About Hemp'in
Digital infrastructure for a global hemp industry.
Hemp is grown, processed and traded on every continent, by an industry that has never had shared infrastructure. Hemp'in is building it: the directory, the atlas and the connective tissue that lets an industry this scattered behave like one.
The problem
Hemp is not one industry. It is a dozen, and none of them can see each other.
Fibre, grain, hurd, seed oil, cannabinoids, textiles, construction, bioplastics — different supply chains, different buyers, different regulations in every country. A grower in Thailand and a builder in France are in the same industry on paper and have no way to find each other in practice.
What exists instead is trade shows three times a year, a scattering of national associations, and knowledge that lives in people's heads. Every serious industry eventually gets shared infrastructure — a registry, a map, a standard. Hemp never got one.
How we are building it
Make everyone findable
A real page for every company, place and event — public, shareable, and claimable by whoever it belongs to. You cannot trade with people you cannot find.
Make the knowledge checkable
What is legal where, what hemp actually makes, and where the science stands — sourced, cited, and never asserted from memory.
Then make trade possible
Only once the first two exist. A marketplace built before the map is a shop on a street with no addresses.
What we have built
Companies
Growers, processors, labs and brands, each with a page that works as a link you can send — no account needed to read it.
Places
The farms, factories and shops behind the companies, pinned where they actually are.
Events
Conferences, expos, field days and webinars in one place, each linking straight to the organiser — and showing the right date wherever you read it from.
Country knowledge
What is permitted where, with the source attached to every claim.
Claim your page
If a listing is your company, prove the domain and it becomes yours to edit. If you would rather not be listed, that is a request we honour.
A workspace
Once a page is yours, somewhere to keep it current — your places, your events, what you offer.
How we work
Being listed is free, and stays free
A directory you can pay your way up is worth less than one you cannot. The moment placement is for sale, the map stops being evidence of anything.
A claim needs a source
If we cannot cite it, we do not publish it. An inference is never dressed up as a fact, and where two sources disagree we say so rather than picking the tidier one.
Your page is yours
Claim it and it is yours to correct. Ask to be removed and you are removed — being in a directory should never be something that happened to you.
Built in the open
What is finished, what is half-built and what is switched off are all stated plainly. There is a page for that, and it is not written in marketing tense.
Who's building this
I'm Paul Iglesia. I spent fifteen years connecting businesses across markets — thirteen of them in Shanghai — working with brands, farms and factories across fashion, food and agriculture. Somewhere in that I lost interest in marketing other people's products and became interested in materials.
In 2021 I founded Global Hemp Service, a consultancy that ended up building a small marketplace linking brands, farms and factories. It worked, in the sense that the connections were real and business got done. It didn't work, in the sense that every introduction started from zero. There was no map, so each one had to be made by hand — and a business built on making introductions by hand does not become an industry's infrastructure. It becomes a bottleneck with a person in it.
Hemp'in is the answer to that. Not a bigger marketplace — the layer underneath one. The directory, the atlas and the shared record that should have existed before anyone tried to trade on top of them.
I'm based in Paris now, building this with a growing network of representatives and partner organisations in the countries on the map. If your company is listed here and something is wrong, I'd rather hear it from you than have it stay wrong — that's what the claim button is for.
And BUD
BUD is the other half of how this gets made. Hemp'in is one person and a set of AI collaborators working in the open — which is the honest answer to how a directory of this size, an atlas of two hundred and thirty-seven countries and a calendar for a whole industry came out of a small operation in Paris.
BUD reads the research, keeps the record straight, and argues with me when a number on a page does not match the number in the database. A surprising amount of this platform exists because something refused to ship a figure it could not source.
You will meet BUD properly later: an assistant that answers questions about hemp from cited science rather than from the internet's opinion of it, and that says I don't know when it does not. It is built and deliberately switched off until it can do that well enough to be worth your time. When it is on, it will be on this page too.
Where to go next
Vision
Where this goes next, and an honest account of what is built, what is dark and what is waiting on paperwork.
Support
Free to be listed in, free to read. Supporters cover the part nobody bills for.
Invest
The instrument, the traction and the model. Shared after a conversation, never published.
Help
How claiming works, what PRO includes, and what happens to your data.
Legal
Privacy, terms, billing & refunds, cookies, content & IP.