Training Example: Circular IQ – Review the Data, Give Your Score & Compare to the Real AI Evaluation

Industry Context — Common BS Fingerprints in Energy, Utilities & Environmental Services
Generic Claims: powering a sustainable future, saving the planet, affordable green energy, leading the energy transition…
Red Flags: no regulatory license number displayed, green claims without fuel mix disclosure, net zero claims without reduction pathway, carbon offset only strategy presented as carbon neutral…
Semantic Drift Patterns: homepage claims 100% renewable but tariff page shows mixed sources, green branding everywhere but sustainability report shows minimal renewable share, claims affordable but pricing is above market average, net zero commitment on homepage but no carbon reduction timeline…
Proof Expectations: Ofgem or regulatory license number, published fuel mix disclosure, specific carbon reduction targets with timelines, third-party sustainability certifications…

Circular IQ

(https://www.circular-iq.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 17, 2026

Analyze the raw signals below. How would a machine score this business’s credibility?

Here are the exact signals captured from up to six pages of the site — the same raw inputs the evaluation engine analyzed. They are grouped by signal type so you can weigh each the way the machine does.

🏗️ Semantic Structure — heading hierarchy & page identity (Info Density · Commodity Fingerprint)
HOMEPAGE Circular IQ – Measure your circular economy performance – Circular IQ (https://www.circular-iq.com)
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Circular IQ – Measure your circular economy performance – Circular IQ

Meta

The fastest, easiest way to understand what drives your performance and how to improve it

H1 Circular Economy Made Simple
H2 Turning your sustainability efforts from cost centers into value drivers
H2 Measure and improve
H2 Don’t let your lack of data stop you
H2 Here to help! ⤸
H2 Transforming great companies, like yours…
H2 Ready to get to know each other?
H3 Why should I choose your tool?
H3 Can I try-out the tool?
H3 What are your pricing details?
H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H4 Set a circularity baseline
H4 Activate your supply chain
H4 Optimize your efforts
H4 Compliant with leading standards
H4 Our streamlined tool
H4 All your circularity data in one place
H4 Gap Analysis
H4 Data availability is the big elephant in the room
H4 Baseline assessment
H4 Navigate mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements effectively
H4 Circular data success
H4 Your playbook to overcome circularity data issues
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
H6 OUR SOFTWARE SOLUTION
H6 OUR SERVICES
H6 Roy Vercoulen
H6 -Expert and adviser-
H6 Quick Links
NAV_HEADER_REPEATED_FOOTER Contact – Circular IQ (https://circular-iq.com/contact/)
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Contact – Circular IQ

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We are here to help you! Tell us how we can help & we’ll be in touch with an expert within a business day.

H1 Contact Us
H2 Get in touch with us directly
H2 Follow us:
H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H5 Enter your name
H5 Email address
H5 Phone number
H5 Company
H5 Subject
H5 Message
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
H6 Quick Links
NAV_HEADER_REPEATED_FOOTER Careers – Circular IQ (https://circular-iq.com/careers/)
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Careers – Circular IQ

Meta

We are a Dutch startup with an international & hybrid/remote team of circularity heroes, creating digital tools that help businesses across the globe move

H1 Circular IQ Careers
H2 About Us
H2 Our Partners
H3 Transparency
H3 Empathy
H3 Collaboration
H3 Trust
H3 We are an international team
H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
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Blog – Circular IQ

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Circular IQ Blog

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H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
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Podcast – Circular IQ

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Circular IQ Podcast

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H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
H6 Quick Links
HEADING_REPEATED_BODY Baseline assessment – Circular IQ (https://circular-iq.com/baseline-assesment/)
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Baseline assessment – Circular IQ

Meta

Our baseline assessment helps companies quantify their circularity. The CTI framework offers a straightforward method to measure circularity, giving insights

