Our story.

We design platforms that shorten the path between the people who create value and the people who need it. Fewer intermediaries, more income for the producer, the waste picker and the small business.

Sustainable Initiatives S.A.S. was founded in Quito on one conviction: the key to equality in the 21st century is digitalization. We believe in decentralization and equal opportunity. That is why we build digital marketplaces that shorten the path between those who produce and those who buy, and services that bring technology to the businesses that were left out. Each initiative tackles a concrete problem that is social and environmental at once: unfair trade, waste nobody uses, and the digital divide.

We work for producers, waste pickers and small businesses. In Latin America, the people who produce usually receive the smallest share of the final price. Between the farm, the workshop or the waste picker and the buyer sits a chain of intermediaries, and each one keeps its margin. Many small businesses also still lack the digital tools to sell on their own. Our answer is technology in the service of fair trade: platforms that shorten the chain so the value reaches the people who create it.

What we believe

Equal opportunity starts with access. When a producer can sell directly, when a waste picker can deal with industry, and when a small business shows up online like a large company, the market becomes fairer and more sustainable at the same time.

• Direct trade.
• Circular economy.
• Equal opportunity.
• Accessible technology.

How we work

We start from the problem, not the technology: where value is lost and who loses it. We build in short agile cycles, together with the people who will use each platform. We work across Ecuador, América Latina.