“Manifest Climate brought the technological knowledge, a solid understanding of the sustainability reporting landscape, and the ability to translate complexity into something practical and usable for our team.”Uta Jungermann, Reporting Matters and Membership Criteria, WBCSD Results at a glance 200+ companies assessedA scalable, AI-assisted assessment workflow across WBCSD’s global membership. Scale without losing consistencyWBCSD’s criteria […]
Use Case: Benchmarking
Global State of Investor Climate Action: what 220 investors’ disclosures reveal
Ask an institutional investor whether climate matters to their portfolio and nearly all of them will say yes. Ask their disclosures, and the answer gets more interesting. The Investor Agenda’s new report, the Global State of Investor Climate Action, benchmarks more than 220 institutional investors (101 asset owners and 120 asset managers) across seven regions, […]
ESG benchmarking for nonprofits: turning corporate disclosure into accountability
Nothing moves a company quite like seeing its name below a competitor’s on a published list. The World Benchmarking Alliance built its entire theory of change on that fact, benchmarking 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies on the belief that ranking performance creates “accountability for those that fail to act.” For nonprofits, NGOs, and […]
ESG scoring: how to build a defensible methodology (and apply it at scale)
Every serious sustainability decision eventually becomes a scoring problem. Whether you are comparing portfolio companies, screening a target, or assessing members of a coalition, at some point the judgment has to compress into something comparable: a score. And that is where the trouble starts, because the third-party scores most teams inherit disagree with each other, […]
AI for nonprofits: how mission-driven teams scale sustainability assessment
Nonprofits have adopted AI faster than almost anyone expected: a Virtuous survey of 346 nonprofit organizations found that 92% now use AI in some capacity. The same survey found that only 7% report major improvements in their ability to achieve their mission. That gap says something important: most nonprofits are using AI to speed up […]
AI for asset managers: how investment teams turn ESG disclosure into decisions
Asset managers are drowning in sustainability data and starved of the time it takes to make sense of it. A single portfolio company can publish a 200-page sustainability report, a TCFD-aligned climate disclosure, a CDP response, and a stack of regulatory filings — and that is just one name among the hundreds a typical portfolio […]
How teams get value from Manifest Climate in the first 30 days
Introduction: Solving business problems When teams come to Manifest Climate, they’re looking to automate how they assess entities at scale, without the time investment that manual analysis requires, or the inconsistency that generic AI tools can bring. Manifest Climate is an AI-powered assessment engine designed to turn unstructured information (like sustainability reports, regulatory findings, supplier […]
How ESG professionals should be using AI
In 2026, most knowledge workers are using AI in some capacity, but sustainability professionals were among some of the earliest adopters. With the sheer quantity of ESG data and the speed at which trends, expectations, and regulations change, it’s clear that trying to keep on top of everything manually simply won’t work. But the way […]
How is Manifest Climate different from ChatGPT?
We’re often asked what makes Manifest Climate better than other AI tools on the market, like ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot. Here’s our explanation. Firstly, what is Manifest Climate? Manifest Climate is an AI-based sustainability intelligence platform that helps financial institutions and consultants conduct rigorous ESG analyses at scale. Manifest Climate is an AI tool […]
The power of AI for ESG consulting: How to scale advisory work without adding headcount
ESG consulting is getting harder ESG advisory work now sits much closer to core business decisions than it did even a few years ago. Sustainability insights increasingly inform capital allocation, risk management decisions, and long-term business strategy. Clients are demanding far more from their ESG consultants (often on a smaller budget than before). At the […]