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Odys One is an independent compliance and governance firm based in Ireland. We check the evidence that IT asset disposition (ITAD) companies provide against your brand's own disposal rules, unit by unit.

Strictly independent: Odys One never buys, sells or handles hardware, runs no ITAD facilities and takes no share of resale proceeds. We work only for the brand.

Compliance backed by expertise

Why Odys One exists

Odys One was founded by Alan Scroope, one of the pioneers of product lifecycle extension and secondary market governance. For 25 years he designed value recovery programmes and sales channel controls for some of the world's best-known technology brands. Alan and his team patented the technology behind FreeFlow, the platform Tier 1 multinational brands used to sell their surplus and returned inventory in a controlled environment, where every resale was digitally recorded and channel restrictions were strictly enforced. FreeFlow was acquired by Flex in 2024.

Over those years Alan saw a fundamental shift in how hyperscalers run decommissioning. A hyperscaler that had been talking to us about recovering more value said it plainly: “When decommissioning, the priority is less about maximising value recovery. It is about managing systemic risk.”

Two ways hyperscalers allocate surplus. Both have blind spots.

The independence guarantee

“You can't correct your own homework.”

Alan Scroope, Founder & CEO

Brands now send retired hardware from sites around the world to many ITADs and their in-country partners, under rules that keep changing. Regulators, auditors and customers increasingly expect them to account for each unit and show who acquired it, and where. That takes a governance layer that sits outside the chain and works only for the brand. Odys One was founded to be that layer.

Regulatory drivers

The rules on where retired hardware goes are tightening on both sides of the Atlantic:

  • Basel Convention: since January 2025, every cross-border shipment of electronic waste needs prior informed consent.
  • EU Waste Shipment Regulation: shipments moved onto a digital tracking system in May 2026. Exporting electronic waste from the EU to countries outside the OECD is prohibited, and from May 2027 other waste exports outside the OECD go only to approved countries.
  • US Chip Security Act (proposed): security requirements on advanced AI chips, such as location verification.
  • US Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act (proposed): a ban on exporting untested used electronics.
  • EU Digital Product Passports: on the way for ICT products.

Brands can no longer rely on broker assurances, basic bills of sale or downstream resale paths nobody has checked. Unlawful e-waste disposal, data leakage and grey-market trans-shipment all come back to the brand, in its reputation and in penalties.

One record, four pillars

The Odys One platform gives you a single source of truth across four pillars.

  1. 01

    Serialised chain of custody and asset tracking

    Every server, switch, storage array and component (if serialised) on your manifest is traced from decommissioning through testing, refurbishment, resale or recycling to its final outcome. Each handover is dated and backed by a document fingerprinted on arrival and never altered.

  2. 02

    Broker and downstream due diligence

    Every downstream buyer and broker named in ITAD records is checked against company registers and screened against sanctions lists. Unverified brokers, unapproved facilities and destinations your terms don't allow are flagged for your team.

  3. 03

    Verifiable data destruction

    Every serialised data-bearing drive is linked to its certificate of data destruction, with method, date and country checked against your terms, including NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 where your terms require it. Evidence your privacy and audit teams can use in GDPR, CCPA and other data protection audits.

  4. 04

    Digital Product Passport and ESG data

    Evidenced disposition rate, reuse and recycling counted unit by unit, each figure traceable to its document. A download-ready evidence pack for regulators, boards and external auditors.

Coming next

Every engagement runs on evidence you already hold. Next, we're adding:

  • ITADs recording each custody handover and resale route directly, as it happens.
  • Daily expiry checks on certifications at every ITAD location (R2v3, e-Stewards, NAID AAA, ISO 14001, ISO 45001), and against public registers where they exist.
  • Avoided emissions, marked as from a certificate or estimated, and passport IDs linked to each serial, so disposition records can feed EU Digital Product Passports as the rules are set.

Odys One closes the gap between how retired hardware actually moves and what international rules now expect. It protects the brand by making every link in the secondary market chain visible and checkable.

What we believe
01

Your rules are the standard. We check what was already promised.

02

Missing evidence is never a pass. It's a finding.

03

The disposition team is the hero of the report, not the subject of it.

04

Transparency eliminates doubt.

The people behind it

Odys One is led by people who have worked inside disposition programmes, not just around them. Every engagement is run by that team, using technology built to check evidence at scale, so the report reflects real experience of how hardware moves, not software alone.

Alan Scroope, Founder and CEO of Odys One

Alan Scroope

Founder & CEO

25 years building and running FreeFlow, the surplus electronics platform used by global brands.

Secure your decommissioning pipeline.

Talk to us about a look-back review of a completed sale cycle, or a review of your global disposal terms. We'll come back to you within two working days.

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