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The Annual Report Refused to Die. Sia/Addison Made It Useful.
For 64 years, this Wall Street agency has practiced an unfashionable craft: making corporate disclosure worth reading. Its latest trick is blending that old discipline with sustainability strategy, digital products and AI.
The People You Call When the Press Release Is the Smallest Problem
DrivePath Advisors built an energy communications firm around a useful premise: in a crisis, fluency beats volume. Its advisers have already sat in the chair, watched the clock shrink and learned which sentence cannot wait until morning.
The Last Mile of Change Is Written in Plain English
Big transformations tend to arrive as software, strategy and slides. Pivot Strategies works on the stubborn final mile - getting actual employees to understand what changed, why it matters and what to do on Monday morning.
The Sustainability Report Is the Last Thing Context Makes
For nearly three decades, a small transatlantic consultancy has made a business of translating the unruly language of sustainability into decisions, disclosures, and stories people can actually use.
The Design Firm That Learned to Read the Footnotes
OBATA began with an illustrator who had too much work, survived a fire, bought St. Louis design its first Macintosh, and found its modern niche in the least glamorous corporate problem imaginable: making complicated information worth reading.
Cooksey’s Quiet Advantage: Knowing Three Worlds Very Well
The Irving firm built a durable PR business by declining to know a little about everything. Its real product is context - the civic, financial and real-estate kind that makes complicated messages land.
thinkPARALLAX and the Art of Saying More in 66 Fewer Pages
The California agency helped shrink Snap’s sustainability report from 113 pages to 47. Its bigger project: getting corporate ambition, evidence, and storytelling to agree.
One Small Network Teaches Corporate Colombia to Make Promises It Can Measure
It began as an international cooperation project and became the room where Colombian business turns ten UN principles into workshops, targets, reports and awkwardly useful conversations. The clever part is not the pledge - it is the machinery after the pledge.
Britain Wanted Proof of Social Value. This Company Put a Price on It.
Social Value Portal built the plumbing between a worthy promise and an auditable result. Its bet is simple: if procurement can count community benefit with the discipline it counts cost, good intentions have a better chance of surviving the contract.
Lucanet Wants to Close the Books - and the Tabs
Lucanet turns the month-end maze into one governed finance workspace. The trade is classic enterprise software: serious accounting muscle, a real implementation, and a price you have to ask for.
Yasser Mahmud Built a Marketing Career Around the Hardest Product to Sell: Trust
The Workiva CMO began as a systems engineer, learned to translate complex products into plain stakes, and now markets software for work nobody can afford to get wrong.
Avetta Turned Contractor Paperwork Into a Passport to Work
Avetta built a $3 billion business around an unglamorous question: is this contractor actually ready to step onto the site? Its answer combines software, audits and a network - while asking suppliers to do some of the paying and plenty of the paperwork.
Waterplan Put a Price Tag on the Water Risk Hiding Inside Global Factories
Most companies know water matters. Far fewer can say which plant is exposed, what a shutdown might cost, or which project deserves funding. Waterplan built the translation layer between a watershed and a balance sheet.
Meredith Binder Spent 27 Years Turning Messy Data Into Decisions
Before sustainability data became her product brief, Meredith Binder learned how information moves through a company. Her career is a study in translation - from documentation to global marketing, from merger work to software, and from worthy intentions to decisions people can actually make.
arbnco Spent 14 Years Teaching Buildings to Confess - Then the Meter Company Bought It
Landlords do not lack net-zero promises. They lack clean energy data and a sane way to decide which boiler, roof or lease problem to tackle first. arbnco built that decision layer - and in July 2026, IMSERV bought the missing piece between the meter and the retrofit plan.
Leila Dillon
Leila Dillon has built a career explaining the systems most people notice only when they fail - from sensor-equipped city bins to the energy infrastructure beneath schools, governments and businesses.
Alexis Normand
Alexis Normand spent years turning personal data into useful signals. At Greenly, he is applying the same instinct to corporate carbon - making an invisible liability legible enough to manage.
Agridence
Agridence is a Singapore technology company that helps global agri-commodity supply chains prove where their raw materials come from. Born in 2018 as HeveaConnect, a digital B2B marketplace for physical natural rubber, it rebranded in 2022 and expanded into a modular traceability and compliance platform now spanning rubber, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, coconut and more. Its tools trace commodities from the farm plot to the shipment and file the paperwork regulators such as the EU Deforestation Regulation demand, serving tyre makers, food multinationals, traders and industry associations.
Cedalio
Cedalio is an AI agent platform for the office of the CFO that automates accounts payable, procurement, and utility-bill processing. Its specialized agents read invoices and bills from email, portals, and drives using vision models, run 3-way matching against purchase orders and receipts, flag duplicates and anomalies, and handle LATAM tax compliance before data reaches the ERP. Founded by ex-Wolox engineers and backed by Y Combinator (S23), the company began as a blockchain-verifiable database and evolved through sustainability data into finance automation, keeping auditability as its throughline.
