ESG will become infrastructure
ESG Management for SMEs: Answering Data Requests and Unlocking Competitive Advantages.
ZEROvia accompanies SMEs from the initial ESG check to the final report – structured, understandable, and compatible. This data creates a controlled ESG profile, enabling you to respond faster to inquiries from customers, banks, and supply chain partners.
- VSME and VS-ready
- CSRD/ESRS compliant
- Suitable for SMEs and companies up to 1,000 employees
- Hosting in Switzerland
- AI Governance by Design
ESG reporting becomes a competitive advantage.
ESG Status at a Glance
From the Quick Check to the Self Assessment and the VS/VSME Report — ZEROvia captures your sustainability status step by step.
Answer requests faster
A controlled ESG profile makes you accountable—to customers, banks, insurance companies, and supply chain partners.
Integrate sustainability into operations
With templates, policies, and recommendations, ZEROvia anchors sustainability in your processes, procurement, and corporate governance.
The problem
Who assesses your company's sustainability: an algorithm or you with reliable data?
Customers, banks, and auditors are increasingly asking for ESG data. What's new is that this information is no longer just read by people. Supply chain platforms automate supplier screening, and procurement departments are increasingly using AI systems for research.
ZEROvia turns scattered ESG information into a reliable basis for customer inquiries, bank discussions, supply chain audits, and internal sustainability development.
without ZEROvia
with ZEROvia
Without ZEROvia
- ESG data is scattered across files, emails, and individual departments.
- Evidence must be reassembled for each request.
- AI systems and platforms only interpret what is publicly or machine-readable.
- Customers, banks, and auditors receive different answers depending on the request.
With ZEROvia
- ESG data is captured in a structured manner and linked with evidence.
- Your company decides what stays public, private, or internal.
- Inquiries from customers, banks, and supply chain partners are answered more consistently.
- AI systems find a controlled, machine-readable ESG profile.
Respond to ESG inquiries. Anchor sustainability within the company.
ZEROvia helps SMEs answer ESG requirements in a structured way and derive concrete improvements. You capture sustainability data step by step, link it to evidence, and use the same foundation for external requests and internal implementation.
Publicly display
The AEO-optimized ESG profile
Your public ESG profile shows the sustainability information that should be visible: understandable for customers and partners, structured for search engines and AI systems, and approved by you.
AEO means: Your profile is structured so that response engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI search systems can correctly classify, summarize, and cite your ESG data. This creates a controlled ESG picture of your company – instead of a random summary from old PDFs, website texts, or incomplete sources.
Confidential details from banking, customer, or supply chain processes remain private and are only shared selectively.
Share privately
ESG Reports, Assessments, and Data Packs
For banks, large customers, insurance companies, or auditors, more details are often required than in the public ESG profile. For this purpose, ZEROvia creates private reports, ESG assessments, and data packs with ESG data, proof, policies, CO₂/GHG information, and release status.
You decide what information is shared, with whom, and in what context. This ensures confidential data remains protected, while external auditors receive precisely the information they need for credit checks, supply chain audits, or customer inquiries.
Improve internship
Glossary, Templates, Policies, and Measures
ZEROvia not only supports you with external answers. The platform also helps internally: with understandable terms, an ESG glossary, templates for policies and SOPs, structured evidence, recommendations, and concrete next steps.
This is how sustainability becomes tangible in the company: in purchasing, management, human resources, operations, and in collaboration with suppliers.
This transforms ESG from just a report into a work program for better processes, more efficiency, and long-term competitiveness.
Built for the inquiries that SMEs actually get.
ZEROvia starts where ESG becomes concrete for SMEs:
on customer inquiries, bank discussions, supply chain requirements, and internal improvements.
| Trigger | What the SME needs | ZEROvia-Output |
|---|---|---|
| A major client is requesting sustainability data for CSRD/ESRS or the supply chain. | Reusable answers instead of new Excel questionnaires. | VS/VSME Report, Supply Chain Response, Rating |
| A bank is requesting ESG data for credit assessment. | Structured, verifiable, and confidential ESG data. | Private ESG Data Pack |
| Customers and AI systems are publicly searching for sustainability information. | Controlled ESG story, not a random misrepresentation. | AEO-optimized ESG profile |
Together, we make ESG requirements feasible for SMEs.
