It starts with one company.
A bakery, a machine shop, a logistics firm. Its agent advises it: which energy contract to switch, which supplier risk to fix first, which green loan it now qualifies for. Then it does the work.
Membership
Join the guild of good companies.
Membership gives your company three things only big companies used to have.
Acme's steward
Retailer A sent its 150-question supplier form. Can you do it, and tell me where we stand?
✓ Read 214 documents✓ Calculated scope 1 and 2 from 14 invoices
Acme's steward
Done. Your 2025 emissions are 182 tCO2e. Gas is the biggest source.
Emissions by source, 2025tCO2e
78Gas
64Electricity
31Fleet
6Travel
3Waste
Dashed: estimated, method stated
Acme's steward
I've built the dataset behind every number, and filled in the form.
emissions_2025.csvevery row sourced
| month | source | kWh | tCO2e | from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01 | gas | 41 200 | 7.5 | invoice 0113 |
| 2025-01 | electricity | 28 900 | 5.2 | meter 2 |
Retailer_A_answers.xlsx · 147 of 150Method_and_sources.pdf
Acme's steward
3 answers need you: water use at site 2. And one move worth making: switch to the renewable tariff before 1 March. Lower cost, 38 tCO2e less a year.
Send the form to Retailer A?Every answer linked to its source
Your agent works from the documents you already have. You decide what goes out.Example
Built with design partners on three continents
Furniture · Poland
Fashion supply chain · France
Land stewardship · Paraguay
New Energy TransportElectric road freight · Australia
Why a guild
Stronger together is an old idea.
Alone, an independent company is too small. So independent companies have always banded together. Steward works the way each of these did, with AI agents doing the work that used to take a hall, a committee and dues.
The guild
Gave its members know-how, standards and a mark of quality buyers trusted. Now: your agent does the work and keeps the record that proves it.
The mutual
Let members pool money to protect each other, with cover and credit none could get alone. Next: the Hive, being built, for insurance, finance and energy on big-company terms.
The consortium
Joined firms on one project: a tender, an export market, a bank guarantee. Next: members' agents teaming up on a solar park, a joint tender, a green loan.
The chamber of commerce
Made introductions, issued trusted documents and gave members a voice. Now: the Directory puts members in front of buyers, with their record as proof.
How it spreads
What one good company sets off.
Its customers get a supplier they can stand behind.
Answers with their sources. Risks dealt with before they reach the customer.
Its people and its town do better too.
A fairer, safer place to work. And a company that keeps winning work, hiring nearby and buying nearby.
Less wasted, less emitted.
Lower energy use, fewer emissions, less sent to landfill. Every step is recorded, so the company can show it.
Now multiply it by hundreds of millions.
Small and mid-sized companies, worldwide. Each one that gets better makes the next one stronger.
Buyers find it.
Buyers looking for good suppliers search the Directory, and the companies doing the work come to the top, independent ones included.
Alone, a good company is a secret. Together, it's an economy.
In the Hive, their agents team up: a shared solar park, one energy tender, a green loan applied for together.
What members get
Everything a sustainability department does. And the network around it.
One agent for your company, a Directory where buyers find you, and a Hive where companies act together.
Company names, figures and dates in the cards are examples.
Two ways in
Built for the companies doing the work, and the ones looking for them.
For small and mid-sized companies
Run a company that wants to do it right?
- Answer every buyer, bank and auditor request once.
- Get found by buyers looking for suppliers like you.
- Better terms on loans and insurance, based on what you can show.
- Share costs with companies like yours.
For buyers, lenders and investors
Looking for good suppliers?
- Search companies by what they can show, not what they claim.
- See the evidence and the confidence behind every answer.
- Help your suppliers improve instead of dropping them.
- Follow your suppliers or portfolio against your own criteria.
Getting better, together
Nobody is judged for where they start.
Most independent companies have never been asked about emissions, labour policies or substances. That is not a reason to drop them. It is a place to start.
See the gaps.
Your agent shows what is missing and why it matters to your buyers, lenders and insurers.
Fix risks early.
It flags supplier, labour and climate risks and drafts the fix before they become someone else's problem.
Lift the whole network.
Every company that improves makes the network safer to buy from, and brings more opportunities to everyone in it.
Where we are
Built with companies doing the work.
We work with design partners on real company data, from furniture in Poland to freight in Australia.
- reporting standards: VSME and the GHG Protocol
- 2
- reporting standards: VSME and the GHG Protocol
- calculation: climate risk
- 1
- calculation: climate risk
- company standard: Media6
- 1
- company standard: Media6
- design partners on three continents
- 4
- design partners on three continents
Trust and control
Your data. Your decisions.
Nothing goes out without you.
Your agent drafts, checks and prepares. You decide what is sent, and to whom.
Your data stays yours.
Private documents are separate from shared company profiles. We process relevant content to do the work you request.
Keep sharing clear.
Shared company fields appear in the member Directory. Keep confidential material in your private workspace and review what each feature shares.
Questions
Good to know.
Why we built it
Our mission: make reporting too cheap to meter.
Steward is built by people who have done this work from every side: writing the standards, advising banks and multinationals, and doing the reporting by hand for independent companies. We watched good companies fight uphill for every answer, and the economy pay a fortune for data that should be helping it change for the better. So we built the agent that does the work, and the network that makes it count.