https://www.manifestclimate.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WBCSD_Final_video_case_study.mp4 “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 […]
Use Case: Due Diligence
Supplier ESG assessment: a practical guide to evaluating suppliers
How to run a supplier ESG assessment: consistent criteria, source-linked evidence, risk-based segmentation, and questionnaires sized to the real gap.
ESG in manager selection: how asset owners choose and monitor external managers
For most asset owners, sustainability commitments are executed by someone else. The pension fund sets the climate policy, but external managers pick the stocks, cast the votes, and run the engagements. That delegation chain is where ESG strategy either becomes real or quietly dissolves, which is why manager selection is the moment the two questions […]
AI ESG due diligence: how investment teams screen deals without slowing them down
ESG due diligence has a timing problem. Deal windows are measured in weeks, but a proper review of a target’s sustainability disclosures (reports, policies, ratings, controversies, regulatory exposure) takes an analyst days of reading, and that is for one target with clean documentation. So teams compromise: they sample the documents, lean on a questionnaire, or […]
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 […]
The difference between ChatGPT and specialist sustainability AI tools
By Ryan Meyers, Chief AI Officer at Manifest Climate Most ESG professionals, including ESG teams at financial institutions and ESG consultants, have discovered the potential of AI for their work. When we speak with ESG teams, many are actively using general-purpose tools like Claude and ChatGPT for everyday tasks and have found them genuinely helpful. […]