One piece a week on algae sourcing, with the numbers and the sources, including the parts that do not flatter algae.