Sustainability surveys and certifications, done for you
AI does the work. Our ESG expert signs it.
Your customers ask for sustainability proof: an EcoVadis rating, packaging data, a VSME report, a CDP disclosure. Send us the request and the documents you have. You get the finished deliverable back, every value traced to a source and signed by an expert. One fixed annual price covers all of it.
For small and mid-sized manufacturers, starting with fashion and food & beverage.
Does your company have a formal environmental policy?
Yes. The environmental policy adopted by the management team in March 2025 covers energy use, production waste and water at both sites1. Progress on both targets is reviewed by management each quarter2.
- 1Environmental policy v2.pdf, pages 1 to 3
- 2Management review minutes, Q2 2026, item 4
Gap: Supplier code of conduct not found. Ready-to-adapt template included.
Stored and processed in Europe
The requests keep coming. Your team does not grow.
- A customer wants your EcoVadis rating within six weeks, and your team is already fully booked.
- A retailer sends a packaging template with close to a hundred fields per product, and you sell forty products.
- Every questionnaire asks the same things in a different format, and every year you start again from last year's PDF.
One deliverable like this can take 50 to 500 internal hours. Hiring for it is slow, consultants bill by the day, and most software hands you a blank form to fill in yourself.
Send the request. Get the finished answer back.
The requests manufacturers get most, all covered by one fixed annual price.
- EcoVadis Your questionnaire answered and evidenced, with a gap list and templates.
- Customer surveys Supplier surveys in each customer's own format, answered from one evidence file.
- CDP The climate disclosure your customer requested through CDP, answered with a source for every value.
- CO2-Prestatieladder Emission inventory and entry documents, ready for the certifying body.
- B Corp The impact assessment prepared, evidence per requirement, gaps listed.
- PPWR Your retailer's packaging template under the EU packaging rules (PPWR), completed per product, every value sourced.
- VSME The EU's voluntary sustainability standard for SMEs (VSME), filled in for customers and banks who ask.
Something else on your desk? Bring it to the call and we scope it the same way.
Three steps. Most of the work is ours.
- 1
You send the request and what you have
The invitation or template, plus policies, certificates, invoices and exports. Messy and incomplete is the normal starting point.
- 2
AI drafts, from your documents only
Every value points to the document it came from. Sound estimates are labelled as estimates. What cannot be evidenced goes on the gap list.
- 3
A senior ESG expert checks and signs
Every answer is reviewed against its sources, corrected where needed and signed. Then you review and submit.
One evidence file, many requests. What we build for your EcoVadis response also answers most of your customer surveys, VSME and CDP. And your 2026 answers are ready for 2027.
Done for you, signed, for one annual price.
| Question | ESG software | Consultant | Humboldt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | You and your team, in the tool | The consultant | We do: AI drafts, an expert checks |
| What you get | A platform and a form to fill in | A report | The finished deliverable, ready to submit |
| What you pay | A yearly licence, plus your team's hours | Day rates | One fixed annual price for all your certifications and questionnaires |
| Who signs it | You | The consultant | A senior ESG expert, on every deliverable |
| Where your data and AI live | Depends on the provider | Depends on the consultant | In Europe: European AI (Mistral) on European servers (Infomaniak) |
| Next year | Your data is in the tool; the work is still yours | Often a new engagement | Starts from last year's evidence |
Someone accountable signs every deliverable.
Anyone can generate an answer. What a customer's procurement team, an auditor or your board needs is an answer someone stands behind.
Every deliverable is signed by one of our ESG experts:
Peter van der ReijdenFounder + ESG expert
Wouter StaalESG expert
- A senior expert reads every answer
The whole deliverable, checked against its sources, before it reaches you.
- Every value has a source
Each answer points to the page of your document it came from, so you can defend it when someone asks where a number came from.
- Estimates are labelled, gaps are listed
What can be soundly estimated is marked as an estimate; what cannot goes on your gap list, ranked by impact.
