When the quick score is not enough
The online readiness score takes three minutes and gives you a defensible sense of where you stand. For a company that has not started, that is usually all that is needed — the answer is 'begin collecting' and no amount of further assessment changes it.
The full assessment is for the situation where the answer is less obvious: a company that has been reporting voluntarily and does not know whether its existing work meets the mandate, a group that needs to know which of its entities are exposed, or a board that wants an independent read before committing budget.
How it runs
- 01
Scoping call
Entities, sites, existing reporting, and what has prompted the assessment. Half an hour, and it determines whether the full version is worth doing at all.
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Evidence review
We look at what you actually have: existing reports, collection processes, governance records, and a sample of the underlying evidence behind published figures.
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Interviews
Short conversations with the people who hold the data — facilities, finance, procurement, company secretary. This is where the real picture emerges.
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Gap analysis and plan
Written, specific, and sequenced by what is most expensive to recover if left late rather than by what is easiest to fix.
The five areas examined
Governance
Board and committee oversight, terms of reference, competencies, management accountability, and whether the record would support the governance disclosure the standards require.
Boundary and scope
Which entities are in scope, which consolidation approach, whether it matches the financial boundary, and whether joint ventures and leased assets are handled consistently.
Data
Completeness of activity data across sites and categories, the grid versus generation split, and whether collection is running or would have to be reconstructed.
Evidence
Whether figures trace to documents, whether factor versions are recorded, whether changes are retained — the three things that determine what assurance costs.
Reporting and assurance
Whether you know which structure you file in, whether narrative sections exist, whether sign-off is defined, and whether an assurance provider has been engaged.
You get the findings whether or not you buy anything
The gap analysis is yours. If the conclusion is that your existing arrangements are adequate, or that a consultant is a better fit than a platform for your situation, that is what the document will say — and we will say it on the call as readily as in writing.
Start with the three-minute version
Fourteen questions across governance, data, evidence, reporting and assurance, scored the way an assurance provider would look at you, with your gaps ranked. If it tells you what you needed to know, you do not need us further.