H1 The baseline assessment
H2 Here to help! ⤸
H2 Transforming great companies, like yours…
H2 Ready to get to know each other?
H3 Measure your baseline circularity performance
H3 What is CTI?
H3 Do I have to use a tool?
H3 Can I try-out the tool?
H3 Get insights
H3 Create scenarios
H3 Get easy to understand reports
H3 Start building software
H5 © Copyright 2024, All Rights Reserved by Circular IQ
H6 Establishing a comprehensive understanding of your baseline circularity performance is essential for driving sustainable practices within your organization. With the CTI Tool, you can effortlessly measure and analyze your current circularity metrics, providing you with clear and actionable insights. 
H6 Roy Vercoulen
H6 -Expert and adviser-
H6 Quick Links
📝 The Narrative — clean text per page (Info Density · Semantic Coherence)
HOMEPAGE (https://www.circular-iq.com) Circular IQ – Measure your circular economy performance – Circular IQ
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[H1] Circular Economy Made Simple

The fastest, easiest way to understand what drives your performance and how to improve it

Book a free demo

No strings attached

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[H2] Turning your sustainability efforts from cost centers into value drivers

[H4] Set a circularity baseline

Know your baseline circular performance

[H4] Activate your supply chain

Make supply chain priorities based on good quality data

[H4] Optimize your efforts

Identify opportunities to better allocate time and resources

[H4] Compliant with leading standards

Effortlessly create reports in line with ESRS E5, GRI, ISO 59020

[H6] OUR SOFTWARE SOLUTION

[H2] Measure and improve

[H4] Our streamlined tool

[H4] All your circularity data in one place

Adopting new tools always is a hassle, that’s why we’ve build a streamlined solution that fits with your current infrastructure and workflow.

Schedule a demo

[H6] OUR SERVICES

[H2] Don’t let your lack of data stop you

[H4] Gap
Analysis

[H4] Data availability is the big elephant in the room

We fill your data gaps with proxy values from our expertly-researched database

LEARN MORE

[H4] Baseline assessment

[H4] Navigate mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements effectively

Whether you’re starting with product based assessments or are looking at your entire organization

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[H4] Circular data success

[H4] Your playbook to overcome circularity data issues

Empower reporting, and achieve sustainability goals with auditable material composition insights

LEARN MORE

[H6] Roy Vercoulen

[H6] -Expert and adviser-

[H2] Here to help! ⤸

Our team consists of experienced and knowledgeable people working in the field of Circular Economy.
Get to know them, no strings attached!

Completely free

Get to know our tool

Know where you stand

Book a demo with Roy

[H2] Transforming great companies, like yours...

“ Circular IQ is a valuable partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Factor10 and our Circular Transition Indicators. Their commitment to making the circular economy a reality and the Circular IQ platform’s friendly user-interface are just two of the reasons why we identified them as a partner in helping us bring CTI to life. ”

WBCSD

" We collaborate with the best start-ups, like Circular IQ, to make our customers to produce and design more sustainable products in the circular economy domain. "

Guiseppe Maregon
Automotive Practice Manager - DXC Technology

" It is important to get the attention of a management team quickly, which is possible to do with the CTI Tool. All they want to know is how much the improvement was, and I can achieve that through this tool because it takes a lot of complicated data and presents it quite simply. It is easy to digest. "

Mikayla Plaw
GM Organisational Development & Sustainability - Profile Group

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[H3] Why should I choose your tool?
Our tool is specifically designed to offer you fast and easy compliance for ESRS E5.To schedule a free demo, click here.
[H3] Can I try-out the tool?
Yes! Click this link to get a demo for free, no strings attached!
[H3] What are your pricing details?
Our plans start at €11.700 per year. Click this link to schedule a demo and get more detailed information about our tool.

[H2] Ready to get to know each other?

Completely free

Get to know our tool

Know where you stand

I want to schedule a demo
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SUB-PAGE · THIN (https://circular-iq.com/contact/) Contact – Circular IQ
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[H1] Contact Us

We are here to help you! Tell us how we can help & we’ll be in touch with an expert within a business day.

