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01 Use cases

Who it is for

Sustainability reporting software, by the job it has to do

Sustainability reporting software turns operational and financial data into disclosures: CSRD reports, customer questionnaires, investor answers. The same ledger serves five very different people. Here is the job each of them hires it for, honestly, including where a consultant still belongs.
02 Five roles

01

The ESG manager in a first mandatory year

Owns the problem without owning the budget: one or two people, a board asking for a number, and data scattered across AP, fuel cards and utility portals.

A complete first screening from the AP export in days, not a quarter. Hotspots that say where to collect activity data first. A drafted basis-of-preparation note for the disclosure draft. The evidence trail that survives when the auditor arrives a year later.

sustainability reporting tool for the first CSRD or SB 253 cycle

02

The CFO or group controller

Is being told sustainability disclosure is now audited like financial disclosure, and correctly hates that it currently lives in an unversioned spreadsheet.

Lineage from every reported tonne to a source line. Maker-checker control on posting changes (planned). Method versioning so a restatement is an explained event, not a mystery. The full case is on the enterprise page.

the control layer for a number someone must sign

03

The sustainability consultant

Runs 10 to 40 client inventories a year in Excel and loses the margin to data wrangling: classifying ten thousand lines by hand before the advisory work can start.

The classification pass automated per client, with per-line confidence marking exactly where expert judgment is needed. The consultant keeps the advisory margin; the ledger keeps the client relationship warm year-round. A consultant plan is part of launch pricing.

the production system behind an advisory practice

04

The procurement or supply-chain lead

A big customer's Scope 3 questionnaire landed, with a deadline, and the same request now has to go down to their own suppliers.

A defensible answer built from real spend data instead of a guess, plus (planned) supplier data requests targeted at the vendors that actually carry the tonnes, so the chain request goes out prioritised.

answering upstream, asking downstream

05

Investor relations at a listed company

Needs ISSB IFRS S2-consistent figures that survive an assurance review and a sharp analyst question, in the same period discipline as the financial statements.

Figures with stated methods and boundaries, category breakdowns per the GHG Protocol, and an assurance-provider workspace (planned, Assurance tier) with read-only evidence access.

disclosure-grade numbers, defensibly sourced

The common thread: each role needs the same underlying carbon accounting software discipline, a classified ledger with evidence, viewed through a different report. Where a consultant still beats software, and where the two combine, is treated honestly in carbon accounting services vs software.

03 Try it

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01 Amazon Web Services Cloud infrastructure, annual S3 20,240 kg
02 Con Edison Electricity, 82,400 kWh metered S2 31,312 kg
03 Delta Air Lines Team offsite + client flights S3 24,375 kg
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