The evidence layer behind an EPR filing — OR / CO / CA
PackClose traces reported packaging weights back to components, source documents, calculations, and state sales — so your team can identify evidence gaps before an invoice question, validation request, or Adjustment. CAA currently expects California early-fee invoices in August 2026, based on the CY2025 supply data producers reported — which makes “can we reproduce what we filed?” a this-quarter question, not a someday one.
The scan is a fixed-scope, invoiced engagement, paid upfront — no subscription and no card required · the in-browser tools and the demo run on synthetic data · nothing uploads.
How it works
Receipt on file? Methodology documented? We build the substantiation pack so a validation request is a same-week answer.
We close the data gaps, prepare the portal-entry workpaper, and you (or your counsel) submit and record the CAA response. We never claim remediation cures noncompliance — we make the remediation defensible.
California early-fee invoices expected August 2026 on CY2025 data, validation and Adjustment windows open on filed reports, next annual cycle — tracked with owners and evidence, not vibes.
The 2-minute EPR Status & Exposure Scanner
Pick your states, answer a few portfolio questions, and optionally paste a packaging BOM. You get a state-by-state status board, a gap list, and an illustrative exposure view. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded — it runs entirely in your browser.
Run the exposure scannerHave your real BOM handy?
Drop the CSV on the file analyzer and see which data-close columns it carries, which components lack weights, and which materials need a category decision — the same deterministic mapping rules the platform runs, executed entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your computer.
Analyze a real fileJar, pump, cap, label, carton, insert, DTC shipper; weights, materials, plastic detail, roles, and the source document for every number.
Units × component weights to state/material kilograms; every cell traceable; estimates flagged, then replaced with actuals through a recorded correction.
Plastic-only weight and plastic component counts, from day one.
Methodology narrative, source inventory with hashes, supplier outreach evidence, correction chain — reviewed against our documented internal QA checklist by the engagement lead. Built to answer CAA validation requests.
Missing data, supplier nonresponse, divergence questions — worked to zero, with every resolution attributed to a named owner.
Consumer brands/importers with obligations in 2+ of OR/CO/CA, roughly 50–2,000 packaging configurations, multiple suppliers/brands/entities, no component-level BOM, and material fee/audit exposure. Beauty and personal care especially.
Exempt or clearly low-volume flat-fee producers, single-state simple portfolios, or companies already well served by an incumbent platform or consultant. A large purchase would be irrational — we’ll tell you that for free.
Most EPR pitches lead with fee savings. We do not quote or optimize fees, so we will make the argument that actually applies to you. Circular Action Alliance’s own reporting policy sets out what happens when a report gets pulled for validation — and every clause below is a reason your numbers need to be reproducible rather than merely submitted.
Quoted from the CAA Reporting Policy, Version 2.0 (June 2026), published by Circular Action Alliance — retrieved 2026-08-15. CAA may validate reporting methods, categories, brands, and supporting evidence (§3.10); producer-requested Adjustments are generally limited to one per Producer Report and Report Year (§3.12), while CAA-issued Corrections follow separate 30-day response and 60-day form timelines (§3.11). Read the policy yourself; we would rather you did.
Producer status and exemptions are your calls — recorded with who decided and when, so each one holds up later. Portal filings stay with your authorized person; fee figures in our workpapers are labeled planning math, because CAAs invoice under approved rate schedules. And we choose depth over breadth on purpose: deep on OR/CO/CA, deadline-tracked on MN/MD/WA/ME.
And we will name the free thing you should look at first. The Sustainable Packaging Data Council publishes a free US EPR data-requirements template covering California, Colorado and Oregon — backed by Specright, Lorax EPI, Sonoco, Tyson and Costco. It is good, and it tells you which fields to fill. What it does not give you is a source document behind every weight, a transformation lineage on every total, a sealed version, or a correction chain. If the template alone gets you where you need to be, use it — we would rather tell you that than sell around it.
Every number below mirrors the live console’s synthetic demo workspace — every reported kilogram traces to a component, a weight, and a source document.
