Detroit manufacturers needed this. So we built it here.
Founded 2022. Focused on one problem: closing the gap between your scrap generation records and the recycler documentation an EPR auditor actually requires.
Why Circulyft exists
In 2022, Natasha Rivera was leading sustainability reporting for a Tier 1 automotive components supplier in Southeast Michigan. The OEM supplier code required documented recycled content percentages for steel and aluminum inputs. The documentation didn't exist — only ERP tonnage estimates and a folder of recycler receipts that had arrived by email over eighteen months. Assembling a defensible number took weeks, and the result was still an interpolation, not a chain-of-custody record.
Michigan's formal EPR reporting requirements followed in 2024. By then, Circulyft existed: a chain-of-custody tracking layer purpose-built to sit between your existing ERP and your recycler network, and to produce the documented closed-loop percentage that EPR filings — and OEM supplier audits — actually require.
We don't do sustainability strategy. We don't run ESG dashboards for corporate boards. We track post-industrial scrap, kilogram by kilogram, from your press line to the recycler's weighbridge gate — and we generate the evidence package behind every number you file.
Team
Natasha Rivera
Previously led sustainability operations at a Tier 1 automotive components supplier in Southeast Michigan, where three years of OEM supplier code compliance audits made clear that chain-of-custody documentation for recycled content was a structural gap — not a data quality problem. Left to build Circulyft in 2022. Shaped the product roadmap directly from Michigan's first EPR reporting cycle. BS Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan.
Devraj Patel
Previously built IoT data pipelines for industrial manufacturing clients at a Detroit-area systems integrator. Expert in factory-floor network environments, scale-bridge protocols, and the practical gap between "what manufacturing IT allows" and "what cloud platforms assume." Built Circulyft's factory-edge agent stack.
Sarah Okonkwo
Former Michigan EGLE environmental specialist, with direct experience in EPR program development and compliance verification. Deep understanding of what regulators actually look for when auditing manufacturer material filings. Shapes Circulyft's compliance data models to match real regulatory requirements.
Founded 2022 · Angel-funded December 2025
Circulyft was founded in Detroit in 2022. In December 2025, we closed a $1 million angel round from investors with direct backgrounds in manufacturing operations and environmental compliance — to accelerate Michigan and Great Lakes region pilots. We are headquartered at 1001 Woodward Avenue, Suite 800, Detroit, MI 48226.
Come talk to us in Detroit.
We do most of our pilot conversations in person — at the facility, with the compliance team and the plant manager in the room.