Evidence

Proof That Wins Business

Sustainability data becomes commercial power when every result can be shown, sourced and defended. Cappi holds one governed record, and every number a buyer, bank, auditor or regulator sees traces to its input, its source, its method and the people who stood behind it.

InputSourceMethodReviewAnswer
One number, five linksAccepted
  • InputThe row, the site, the period and the person who entered it
  • SourceThe factor with its document, section, year and geography
  • MethodThe calculation, its version and its dated parameters
  • ReviewAcceptance by a second pair of eyes, named and time-stamped
  • AnswerThe output a buyer, bank, auditor or regulator reads
Time-stamped · attributed · locked to version
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governed record

One spine answers every framework. Data is entered once, never twice.

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audiences, one figure

Buyer, bank, auditor and regulator read the same number from the same rows.

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regulatory outputs

One carbon intensity engine answers five regimes, each claimed once.

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figures hand-typed

Every value is produced from a stored row by a fixed template.

01the trace

Every number carries its own history

Most platforms hold a report. Cappi holds the rows the report is produced from, which is the only thing a reviewer can actually test.

Input The row, the site, the period, the person Source The factor, its document, section, year and geography Method The calculation, its version, its dated parameters Review Acceptance by a second pair of eyes, time-stamped Answer The output a buyer, bank, auditor or regulator reads SITES SUPPLIERS SYSTEMS

The chain runs in one direction only. A figure cannot appear on an output unless every link behind it exists, which is why the same document serves the buyer who wants a lower number and the reviewer who wants to disprove it.

02what a reviewer tests

Four questions, answered before they are asked

These are the questions that stop a report at assurance. Each is closed by the structure of the record, not by a covering note.

01 provenance

Where did this figure come from?

Every result traces to the input row that produced it, the site it belongs to and the period it covers. No figure is typed straight onto an output.

02 factor

Which factor did you apply?

Every emission factor carries its source document and section, its year, its geographic and technology scope and its unit basis. Resolution runs from site to grid zone, never from a country code alone.

03 method

How was it calculated?

Methods are versioned and every regulatory price, penalty and benchmark is a dated platform parameter. A figure produced in March is reproducible in November, on the parameters that applied at the time.

04 people

Who stood behind it?

Entry and acceptance are separate acts by separate people, both recorded. Data quality is scored 1 to 5 on every row and the score travels with the number.

03governance

Nothing leaves the platform in draft

Status is a property of the row, not of the report. Until a row reaches the top of the ladder it cannot reach an output.

DraftedEntered by the person who holds the operational data, with its source attached.
ApprovedConfirmed by the data owner inside the client organisation.
In reviewChecked by a Cappi reviewer against method, factor and completeness.
AcceptedCleared for use, time-stamped, attributed and locked to its version.

The blocking rule

No declaration is finalised and no output is produced while any contributing row sits below accepted. Approval by the data owner is not sufficient on its own: a Cappi reviewer accepts, or the number does not travel.

The audit trail

Every override, every re-mapped factor and every correction is logged with who, when, from what to what, and why. Superseded values are retained with their validity dates, so a past output can still be reproduced exactly as issued.

04who reads it

One figure, four audiences, no rewriting

Nothing is restated for a friendlier audience, which is precisely why the harder audiences accept it.

The buyer

A supplier who can evidence a lower embedded figure is easier to buy from and easier to defend internally. Proof moves the order, and it moves it before price does.

The bank

Sustainability-linked terms need numbers that survive a credit committee. A derivation that can be inspected is worth more than a narrative that cannot.

The auditor

An assurance provider works from your derivation, not from your description of it. Giving them the rows shortens the engagement and the list of findings.

The regulator

Filings are produced from the same rows as the commercial answer, so the story does not change between audiences and cannot be contradicted later.

05discipline

The claims we will not make

Credibility is built as much by what a platform refuses to say as by what it can prove.

Audit-ready is our word

Verified belongs to the accredited third party who signs. Cappi prepares the evidence to the standard that signature requires and never claims the signature itself. Third-party fees are passed through, never marked up.

Estimates are labelled estimates

Forward prices, projections and regulatory defaults are marked as such where they appear. A number that has not been evidenced is never presented as though it has.

No value is summed across regimes

Each regime sets its own comparator and its own basis. A batch is claimed once, and a total that adds regimes together is not a bigger number, it is a wrong one.

06start here

See what your own evidence is worth

No cost, no obligation, and the result is yours whether anything follows or not.

The Exposure Snapshot returns your figure, from your own goods, routes and sites: what they cost on default values against evidenced actuals, across the CN codes you already ship.

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