Greenly launches EcoPilot – a new platform to make carbon accounting more effective

Greenly has unveiled EcoPilot, its new platform acting as a co-pilot at every stage in climate policy, from data collection to action plan formulation. Taking advantage of the latest advances in AI and language models, EcoPilot helps each team amplify its impact and act more quickly. With an interface allowing for interactive conversational exchange, EcoPilot accelerates analysis, increasing CSR performance tenfold. This helps CSR policy go further, by helping implement specific initiatives, along with simplifying budgeting and rollout

Traditional carbon accounting methods are not letting companies focus on action. Rather, a lot of time is lost on producing reports, collating information from multiple cumbersome sources. 

This is particularly evident in reporting Scope 3 emissions: supplier data is often incomplete or missing, and often based on industry averages. This makes it impossible to identify the best suppliers, hindering concrete action to reduce carbon footprint.

Taking advantage of recent advances in AI and LLMs, EcoPilot automates the complex task of collecting, structuring and processing carbon data. The platform allows users to automatically import physical inventory, accounting and logistics data. Using proprietary algorithms, it structures it in seconds and assigns emissions factors with a high level of accuracy.

All ESG reports generated are compliant with CSRD, EPD (Environmental Product Declaration), VSME (Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for Micro-enterprises and SMEs) and IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) standards. The platform helps prepare these reports more quickly, at lower cost, and with enhanced traceability from one report to another, increasing performance tenfold as a result.

EcoPilot models Scope 3 reductions based on supplier commitments, using the same conversational mode as current generative AI. The software reliably and accurately reconciles and cross-references data, along with providing aids to data interpretation such as the meaning of ESG indicators and comparisons with other companies in the same sector. 

The platform guides users step by step, suggesting which data to download, which suppliers to contact, and which key performance indicators to track. Files, even if disorganised, are cleaned and sorted to make them intelligible and usable. The ‘What If’ feature allows for dynamic, live visualisation of different simulations by creating interactive trajectories.

According to Alexis Normand, CEO and co-founder of Greenly: ‘EcoPilot marks the shift from carbon accounting to carbon intelligence. The company's context is fully analysed, and the platform helps adapts data collection and climate strategy accordingly. By removing barriers to entry, EcoPilot empowers all users to find and implement intelligent solutions to combat climate change effectively.’

EcoPilot is already available for Greenly Enterprise clients, with a rollout for the Pro and Plus versions in the coming weeks. The update will take place automatically.

EcoPilot leverages AI to improve performance, without neglecting its responsibility to the environment, taking care to minimise its digital footprint from the outset. Greenly uses local language models deployed on its own servers, rather than external cloud servers, reducing data transfers and energy consumption associated with large scale processing. 

Based on BERT, a model known for its sophisticated understanding of natural language, EcoPilot was hosted and trained in-house to specifically adapt it to the categorisation and analysis of financial data. This single use approach, without superfluous image or text generation features ensures precise tracking of the resources used without compromising on quality.

EcoPilot is hosted on Google Cloud's Paris datacenter (europe-west-9), which is primarily powered by green electricity. This keeps data processing as close as possible to European users, while limiting energy consumption.

The algorithms are being continuously optimised to further model compression, memory rationalisation and dynamic adjustment of resources according to load – all efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of calculations without compromising on the accuracy and reliability of results.

Having hit new milestones this year, Greenly continues to ally growth and innovation with climate ambition. With more than 3500 customers in 29 countries, it manages a portfolio of more than 250 MtCO2e and has already produced several hundred LCA reports. 

Positioning itself as the one stop shop for managing all opportunities related to the low carbon transition, the company now aims to track pne billion tCO2e in the coming years. The renewed B Corp certification and inclusion in Sifted's ranking of the 100 fastest growing European start ups confirm that, beyond the debates on the climate emergency, ecological and social resilience is a strategic asset for the future. 

With the launch of its new optimised platform, Greenly plans to reach 5000 assessments by the end of the year.