introducing openesg
Generative AI
for a Sustainable Future.
Our mission is to enable everyone to understand where their products come from and buy from people who share our values.
Sustainability ID for brand, suppliers and products: Free, Fast, Dynamic, and Open. Try it.
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OpenESG is an inclusive sustainability ID system with integrity and trust built-in.
An open platform that rewards action over policy and progress over perfection.
Free.
Get a sustainable ID for your company or products are for free. Upgrade to Pro plans for data verification and AI improvements.
Fast.
A user-friendly interface makes it easy to complete assessments, instantly publish scores and embed them in company websites.
Dynamic.
Every time you improve the sustainability of your company or product, it’s reflected in your company or product sustainability ID on all digital channels.
Open.
The OpenESG Expert Council ensures an open, transparent and peer-led scoring system by design, making OpenESG credibly neutral.
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Free.
Show how sustainable your company or products are for free. Upgrade to Pro plans for data verification and AI improvements.
Fast.
A user-friendly interface makes it easy to complete assessments, instantly publish scores and embed them in company websites.
Dynamic.
Every time you improve the sustainability of your company or product, it’s reflected in your OpenESG score on all digital channels.
Open.
The OpenESG Expert Council ensures an open, transparent and peer-led scoring system by design, making OpenESG credibly neutral.
We prove to companies that it pays to care.
Democratizing ESG: better business behaviors across all regions, industries and sizes.
Today, less than 50% of the publicly listed companies have an ESG score. Globally, the problem becomes even more apparent, with less than 0.04% of all companies having some sort of sustainability score.
OpenESG widens the spectrum of companies rated, making the scores simpler, more reliable, and ubiquitous for consumers, businesses and investors.
Why choose OpenESG over legacy ESG ratings?
Make Greenwashing more difficult and costly
Radical transparency makes it harder and more expensive for companies to mislead consumers.
More accurate and transparent ESG scores
Self-reported data is complimented with diverse data sources and open feedback to contribute valuable input into a company’s ESG score.
Fairly reward positive action
Ensure all stakeholders are accurately recognized and rewarded for their contributions.
Wider spectrum of companies scored
More opportunities for benchmarking, improving transparency and accountability across industries.
Ubiquitous ESG scores for Consumers
Making it easier for individuals to compare companies across personalized dimensions.
Restored trust in ESG Scoring
Companies with better ESG scores build a stronger reputation, attracting customers, investors, and talent.
Decentralized, diverse and transparent governance
A dynamic Expert Council fosters trust and accuracy through the balance of diverse and capable points of views.
Rank companies on impact, not discourse
Companies are rewarded for real impact, not empty commitments or ticking compliance checkboxes.
Make Greenwashing more difficult and costly
Radical transparency makes it harder and more expensive for companies to mislead consumers.
More accurate and transparent ESG scores
Self-reported data is complimented with diverse data sources and open feedback to contribute valuable input into a company’s ESG score.
Fairly reward positive action
Ensure all stakeholders are accurately recognized and rewarded for their contributions.
Wider spectrum of companies scored
More opportunities for benchmarking, improving transparency and accountability across industries.
Ubiquitous ESG scores for Consumers
Making it easier for individuals to compare companies across personalized dimensions.
Restored trust in ESG Scoring
Companies with better ESG scores build a stronger reputation, attracting customers, investors, and talent.
Decentralized, diverse and transparent governance
A dynamic Expert Council fosters trust and accuracy through the balance of diverse and capable points of views.
Rank companies on impact, not discourse
Companies are rewarded for real impact, not empty commitments or ticking compliance checkboxes.
The OpenESG Expert Council
The OpenESG Expert Council, a globally diverse group of top ESG experts across sectors like academia, sustainability, finance, and technology, guides the creation and maintenance of our independent ESG ratings. Their collective knowledge and expertise shape our ratings at global, regional, local, and industry levels.
The Council will quickly grow to over 100 co-opted members as we continue to add experts over time to ensure diversity and plurality of perspectives. The Council will evolve as ESG-related issues evolve.
The OpenESG Expert Council is comprised of the world’s leading ESG experts, from all stakeholders of society and all regions of the world, who provide the intellectual and ethical guidance to define and maintain a truly independent set of ESG ratings. Council members are nominated from science, academia, sustainability, finance, technology, industry and civil society to contribute their knowledge and expertise at the global, regional, local and industry level.
The Council will quickly grow to over 100 co-opted members as we continue to add experts over time to ensure diversity and plurality of perspectives. The Council will evolve as ESG-related issues evolve.
Jaclyn Seow leads ESG and Impact at Openspace Ventures, a venture fund focused on tech-powered startups in Southeast Asia.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA. IGNIA invests in world-class tech entrepreneurs solving problems faced by the emerging middle class in Latin America. Led investments in Rapyd, Tiendanube, Abra, Arcus, Credijusto, Lentesplus, ProducePay, UnDosTres and Sr. Pago.
Mark Downes is Head of Sustainability at Ecoflix. The world's first not-for-profit video streaming platform. Their mission is clear: save animals and restore the planet. 100% of subscriber fees go directly to NGO partners.
Klaus Kunz holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and an MBA. He joined Bayer in 2001 and has gained 22 years of experience directing business strategic topics at a global level, taking leadership and executive roles in research, R&D project management, regulatory and public/governmental affairs, sustainability and business stewardship.
Previously leading Richemont's "Movement for Better Luxury" sustainability reporting strategy, now Independent Director and Advisor to international companies and academic institutions.