- You stay the account owner
You own the account and you submit. The scheme decides the score; we make sure it is judged on your best, fully evidenced answer.
Your data stays in Europe.
Your policies, invoices and supplier data are sensitive. At Humboldt they are stored on European servers and read by European AI, under European privacy law.
- European servers. Your documents and answers are stored with Infomaniak, in Europe.
- European AI. The AI that drafts your answers is Mistral, a European model provider.
- Yours only. Your data is kept separate per client and used only for your own work.
Built for manufacturers whose customers keep asking.
Most of these requests start with a customer, not a regulator: a brand, a retailer or an industrial buyer passing its own reporting duties down the supply chain. So we start with manufacturing, and with two sectors where that pressure is highest.
- Manufacturing Industrial buyers, equipment makers and retailers asking for questionnaires, footprints and data.
- Fashion & textiles Brand questionnaires, EcoVadis, packaging data and product information for garment and textile makers.
- Food & beverage Retailer packaging templates, CDP supply chain requests, EcoVadis and VSME for food and drink makers.
- Your team A sustainability team of a few people, a lead on their own, or a manager who inherited the topic. Either way: more requests than hours.
Early, and honest about it.
We are taking on a small group of founding customers now. You work directly with the founders, who do and sign your work, you get founding terms that we honour as we grow, and you help decide what we build next.
In return we ask for real work with real deadlines, and honest feedback.
- TodayExpert-signed deliverables
EcoVadis, customer surveys, CDP, CO2-Prestatieladder, B Corp, packaging data and VSME, all for one fixed annual price.
- NextOne evidence file, reused
Your documents and answers kept current in one private file, so every new request starts from what we know.
- Where we are goingAn ESG colleague for your team
Requests handled as they arrive in your inbox. Every output still signed by an expert.
Common questions
Something else? Ask it on the call.
What exactly do I get?
The finished deliverable: the answered questionnaire, the completed template or the filled-in report, ready for you to review and submit. Every value points to the document it came from. Anything we could not evidence is on a gap list, and for standard documents you are missing (a policy, a code of conduct) you get a ready-to-adapt template.
Is this AI or a person?
Both, in that order. AI drafts from your own documents, which makes the work fast and affordable. A senior ESG expert then reviews every answer against its sources, corrects what needs correcting and signs it.
How is this different from ESG software?
Software gives your team a tool to do the work in. We do the work. You do not need to learn a platform, set up integrations or find the hours: you send the request and what you have, and you get the finished deliverable back.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
You pay one fixed annual price for all your certifications and questionnaires. AI does the drafting, so the expert time goes into checking and judgement. And your evidence stays in a private file, so next year starts from this year.
Who signs, and what does that mean?
One of our senior ESG experts, Peter van der Reijden or Wouter Staal, reviews the whole deliverable against its sources and signs it off. It means someone accountable has checked every answer before you see it.
You stay the account owner: you review the final version and you submit it.
Can you guarantee a score or a medal?
No. EcoVadis, CDP and B Lab determine scores and outcomes independently. What we can do is make sure every question is answered properly, every answer is backed by the right document, and you know exactly which gaps cost you points.
What if we are missing documents or data?
That is the normal starting point. We work from what you have, estimate what can be soundly estimated and label it as an estimate, and list what is missing in order of impact.
What does it cost?
One fixed annual price for all your certifications and questionnaires.
What happens to our data?
Your data is stored on European servers (Infomaniak, Switzerland) and processed by European AI (Mistral), under GDPR. It is kept separate per client and used only for your own work. You can ask us to export or delete it at any time.
Are you live?
Yes. We are taking on a small group of founding customers now. That means you work directly with the founders, who do and sign your work, on founding terms that we honour as we grow.
Is a request sitting in your inbox?
Tell us what your customer is asking for and when it is due. In 20 minutes a senior ESG expert tells you honestly whether we can deliver it in time.
No commitment. We'll tell you on the call whether we can hit your deadline.