About Resourcehip
Resourcehip publishes independent ratings that answer a question most sustainability schemes ignore: what is the long-term material future of this product?
What we rate — and what we don't
The HIP Score (Human Impact Profile Score) is a number from 0 to 10 that summarises how resilient, responsibly sourced, and long-lived a product is from a materials and supply chain perspective.
It is not a carbon footprint. It does not measure energy consumption in use or transport emissions. Instead it focuses on whether the materials a product depends on are abundant or at risk, whether they are sourced responsibly, whether the product can be repaired, and whether its materials can be recovered at end of life.
Most sustainability ratings either measure only carbon, or claim to measure everything without being clear about what they actually look at. The HIP Score is narrow by design — it measures what it says it measures, and nothing more.
The seven dimensions
Every HIP Score is built from seven independently assessed dimensions:
| Code | Dimension | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| MSI | Material Scarcity Index | 20% |
| SCR | Supply Chain Risk | 18% |
| RC | Recyclability & Circularity | 18% |
| R | Repairability | 13% |
| SEI | Social & Environmental Impact | 8% |
| PL | Product Longevity | 8% |
| RI | Regenerative Index | 15% |
The Regenerative Index (RI) is unique to Resourcehip. It runs from −10 to +10. Negative scores are valid and common — most conventional manufactured goods depend on finite extracted materials and actively deplete natural reserves. The honest acknowledgement of that is the starting point for change, not a failure.
Two types of rating
Category ratings assess a whole product category — for example, Hair Dryers — using publicly available data. No specific brand or manufacturer is named. These ratings show where a typical product in the category sits, and give consumers a baseline for comparison.
Verified ratings assess a specific product from a named manufacturer, using data submitted directly by that manufacturer. Verified ratings usually score higher than the category baseline — because real data about what a product actually contains and how it is actually made almost always tells a better story than conservative assumptions.
How ratings are produced
Ratings are produced using a local AI scoring pipeline running on Resourcehip's own hardware. No product data is sent to external cloud services. A single AI model (qwen3.5:35b) handles both structured scoring and writing the human-readable sections. Every rating is reviewed and approved by a human assessor before publication. No rating is ever published automatically.
The full methodology — including the scoring rubric for each dimension — is available on the Methodology page.
Why we built this
Most sustainability labels either mean very little (because no one checks) or require so much verification that only large companies can participate. Resourcehip is built on the premise that honest, transparent ratings based on publicly available data are more useful than vague claims based on opaque criteria.
The rating system is designed to reward genuine improvement. A manufacturer who submits real data about their product will almost always see their score improve over the conservative category baseline. The improvement pathway — from generic rating to verified rating to HIP Mark — is the commercial logic of the business, and it is structured so that manufacturers have a clear reason to engage.
Contact
For general enquiries: hello@resourcehip.com
For methodology questions or to dispute a rating: methodology@resourcehip.com
For HIP Mark licensing enquiries: licensing@resourcehip.com
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