Genie for Sustainability & ESG

Lead on ESG with intelligence, not just intention

From real-time materiality monitoring and global stakeholder identification to benchmarking your ESG mandate, Genie equips teams with intelligence and insights to act early, engage strategically, and report with confidence.
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Monitor ESG material topics with a signal-first system that separates substance from noise - across geographies and languages
Build an auditable stakeholder engagement trail that feeds directly into CSRD, Section 172, and GRI disclosure requirements
Map NGO ecosystems, activist networks, and campaign connections before reputational pressure takes shape
Why Sustainability & ESG teams need a new operating system
ESG has crossed a structural tipping point. The function now operates as the organisation's lens on its external ESG landscape - expected to maintain continuous awareness of emerging developments, understand the stakeholders shaping them, and proactively manage the full range of ESG forces: investor pressure, consumer preference, regulatory requirements, employee expectations, and reputational risk, simultaneously and across geographies.
The problem: most ESG systems were built for annual compliance, not real-time intelligence.
In many organisations, Sustainability teams are pulled into issues only after external pressure has consolidated - when disclosure deadlines loom, when NGOs have mobilised, or when regulators have already set direction. By that point, the cost of response is high and the room to shape outcomes is narrow.
In practice, this shows up as:
  • Section 172, CSRD, and GRI disclosure reports compiled manually twice a year from regional teams using inconsistent methods - making it near-impossible to produce a coherent, auditable narrative
  • Media monitoring generating high volume with poor signal quality - cursory mentions mixed with substantive developments, with no way to direct attention to what actually matters
  • No structured capability for mapping the NGO and activist networks driving reputational risk - including funders, campaign connections, and responsible sourcing relationships
  • External consultants engaged periodically for stakeholder interviews - expensive, limited in coverage, and producing snapshots rather than continuous intelligence
  • Board ESG reporting assembled from scattered inputs with no central system to capture engagement history, issue trends, or stakeholder positioning in a structured, defensible way
The ESG workflow: where intelligence gaps cost the most
In a global study of 98 ESG leaders across 25 countries, McKinsey & TSC found that every organisation follows a consistent 6-step ESG workflow - from defining purpose to monitoring controversy. At every single stage, leaders identified significant intelligence gaps driving reactive, costly behaviour.
The core problem is timeliness. Annual, point-in-time assessments cannot keep pace with ESG issues in constant flux. Regulatory developments, stakeholder position shifts, and NGO campaigns don't wait for a biannual review - but most ESG teams' systems do. The result: organisations find out they're behind when they see the signal in the news, not before it arrives.
Organisations that move from static annual processes to dynamic, real-time intelligence build competitive advantage from their ESG performance. Those that don't manage compliance risk - reactively, expensively, and late.
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Customer Story
Mining & Commodities
Section 172 · CSRD · GRI
Africa · LATAM · APAC · Europe
One of the world's largest diversified mining and commodities groups deployed Genie as the operational backbone for its Group Sustainable Development function - managing ESG intelligence, stakeholder engagement, and disclosure reporting across four regions and three regulatory frameworks.

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What changed
Manual biannual compilation replaced with a continuous, real-time intelligence capability
Auditable stakeholder engagement trail queryable for Section 172, CSRD and GRI disclosure
Single platform replacing disparate regional reporting processes across four teams
Genie is the ESG operating system that links
Issues ↔ regulatory signals ↔ stakeholders ↔ disclosure requirements ↔ engagement strategy in a single, continuously updated system. This gives Sustainability teams the connected intelligence they need to move from reactive compliance to proactive leadership - and allows cross-functional, multi-geography teams to stay coordinated when navigating the external ESG environment.
This allows teams to:
  • Move from static annual materiality assessments to a dynamic, continuously updated view of what is emerging, what is accelerating, and what is approaching regulatory or investor attention
  • Identify who is shaping each ESG issue - from NGO networks to investor coalitions to activist groups - and map their connections, positions, and momentum
  • Build a structured, auditable stakeholder engagement trail that directly feeds CSRD, Section 172, GRI, and ISSB disclosure requirements
  • Coordinate intelligence, engagement, and disclosure across multi-geography, cross-functional teams from a single platform
ESG leaders who proactively manage material issues gain competitive advantage and a window to shape outcomes. Those who react are left managing consequences - at significantly higher cost and narrower options.

Core Capabilities for Sustainability & ESG Teams

ESG issue & regulatory intelligence

Sustainability teams operate in fast-moving regulatory environments where the cost of late awareness is high.

Effective teams maintain continuous visibility across ESG-relevant policy developments, disclosure frameworks, and regulatory signals  -  across their priority issues, geographies, and value chains.

With Genie, you can:

  • Monitor ESG regulatory and policy signals that are most relevant to your organisation with a context-aware system (going beyond keywords tracking)
  • Track disclosure framework developments (CSRD, ISSB, SEC climate rules, TNFD) across jurisdictions
  • Identify emerging ESG risks before they become compliance obligations or stakeholder flashpoints
  • Ensure teams and leadership share a single, current view of what matters - across functions and geographies

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Stakeholder & Activists intelligence

Know the real influencers and actors behind each ESG issue. ESG influence rarely follows formal channels.

Every material ESG topic has its own ecosystem of NGOs, regulators, investors, industry bodies, academics, and advocacy groups who shape narrative, regulation, and reputational risk behind the scenes.

With Genie, you can:

  • Discover and prioritise ESG stakeholders dynamically, by issue and geography
  • Identify NGOs, investor coalitions, and advocacy groups driving ESG pressure
  • Automatically map the influence network around each ESG issue
  • Track targeted stakeholder sentiment and position shifts over time

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Engagement intelligence (for disclosures)

Turn stakeholder engagement into structured, auditable intelligence that feeds directly into your disclosure process.

