Today, more than ever, businesses are under pressure to report on their ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance and demonstrate their commitment to sustainability.
As an ESG consultant, you provide your clients with quick, timely and effective insights into how they can improve their sustainability performance.
However, the amount of granular work required to complete these tasks is burdensome and time consuming - which is why technology solutions are critical to remaining competitive and servicing clients to the highest possible standards.
Briink simplifies the ESG consulting and advisory work, by leveraging AI to empower consultants to gain quickly comprehensive understanding of any company's sustainability profile, enabling users to focus on more value additive and strategic advisory activities.
What is Briink's ESG Questionnaire Assistant, and how can you use it to improve your workflows as an ESG consultant?
Briink’s ESG Questionnaire Assistant allows you to auto-fill custom ESG questionnaires by analyzing company data from multiple documents at once (such as sustainability reports, financial statements, CSR documents, and other sources of information that provide insights into a company's ESG performance).
Here are some examples of how consultant and auditing companies are currently leveraging the ESG Questionnaire Assistant to enhance their advisory service offerings:
Use case #1: Pre-screen new clients with an in-depth analysis of the sustainability performance of their whole business.
Briink’s new ESG Questionnaire Assistant allows you to generate a full sustainability analysis in just a few minutes. You can use the tool to pre-screen your clients, providing an automated detailed analysis of their company’s sustainability performance.
By benchmarking current performance and creating a consolidated view of ESG metrics against key frameworks, Briink’s tooling automates a core part of the ESG workflow, enabling advisors to spend more time on value additive activities including gap analysis and strategic improvement plans.
ESG Questionnaire Assistant enables you to adjust AI generated responses, allowing for expert commentary and contextualization directly in the output.
Use case #2: Fast-track ESG reporting projects
ESG data collection is the #1 challenge for companies when it comes to ESG and sustainability reporting.
Leading on client projects for ESG reporting requires spending a substantial amount of time scrambling to find as much data as possible, most of which will be highly unstructured, qualitative and buried acrossAnnual Reports, Financial Statements, or company policies.
ESG Questionnaire Assistant allows you to streamline the timeline of these burdensome reporting projects considerably, by automating the bulk of your data gathering and mapping to the relevant reporting framework.
Use case #3: Streamlining ESG Auditing processes and empowering auditors
ESG Questionnaire Assistant can help auditors create ESG evaluation templates and questionnaires that align with industry standards or specific client requirements, ensuring consistency in evaluations across different companies or projects.
They can also adopt ESG Questionnaire Assistant to pre-screen clients' public documents, which can enable them to better understand the client's specific ESG goals and expectations, ensuring a more tailored audit.
Use Briink's ESG Questionnaire Assistant to improve your efficiency as an ESG consultant or auditor
By combining the capabilities of the ESG Questionnaire Assistant with your expertise as ESG consultants, you can minimize the risk of human error and offer rapid, accurate, and insightful ESG assessments.
In a world where sustainability and ESG data are paramount, adopting AI technology like Briink’s is not just about simplifying bureaucracy and reporting process – it's about identifying the most meaningful ESG metrics and insights in the most efficient and less time-consuming way possible.