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.
The HIP Score is designed to sit alongside existing sustainability frameworks, not replace them. Where other certification schemes cover ethical sourcing, forestry standards, and business practices, HIP focuses on a specific gap: long-term material resilience across seven independently assessed dimensions.
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 personally reviewed by the founder before publication. This means checking each dimension score against the methodology, verifying that the AI-generated prose accurately reflects the numeric score, and confirming that tier assignments match the published thresholds. No rating is published automatically, and no score is adjusted to favour a product beyond what the data supports.
The full methodology — including the scoring rubric for each dimension — is available on the Methodology page.
Why we built this
Good sustainability information should be fast, affordable, and transparent. Resourcehip produces HIP ratings using publicly available data, which means scores can be generated quickly and cost-effectively. Lower barriers mean more manufacturers can participate — and clear, comparable ratings give consumers the visibility they need to make confident choices about the products they buy.
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 Category Baseline to Screened 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.
Who's behind Resourcehip
Chris Bowness · Founder
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Chris is a senior energy manager for a large UK company, where years of hands-on experience with sustainability reporting — carbon questionnaires, TCFD frameworks, supply chain audits, ISO 50001, SECR and ESOS — made one gap impossible to ignore: nobody was rating whether the materials in a product would last.
Resourcehip grew from that gap. The Human Impact Profile (HIP) methodology assesses what most sustainability schemes leave out: how resilient, repairable, and recoverable are the physical materials in the things we buy?
Before founding Resourcehip, Chris spent decades working at the intersection of energy, resources, and corporate sustainability compliance. That background shapes the methodology's emphasis on material scarcity and supply chain risk — the dimensions that matter most over a product's full lifecycle.
Every rating published on this site is personally reviewed by Chris before it goes live. No score is published automatically, and no score is adjusted to make a product look better than the data supports. Rigor first, reach second.
The team
Resourcehip is built by one person and a team of specialist AI agents.
Chris brings the domain expertise: decades in energy management and sustainability compliance. The AI team, managed through an agent coordination platform called Paperclip, handles the rest — a CEO for governance and operations, a CTO for the scoring pipeline and infrastructure, a CMO for public communications, a Chief of Staff for coordination, and Qwen, a locally-hosted model reserved for sensitive data, working under the oversight of frontier AI.
This is how the company was designed to work. A founder with deep industry knowledge, amplified by AI that handles the technical build, can produce and maintain a rigorous independent rating system at a pace that would otherwise require a much larger team. The scoring pipeline, the website, the methodology implementation, the quality assurance — all built through a collaboration between human domain expertise and AI capability.
Every action the team takes is logged and searchable through Paperclip. Decisions, rationale, and work products are recorded automatically — full operational transparency is built into the way the team works, not added as an afterthought.
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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