We’re excited to provide another BE industry 1st solution! No more spreadsheets!
Instead of having to respond to a million questions, all in slightly different formats – now you can answer these questions ONCE! Our team (and our partners) are messaging to all owners and design firms to use this centralized resource so it’s only a matter of time until everyone know!
If you get a question (or spreadsheet) from someone who doesn’t yet know about this resource, you can send them here! Especially if you have already answered the question! Or you can add their question and answer it here and then send them back here!
As of 6/9/25 version 1 is live and we will be improving it based on your feedback!
NOTE: Any manufacturer who is using our Data Services – and we have already ingested your product data- you won’t have to fill this out! Your data would automatically fill out based on the certifications your products have! For startups or small companies whose product certifications are in process, you can fill this out and indicate that they are coming. Even if you are filling this out – you only do that once!
The digitized Q+A works in one of two ways. You can either fill out the entire CMF Questionnaire on your own, without being asked or you can wait until a designer asks you to and respond to whichever questions are asked.
If you want to fill out all (or some) of the CMF questionnaire, first click on the Designer Q+A in the side pane of your dashboard and then click on one of the blue buttons to start filling out your information.
Remember, you are ONLY filling this out if we are not managing your data (which automates the answers) – or if you want us to manage your data, but it will take some time to make that happen – you can fill this out now and then we’ll automate any updates or changes in the future.
Then decide which scope of product you want to address – a line or collection vs. a specific product OR a component of a product.
Components are for items like furniture, where the seat, backing, arms, legs, and other parts may have different attributes and you need to address them separately.
Next you indicate which products this will apply to and you can list as many as you like (very soon, you will just be able to click on the products in the catalog if you choose).
Then, you indicate what evidence you have from certification data related to the CMF Buckets. If we don’t have your product data and the process isn’t automated yet for you, just click on the drop downs for each question to indicate what answers apply to your question. Below you see that for Transparency, you can choose what level of disclosure is true for the product you indicated previously. Then continue the same way for all 5 buckets. You will be able to upload any certification PDFs you want afterwards.
Below are the summary views of the other 4 CMF Buckets (in addition to Human Health above) developed by mindful MATERIALS and its community of design leaders:
Lastly, you can upload any PDF documents to support the answers:
