# Wild Asia and the Proxy Market ## What Wild Asia actually is An **agent and proxy, not the certifier.** It inspects the estate, prepares the evidence, and applies for certification on the estate's behalf — then hands the work back. Its WAGS (Wild Asia Group Scheme) programme produces a **Grower Annual Progress Report (GAPs)** covering documentation findings, site findings, environmental, social and OSH management plans, and an overall compliance-progress score. [[Rimau/Fantasi Generasi - The Anchor Estate|Fantasi Generasi]] has been in the WAGS programme since **31 March 2021**, and its 2025 GAPs report is Rimau's closest thing to a ground-truth specification of the deliverable. ## The cost benchmark that sets Rimau's price > [!info] Observed pricing — written materials (Jul 2026) > - **RM12,500/year** for one estate > - **RM9,000/year** for another — *and the more expensive one was smaller.* > > Pricing is opaque and not obviously acreage-linked. That opacity is itself a selling point for a transparent flat fee. > [!danger] Observed pricing — the 18 Aug 2026 call > - **RM15,000/year** quoted (~US$6,000) for consultation. > - Individual quotations of **RM15,000–30,000**, and an estate typically goes through **two to three a year** in back-and-forth. > - **≈ RM100,000 a year** all in, for a 300–500 acre medium holder. > - Elapsed time: **three months collating + two to three months processing = about half the year.** > > The two accounts differ by roughly 8×. Both cannot be right. → [[Rimau/Open Questions and Numbers to Reconcile]] This is **consultation only** — before certification-body fees, staff time, and the internal prep. ## Why the proxy exists at all Wild Asia is an auditor and consultant, **not an accredited certification body**. So it prepares the estate's evidence and then applies *to* a certification body on the estate's behalf — a middleman step that exists purely because the two roles are separate. Marc's phrasing: *a classic corporate consultant issue — an imposter middleman taking a bunch of money.* Collapsing that step is the prize behind [[Rimau/The Accreditation Question]]. ## The integrity problem underneath Certification bodies exploit a **sampling loophole**: audit roughly 10 per cent of a group of estates and pass everyone. It keeps CB costs low while fees stay high. The result is a system that is simultaneously **high cost and low integrity** — a combination that rarely survives contact with a competent software product. A related observation from the field: burning cleared land is a criminal offence, yet RSPO-certified estates reportedly still do it. **Certification and reality diverge.** Any credible readiness platform has to be built to close that gap, not paper over it. ## Why the proxy market is the addressable spend Rimau does not have to create a budget. The budget exists, it is annual, it is five figures, and the buyer resents it. Replacing it with a subscription that also removes the three-month scramble is the whole commercial argument. ## Related - [[Rimau MOC]] - [[Rimau/The Compliance Scramble]] - [[Rimau/Competition and the Impartiality Line]] - [[Rimau/Fantasi Generasi - The Anchor Estate]]