Disclosure frameworks like CSRD and GRI require teams to demonstrate not just what they report, but who they engaged, what was said, and how it informed their materiality assessment. Genie gives you the infrastructure to do that continuously - not just at reporting time.

With Genie, you can:

  • Build a structured, queryable record of stakeholder engagement across geographies, issues, and reporting periods
  • Generate engagement insights and talking points grounded in stakeholder profiles, issue context, and live media signals
  • Surface the external positions and narratives that shape your double materiality assessment and disclosure obligations
  • Maintain institutional memory across teams - so engagement history is never lost when people change roles or regions

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Decision-grade ESG reporting & executive insight

Turn ESG complexity into clarity with an AI-augmented workflow.

Sustainability teams are routinely asked to brief leadership, boards, and audit committees on complex, fast-moving ESG developments  -  and to connect external signals to business implications and recommended actions.

With Genie, you can automatically generate synthesised ESG insights based on your business objectives, stakeholder engagement history, and regulatory signals  -  thereby eliminating 70% of the manual research workload.

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Use Cases

Using Genie in different scenarios

ESG Issue Monitoring
Disclosure Reporting
NGO Network Mapping

Scenario 1 - ESG materiality horizon scanning and issue intelligence

Context: Your Sustainability team is responsible for monitoring a broad spectrum of ESG material topics - from climate transition and water stewardship to human rights and responsible sourcing - across operations spanning multiple countries and languages. Media monitoring generates significant volume, but the signal-to-noise ratio is poor: routine mentions are mixed with substantive developments, making it difficult to direct engagement and reporting resources where they actually matter.

What Sustainability teams do:

  • Configure ESG materiality scanning by topic and geography
    Genie is structured around your organisation's material ESG topics, filtering for issue relevance rather than keyword volume. Industry-aware content classification and topic modelling separate substantive issue developments from routine mentions - so the team focuses on what requires attention.
  • Review daily ESG signals across operations and geographies
    The SD team lead logs in each morning to check assets and stakeholders across all monitored sites. Targeted sentiment analysis by stakeholder group provides granular visibility.
  • Generate rapid intelligence summaries on emerging issues
    AskGenie automatically generate briefs that produce summaries of emerging ESG developments layered on your context (objectives, stakeholder engagement, etc) - compressing hours of research into minutes of reading.
  • Brief leadership on issues that are gaining momentum
    When an ESG topic accelerates - a regulatory shift, a new NGO campaign, a supply chain incident - the team can rapidly assemble a defensible briefing with context, stakeholder landscape, and recommended action.

Output: ESG materiality monitoring becomes a daily, structured capability - not a periodic exercise. The team directs engagement resources based on signal quality, not noise volume.

Scenario 2 - Building a disclosure-ready stakeholder engagement trail

Context: Your organisation faces growing disclosure requirements under frameworks like Section 172 of the UK Companies Act, the EU CSRD, and GRI Standards - all of which demand structured evidence of stakeholder engagement and how stakeholder interests have been considered in decision-making. The existing process involves compiling reports manually twice a year from regional teams each using different methods and formats, making it difficult to produce a coherent, auditable, and defensible narrative for board and regulatory purposes.

Steps you might take:

  • Centralise stakeholder engagement documentation within an issue framework
    Genie becomes the single repository for capturing all stakeholder interactions - each logged with linked stakeholder profiles, issue tags, and outcome notes, creating an auditable trail queryable by topic, region, or stakeholder group.
  • Map engagements to disclosure requirements as they happen
    The platform's reporting workflows are configured to align with Section 172, CSRD, and GRI structures - so the same data used for daily intelligence and engagement planning directly populates disclosure-ready outputs.
  • Replace manual, biannual compilation with continuous structured reporting
    Instead of assembling reports from scratch twice a year, the team generates disclosure outputs from a live, structured dataset - enabling faster, more consistent board reporting and reducing the risk of gaps or inconsistencies that auditors will flag.
  • Identify new engagement opportunities across the stakeholder landscape
    The centralised system surfaces which stakeholder groups have not been engaged on key material topics - enabling the team to proactively plan engagement rather than retrospectively document it.

Output: Stakeholder disclosure becomes a continuous, auditable capability rather than a manual compilation exercise - producing defensible board reporting aligned to CSRD, Section 172, and GRI requirements.

Scenario 3 - Mapping global NGO and activist networks before campaigns take shape

Context: When facing NGO campaigns and activist pressure - particularly around responsible sourcing, environmental impact, and community rights - your Sustainability team needs to understand not just individual organisations, but the network structures connecting NGOs, activist groups, campaign funders, and their relationships to specific ESG issues. Without structured mapping, teams rely on ad hoc research that provides limited visibility into how these networks operate and how campaigns are likely to evolve.

Steps you might take:

  • Build visualised maps of NGO ecosystems and activist networks
    Genie's network mapping capabilities connect NGOs, activist groups, campaign funders, and intermediaries - overlaid with issue intelligence and media coverage to identify which organisations are driving specific narratives and where new activity is emerging.
  • Track which networks are connected to responsible sourcing campaigns
    Segment and monitor the stakeholder groups linked to the ESG issues most likely to generate reputational pressure - understanding their relationships to each other and to the company's specific operations.
  • Anticipate reputational risks before campaigns consolidate
    The network maps become a strategic tool for identifying early signals of coordinated activity - so the team can assess escalation risk and inform engagement strategy with civil society stakeholders before positions harden.

Output: Your Sustainability team gains structured, continuously updated visibility into the NGO and activist ecosystems most relevant to your operations - replacing ad hoc research and periodic consultancy snapshots with a proactive, strategic intelligence capability.

Turn your ESG function from a reporting exercise into a strategic intelligence capability.

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