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Tools such as Responsible Capital are powerful productivity accelerators for sustainable business analytics. But getting good answers is often about making sure you are asking the right questions.

Our Responsible Capital Disclosure Assistant product uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to enable lenders and investors to analyse portfolio companies and their investment universe when performing ESG Assessments at scale for comprehensive frameworks such as TNFD. Structured datasets constructed using our toolkit can be used to rank and score companies and to develop bespoke internal ESG ratings if desired.

Trase Finance – a collaboration between fintech company Neural Alpha, international non-profit research and policy organisation the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and NGO Global Canopy – seeks to identify second-order environmental impacts in supply chains, enabling transparency and shedding light on the hidden risks and opportunities that can materially influence financial and non-financial performance.

Drawing from over a million documents, Responsible Capital assesses the current state of TNFD reporting across organisations.

Industry leaders are increasingly leveraging Knowledge Graphs for sustainable advantage.

Ahead of the UNOC 3 Ocean Conference, Responsible Capital ran a quick stocktake across 60 global companies to assess the state of ocean-related reporting.

How do you turn frameworks like the World Economic Forum Nature Positive Guide into actionable insight? We put Responsible Capital to the test—using real disclosures to analyse FTSE100 nature-related risk at scale

A reblog of a linkedin post analysing Red Electrica, the Spanish national grid operator, and their green policies, business continuity plans and energy mix.

As geopolitical tensions rise and Europe faces renewed threats to its democratic values, ESG investors are being urged to rethink their stance on defence stocks. In our latest white paper, Time for ESG Investors to Embrace European Defence Companies?, Neural Alpha CEO James Phare challenges long-held assumptions and exclusionary practices within sustainable investing.

The importance (or not) of board independence for performance. And using Responsible Capital Disclosure Assistant for ESG-enhanced smart beta investing approaches

Recently we decided to take a brief look at Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sustainability disclosures using our AI platform Responsible Capital. Tesla are renowned under the leadership of Elon Musk for being unafraid to be different and not follow the crowd and so we wanted to see how well our AI could perform extracting key metrics from PDF format sustainability reports for quantitative comparisons over a period of a few years.

Sustainable bonds, one of the fastest growing segments of the debt capital market, are used globally as a financing source for a wide range of issuers, including green renewable energy companies, sovereigns and supranationals, and brown corporate issuers seeking to transition some or all of their business operations.