Product Achievements.

Every ULC record carries two computed views, stamped side by side in its generated index. The conformance level answers "how complete is the datasheet?". Product Achievements answers a different question: "what is the product documented for?". Per theme, it reports the third-party program qualifications the record demonstrates, computed from the attestations the record already carries and stamped into index.achievements. Like the conformance level, it is computed, never declared: there is no place to assert an achievement by hand, and the two views never cross (a sparse datasheet can carry excellent sustainability evidence, and a lab-characterized fixture can carry none).

Six themes

An attestation contributes to a theme through its program token. Six themes are computed:

Embodied carbon: Environmental Product Declarations (ISO 14025) and TM-65.2 embodied-carbon assessments.
Circularity: TM-66 assured circular-economy assessments and Cradle to Cradle certification.
Material health: Declare labels, Living Building Challenge Red List statuses, Health Product Declarations, and Cradle to Cradle (which contributes to both circularity and material health).
Energy: DLC listings, ENERGY STAR, California Title 20 and JA8, the EU ecodesign and energy-label programs, and NRCan efficiency regulations.
Dark sky: DarkSky Approved and DLC LUNA.
Emergency: UL 924, UL 1994, and the ICEL emergency-lighting conformity scheme.

A record's sustainability declaration contributes too: a Declare or Red List declaration feeds material health, and a manufacturer recycle program feeds circularity, each capped at claimed, since a declaration carries no evidence document.

The full program-to-theme map is published as a versioned appendix in the compliance and attestation glossary. Programs that certify projects or companies (LEED, WELL), multi-attribute ecolabels (EPEAT, UL ECOLOGO), and the domestic-content and controls programs held for future themes are deliberately unthemed.

Three states, one evidence gate

none: No qualifying attestation or declaration contributes to the theme.
claimed: A qualifying attestation or declaration exists, but no attached, current evidence document backs it.
documented: At least one qualifying attestation carries an attached evidence document: a file reference with a filename and a SHA-256 content hash, unexpired as of the record's own as-of date.

The discriminator is evidence, never a status label: attaching the certificate file is what raises a theme from claimed to documented. Expiry is judged against the record's own record_status_as_of date, never the build clock, so the same record computes the same achievements today and next year. An attestation whose status is expired, withdrawn, or not applicable contributes nothing at all.

No overall score

There is no weighted or overall achievement grade. The only rollup is documented_count, a factual count of themes at documented. Weighting embodied carbon against material health has no accepted method, and inventing one would be ULC editorializing.

documented is a record fact, never a verification: it means an evidence document is attached to the record, not that ULC verified the underlying program. The verification standing of a claim lives in the attestation's own status. This is the same trust boundary the conformance level observes: ULC grades what a record carries; it does not certify products.

The legal floor: restricted substances

Beside the themes, never inside them, the index carries restricted_substances_declared: the RoHS, REACH, Prop 65, and similar restricted-substances programs declared anywhere in the record. Restricted-substances compliance is a legal floor, not a prestige achievement, so it surfaces as a flag rather than a theme.

On the reference records

Record	Achievements
Cooper AtLite AUX (exit sign)	emergency `documented`: its UL 924 listing is backed by two attached UL Certificates of Compliance
Cooper Sure-Lites ES (exit sign)	emergency `claimed`
Cooper Sure-Lites LPX (exit sign)	emergency and energy `claimed` (UL 924; California Title 20)
Selux Aya	dark sky and material health `claimed` (DarkSky Approved; Declare and Red List Approved) · RoHS declared
Vode Nexa	material health `claimed` (Declare and Red List Approved)
Lumenpulse Lumenfacade RGB and RGBW	no themed programs · RoHS declared
ERCO Quintessence	no themed programs (its ledger carries safety listings and test methods only)

Two of the Cooper signs are the axis in one comparison: same program, different evidence. The AtLite AUX record has its certificates attached and reads documented; the Sure-Lites ES record carries a UL 924 listing of its own with no attached document and reads claimed.