Client area
My dashboard Guided setup Search Notifications 10 Export my data Verify integrity Trust CenterPackaging EPR Data Close & Substantiation · workspace opened 2026-07-24
EVIDENCE PIPELINE · 4 sources → 0 assertions → 2 sealed versions → 1 deliverableEvidence coverage
90%
27 of 30 packaging components with a sourced weight
Aged open questions
0
open >30 days · 2 open total, oldest 30d · 0 blocking
Changed since sealed
0
approved values that differ from your last sealed snapshot
Needs your attention
Nothing waiting on you. We’ll surface anything that needs a decision here.
Dates we track for you
Render of the console in the new theme, using the live workspace’s synthetic demo numbers. The in-app theme matches — the data model, numbers, and behavior shown are the real product’s.
One fixed-scope, invoiced engagement first — so you know exactly what your evidence can and cannot support before anything bigger. Scope is priced by entities, states, configurations and supplier count, never by raw SKU count, because SKU count is not what makes this work hard.
The engagement to start with
CAA Evidence Readiness Scan. One legal entity, one CY2025 product family, up to 20 packaging configurations or 75 components, up to two of California, Colorado, and Oregon. From your current report exports or submission receipts, one sales export, and up to five packaging/specification sources, we deliver: a component-to-source traceability sample, a reproduction of sampled state totals, a gap map of unsupported, estimated, and inconsistent data, methodology and calculation-lineage findings, Validation/Adjustment/Correction readiness actions, a QA-checked XLSX workpaper, and a 45-minute findings readout. Delivery within five business days after complete inputs. Full scope, deliverables, and exclusions →
After the scan — where the work goes next
Full data close
$8,500–$12,000
first entity-year · two states · invoicedComponent BOM build, allocation with lineage, reviewed workpaper plus substantiation pack, remediation queue worked to zero. The scan fee is credited against a close booked within 90 days, per your engagement letter.
Start the conversation →CAA validation response
$3,500
fixed, per event · included for desk subscribers · invoicedA report gets pulled and you have 30 days. Lineage, provenance, source inventory and the sealed version, assembled into one answer.
Start the conversation →Annual & Change Desk
$1,000
per month · post-close, by proposal · 2–3 entities, up to 750 configurations, 3 statesThe maintained position between reporting cycles — a post-close service, quoted by proposal after your Full Data Close: new packaging screened as it appears, supplier evidence requested through single-use links you send, deadlines tracked with owners. Group desk (4+ entities) quoted the same way. No self-serve checkout.
Ask after your close →Single-entity, single-state portfolios are scoped down — ask. Annual prepay on the desk: two months free.
Every desk includes
How billing works, plainly: everything PackClose sells is invoiced under an engagement letter, after a fit check and an accepted agreement. The readiness scan is paid 100% upfront, due upon receipt, and work begins once payment has cleared. There is no self-serve checkout, no card at signup, no free-anything that converts into a charge, and no automatic subscription — anywhere. The sample data and the in-browser tools are open to explore without a sign-up, and they run on synthetic data. The Annual & Change Desk and Group Desk are post-close services, quoted by proposal after your Full Data Close. Your full data export never stops working, on every status. We do not file for you: exports are yours to submit.
Consultants and packaging engineers: this lane is deliberately partner-led. There is a referral share on attributed accounts and a wholesale tier if you would rather price it inside your own scope of work. Ask about the partner program.
Can numbers be edited after sign-off?
No. Completed workpaper versions are sealed (tamper-evident, hash-verified); corrections create linked versions with recorded reasons.
Who decides producer status / exemptions?
You, with your reviewer or counsel. We record the decision, its basis, and its date — we never compute it.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every kilogram traces to units × component weight with the source document; estimates are flagged until replaced.
Do you file for us?
No. You submit in the portal; we prepare the workpaper and record your receipt/status as evidence.
Is my data used to train AI models?
No customer data enters consumer AI tools. Model-assisted processing happens only under commercial no-training terms — or not at all, at your election.
Your security reviewer will want more than a table. The Security & Trust page lists every control by name with its actual status — shipped, armed at deploy, or not built — plus subprocessors, DPA availability, retention, and a direct answer on SOC 2. It includes a section on what we have not built, which is the part worth reading.
Read Security & TrustTell us your states, entities, and roughly how many packaging configurations are in play — and where your filed reports stand, if you know. We will tell you on that call whether the readiness scan fits, and say so plainly if it does not.
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