Inauro
Inauro is a Sydney-based Industrial AI and IoT software company that fuses real-time data from sensors, telematics, ERP, CRM and digital forms into a single operational view through its Perspio platform. It helps equipment rental, construction, cold chain, agriculture, logistics and mining operators automate workflows, monitor assets, cut maintenance costs and meet compliance obligations. Founded in 2020 by former Kennards Hire leaders Angus Kennard and Craig Kesby, Inauro monitors tens of thousands of connected devices worldwide and was backed by a A$3M investment from SafetyCulture.
Cerebri AI
Cerebri AI is an Austin-based data engineering and artificial intelligence company that builds purpose-built AI agents for corporate travel, expense (T&E), and indirect procurement. Founded in 2016 by Jean Belanger and Steve Harter, the company originally pioneered a customer-experience metric called Cerebri Values before pivoting to become a leader in AI-powered analytics for the $1.5 trillion corporate travel market. Its AIQ Data Foundry unifies fragmented TMC, corporate card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a finance-grade foundation, on top of which its CAI Agents - a 'digital employee' workforce - automate hotel RFPs, air contract compliance, trip cost reconciliation, and ESG reporting while measuring ROI on every action.
Greenly
Greenly is a French climate-tech company building carbon-accounting software that helps businesses of all sizes measure, report and reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. Founded in Paris in 2019, its all-in-one sustainability suite automatically pulls data from financial transactions, utility bills, cloud usage and supply chains to calculate emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, then pairs the data with human climate experts. Greenly serves roughly 3,500 clients across 25 countries and has raised about $78.6 million, including a $52 million Series B led by Fidelity International Strategic Ventures in 2024.
Scaler
Scaler is an ESG data platform built for the real estate industry that turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York and Amsterdam, its software helps asset managers, fund managers and compliance teams collect building-level energy, water and carbon data, run CRREM and net-zero analysis, and report against frameworks like GRESB, CSRD, SFDR and the EU Taxonomy - all from a single, traceable source of truth.
SeekOps Inc.
SeekOps is an Austin-based climate-technology company that mounts a NASA-derived laser methane sensor, the SeekIR, onto enterprise-grade drones to detect, locate, quantify, and report methane emissions for energy, renewable natural gas, and waste operators. Spun out of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2017, its drone-agnostic Leak Detection and Quantification (LDAQ) systems help operators meet regulatory frameworks such as OGMP 2.0, EPA rules, and the EU Methane Regulation, and have been deployed onshore and offshore for majors including bp, Shell, TotalEnergies, and Equinor.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (SR Inc) is a Boston-based, certified B Corporation that provides membership-based strategic advisory and support services in enterprise decarbonization. For more than fifteen years it has helped executives at nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies set sustainability goals, drive progress, and report results through shared-cost research, one-on-one consulting, and a peer community. Its two flagship offerings are the Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) advisory service and the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB), a confidential corporate renewable-energy buyers' community and transaction platform.
Locus Technologies
Locus Technologies is a Silicon Valley software company that pioneered cloud-based environmental, health & safety (EHS), ESG, and water management software. Founded in 1997 by Dr. Neno Duplan, Locus deployed what it describes as the first commercial Software-as-a-Service product for environmental information management in 1999. Today its multi-tenant platform runs a suite of 30+ configurable apps that help regulated enterprises and water utilities manage air, water, waste, energy, emissions, and compliance data - reportedly more than half a billion environmental records - from a single system of record.
Pulsora
Pulsora is an AI-powered sustainability management platform built for enterprises and investors to collect, measure, and report ESG and carbon data on a single governed system. Founded in 2021 by Silicon Valley veterans Murat Sonmez and Inderjeet Singh (originally as PulsESG), the San Mateo company combines carbon accounting, framework reporting (CSRD, CDP, EDCI), and agentic AI workflows to turn scattered sustainability data into audit-ready disclosures. It serves 500+ companies across 63 countries and raised a $20M Series A in 2023 led by Galvanize Climate Solutions.
Cortex Building Intelligence
Cortex Building Intelligence (now branded Cortex Sustainability Intelligence) is a New York and Nashville based proptech company that uses machine learning to help commercial real estate owners cut energy waste and carbon emissions. Founded in 2014 by Bryan Bennett, its energy insights platform turns raw building data into specific operational moves, helping office portfolios like Empire State Realty Trust, Silverstein Properties, Savanna, and RXR lower costs and meet decarbonization mandates such as NYC's Local Law 97.
RoadRunner
RoadRunner (RoadRunner Modern Waste + Recycling) is a Pittsburgh-based, technology-driven waste and recycling company that helps commercial and enterprise businesses cut costs, divert more material from landfills and report on their environmental impact. Founded in 2014 by Graham Rihn, it pairs a managed-services model with proprietary software and AI-powered smart cameras (via its 2022 acquisition of Compology) to meter, monitor and optimize waste streams. The company serves 14,000+ customers across all 50 states and has raised roughly $150M in venture funding.