ESG? We take care of it.

Outsource Sustainability:

Your external Sustainability Officer

From a turnkey sustainability report to implementation.

You choose: an auditable sustainability report, an outsourced sustainability office, or AI-powered software. We help SMEs implement sustainability in a structured, compliant way with minimal internal effort. Clear processes, smart tools, and in-depth expertise: all from a single source.

 

Kompass als Symbol für ESG Strategie und nachhaltige Unternehmensausrichtung

Your sustainability compass

ESG.DNA GmbH

Solutions aimed at reducing complexity.

Sustainability makes companies more resilient and is therefore essential. Yet for many organizations, ESG remains complex. That’s why we have developed solutions that bring together regulatory requirements (VSME & ESRS), data logic, and processes, enabling ESG reporting to be implemented efficiently, clearly, and realistically.

Nachhaltigkeit

Service

Your Sustainability Report

Sie liefern die Daten: wir übernehmen den gesamten Reporting-Prozess nach VSME- und ESRS-Standards und erstellen innerhalb weniger Monate einen prüfungsfähigen Bericht.

Your role: You will provide...

• Unternehmensdaten

• Bewertung wesentlicher Themen

• Prüfung und Freigabe des Berichts

Nachhaltigkeitsbericht erstellen lassen, VSME/ESRS

Our role: We provide...

• Standardisierung des Reporting nach VSME/ ESRS

• Doppelte Wesentlichkeitsanalyse & Co2 Bilanzierung

• Aufbereitung von Daten, KPIs & Co2 Berechnungen

• Sicherstellung regulatorischer Konformität

• Report-Branding & konsistente Darstellung

• Vollständige Verschriftlichung aller Reporting-Inhalte

VSME-Bericht in 3-6 Monaten (1)
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Your advantages at a glance.

We make ESG manageable and feasible. With clear structures, understandable preparation, and the assumption of central process steps, we reduce complexity and organisational effort. This allows you to maintain an overview, achieve meaningful results more quickly, and efficiently advance your ESG issues.

 

This way, you maintain an overview, reach meaningful results faster, and efficiently advance your ESG topics.

Structure instead of
excessive demands

We filter the most important issues for your company and provide clear guidance so that you know immediately what matters. 

Easy entry instead of bureaucracy

We make ESG reporting and management understandable and practical, without complicated regulation. Our goal is to simplify reporting standards in a targeted way for our clients. 

Reducing effort instead of doing your own research

We break down complex reporting steps (e.g., materiality analyses and CO₂ accounting) so that you can create meaningful reports in a short time—efficiently and stress-free.

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Start your ESG self-assessment now.

Find out in just a few minutes where you stand in terms of sustainability management and start your ESG journey today.

Getting started with ESG can be this easy.

Improve your access to financing through transparent ESG data. With our ESG self-assessment, you can identify your ESG risks in just a few minutes, structured according to recognized KPIs in line with BaFin und EBA. BaFin und EBA.

No transparency on your ESG risks? 

With the self-assessment, you receive a well-founded evaluation of your ESG risks based on recognized, bank-relevant KPIs.

Not sure which ESG data really matters?

Sie erfassen genau die Informationen, die Finanzinstitute für die Bewertung von Risiken und bei Kreditentscheidungen heranziehen.

Lacking a clear benchmark against other companies?

The self-assessment shows how your company is positioned within its industry, based on a validated dataset of thousands of companies.

Do you lack a solid basis for conversations with banks?

You create a structured ESG data foundation that can be directly used in financing and risk assessments.

Your path to ESG sustainability reporting.

Identify opportunities, optimise emissions, and increase efficiency—this is how you make your company sustainable and competitive.

Positioning & Scoring

 

Wir ermitteln Ihre ESG Reife (z.B. ESG Risiken, Berichtsverpflichtungen (VSME/ ESRS), zeitliche und finanzielle Ressourcen) anhand von KI-unterstützter Software. So schaffen wir uns schnell einen fundierten Überblick über Ihre derzeitigen Reporting-Grundlagen und einen ersten Startpunkt für die Berichtserstellung. 

 

ESG Daten sammeln & strukturieren

Sammeln Sie alle relevanten Daten zentral an einem Ort. Unsere Starboard Software strukturiert automatisch im Hintergrund, während unsere Beratung die relevanten Informationen für Sie identifiziert und zusammenführt.

Doppelte Wesentlichkeitsanalyse (DWA)

 

Anschließend werden auf Basis Ihres Status-Quo die wesentlichen Thematiken (E,S & G) identifiziert. Sie erhalten Hands-on Datenblätter, sodass wir basierend auf Ihren Unternehmensdaten einen ersten Entwurf einer DWA ausarbeiten können. In einem kurzen DWA-Workshop finalisieren wir gemeinsam die wesentlichsten Themen, samt Risiken, Chancen und finanziellen Auswirkungen.

Create a report

Sie liefern die Daten und bestimmen die Wesentlichkeit: Wir erstellen daraus Ihren standardisierten VSME-Report und bereiten ihn verständlich für die Stakeholder auf.

Positioning & Scoring

 

Assess your current ESG maturity as the foundation for strategy and reporting. The tool provides scores and benchmarks; we help you interpret the results.

 

Materiality Analysis

Identify the ESG topics most relevant to your company. ESG Starboard Voluntary supports you with AI-driven analysis, while our consultants provide additional guidance.

Collect and structure data

Collect all relevant data in one central place. Starboard Voluntary automatically structures the data, while our experts identify and consolidate what matters.

Create a report

You provide the data and determine materiality – we turn it into your standardised VSME report and present it in a clear, stakeholder-friendly way.

Why ESG.DNA?

ESG.DNA GmbH is a specialised service company that supports companies in the development, optimisation and communication of sustainability profiles, strategies and reports, in order to fulfil the ESG-related requirements of stakeholders such as customers, suppliers, investors/lenders and employees. As a partner to banks and financial service providers, companies, associations and their members, as well as auditors and consultants, ESG.DNA develops solutions for the specific ESG challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises.

Overview of our partners

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In Kooperation mit Deutsche Bank
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Our customers' experiences.

As a biotechnology company, we are faced with the challenge of meeting the regulatory requirements of ESRS reporting while developing a sound, long-term sustainability strategy. The ESG.DNA Starboard tools have proven to be an indispensable tool for us. They provide us with the structure and transparency we need to efficiently meet the complex ESRS requirements, and help us to accurately capture and analyse relevant data.

Michael Schneiders

Member of the Management Board , BRAIN Biotech AG

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ESG? We take care of it.