AI for sustainability reporting
Point it at the utility bills, supplier spreadsheets and last year’s report in your project folder, and you get back the scope 1, 2 and 3 inventory, the CDP and EcoVadis answer drafts and the ESRS datapoint mapping.
Scope12-workbook-FY2025.xlsxExample| Plant (eGRID) | MWh | Location-based tCO2e | Market-based tCO2e | Market-based basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton, OH (RFCW) | 18,400 | 8,280 | 9,568 | Green-e residual mix, with no contracts or RECs. |
| Joliet, IL (RFCW) | 21,300 | 9,585 | 11,076 | Green-e residual mix, with no contracts or RECs. |
| Austin, TX (ERCT) | 12,600 | 4,662 | 0 | Texas RECs retired for all FY2025 load. |
| Macon, GA (SRSO) | 15,200 | 6,384 | 6,384 | Copies the eGRID rate, with no residual mix applied. |
| Fresno, CA (CAMX) | 9,800 | 2,254 | 1,862 | The utility’s power content factor of 0.19 t/MWh. |
| Spokane, WA (NWPP) | 7,700 | 2,233 | 924 | The utility’s supplier-specific factor of 0.12 t/MWh. |
NoteApply the Green-e residual mix at Macon, because a site with no instruments should not reuse the grid-average rate.
Ask it for
“Build the FY2025 scope 1 and 2 workbook for the six plants from the fuel logs and electricity bills, with market-based and location-based scope 2 side by side.”
Scope12-workbook-FY2025.xlsx“Map our policies, certificates and KPI sheets against the EcoVadis criteria and flag every question with no valid supporting document.”
EcoVadis-evidence-map.xlsx“Check whether scope 3 clears the SBTi 40% threshold and screen all 15 categories. Draft the target workbook for a 2030 target set from the 2024 base year.”
SBTi-target-workbook.xlsx“Draft the UFLPA applicability review response for the rayon shipment detained at the Port of Long Beach, and match the purchase orders to the mill certificates.”
UFLPA-detention-response.docx“I have 24 months of electricity bills for the Riverside DC. Pull the kWh and peak demand, flag estimated reads and get it ready to upload to Portfolio Manager.”
Riverside-DC-bill-audit.xlsx“Cost the LED retrofit and rooftop solar at the Brooklyn warehouse as NPV and dollars per tonne, with the $268-a-tonne LL97 fine, against a 12% hurdle rate.”
Brooklyn-warehouse-business-case.xlsx
Inside the Sustainability & ESG mode
Ghg inventory
Builds the scope 1, 2 and screened scope 3 inventory in Excel and records the factor set, unit and data-quality tier on every line.
Sustainability disclosures and ratings
Turns policies, certificates and data into answers for CDP, EcoVadis, CSRD and the California climate reports, and flags the questions you cannot yet evidence.
Sustainability and decarbonization
Checks targets against the SBTi criteria, costs each abatement lever per tonne and drafts the transition plan on the baseline you already have.
Supply chain traceability and due diligence
Follows a shipment back to the mill or farm that produced it and assembles the chain of custody file for a UFLPA detention, EUDR check or customer survey.
Energy and utility analysis
Converts 12 months of utility bills into Portfolio Manager benchmarks, weather-normalizes the EUI and checks each bill against its tariff.
Regulatory applicability and change
Takes an enacted law or final rule and works out its thresholds, exemptions, compliance dates and obligations, plus where your current practice falls short.
Business case and capital allocation
Puts a retrofit or fleet change into NPV, payback and dollars per tonne, in the format your finance team expects for a capital request.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
How it works
- 1
Bring the evidence together
Drop in last year’s inventory workbook, the utility bills and meter reads, the fuel logs, supplier responses, the factor sheets you quote from, the ESRS datapoint list and the CDP or EcoVadis PDFs you answered before.
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Ask for the working file
Name the deliverable and the rules behind it, whether the scope 3 screen, the EcoVadis evidence map or the bill audit. The file comes back with live formulas, a source on every figure and a note where data is missing or will not reconcile.
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Review it like the assurance team will
Trace each figure to the bill or invoice it cites, check the factor vintage and GWP set, and reconcile the totals against last year’s inventory. You decide what goes into the sustainability statement and what gets filed.
Who it’s for
Corporate sustainability and ESG analysts and managers, carbon accountants, chief sustainability officers, and staff at suppliers who answer customer sustainability questionnaires.
Questions
Where does our data go when we use it?
Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.
Will it invent emission factors or make up numbers?
No, it quotes factors from the sources you give it, and its skills tell it to cite the file behind every figure and to flag anything it could not find or reconcile rather than estimate. Put the EPA Hub, DEFRA sheet or factor library export you normally quote in the folder, because models that name the right factor source still get the number wrong. Check a sample of the factors against the dated source, and write down what you checked before the numbers reach a report.
Can AI-assisted disclosures pass limited assurance under CSRD?
That depends on your process and your data, not on any tool, and Ultramarine Work cannot promise it. Every figure is sourced to a file and the gaps are flagged, which is the evidence trail the assurance team will ask to see. Keep a record of your own checks outside the tool, because the verifier tests your work and your data, and the decision on what gets signed rests with you and your assurance provider.
Will AI-drafted claims expose us to greenwashing accusations?
They will only if claims reach the report without evidence behind them, and the tool is set up so you can check every one. It drafts from the files in the folder, and every claim points to the document that backs it. Statements the evidence does not support are marked. The failures practitioners report are progress overstated, ambition written as achievement and baselines that drift between drafts, so read the narrative as closely as the totals before the statement goes out.
Does it know the Omnibus changes and other new rules?
Don’t rely on its memory of enacted rules, because models in this field go out of date fast. Drop the enacted directive text or the CARB guidance PDF into the folder, or let it read a website you approve first, and it works against those texts instead. Ask it to pull the thresholds, dates and obligations, but confirm its findings against the enacted law, as with the 1,000-employee and €450 million turnover limits.