For impact funds
Avoided emissions that hold
Forecast each company's avoided emissions case by case. Then track them on the same method, so the results add up. Every line sourced, for the day someone competent asks how the number was built.
The problem
Every founder brings their own number, built their own way. So nothing adds up within a fund, let alone across funds.
Benchmarks and sector averages tell you what a category does on average. Not what this company does.
An analyst with a good prompt gets a plausible number in an afternoon. Plausible is exactly the problem: it reads well, it has no provenance, and the first competent question breaks it. Usually after it is already in an LP report.
Then comes tracking. Every year, every company, rebuilt by hand.
What each case gives you
A Carbon Performance Potential (CPP) assessment, built for the company and not for its sector: how much CO2e it avoids, over what lifetime, under which assumptions, and how much of the claim is left once those assumptions are stressed.
A summary dashboard.
Headline, conservative to optimistic range, segments, the theory of change, each key assumption rated, every source. For the people who will never read the report.
A source on every line.
Emission factors come from primary databases (EXIOBASE, EF 3.1 / ILCD, ICE, worldsteel), each with its source and version. The number is defended line by line, not taken on trust.
Dynamic baselines.
The incumbent decarbonises too, so we model both sides year by year on a sourced grid pathway, as Project Frame's grid-intensity guidance asks. It usually makes the headline smaller. It is what makes it hold.
Declared limits.
Functional unit, system boundary, what was left out and why, and whether the impact is potential, planned or realised.
Forecast, then realised.
Once real sales come in, we track them year by year on the same method. The forecast re-anchors to them.
This is the potential of the solution, not the share attributable to any investor. The attribution choice stays yours.
Our job is a number that holds, not a bigger one.
Already holding the company? Track what it delivers
Your team's time belongs on the live deals, not on rebuilding last year's figures by hand.
Each year, the units a portfolio company actually sold, by market, are turned into realised avoided emissions on the same method as the forecast, and the forecast for the years ahead re-anchors to them. Founders only confirm sales.
Every year, easily.
Add the years you have not tracked yet. Each one gets its own realised figure, on the same method as the rest of the portfolio.
Track each company.
Year after year, the forecast sharpens instead of ageing.
Help your founders.
They get the same realised figure for a grant application, a customer questionnaire or the next round.
Feed your annual impact report.
Realised and forecast, per fund and year by year, with the trail behind every line.
Why now
Avoided emissions are getting a reference method.
Many climate investors already follow Project Frame's forward-looking method, and the GHG Protocol has started work on rules for reporting them. Numbers built today will be read against both.
Impact reports are asked for context, not just a figure.
The Impact Performance Reporting Norms ask for results against a stated threshold, with its source and the reason for choosing it.
Claims have to be backed.
The UK's anti-greenwashing rule has applied since 2024, and EU rules on environmental claims since September 2026.
Useful to your founders too
The number belongs to the solution, not to the fund. So it can travel.
Share the case with the founder first. They get a sourced avoided-emissions figure to start the climate section of a grant application, answer a customer's supplier questionnaire, or put in the next round's data room. They only check the inputs, nothing to build.
You get one number per company: the same one in your impact report and in their pitch.
The Success Guarantee
Put your toughest reviewer on any case. If they find a figure we cannot source or an assumption we did not declare, we fix it within 5 working days and the case goes back into your plan.
Built by Jaume Albertí, PhD in life cycle assessment. Meet the founders
Some of the technologies we have assessed
Names stay private. Technology and continent only.
Utility-scale solar power
North America
Critical-metal refining from recycled feed
North America
Electric conversion of three-wheelers
Africa
Green ammonia fertiliser
Africa
Rare-earth-free magnets
Europe
Low-carbon concrete
Europe
Bio-based packaging film
Europe
Battery power replacing diesel generators
Europe
Second-life battery storage
Europe
Solar steam for industry
Europe
Synthetic fuel from captured CO2
Europe
Re-commerce of pre-owned goods
Middle East
Try it on one company
Send us the website of one live deal or portfolio company. We pre-fill the case, you review every input and run it, then challenge any line you like.