[H2] Get in touch with us directly

Circular IQ is located at:

Circular IQ B.V.Keizersgracht 5201017 EK AmsterdamThe Netherlands

[H2] Follow us:
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SUB-PAGE (https://circular-iq.com/careers/) Careers – Circular IQ
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[H1] Circular IQ Careers

We support businesses across the world to move towards the circular economy and achieve bold sustainability goals.
Join us and become a circularity hero!

[H2] About Us

We are a Dutch startup with an international & hybrid/remote team of circularity heroes, creating digital tools that help businesses across the globe move towards the circular economy. Our mission is to support businesses to measure, improve and report on their circular performance and deliver on their sustainability promises with data-driven analyses. We help them anchor circularity into their businesses and activate their supply chain to increase their positive impact on the planet!

[H2] Our Partners

We believe that collaboration drives change!

That’s why we’re proud to partner with like-minded circularity frontrunners to accelerate the transition towards a restorative circular economy

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[H3] Transparency

Transparency nurtures trust and clarity on how we work with each other and how we manage expectations. A transparent workflow allows for deeper understanding of each other’s roles and where we can offer support to achieve business and collective goals. Expect everybody in the team to share updates on their workflows and goals and to flag when help is needed or when a deadline won’t be met.

[H3] Empathy

Empathy is key to understand each other and to put ourselves in our customers and team mates’ shoes. Empathy means we listen to each other and to our customers’s needs and respond accordingly. It fosters collaboration and commitment within the team when we know we’ll be heard and supported. In our sector, empathy goes beyond the internal team work, it reaches out to how we can help drive change that will impact on the lives of many others.

[H3] Collaboration

As a team that is distributed across timezones and geographies, showing collaborative spirit is key. Collaboration nurtures transparency and understanding from team mates. Expect good intent, respect and inclusion in all areas of our business, including in our work with our customers. Working together makes the circular economy a challenge easier to take on and makes team work ever more inspiring.

[H3] Trust

Trust is the belief we have and nurture towards each other that makes us reliable and confident that we can work together. It allows to collaborate better and gives room for flexibility in our workflows. Trust allows us to always help each other, and nurtures ownership to deliver on our goals and support business needs. As we build trust, we can share good communication, flagging when something will not come out as expected such as deadline, for example.

[H3] We are an international team

Our team speaks many languages and thrive with transparency and collaboration. We offer remote positions to accommodate our team members and allow them room (no pun intended!) for flexibility and growth.
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SUB-PAGE (https://circular-iq.com/blog/) Blog – Circular IQ
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[H1] Circular IQ Blog

Rethinking Packaging: Circularity and Packaging

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Embedding Circularity: How to Turn Ambition Into Action

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The Power of Strategic Storytelling in Circularity

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How to break the Sustainability Silo with Circularity Storytelling

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How to build trust and unlock new collective opportunity with data sharing

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What do ISO 59000 and ESRS E5 Reporting Have in Common?

In the realm of corporate sustainability, standards and frameworks guide organizations toward responsible and transparent practices.

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How to fix your data gaps in ESRS E5

In the evolving landscape of corporate sustainability, the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) represent a significant leap forward.

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A guide to voluntary KPI’s in ESRS E5

ESRS E5 is part of the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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What drives Circular IQ? Our vision in a nutshell

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Introducing the CTI Tool: Revolutionizing Circular Economy and Sustainability Reporting

In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate sustainability, the need for precise, transparent, and actionable data has never been greater.

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The most important sustainability and circularity metrics

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Why Start Compliance with ESRS E5 Now: The Urgency of Early Adoption

This article explores the compelling reasons for early adoption of ESRS E5 compliance and the benefits it brings to organizations.

