ESG will become infrastructure
ESG Management for SMEs: Answering Data Requests and Unlocking Competitive Advantages.
ZEROvia helps SMEs assess their sustainability status step by step: from the ESG Quick Check and ESG Self Assessment to the VS/VSME report.
This data creates a controlled ESG profile. At the same time, you can respond to inquiries from customers, banks, insurance companies, and supply chain partners faster and more consistently.
With a glossary, templates, policies, and recommendations, ZEROvia supports you in integrating sustainability into processes, procurement, and corporate management.
- VSME and VS-ready
- CSRD/ESRS compliant
- Suitable for SMEs and companies up to 1,000 employees
- Hosting in Switzerland
- AI Governance by Design
The problem
Who tells your sustainability story: an algorithm or yourself?
Customers, banks, and auditors are increasingly asking for ESG data. What's new is who is reading the answers: more and more often, an AI. Supply chain platforms are automatically screening suppliers, and buyers are increasingly starting their research in response engines like ChatGPT or Perplexity. However, their data is scattered – in electricity bills, certificates, policies, and emails.
ZEROvia reverses this logic:
You capture your ESG data once in a central infrastructure and decide who sees which details. This creates your AEO-optimized ESG profile machine-readable structured, so that AI systems can accurately capture and cite your ESG data.
without ZEROvia
with ZEROvia
Your ESG data – captured once, controlled by you
ZEROvia isn't just another ESG reporting tool, but a data infrastructure for SMEs: reporting, VS/VSME, CSRD/ESRS requests, supply chain responses, ratings, and data packs – all from a verified source. This is how SMEs escape the reporting trap.
Public
The AEO-optimized ESG profile
Your public ESG profile accurately shows the sustainability story you want to be visible: machine-readable structured, interpretable for AI search systems – and you actively approve what appears.
Private
Reports, Ratings, and Data Packs
Banks and large corporate clients often need more than a public profile. For this, ZEROvia generates specific ESG reports, ratings, and data packs with your ESG data, evidence, policies, and CO₂/GHG information – specifically approved by you.
Built for the inquiries that SMEs actually get.
| 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 |
You help shape which ESG data SMEs need – we provide the software for it
Banks, insurance companies, large corporate clients, consultancies, fiduciaries, associations, and sustainability initiatives shape the ESG data expected from SMEs. This is exactly where we come in: with our own solutions for partnerships and supply chains.
Become a partner
Grant your customers or members access to a new category of ESG software – with joint campaigns, exclusive conditions, industry-specific ratings, and guided SME onboarding.
For large clients
Bring even small and regional suppliers up to a verifiable ESG standard—in areas where large rating platforms become uneconomical. Segment your supplier base, screen existing documentation using AI, and invite selected suppliers to build and share their own ESG profiles—in a format that integrates seamlessly with your existing systems.
The ESG Data Foundation is ready for launch.
For a commercial go-live on July 1, 2026, ZEROvia is focusing on the ESG Data Foundation. This foundation is intentionally lean and initially addresses the most critical task: capturing, validating, controlling, and reusing ESG data.
ESG Quick Check
20 Questions for a First Assessment. Ideal as an Introduction and Lead Magnet.
Procurement Readiness Check
Quick look at procurement maturity and compatibility with supply chain requirements.
ESG Rating
48 questions, SME-native and evidence-based. No score without source citation.
VSME Reporting
VSME Report with AI Extraction, Audit Trail, Human-in-the-loop, and GHG Scope 1+2.
Public ESG Profile
Hosted and embeddable, AEO-optimized, Schema.org-ready, release per data field.
ESG Glossary
Understandable knowledge base for ESG, SMEs, CSRD/ESRS, CO2/GHG, Policies and Evidence.
SOP & Policy Library
Template Library for Policies, SOPs, and Evidence, optionally connected to VSME data points.
Supplier ESG Screening
Document-based AI screening with source citation and confidence scoring.
AI Governance
AI supports. The company decides.
ZEROvia uses AI where it relieves SMEs: in extracting data from documents, structuring evidence, preparing answers, and identifying gaps. But no external statement is blindly automated.
- Source attribution for every AI statement.
- Visible confidence per extracted value.
- Human-in-the-loop for external use.
- Versioning and Reproducibility.
- Field-specific release for public, private, or internal use.
Start the ESG Quick Check.
In just a few minutes, you will see where your company stands and what the next sensible steps are. Feature-complete; commercial go-live on July 1, 2026.