Aligned to ISSB · GRI · TCFD · IFRS S2

Know your ESG rating before
the agencies do.

A shadow rating engine that turns 150+ ESG questions, your evidence, and industry-specific weights into a defensible CCC → AAA score — with peer benchmark, gap analysis, and a board-ready PDF in the same workspace.

23
ESG topics
7
Rating bands
< 60m
First rating
Live shadow rating engineCendana Tech · FY2025
CCCBBBBBBAAAAAA
Shadow score
0.0
AA
E71
Environmental
S79
Social
G78
Governance
Industry-aware scoring across
Mining & Metals ·Banking ·Tech & Software ·Manufacturing ·FMCG ·Property ·Energy ·Logistics ·Agribusiness ·Healthcare ·Mining & Metals ·Banking ·Tech & Software ·Manufacturing ·FMCG ·Property ·Energy ·Logistics ·Agribusiness ·Healthcare ·
Built like a board pack, not a spreadsheet

One workspace from question to PDF.

The same six artefacts your auditors, board, and rating analysts ask for — generated automatically as you answer.

01 · Scorecard
A defensible Shadow Rating

Industry-weighted scoring across 23 topics, banded CCC → AAA, with evidence completeness baked into the formula.

Overall
78.4
+3.2 vs last period
AA
02 · Pillars
E / S / G versus your peers

Radar overlay against industry medians. See which pillar is dragging the score before anyone else does.

ESG
03 · Heatmap
23 topics, one glance

Click any tile to see the questions, weights, and evidence that produced the score. No black boxes.

04 · Gaps
Where you trail the benchmark

Topics ranked by delta vs industry. Severity flagged as critical, moderate, or minor so you know what to fix first.

  • GHG / Scope 3-22
  • Biodiversity-14
  • Whistleblowing-9
05 · Roadmap
Now / Next / Later

Auto-suggested initiatives bucketed by horizon, with owner, effort, and target quarter. Toggle done as you ship.

Now
4
Next
6
Later
9
06 · Report
Board-ready PDF, one click

Cover, scorecard, pillar breakdown, gaps, methodology — branded and exported in seconds.

Cendana_FY25.pdf
22 pages · 1.4 MB
Generated in 3.8s

Built for the work your team actually does.

Not a survey. Not a dashboard. The full operating loop — assess → score → diagnose → remediate → report.

Industry-weighted scoring

Mining and Tech are not measured by the same yardstick. Topic weights flex with your sector, locked to a published methodology.

Peer benchmark

Every topic score is compared to the industry median, with severity-banded gap analysis to focus the conversation.

Evidence library

Drag-and-drop documents are scoped to the assessment, previewed inline, and gated by approval — so the score stays defensible.

Multi-client workspace

Consultants switch between client orgs in one click. Role-based access keeps contributors out of the boardroom view.

Read-only when completed

Submitted assessments lock automatically. Reopen with one click — the audit log records every change.

Cross-period & scenarios

Run multiple assessments per company: FY24 vs FY25, baseline vs target, before vs after a remediation programme.

From blank page to board pack — under an hour.

A linear flow that respects how sustainability teams actually work.

  1. 01
    Pick your industry

    Selection sets pillar and topic weights — every score that follows is sector-aware.

  2. 02
    Answer the bank

    150+ questions across 23 topics, scored 0–4 with auto-save and N/A handling.

  3. 03
    Attach evidence

    Inline preview, scoped to the assessment. Mandatory items boost your evidence factor by up to 15%.

  4. 04
    Read your rating

    Live shadow score, pillar breakdown, peer overlay, and a topic heatmap. No exports needed to see it.

  5. 05
    Ship the roadmap

    Auto-prioritised initiatives in Now / Next / Later, plus a board-ready PDF in one click.

The maths is on the page

No black box. The formula is yours.

Every score is reproducible from your answers, your evidence, and the published industry weights. Click any topic in the workspace and we show you the working — question by question.

  • Topic score = Σ (answer/4 × 100 × weight) ÷ Σ weight
  • Pillar score = Σ (topic × industry topic weight) × evidence factor
  • Evidence factor = 0.85 + 0.15 × evidence completeness
  • Overall = E × wE + S × wS + G × wG → banded CCC … AAA
Banding
AAA
Leader
≥ 85
AA
Strong
75–84
A
Above average
65–74
BBB
Average
55–64
BB
Below average
45–54
B
Lagging
30–44
CCC
Critical
< 30

Three audiences, one source of truth.

"Finally, one place that does the maths and produces the board pack — instead of three spreadsheets and an email chain."
Sustainability lead
Sari · Head of Sustainability, mid-cap
"I run twelve clients on this. Industry weights, evidence, roadmap — all in one workspace, switchable in a click."
ESG consultant
Daniel · Boutique ESG advisory
"I open the dashboard, I see the rating, the pillar gauges, the top three gaps. Thirty seconds."
CFO / Board
Marcus · CFO, listed company
Common questions

How the shadow rating works.

The methodology, the role of evidence, and what each band actually means.

Talk to us

See your company's shadow rating, with our team.

Pick a 30-minute end-to-end product demo, or a 1:1 consultation to map your ESG readiness before the official rating agencies come knocking.

  • Live demo with your industry's dataset (mining, banking, tech, FMCG)
  • Methodology walkthrough: 23 topics, 150+ questions, evidence factor
  • Initial CCC → AAA band estimate from a short Q&A
  • Custom roadmap to move up one band in 6–12 months

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Stop guessing what the agencies will say.

Stand up your first shadow rating in under an hour. No credit card, no installations, no consultant chasing files in email.

Disclaimer. This ESG Shadow Rating is an internal readiness assessment and is not an official ESG rating issued by any rating agency.