Not a framework.
A programme that shipped.
Textiles are in the first wave of ESPR product groups, so fashion is where the requirement bites soonest. Watchmaking is where Digital Product Passports have already been deployed at full production volume — and that is the programme this firm was founded on.
Where this evidence comes from
Bionic Thinking is a new firm and has no client case study to publish yet. When there is one, it will be here. What there is instead is the programme its founder ran before founding it: eight years inside Richemont, building Digital Product Passports across five product categories. Everything below is that work, described as what it was — an in-house programme at a luxury group, not a list of clients.
Product categoriesFashion · Watches · Jewellery · Precious metals · Diamonds
What the programme covered
It ran across fashion, watches, jewellery, precious metals and diamonds, and that range is the point. A passport architecture that has to serve a fashion Maison and a watch manufacture at once cannot be built around one category’s data model, and most of the hard decisions in a DPP programme are made exactly where the categories disagree.
Pedro López-Belmonte began working on Digital Product Passports at Richemont in 2018, leading the group’s early strategy and experimentation across multiple Maisons and categories. Six prestige watchmaking Maisons now carry their entire yearly production on-chain, in one of the most significant real-world blockchain deployments in the luxury sector. Millions of passports have been issued.
The work spanned the full DPP landscape — traceability and ESPR readiness, product identity systems, client services and ecosystem design. He co-designed Richemont’s traceability architecture, positioning the Digital Product Passport as the central layer of the product information system, connecting product data, provenance and client services across the lifecycle.
The programme evaluated and worked alongside platforms including Arianee, Aura, EON, Tracr and Sarine, across blockchain infrastructures, authentication technologies and data carrier solutions — more than twenty in total. Those were assessed from the buying side rather than sold to, which is the useful part for a brand shortlisting one now: someone has already sat through the selection.
Arianee · Aura Blockchain Consortium · EON · Tracr · Sarine · and 15+ further platforms spanning blockchain infrastructure, authentication, data carriers and SaaS DPP solutions.
The full record of this work is published on Pedro López-Belmonte’s own site.
What eight years changed about the question
The programme began as traceability and compliance and did not stay there. A passport built properly is not a regulatory output; it is a persistent product identity, and three things become possible once one exists.
Service records, warranty activations and authenticated repair history, tied to a verified product identity that survives a change of owner.
Provenance, ownership history and condition data that make resale more trustworthy — and keep the brand present beyond the first sale.
The passport as an ongoing touchpoint between brand, product and owner: post-purchase experiences, personalisation, and ecosystem participation.
Your programme, not this one
None of the above says anything about where you stand. The readiness scorecard does, in nine questions and three minutes — scored across three dimensions, with no sign-up to see your result.
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