Data & Analytics
Sustainability & ESG
ESG earns trust when it is measured with the rigor of finance.
Commitments are easy to announce and hard to evidence. We help boards and executive teams set a sustainability agenda they can defend, then build the data and controls that let every disclosed figure stand up to an auditor’s questions.
Ambition has outpaced the evidence.
Vision 2030 and the Kingdom’s net-zero commitment have moved sustainability from the annual report onto the strategy agenda. Investors and lenders now expect disclosures that are comparable and assurable, and large buyers are asking the same of their suppliers. For organizations that run fleets, facilities, networks or data centers, resource efficiency has become a question of cost and license to operate as much as reputation.
The data has not kept pace. Emissions and resource figures are often assembled by hand from utility bills, fuel cards, meter readings and supplier spreadsheets, by a small team working against the reporting deadline. Definitions differ between business units, ownership is unclear and few numbers have been tested by internal audit. Targets are announced before they can be measured, and that gap is where regulatory and reputational risk begins.
How we put evidence behind the agenda.
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An agenda anchored in the business
A sustainability agenda is credible when the chief financial officer would fund it. We test which issues are material to the business model and to the people it answers to, set targets the organization can finance and deliver, and give every commitment board oversight and an accountable executive.
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Carbon and resource performance
Emissions usually arrive with an operating cost attached: fuel burned, power drawn, water pumped. We measure carbon alongside those costs and rank decarbonization measures by cost and impact, so investment goes first to the ones that pay back.
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A leaner technology footprint
For a digital organization, technology is a material source of energy use and one of the easiest to measure. We look at data center efficiency, where cloud workloads run, how long hardware is kept and how many applications do the same job, and act first where cost and carbon fall together.
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ESG data from source systems
Figures retyped at quarter end are the weakest link in any disclosure. We connect sustainability reporting to the systems where activity is recorded, from ERP and procurement to fleet and facilities, and use analytics, including AI, to flag anomalies and estimate value-chain emissions where supplier data is thin, with every estimate labeled as such.
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Disclosure that stands up to assurance
We prepare disclosures against ISSB and other international standards, and against what local regulators and exchanges expect. Before the auditor arrives, we rehearse the assurance ourselves: each figure is walked back to its source and each control is tested.
What leadership can stand behind.
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Figures the board can sign
Every disclosed number has a documented method and an evidence trail back to source, and the organization is ready for external assurance when it is required.
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Targets with a delivery plan
Every commitment is backed by funded initiatives and an executive who answers for it, and is reviewed with the same discipline as any other performance target.
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Efficiency that shows in the accounts
Lower energy and water consumption appears as lower operating cost, which keeps the program funded and the business engaged.
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ESG in everyday decisions
Sustainability indicators sit on the same executive dashboard as financial and operational ones, and capital requests state their carbon and resource impact.
04Our perspective
Treat every sustainability figure as if it will be audited. Increasingly, it will be.
The work is unglamorous: defined owners, documented methods, tested controls and a clear line from each source system to the published disclosure. It is less visible than a pledge. It is also what makes a pledge believable, and it often surfaces efficiency savings that help fund the agenda.
Work with us
Bring us the hardest decision on your agenda.
Start with the outcome you need and what stands in its way. Your first conversation will be with someone senior enough to shape the answer.