ESG questionnaire automation
ESG and sustainability questionnaire automation.
ESG questionnaires where every claim has its evidence. Customers want your emissions, targets, policies and social commitments, for a specific reporting year, with proof. James, SEQUESTO's AI bid agent, answers from your sustainability report and policies, uses the year the customer asks for, and lists what your evidence does not cover instead of filling it with good intentions.
Who this is forBid managers and proposal teams answering customer sustainability questionnaires and the ESG and social value sections of tenders, with the sustainability team that owns the data.
The Problem
Why ESG answers are hard to get right
The wrong year
The customer asks for 2025 figures. The closest past answer quotes 2023. Both look plausible in a spreadsheet.
Claims without proof
"We are committed to net zero" is easy to write. The customer's assessor asks for the target year, the baseline and the verification.
The sustainability team, every week
Every questionnaire and every tender's social value question goes to the same two people, who answer the same questions again.
How it works
Answered from your reports, for the right year
01
Point James at your evidence
Attach the sustainability report, policies and certifications for the reporting year the customer asks about. James answers only from them.
Guardrails
02
Evidence on every claim
Each answer shows the page of the report or policy it relies on, so your sustainability lead checks it in one click.
Draft answers
03
A list of gaps, not invented answers
The evidence gap list shows which questions your documents do not answer, ready for the sustainability team.
Coverage check
04
Back in the customer's file
James fills the customer's Excel or Word questionnaire in place, including Yes/No columns and data tables.
Form fillingBefore and with SEQUESTO
| Before | With SEQUESTO |
|---|---|
| Last year's figures copied into this year's answer | Answers from the reporting year the customer asks for |
| Commitments worded to sound good | Every claim tied to a report, policy or certificate |
| Gaps filled with general statements | An evidence gap list for the sustainability team |
| The sustainability team answers every questionnaire | They answer only what the evidence does not cover |
| Social value answers written from scratch | Drafted from commitments you have already delivered |
Worked example
A retailer's supplier sustainability questionnaire (illustrative)
A packaging supplier receives a 90-question sustainability questionnaire from a retailer, asking for 2025 emissions by scope, reduction targets, recycled content, and labour and human rights policies. The bid manager attaches the 2025 sustainability statement, the environmental and human rights policies and the ISO 14001 certificate. James drafts 78 answers, each citing its page. The evidence gap list shows 12 questions the documents do not answer, including two Scope 3 categories and the target's validation status, and James does not reuse the 2023 figures he finds in an old questionnaire. The sustainability lead answers the 12 in SEQUESTO, and James fills the retailer's workbook.
Capabilities
Only in SEQUESTO
The ESG set-up
Built around the framework and the reporting year, with evidence for every claim.
Workflow library
Limit James to the files you choose
This year's report, yes; old drafts, no.
Draft answersOne knowledge base for bids and ESG
The same evidence answers questionnaires and the social value questions in tenders.
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We answer it from your sustainability report and show you the gap list.
FAQ
Questions about ESG questionnaire automation
Customer sustainability questionnaires, ESG assessment questionnaires and supplier ESG questionnaires in Excel, Word or PDF, and the ESG questions and social value sections of tenders and RFPs. Questionnaires completed inside a third-party rating platform are answered from SEQUESTO and pasted into the platform.
No. James answers from the figures in your reports. If a figure is not there, it goes on the gap list.
Yes. James uses your published report as the source and shows the page, so answers match what you published.
SEQUESTO does, as part of ESG evidence management for questionnaire responses. Your sustainability report, policies and certificates sit in one place per reporting year; James drafts each answer from them, shows the page it came from and lists the gaps for your sustainability team. The answers go back into the customer's own file.
SEQUESTO does not give assurance; your auditor does. What it gives the auditor is the trail: every ESG answer linked to the page of the report or policy behind it, the reporting year it relates to, and an audit trail of who changed and approved it. That is the documentation an assurance review asks for.
The same way as a standalone questionnaire. James finds the ESG and social value questions in the RFP, answers them from your current report and policies with sources, and keeps them consistent with what you told other customers this year.