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SUB-PAGE (https://circular-iq.com/podcast/) Podcast – Circular IQ
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[H1] Circular IQ Podcast

Episode 9: How to balance carbon emissions goals with circularity?

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Episode 8: Flying Tiger’s Circular Economy: Progress, Training, and KPIs for Sustainable Retail

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Episode 7: From Mattresses to Modular Beds: Auping X Saxion on Scaling Circular Design

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Episode 6: Sustainable Packaging as Strategy, adapting to the Circular Economy

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Episode 5: Embedding Circularity, a Blueprint for Organizations

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Episode 4: The challenge of making circularity actionable for businesses

Embark on a vibrant conversation where Impact Hub Netherlands director Ilse Kwaaitaal and host Roy Vercoulen unravel the perfection trap, showing how entrepreneurial mindsets, data driven tools, and cross sector collaboration transform lofty circularity goals into practical first moves that add tangible value.

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Episode 3 – From Data to Decisions: First Steps in Circular Economy Measurement

In the latest episode of “Circularity: Why Bother?”, Roy Vercoulen and Florian Alward delve into the crucial transition from sustainability intentions to measurable circularity improvements.

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Episode 2 – Circularity… Why Bother?

Circularity Podcast Circular Economy… why bother. Episode 2 The right story, the right stakeholder, the right time… Why do so many sustainability initiatives struggle to gain traction?

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Episode 1 – Circularity… Why Bother?

Circularity Podcast Circular Economy… why bother. Episode 1 Navigating the Path to Circularity. Balancing incentives and challenges.

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SUB-PAGE (https://circular-iq.com/baseline-assesment/) Baseline assessment – Circular IQ
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[H1] The baseline assessment

Our baseline assessment helps companies quantify their circularity. The CTI framework offers a straightforward method to measure circularity, giving insights into reducing primary resource use and waste generation.

Get started for free

[H3] Measure your baseline circularity performance

[H6] Establishing a comprehensive understanding of your baseline circularity performance is essential for driving sustainable practices within your organization. With the CTI Tool, you can effortlessly measure and analyze your current circularity metrics, providing you with clear and actionable insights.

[H6] Roy Vercoulen

[H6] -Expert and adviser-

[H2] Here to help! ⤸

Our team consists of experienced and knowledgeable people working in the field of Circular Economy.
Get to know them, no strings attached!

Completely free

Get to know our tool

Know where you stand

Book a demo with Roy

[H2] Transforming great companies, like yours...

“ Circular IQ is a valuable partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Factor10 and our Circular Transition Indicators. Their commitment to making the circular economy a reality and the Circular IQ platform’s friendly user-interface are just two of the reasons why we identified them as a partner in helping us bring CTI to life. ”

WBCSD

" We collaborate with the best start-ups, like Circular IQ, to make our customers to produce and design more sustainable products in the circular economy domain. "

Guiseppe Maregon
Automotive Practice Manager - DXC Technology

" It is important to get the attention of a management team quickly, which is possible to do with the CTI Tool. All they want to know is how much the improvement was, and I can achieve that through this tool because it takes a lot of complicated data and presents it quite simply. It is easy to digest. "

Mikayla Plaw
GM Organisational Development & Sustainability - Profile Group

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[IMG: Sony]
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[H3] What is CTI?
CTI stands for Circular Transition Indicators. This is a framework developed by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in collaboration with Circular IQ.
[H3] Do I have to use a tool?
Our tool is specifically designed to offer you fast and easy compliance for ESRS E5.To schedule a free demo, click here.
[H3] Can I try-out the tool?
Yes! Click this link to try our tooling for free, no strings attached!

[H2] Ready to get to know each other?

Completely free

Get to know our tool

Know where you stand

I want to schedule a demo
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🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps (Identity & Authority)
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Your Diagnosis

Before revealing the machine’s verdict, predict the BS score for each signal. Higher = more BS (more fluff, less verifiable substance). Drag each slider, then submit to compare your judgment against the engine.

