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About glebora
The rules were written for giants. We build for the small importer left holding them.
When the EU Deforestation Regulation arrived, it handed the founder of a three-person coffee importer the same legal weight it handed the largest traders on the continent, and left them to carry it alone. glebora exists to take the hardest part of that weight and carry it with them.
Trade that leaves the forest standing.
Why we exist
The same obligation, none of the same resources.
A large trading house meets the EUDR with a compliance department, a geospatial team, and lawyers on call.
The small, direct-trade importer (the person who knows their producers by name and built a business on that relationship) meets exactly the same regulation with none of it: the same geolocation for every producer plot, the same deforestation assessment, the same Due Diligence Statement to file before their coffee or cocoa can be placed on the market.
The obligation was written for the largest operators. It lands hardest on the smallest desks.
That asymmetry is the whole reason we’re here. The importer who does the most to keep trade honest (buying directly, at origin, from farmers they know) shouldn’t be the one most likely to be crushed by the paperwork meant to protect forests. So we took the single hardest piece, the deforestation assessment, and built the rest of the work around it.
Who we are
Small, EU-established, and deliberately focused.
glebora is an independent, founder-run service based in Denmark. That last detail isn’t incidental. The EUDR lets an operator appoint an Authorised Representative to carry out due diligence and file on their behalf, but only one that is established in the European Union. Being here, inside the EU, is precisely what makes the done-for-you path we offer legal rather than a workaround.
We do one thing: EUDR due diligence for coffee and cocoa importers. That focus is the point: the person reading your plots understands coffee and cocoa supply chains, and the engine reading them was built for exactly this crop, this regulation, this deadline. Not a deforestation checkbox bolted onto a menu of unrelated services, the whole of what we do.
Our approach
Trust earned through method, not claimed through marketing.
Type-aware assessment
Coffee and cocoa are often grown under shade trees. A single satellite map can read the pruning of those trees as forest loss and flag a legal agroforestry farm as a problem. We help separate the management of shade trees from the genuine clearing of forest, reducing the false positives a single map throws on agroforestry, and surfacing anything ambiguous for a person rather than auto-failing it.
Multiple authoritative sources
No single map is legally binding, so we don’t lean on one. A 2020 baseline forest layer sets the line the regulation draws; a change layer shows disturbance since; a third classifies whether that disturbance was deforestation or ordinary tree-crop management. We cross-read them for a determination we can stand behind.
Recorded and transparent
Every result records the exact datasets and versions it relied on. When an auditor or a customer asks how you concluded a plot was deforestation-free, the answer isn’t a claim. It’s a written trail of what was checked and what was found.
The datasets are authoritative and openly licensed. The judgement of how to read them together: that is the work, and the moat.
The work we stand behind.
What we sell is due diligence done properly: thorough, documented, and defensible, the kind of work that holds up on its evidence when an auditor asks to see it. You can inspect the method, not just take our word for it.
Under the EUDR the legal responsibility for your declaration stays with you, the operator: that is how the regulation is built, and no representative can take it on. Our job is to make the due diligence behind it strong enough that it holds.
Get in touch
If this sounds like your business, let’s talk.
Tell us what you import and where from, and we’ll show you what the EUDR asks of you, and take the hardest part off your desk. The sooner the geolocation and records come together, the calmer the deadline looks.