One report instead of a questionnaire per customer.
Your answers flow into a designed VSME report with every figure in place. Each customer that asks reads the same report, so you collect the figures once.
One answer to every customer's ESG questionnaire
Your documents fill in the figures.
Drop in your payroll export, energy bills and policies. Sprout proposes each figure with the page it came from, and you accept or change it.
A link for each customer.
See when each customer opened your report, and take access back at any time.
Everything a CSRD customer may require sits in these twenty disclosures.
From financial year 2027, a customer reporting under CSRD may only require the essential datapoints the voluntary standard lists for the cap, a shorter list for companies of 10 employees or fewer. All of them are in these disclosures. If a customer asks for more, it has to say which questions are extra and that you may decline them.
Basic module
The core of every report.
- B1Basis for preparation
- B2Practices, policies and future initiatives
- B3Energy and greenhouse gas emissions
- B4Pollution of air, water and soil
- B5Biodiversity
- B6Water
- B7Resource use, circular economy and waste
- B8Workforce: general characteristics
- B9Workforce: health and safety
- B10Workforce: pay, collective bargaining and training
- B11Convictions and fines for corruption and bribery
Comprehensive module
On top, when a customer or bank asks for more.
- C1Business model and sustainability initiatives
- C2Practices, policies and future initiatives in more detail
- C3Greenhouse gas reduction targets and climate transition
- C4Climate risks
- C5Additional workforce characteristics
- C6Human rights policies and processes
- C7Human rights incidents
- C8Revenues from certain activities
- C9Gender diversity in the governance body
How it works
- Scope
Say which customers asked.
Tell us why you report and who asked. Scope shows which Basic and Comprehensive disclosures apply to you.
- Fill
Let your documents fill in the figures.
Upload bills, payroll records and policies. Sprout proposes each figure with the page it came from, and nothing goes in until you accept it.
- Share
Send it, then reuse it.
Share the finished report as a link or a PDF. The next customer that asks gets the same report, and next year's starts from this one.
When the questionnaire asks for emissions and targets
Scope 1, 2 and 3 on one page.
Carbon accounting calculates your footprint under the GHG Protocol from your bills, fuel cards and purchase records, by scope and by source.
Ready for your customer's follow-up question.
Open any tonne and see the sum behind it, where the emission factor comes from, who entered it and every change since.
A reduction target your customer can check.
Climate strategy sets a 1.5 °C target on your footprint, checked against the SBTi criteria, with a priced plan to reach it and questionnaire answers among its ready outputs.
Meet Sprout, the sustainability expert in your team
Sprout
Fill in our 2026 energy use from these invoices
electricity-2026.pdfgas-2026.pdffuel-cards-q4.pdf
I read three invoices. Approve and these figures fill your energy disclosure.
Electricity412,800 kWhPage 2 of electricity-2026.pdf
Natural gas38,950 m³Page 1 of gas-2026.pdf
Diesel21,400 litresPage 3 of fuel-cards-q4.pdf
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What you get:
- Every module you can buy, in full
- Read only when the trial ends, not deleted
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What you get:
- Full coverage. Every disclosure and datapoint in the standard, Basic and Comprehensive
- Easy to follow. Scope, answer disclosures and design your report
- AI on your side. Reads your documents, explains the disclosures, drafts the report
- No chasing. Request what's missing from colleagues and suppliers, accept or decline each answer
- Linked to Carbon accounting. Your approved footprint fills the emissions disclosure
- Share. One link, for the customer who asked and the next
- Seven languages. The report in English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish
- Unlimited users. No per-seat pricing
- Controlled access. Roles, and guest access that expires on its own
- Full history. Every change recorded: who, what, when, and from where
- No lock-in. Your data out as PDF or Excel
- Next year. Last year, copied forward
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What you get:
- Voluntary Sustainability Reporting
- Carbon accounting
- Climate strategy
Prices in EUR, excluding VAT. Plans and SSO are billed annually.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to your questions right here, and contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.
Do I have to answer my customer's questionnaire?
Usually you will want to: it is your customer. What changes is how much they may require. From financial year 2027, a customer reporting under CSRD may only require, for that reporting, the essential datapoints the voluntary VSME standard lists for the cap from a company with up to 1,000 employees. The cap does not cancel what you agreed in a contract or what other law requires, and you can always share more if you want to. Check the questionnaire's purpose and reporting period.
Does the cap apply to my company?
It protects companies with up to 1,000 employees in the value chain of a company that reports under CSRD. Turnover and listing do not matter: a 900-person manufacturer is protected, and so is a nine-person studio. It covers information asked for that customer's sustainability reporting, not a quality audit or a contract.
My customer uses its own portal or a rating platform.
The figures are in your approved VSME report, so you copy them in from one place instead of searching for them per customer. Share the report link alongside, so the customer sees the full picture.
They ask for our carbon footprint, including Scope 3.
The VSME Basic module asks for Scope 1 and 2. For Scope 3, Carbon accounting calculates all fifteen categories under the GHG Protocol, from your purchase records or your suppliers' own figures, with the source behind every tonne.
They ask whether we have a reduction target.
Climate strategy sets a 1.5 °C target on your footprint, checked against the SBTi criteria, with the actions to reach it and what each costs and saves. Among its six ready outputs are answers for customer questionnaires.
What does it cost?
€995 a year for Voluntary Sustainability Reporting (VSME), excluding VAT, with unlimited users. Complete is €2,995 and adds Carbon accounting and Climate strategy. No setup fee and no implementation project.
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