Information Density 0 / 30
Read the Narrative & headings: do hard facts (prices, dates, numbers) outweigh fluff power-words?
Semantic Coherence 0 / 20
Compare the homepage promise against the sub-page reality. Do they hold the same line?
Trust & Proof 0 / 20
Weigh review mentions against actual external proof links. Claims without verification = theatre.
Commodity Fingerprint 0 / 15
Check headings & narrative against the industry clichés in the setup above.
Identity & Authority 0 / 15
Inspect the schema: is there real Organization/Person identity with sameAs links, or gaps?
Your predicted BS score 0 / 100
💡 Stuck? Reveal the heuristic lens — how the deterministic page-auditor reads each signal (no AI, pure pattern rules)

These are the structural rules a local, deterministic auditor applies — the same lens you can use to judge each signal. They describe what to look for, not this company’s result.

Information Density

Classify each sentence as substantive or hollow. Grounding markers — numbers, currencies, dates, technical units, named entities — outweigh marketing adjectives. When fluff sits right next to hard evidence, the fluff is forgiven.

Semantic Alignment

Pull the main entities out of the H1, then check whether they actually recur through the body. A page that announces one thing and then talks about another drifts. Headings with no real sentences underneath read as pseudo-substance.

Trust & Proof

Count trust words (review, testimonial, rating, verified) against real outbound proof links (Google, Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, Yelp). Lots of trust language with zero verification links is trust theatre. Unlinked logo galleries count against it.

Commodity Fingerprint

Look at how much sentence length varies. Natural writing varies its rhythm; templated or mass-produced copy is statistically uniform. Very low variation reads as commodity content — unless unique named entities break the pattern.

Identity & Authority

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Want to apply this lens yourself? The free BS Indicator Chrome extension runs these heuristic checks live on any page. Bear in mind it is a single-page, deterministic tool — it relies only on pattern rules for the page in front of it and does not perform the cross-page semantic correlation this audit uses, so its readout is a starting lens, not the full verdict.

B
BS Level
Energy, Utilities & Environmental Services
43.4 Avg BS

Based on 572 businesses audited.

BS Detector

Energy, Utilities & Environmental Services BS: Circular IQ (www.circular-iq.com)

https://www.circular-iq.com 📍 Industry: Energy, Utilities & Environmental Services
26 BS / 100

Circular IQ is a high-substance, low-fluff site that provides refreshing transparency in a sector often clouded by vague greenwashing. The inclusion of clear pricing and specific regulatory compliance frameworks makes it a benchmark for bullshit-free sustainability SaaS.

Info Density Power-words vs. Substance ratio.
8
27% BS
Semantic Coherence Homepage promise vs. Sub-page reality.
2
10% BS
Trust & Proof Verifiable evidence vs. Trust Theatre.
10
50% BS
Commodity Fingerprint Detection of industry clichés/templates.
4
27% BS
Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
2
13% BS

1. Link the 32 reviews to a third-party platform like G2 or Trustpilot to resolve the trust theatre flag. 2. Replace subjective superlatives like ‘fastest’ and ‘easiest’ with specific time-to-value metrics. 3. Add outbound links to the official WBCSD CTI framework documentation to validate the partnership claim. 4. Include sameAs social profile links in the Person schema for team members.

The content demonstrates a high degree of specialization in the circular economy sector, specifically focusing on corporate sustainability reporting. It correctly identifies and integrates technical standards such as ESRS E5 and ISO 59020, confirming its role in environmental consultancy and SaaS.

“The score is primarily driven by the trust theatre flag (reviews without verification links) and minor heading fluff. Exceptional semantic coherence and the rare inclusion of specific pricing kept the score in the Minimal-to-Low BS range.”

Verified Analysis Date: May 17, 2026 © 1EuroSEO Independent Evaluator — Non-Sponsored Result
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