Three moduleson one entity tree.
Each runs independently and shares the same structure — general partner, fund, portfolio company. Carbon can run for a GP whose companies never touch an ESG questionnaire, and the other way round.
The three modules
Before the hold
The three above score a company you own. This one grades a target you're deciding whether to buy — from the data it already reports — and carries the result in as its entry baseline the day the deal closes.
How a season runs
The three modules are separate purchases and one machine. Whichever you start with lands on the same entity tree and moves through the same three beats — which is why adding the second one costs a scoping call rather than a second implementation.
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Collect
One questionnaire per company, scoped by sector and NACE code rather than sent out identically to everyone. Carbon collects activity data on the same tree — litres, kilometres, kilowatt-hours.
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Compute
The same answers compute against whichever standard your obligation names. Nothing is re-keyed and nobody is asked twice: changing the framework changes the calculation, not the collection.
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Publish
Consolidation up the tree, dashboards for the fund, and a board-ready PDF at the end. Answers are scored against a sector materiality profile and come out as an action plan, not only a chart.
Where this differs
Three things that tend to separate us from whatever a fund is evaluating alongside us.
Collection, reporting and the regulatory module are sold as three products.
It is one exercise. An answer given in January is the PAI input in June and a line in the board report in September, because it never leaves the same record.
Every fund is sent the same questionnaire.
Tailoring is the normal case: a recognised standard as the base, scoped by sector and NACE code, plus the handful of indicators your thesis and your LPs actually act on.
The platform stops at a dashboard and leaves the interpretation to you.
Every line of the action plan carries a responsible function, a cost estimate, a benefit estimate and the regulation behind it.
What it computes against
Six standards, two reference pages. The same collected data recomputes underneath whichever one your obligation names, so a change of framework is a setting rather than a new collection round.