Kristin Rechberger is founder and CEO of Dynamic Planet, helping advance markets to restore nature. Dynamic Planet works with communities, governments, and businesses around the world to protect, restore and manage their seascapes and landscapes holistically.
Head of Digital Kapital Entertainment. Former Global Lead for Sustainable Shopping at Amazon. Adam began his sustainability career as a student activist working to pass the California Desert Protection Act, which created Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.
Lady Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born, French-British businesswoman with more than two decades of business experience in technology and system change. Her global speeches on humanity and responsibility towards marginalized young girls have received several accolades.
Oliver is the Chairman and CEO of TAU, a New York and Hong Kong based investment firm focused exclusively on the transformation of global supply chains.
Reem Khouri is passionate about impact. She is the co-founder and Chairwoman of Whyise, an impact analytics software solution that enables organizations to aggregate their data in real time, analyze it, align with international standards and benchmarks for evidence-based decision making.
Co-Founder of The Now Work. Former CMO of Endless Wardrobe, Head of Marketing of Futerra & Steering Committee of the UN Fashion Charter for Climate Action
In 2005, Natalia founded Design Futurist, an award winning design consultancy that has created innovative and sustainable textiles and clothes for multinational brands such as Saks, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan. She has also advised non-apparel brands such as P&G, Dupont, and British Telecom, helping them to extend sustainability and modern design principles to a range of products.
Asher Jay, National Geographic explorer turned entrepreneur, is the founder of IncOperate, a community-driven blockchain application that brings accountability and radical transparency to Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Social Governance commitments.
Steph L Dickson is a leading voice in sustainability in Asia. She founded Green Is The New Black, Asia’s first Conscious Festival and media platform.
John Haffner is Deputy Director – Sustainability, Hang Lung Properties Ltd., where he is responsible for formulating the company’s sustainability strategy and driving its execution.
Devry Boughner Vorwerk is a seasoned thought leader, sustainability entrepreneur, and corporate advisor across sustainability, food, and agriculture.
Dr. Birgit Vallmüür is the Founder and Managing Director of a London-based sustainability consulting firm TitanSwan that advises both corporates and governments.
Sony Kapoor is an influential macroeconomist, finance expert, development specialist and sustainability adviser with a long track record of successfully tackling policy, business, and societal challenges.
Professor Virginia Cha is a leading educator of Innovation & Entrepreneurship with multiple appointments at Singapore’s leading tertiary education institutions: Adjunct Professor at NUS Business School and at INSEAD.
Claudia is a social entrepreneur, marketing expert, consultant, advocate, and catalyst for social change with more than 30 years of experience.
E. Benjamin Skinner is the Founder and President of Transparentem, a discreet, nonprofit investigative group that uses frontline reporting ethics and methods to expose and eradicate human rights abuses and environmental degradation in corporate supply chains.
Diane is an experienced business executive and social entrepreneur with 20 years of international experience in corporate environments, development organizations and NGOs, mostly in Africa, where she has been developing public-private alliances to foster solutions promoting local private sector development and the improvement of environmental services.
With 17 years dedicated to working in sustainability in China and the Asia Pacific, Callum is an experienced sustainability leader.
Eberhard is a former corporate Vice President at the world’s largest Food & Beverage company with 30+ years professional experience across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Information Technology and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Omar has background in business development, strategy and management and holds a number of directorships across several companies and serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ecotechnics
Daniella Helayel is an experienced fashion consultant and creative director of Anglo-Brazilian origin who has been working in the fashion industry for over 20 years.
Discover the real-world impact of OpenESG:
Here are some of the initial use cases for OpenESG data across industries.
Capital Markets
Capital Markets
Capital Markets
We’ve developed ChatESG™ - our ESG domain specific Generative AI which brings next generation ESG/Climate AI to corporates and capital markets.
Enabling faster, more effective, targeted queries on company and portfolio ESG strategies, improvements and data.
E-Commerce Platforms & Brands
E-Commerce Platforms
E-Commerce Platforms & Brands
E-Commerce platforms can leverage the power of OpenESG to prioritize companies and products with high ESG scores, creating a more sustainable and responsible shopping experiences for their customers, and incentivizing companies to improve their ESG performance. Brands can showcase their care for people and planet across touchpoints through easily embeddable OpenESG scores.
Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Supply Chain
OpenESG supports supply chain financiers to make better-informed decisions and align their financing with their values and priorities, driving end-to-end positive change and supporting the emergence of regenerative capitalism.
Product Marketplaces
Product Marketplaces
Product Marketplaces
OpenESG can benefit product marketplaces by helping them provide more accurate and transparent information to consumers about the sustainability of the products they sell. This can help consumers make more informed decisions about which products to purchase and can also encourage companies to produce more sustainable products in order to appeal to environmentally-conscious consumers.
Businesses can be a leading force in shaping an equitable, sustainable world.
They just need the right incentives.
Legacy ESG rating systems tilt companies in the wrong direction: they measure the risks to company's performance from ESG factors, not the company's impacts on Planet, People and Societies. The outcome? Greenwashing.
We neutralize greenwashing by nudging companies towards positive action and highlighting progress - not assisting them to fulfill compliance tick boxes.
Our team
An experienced team of founders and investors in the Climate, ESG, Food and Consumer Goods sectors.
Formerly ConsenSys & Cambridge Analytica, Co-Founder of Clear AI
Formerly Lead Developer & Mentor ConsenSys, Founding Member of Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
Formerly MD World Economic Forum & International Olympic Committee
Formerly ConsenSys & Cambridge Analytica, Co-Founder of Clear AI
Formerly Lead Developer & Mentor ConsenSys, Founding Member of Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
Formerly MD World Economic Forum & International Olympic Committee
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