The technology
YOTTANEX builds enterprise technology for ESG and sustainability. Carbonex is the first platform. This page is about what all of them will have in common, and about the ground we intend to cover after it.
Sustainability reporting has a data problem that looks like a software problem and is usually treated as a spreadsheet problem. An organisation is asked for a figure. Somewhere between the meter, the invoice, the supplier and the report, the figure loses its trail — and by the time it reaches a disclosure nobody can say with confidence where it came from or how much of it was assumed.
The systems that collect this data mostly treat a gap as a nought and an estimate as a measurement. Both are convenient and both are wrong, and the cost of being wrong is now regulatory rather than merely embarrassing.
We build for the other case: an organisation that has decided its numbers have to be defensible, and needs a system that will not quietly help it round a corner.
These are engineering commitments rather than features. They describe how anything we build is constructed, which is the only honest claim a company with one unlaunched product can make about its second one.
A figure is not just a number on a page. It carries where it came from, the method behind it, how good it is and how complete it is — and it keeps carrying them everywhere it goes, including into a report.
Missing, unavailable, not applicable and customer-approved estimate are four different things, and a system that collapses them into one is a system that cannot be audited. Nothing we build silently fills a gap.
Calculations and approved records are added to, never quietly replaced. A closed report stays fixed to the exact information it was built from, and is designed never to drift to whatever the data happens to say later.
Industries differ; products should not. Each sector gets the methods and activity types it actually works with, on the same shared platform, rather than a separate version of the product kept alive for one customer.
A cloud service shared by many organisations, where each organisation’s information stays separate and what a person can see and do is decided by the platform itself. Hiding a control on screen is not a security boundary and we do not treat it as one.
Carbonex is a full ESG platform: environmental, social and governance topics, double materiality, targets, suppliers, framework mapping, analytics, risk, and emissions from AI workloads counted as a source in their own right. It is being built as one platform, extended by industry packs we build and verify.
Carbon and energy are where it is deepest today, because that is where it started and where the measurement problem is best understood. The rest of the scope is being built, and the roadmap says in what order.
These are areas of focus, not products. They have no names, no dates and no described capabilities, because none of them exists. Naming a product we have not built is exactly the kind of claim this company exists to refuse — and it is the reason this section is four paragraphs rather than four logos.
Consumption, generation, procurement and intensity, at the level of an asset and a half-hour rather than a site and a quarter.
The data arrives faster than carbon data and from more places — meters, sub-meters, building systems, supplier portals — and reconciling it to an invoice is where the trail is usually lost.
Withdrawal, discharge, recycling and local water stress, in the places an organisation actually operates.
Water is the disclosure where a group total is least meaningful: the same cubic metre means something different in two catchments, so an aggregate that ignores place is an answer to the wrong question.
Waste streams, air quality, pollution incidents and biodiversity — the domains that sit alongside carbon in every serious disclosure standard.
These are the hardest disclosures to evidence and the easiest to estimate away, which is precisely the failure mode our evidence model is built to make visible rather than convenient.
Materials in, materials out, reuse, recovery and recycling, tracked as flows through a business.
A circularity figure is a ratio between two numbers that are usually collected by different departments in different units, and a ratio is only as trustworthy as the weaker of its two halves.
When one of these becomes a product it will appear on this site with the same stage statement Carbonex carries, and not before. If you work in one of these areas and want to talk about the data problem in it, contact@yottanexa.com reaches us directly.