THE NUMBER YOUR BOARD HASN'T SEEN
Linear material use destroys value. Destroyed value doesn't come back.
The Circularity Gap Report 2026 puts it at €1 lost for every €3 the economy creates. The question is how much of that is yours.
We show you where it happens in your business, and what it costs to leave it there.
Source: Circle Economy, Circularity Gap Report 2026 · circularity-gap.world
Circularity is no longer a sustainability luxury. It's a boardroom decision on value creation and risk.
In the short term and the long, the linear model is becoming an economic liability. Value is being destroyed across supply chains, balance sheets and capital allocations faster than most boards can see it.
Whether you're just starting or stuck mid-way, we diagnose where you actually are.
From there we build the path: sequenced, costed, and tied to commercial outcomes.
Strategy
Clarity on where you stand. A readiness picture leadership can act on — which circular efforts are contributing to transformation, plus the real blockers and enablers to move forward.
Implementation
Focused actions with owners and sequence. Not another report — the specific moves that clear the friction stalling progress.
Momentum
Progress becomes visible, repeatable, and part of your way of working, not something that depends on one person keeping it alive.
Built for how you operate.
Corporates, startups and public bodies each hit circularity from a different angle. We shape the work around how you actually make decisions, allocate capital and get things done.
Corporates
Your board wants circular results without operational chaos. We sequence the transition so it compounds instead of collides.
Startups & scale-ups
You're circular by design but scaling by improvisation. We put structure under the growth before the growth exposes the gaps.
Regions & public bodies
Policy ambition is easy. Implementation isn't. We turn regional circular strategy into programmes that survive contact with reality.
The economics have flipped. Most strategies haven't.
Linear business models no longer make commercial sense. We build the ones that do. Regulation is tightening (CSRD, ESRS E5, EUDR), capital is repricing linear risk, and customers are asking questions procurement can't answer. The organisations that move first set the terms for everyone else.
What we're telling clients.
Regulation, data and the readiness gaps we see across sectors, written up as they come up in client work.
€25.4 trillion of value, lost every year.
A visual read of the Circularity Gap Report 2026 — the Value Gap and its five loss pathways.
Measurement is king.
Why credible circular performance needs a score you can defend — not a marketing line.
Readiness starts with common literacy.
Most circular initiatives stall at the same organisational gap. Here is what it looks like.
Start where it matters.
No generic roadmaps. The work starts from the loss pattern in your own business.
Find the destruction
We map where value, material and credibility are leaving your business, and quantify what that costs.
See the path
You see the moves in order, with an owner and a cost against each one.
Move with confidence
We build the momentum, ownership and governance that keep circular initiatives alive past the pilot.
Logic, integrity, excellence.
Circular Intelligence runs on three principles, and on a network of associated members who hold to them. We bring their expertise onto engagements, route work to them, and help them see the opportunities already one step away in their own network.
Logic
We diagnose before we prescribe. Every recommendation is traceable to what the data and the operating reality say.
Integrity
We only claim what we can stand behind, for clients, for the network, and for the numbers that leave the building.
Excellence
We hold ourselves and our associated members to a standard the work has to survive: assurance, scrutiny, and reuse.
We also run the Rotterdam and Dublin chapters of The Circular Economists. The network gives a chapter its name; the host does everything else. Alexander runs Rotterdam, Mary runs Dublin, and both meet quarterly.
Rotterdam chapter
Dublin chapter