Colophon Record

An instrument of the
Objects of Affection Collection

For institutions & firms

The evidence layer, licensed for the desk that answers to a board.

Colophon is the independent evidence layer for luxury: one instrument, two rooms. Where marketing asserts, the Record shows the working. The same instrument that reads a single object opens, at institutional scale, into three lines a firm can buy against a signed agreement: the datasets behind the $MMR Spectacle Index, a named analyst on retainer, and the enterprise API with a private corpus vault. Every figure is drawn from public government records and a published methodology, timestamped and traceable to its source. You make and own your claims. We supply the record they stand on.

Line one · Dataset licensing

The numbers, licensed to read against your own book.

The $MMR Spectacle Index and the material-provenance datasets derived from public CITES and UN Comtrade records, delivered as a licensed feed. Every record is watermarked and licensed on citation-required terms, so its origin travels with it wherever it is used.

  • DL-MMR-A$MMR Spectacle Index
    $5,000

    The core Material-to-Market Ratio dataset across the tracked object set: make-cost estimate, retail, and the spectacle multiple, each traced to its source records.

  • DL-CITES-50CITES-derived provenance, top set
    $7,500

    Raw-material origin and trade-flow structure for the fifty most-tracked materials, built from public CITES and UN Comtrade ledgers.

  • DL-PulseQuarterly Pulse feed
    $2,500/quarter

    A standing quarterly refresh of the index and provenance movements, delivered to your systems as the underlying records change.

  • DL-AdversarialAdversarial signal set
    $6,000/quarter

    The de-masking signal set: the widest distances between making and price, and the objects whose marketing the record contradicts, refreshed each quarter.

What you get

  • Watermarked records, licensed on citation-required terms
  • Every figure traced to CITES, UN Comtrade, or the OAC methodology
  • Versioned and timestamped, so the working is auditable
  • Delivered as a file or to your systems, by arrangement

Who it is for

Hedge funds and analysts pricing the distance between making and marketing, ESG research and rating teams sourcing raw-material provenance, and journalists who need a figure they can cite and defend.

Evidence infrastructure, not a certification of sustainability or compliance, and not financial or investment advice. Figures are estimates from public records, not a firm's audited costs. You decide what you represent and own every claim you make from the data.

Line two · Advisory retainers

A named analyst, on the Collection's method, on retainer.

When the data needs a person behind it. A standing retainer puts the Collection's analytical method to work on your questions, at three depths, billed annually.

  • R-1Quarterly Pulse
    $18,000/yr

    A quarterly written reading over the index and the movements that matter to you, with the sources behind each figure and a standing line for questions.

  • R-2Tactical
    $48,000/yr

    Monthly readings and a faster turn on specific objects, houses, and materials, with de-masking analysis on the cases you bring, all traceable to source.

  • R-3Sovereign Embedded
    $120,000/yr

    A named analyst embedded with your desk, regular $MMR roll-ups, priority readings, and a joint methodology paper produced with your team and published under both names.

What you get

  • Written readings on the Collection's own critical method
  • Every figure sourced and dated, never an unsupported assertion
  • A named person at R-3, with regular roll-ups and a joint paper
  • Work delivered under a signed agreement and statement of work

Who it is for

Investment and research desks that want the method applied to their own questions, brand strategy and diligence teams reading a category before they move, and institutions that want a standing analytical relationship rather than a one-off report.

A critical reading grounded in evidence, not financial or investment advice, and not a certification of any product or firm. The reading is ours; the decision, and the responsibility for it, is yours.

Line three · Enterprise API & the passport layer

Programmatic access to the whole record, under one named account.

Access is issued to one named account; there is no shared team login today. Programmatic access to the whole record: the API, a private corpus vault read through the Collection's lens and never pooled, exports formatted to be ready for the EU Digital Product Passport, and the verification and passport layer that gives every object one resolvable identity.

  • ENT-APIEnterprise API & Compliance
    from $1,250/mo

    The material-provenance and $MMR record across your catalogue, a private corpus vault, Digital Product Passport ready exports, and the verification and passport layer, with the audit trail you build your own reporting on.

What you get

  • The API across your catalogue, with the audit trail behind every figure
  • A private corpus vault, read through the OAC lens and never pooled
  • Exports formatted to be Digital Product Passport ready
  • The verification and passport layer: one resolvable identity per object

Who it is for

Brand, merchandising, and audit teams assembling defensible evidence ahead of the EU Empowering Consumers Directive and the Digital Product Passport, and platforms that need the record programmatically. The name identifies the audience, the teams who do this work, and promises no compliance outcome.

Evidence infrastructure. Not a certification of compliance or sustainability, and not legal advice. It does not determine or guarantee your compliance with any law or regime. You own your claims; we supply the record and its working.

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