Innovation/invention of the year: Trase Finance

Just Capital used Neural Alpha's AI platform to scale their corporate performance analysis across 1,000 Russell 1000 companies. Previously, producing ~100 ESG and stakeholder indicators at that scale required stitching together multiple data sources and heavy manual work. By implementing their methodology on Neural Alpha's platform, they were able to analyse over 400,000 documents and extract close to 100,000 individual data points consolidating vendors, reducing cost and complexity, and speeding up the process significantly. The approach kept humans in the loop throughout, with automated outputs validated against expert assessments. The end result is a scalable, repeatable pipeline that frees Just Capital's analysts to focus on methodology and interpretation rather than data collection.

Neural Alpha secures European Space Agency funding to fight greenwashing with satellite earth-observation data for corporate sustainability analysis.

Technological innovations will be key to ensuring 'early adopter' TNFD reporting companies provide useful nature-related information.