Regulators, buyers, lenders and investors now all ask for your sustainability data, each in a different format and on a different clock, and each checks whether your figures agree with what you filed elsewhere.
Sustainability data is now requested by parties who can act on the answer. Regulators require it, in the EU under CSRD and the ESRS and through the Taxonomy, and beyond the EU as jurisdictions adopt ISSB-based rules and their own disclosure regimes. Buyers demand it in tenders and supplier scorecards, lenders and insurers read it in credit and underwriting files, and investors screen on it. Each asks in a different format, on a different clock, and every one of them checks whether the figures agree with what you filed elsewhere.
Collection is where the budget goes and where the reporting year is lost, and in most organisations it is still run on spreadsheets and chasing emails. Cappi takes it through four routes at once: default templates issued to every site, supplier and contractor; templates tailored to your entities and your definitions; an API into the systems you already run; and direct upload of what operations and the value chain already produce.
Narrative is cheap now, and everyone knows it, which is precisely why an auditor's scepticism about the numbers underneath has gone up rather than down. Cappi's exports are deterministic. Each figure can be reproduced from its source, its method and its factor, and the assurance pack assembles itself from the trail that was built at collection rather than reconstructed at the end.
The same rows work in two directions. Inward they show where the cost actually falls, by site, by line and month on month, and which suppliers carry exposure you are quietly underwriting. Outward they settle the questions asked by the people who hold your capital: the lender at refinancing, the acquirer in diligence, the tender at every bid, the customer's scorecard at every review.
Reporting stops being a project with a team attached. The collection runs once and each framework is an extract, so the cost falls with every framework you add and the position you can defend rises with every year of evidenced history behind it.
The store is not built for one output. The same rows answer product carbon questions from customers and the embedded emissions behind a border declaration, from the same collection rather than a second exercise. Values are never summed across regimes, and each claim is made once, in the place it belongs.
The Data Demand Map returns your own picture: which of your customers, lenders, insurers and tenders will ask you for sustainability data, in which framework, and on what timing. It starts from your contracts and relationships rather than from a compliance checklist. No cost, no obligation, and it is yours whether or not anything follows.
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