Banks, insurance companies, large customers, consultancies, fiduciaries, associations, and sustainability initiatives shape the ESG data expected from SMEs. To prevent these requirements from leading to additional questionnaires and manual work, a pragmatic approach to implementation is needed.
ZEROvia helps to verify existing evidence and build ESG data in a way that makes it reusable for customers, banks, supply chains, and internal improvements.
Become a partner
Support your clients or members in pragmatically implementing ESG requirements: with joint onboarding, exclusive conditions, communication campaigns, and industry-specific ESG assessments.
Expand your offerings with a digital solution that strengthens your consulting, customer relationships, or industry initiative.
For large clients
Increase transparency in your supply chain without overwhelming small or price-sensitive suppliers with complex rating platforms.
ZEROvia helps you segment supplier bases, screen existing ESG evidence using AI, and invite selected suppliers to build their own ESG profile and ESG assessment.
Here's how to get better ESG data from your SME supplier base, while your suppliers use a system they can also reuse for other clients, banks, and internal improvements.
The foundation for ESG data you can truly use.
ZEROvia starts where SMEs currently face the biggest challenges: capturing ESG data, understanding terminology, structuring evidence, responding to inquiries, and deriving improvements.
ESG Data Management connects self-assessments, VS/VSME-oriented data collection, reports, public ESG profile, glossary, templates, and supplier screening in a guided system.
This is how an ESG foundation is built step by step, which will not only help with the next questionnaire, but also for customers, banks, supply chains, and the further development of your company.
ESG Quick Check
20 Questions for an Initial Assessment.
You quickly see where your company stands and which next steps make sense.
Procurement Readiness Check
Check how well your procurement is prepared for ESG and supply chain requirements.
Ideal for companies that are regularly requested by large clients or procurement platforms.
ESG Assessment
60 questions, SME-native and evidence-based.
You document your sustainability performance in a structured manner and back up your answers with verifiable evidence.
VSME/VS-Reporting
With the VS/VSME report, SMEs utilize the de facto data exchange standard for ESG inquiries from large clients subject to CSRD. This makes your ESG data connectable, structured, and reusable for clients, banks, and internal documentation.
ZEROvia supports this with GHG Scope 1+2, AI extraction, audit trail, and human-in-the-loop.
Public ESG Profile
A controlled, AEO-optimized ESG profile for websites, customers, and AI search systems.
You decide on a granular level which information becomes publicly visible.
ESG Glossary
Explains key terms related to ESG, SMEs, CSRD/ESRS, CO₂/GHG, Policies, and Proof.
This is how your team understands what is being asked and why it is important.
SOP & Policy Library
Templates for policies, SOPs, and documentation that you can customize for your organization.
This way, ESG is not just documented, but translated into processes.
Supplier ESG Screening
AI-powered screening of supplier documents with source citation and confidence level.
Helps to identify risks, gaps, and existing ESG evidence faster.
AI Governance
AI supports. The company decides.
ZEROvia uses AI where it truly lightens the load for small and medium-sized businesses: in extracting information from documents, organizing supporting documentation, preparing responses, and identifying gaps.
However, ESG statements must not simply be released automatically. Therefore, every relevant statement remains traceable: Where does it come from? How reliable is the extraction? Who reviewed it? And where can it be published?
In this way, ZEROvia combines AI efficiency with the control required for ESG data in the context of customers, banks, and supply chains.
Guiding principles
- Source bindingEvery AI-powered statement is linked to a document, dataset, or proof.
- ConfidenceExtracted values show how confident the AI is in its assignment.
- Human-in-the-loop: Before information is used externally, a person reviews and approves it.
- Versioning: Changes remain traceable and reproducible.
- Field-specific approval: You decide what is publicly visible, can be shared privately, or is for internal use only.
Start the ESG Quick Check.
In just a few minutes, you'll see where your company stands, what ESG data is already available, and what the next logical steps are.
The ESG Quick Check is the easiest way to get started if you want to answer ESG requests more effectively, structure evidence, or address sustainability in your company more strategically.